After a nice, hot summer and hopefully productive growing season, gardens are starting to wind down by September. Although warm weather is still hanging around the North Carolina coast, the days are getting shorter, while brisker mornings and cooler nights are becoming more common. As the season begins to shift, so does our gardening focus, …
Category Archives: Projects for Your Home
Creating a Media Room in Your Home
At McAdams Homes, our aim is to offer our customers thoughtfully designed floor plans, while ensuring we provide you with the highest quality in new home construction. As we strive to meet excellence in every detail of your home, we want you to feel good about investing in it and your quality of life with …
Garden Calendar – August Checklist
As the August sun bears down on gardeners and their gardens, it can be difficult to keep plants thriving during the hot summer days. The best way to beat the heat is to perform maintenance tasks early in the day, water your garden regularly and as well as keeping yourself hydrated. Cooler temperatures are ahead …
Summer – Home Projects
Summer means playing in the yard, swimming, ice-cold drinks on the porch, cookouts under the twinkling bistro lights. It is also a great time for home improvement projects. Make the most of the long days and warm weather with these easy projects that will turn your to-dos into ta-das without breaking the bank. Pressure Washing. Winter …
Garden Calendar – July Checklist
With warm evenings, extended daylight hours and consistently high temperature, your July garden is thriving and you are likely enjoying fresh tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other bounty. The challenges you face now are keeping plants watered deeply and free of pests or disease. See our ideas below to help ensure your garden is staying lush …
Child-Proofing Your Home
At McAdams Homes, our aim is to offer thoughtfully designed floor plans of the highest quality. We strive to meet excellence in every detail of your home and offer a product that will match the growing demands of your family. Whether you’re planning to welcome a new baby, or you already have one crawling around, …
Garden Calendar – May Checklist
May is here and gardens are coming alive, this is a thrilling and busy month for gardeners. Planting season is in full swing, seedlings are popping, blooms are flourishing, and some cool-season crops are ready for picking. Check out our May Garden checklist for things you can do in this month to get you one …
Adding Smart Home Features
At McAdams Homes, our aim is to offer our customers creatively designed floor plans, while ensuring we provide you with the highest quality in new home construction. We strive to meet excellence in every detail of your home, so that you can feel good about investing in it and your quality of life with these …
Simple Cleaning Hacks
March is a great time for cleaning, organizing, and freshening up your house for the sunny and warmer summer months ahead. If you are anything like us, now that we have more daylight hours, those little dust bunnies that have been successfully hiding are getting pretty hard to ignore. Which means the dreaded spring cleaning …
Garden Calendar – March Checklist
Temperatures are getting milder, trees are budding, the birds are chirping and there are new signs of life everywhere. The Ides of March once signified the beginning of the new year, which meant rejoicing and celebration. If you haven’t begun preparing for your garden already, now is the perfect time to start. Below are some …