Let this be your guide for cooking, entertaining, gardening and landscaping, health and fitness and design trends for Florida living. Here you’ll get great insight from chefs and hostesses, recreational leaders, golf pros, tennis pros and other professionals who know everything there is to know about living the Florida Lifestyle!
So, it’s your new Florida home for the holiday season, eh? Congratulations! It’s definitely a blast to showcase your new abode by hosting family and friends for some or all of the usual seasonal festivities. Need a game plan? We at ICI Homes are ready with some handy tips to …
Hosting a party — or any social event — can be as involved or as simple as you make it. Especially during those big end-of-the-year holidays, when most of us enjoy attending or throwing a few soirees. Whether you’re an extraordinary party-planner or an inexperienced host facing your first get-together …
Settling into your new home involves more than flopping in a comfy chair, or popping champagne corks. But, once you clear the moving boxes and begin thinking about eating something besides delivery pizza, take a few minutes to print out or share this list. These tasks will help you get to …
Housecleaning and maintenance don’t magically disappear once you move into your new Florida home. Sorry! We know you don’t want to think about the boring, grungy stuff. And you should take a few weeks or months to get acclimated — decide which pantry shelf should hold the cereal boxes or throw …
The smallest members of a household often are the ones most at risk from a home’s everyday furnishings and features. Items such as an electrical outlet can seriously injure a curious baby or toddler. Fortunately, most preventive child-safety solutions are as close as a shopping list and a quick trip …
While the kitchen may be the focal point of any new home, the master bathroom is the room that can really connect with new homeowners.
Guests might rave about your fabulous kitchen while you are entertaining, but you will have a much more intimate relationship with your new master bathroom. It is the room that can do the most to make your new house feel like home!
There are few things worse than suiting up, applying some SPF, and heading outside only to discover that your once shimmering pool now looks more like a swamp. Even Gator fans will tell you that this is definitely no bueno.
If it’s gotten this bad, you may be asking yourself why you ever wanted a pool in the first place. But as my good friend Peter once told me, “With a great pool, comes great responsibility.” So it’s time to talk about setting up a basic pool maintenance schedule.
While you don’t have to be an expert to create a beautiful and healthy garden, it pays to do a little research before you put on your gardening gloves.
Nowadays, it takes a lot more than an apple a day to keep the doctor away. With increased stresses from careers and commutes, our busy lives can get in the way of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle.
Go to your family room. Shut your eyes. Take a deep breath and open your eyes. When you open them, do you feel relaxed or stressed? Ever wonder what you could do to make your home feel more relaxing?