Summer time means, clean your garage.

It's summer and that means if you are not traveling to some faraway land, like San Diego, you should take time to organize. And if you are like me you should look at that beast of a garage first. Most Americans that have two car garages, hardly have the space to park one car. What a pity? Especially when there are so many organizational shelving and hardwares available for you to use.

In a recent article by the Albany Times Union, Dan Howley gives six tips for a clutter free garage. Which is very important to have if you are trying to sell your home in this tough real estate market.

A poll conducted by the National Association of Professional Organizers found that more than 50 percent of those surveyed say their garage is the most disorganized place in their home.

Here is a six-step procedure to help you transform your garage into a source of pride:

Step 1: Reorganize the garage as a family project on a weekend. Start by taking everything out of the garage and putting it all in the driveway separated by major category. Sweep the garage clean.

If that is not possible, then don't try to reorganize the entire garage in one session. Concentrate on a section you can complete in an hour or two.

Step 2: Take a pen and paper into the garage and list the major categories of items stored there, such as painting supplies, gardening tools, sports equipment, car supplies, etc.

Get the other 4 tips here.

Making More Room in Your Garage

When thinking about home re-modeling, we make out re-modeling plans, choose proper plans and take care of basic remodeling accessories in the home.

But, while remodeling, you often forget about the garage. Garage remodeling is very important aspect of the home remodeling.

Your home does not look remodeled until you completely change the look from inside and outside also.

You always overlook the importance of the garage. But garage is not only the place to keep your car, but if proper care and arrangements are made, you can make over the garage into a new place in your home.

Garage can be remodeled into a new store place where you can make out some place for storing other homely accessories.

By remodeling garage properly, you can store your big boxes or your kid’s projects or your sports equipments or even you can use your remodeled garage as a work shop.

Garages are very important parts of the house and have equal importance such as the other sections of the house. The garage remodeling can be done in many different ways and methods, so choose the way you want to remodel your garage and make sure you can make out much place from the garage area.

Buy 1 Get 1 Free Comes to So Cal Real Estate

Marketing genius or desperate builders, you make the call. But Michael Crews Development recently featured a great head line grabbing marketing promotion in Escondido, California. The promo ended in May, but the attention the developers received had to be worth any losses they may have incurred.

In a sign of how difficult it is to sell new homes in Southern California right now, a San Diego developer is offering a "buy one, get one free" deal, pairing million-dollar homes with less expensive homes.

Is there a link between home improvement and emptiness?

Wow I was floored when I read a recent article by Jennifer Moses of the Christian Science Monitor, that suggested that there may indeed be a link between inner shortcomings and Americans obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to constantly updating and decorating our homes.

Jennifer suggest:

Our real estate agent tells us that the problem is two-fold. First, the bathrooms haven't been updated since the '90s. Second, the kitchen doesn't have slate counters.

She also concedes that the economy isn't as robust as it could be – and even if it were, she says, young people want all the latest.

But, really, do counters matter that much to people? Could this obsession with home improvement represent some deeper emptiness within us?

I am not, of course, unbiased in all this, as I happen to think that our Baton Rouge home is about as to-die-for as they come. But our agent is right about the kitchen and the baths. They do not sport any of the kind of up-to-date ultra-in interior accountrements now in high demand. Things like marble countertops and glassed-in cabinets; Sub-Zero refrigerators and built-in wine coolers; "Tuscan farmhouse" distressed-wood built-ins and antiqued pressed-tin ceilings and restored cast-iron claw-footed bathtubs and Tiffany-inspired wall sconces and recessed lighting and ecofriendly designer closets and natural stone toilets and kitchen drawers outfitted with built-in molded cutlery holders. Full article here.

It's always easy to point to the middle aged man, going through a mid life crisis and relate it to his need buy a sports car. But what about the 30 something husband and wife that maintain feelings of inadequacies simply because their appliances are not Viking while their neighbors are?

I'd like a new kitchen and a sex offender please!

Wow, what would you do if you went to a big box retailer to purchase a new kitchen? No harm no foul, right? Those big boys do all their research and would only send you the best people right? Well, if you think that is always true, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you for a really great price. Take a look at this video from WCVBtv, of a "A Chelmsford woman who hired Home Depot to reface her kitchen cabinets said that she was surprised when a convicted sex offender showed up to do the work."