Tips & tricks

Planning to build your forever home? Discover essential design features for long-term comfort and independence. From ranch house plans and main-floor primary suites to curbless showers, residential elevators, and multigenerational living, explore practical ways to create a home that evolves with your needs.

Planning a green home renovation? Discover 10 practical ways to reuse materials, improve energy efficiency, reduce waste, and create a more sustainable home.

Before buying a house plan in Quebec, make sure it works for your lot. Here are 5 questions to ask your municipality about setbacks, lot coverage, building height, zoning, accessory buildings and septic systems.

Before the first major cold spell, a few simple checks can help protect your home. Discover 15 things to inspect before winter, from the roof and foundation to windows, plumbing, heating and your heat pump.

Discover seven highly desirable home features that improve daily living while increasing a property's appeal and long-term value. From mudrooms and fireplaces to outdoor living spaces and flexible rooms, these design choices continue to attract today's buyers.

A detailed material list can help you plan purchases, compare supplier quotes and better control construction costs. See what’s included, how it works and what it costs.

Choosing the right house plan starts with understanding your lifestyle, lot, budget and future needs. Learn how to compare home types, layouts and plan options before making your final decision.

Discover inspiring home renovation ideas through real before-and-after transformations. From garage additions and exterior makeovers to redesigned living spaces, see how an existing home can be transformed.

Building an eco-friendly home starts with smart design. Discover the benefits of eco-friendly house plans, learn what makes a home more sustainable, and explore inspiring designs from Drummond House Plans.

Discover the @llesdeux home renovation project, where a carefully planned rear addition created more living space while respecting the narrow lot, municipal requirements and the architecture of the existing home.

You should not cut perennial plants such as bellflowers and heucheras. For hydrangeas, you should not cut them too close to the ground. You can cut about 1/3 of the plant to give it a nice shape. It will also help it grow healthier next spring. We can concentrate the cutting on the dead flowers only.

To make those DIY Christmas decorations you only need paper, carboard, rope and things you already have. They are simple, easy and fun to make.

Pantone determines a color trend each year that will be representative of year to come. This color is determined according to several analyzes of current events,  world situation, current lifestyles, in short, the environment around us.

Colors make us feel certain emotions and Pantone determines the one we need for the year.

This year’s color is Viva Magenta.

This first-time buyer plan is called the CELIAPP. It's a happy mix between the TFSA and the RRSP