Love Your Lawn: Winter Care That Makes Lawns Thrive
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Love Your Lawn: Winter Care That Makes Lawns Thrive

With thoughtful winter care, lawns will emerge stronger, greener, and better prepared for summer.
Smart Appliance Savvy: Improving Convenience, Control, and Efficiency
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Smart Appliance Savvy: Improving Convenience, Control, and Efficiency

The right smart appliance can make life easier, whether it’s a refrigerator that tracks groceries or a washing machine that texts when laundry is done.
Shake, Rattle, and Hold: Earthquake-Resistant Home Upgrades
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Shake, Rattle, and Hold: Earthquake-Resistant Home Upgrades

Practical upgrades, from anchoring furniture to reinforcing foundations, help your home stay intact when the earth starts to move.
What to Know Before Buying a Fixer-Upper
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What to Know Before Buying a Fixer-Upper

Renovating a fixer-upper can be a rewarding project, but it requires honest budgeting, realistic DIY expectations, and contingency planning.
Garden Resolutions
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Garden Resolutions

Even in the middle of winter, gardeners are thinking about gardening and planning on making changes as we get each new garden catalog in the mail.

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Add Style With a Window Cornice

Add Style With a Window Cornice

For a dramatic improvement in any room’s decor, making and installing cornices over your windows is a wise choice.
Simple Secrets to Make Clothes Look Better and Last Longer

Simple Secrets to Make Clothes Look Better and Last Longer

You don’t have to machine dry your clothes to death to end up with comfy jeans and fluffy, soft towels.
Cats Especially Sensitive to Black Widow Spider Venom

Cats Especially Sensitive to Black Widow Spider Venom

Fortunately, black widows are not aggressive. They bite only when provoked or when their webs are disturbed.
Heart-Shaped Plants for Valentine’s Day

Heart-Shaped Plants for Valentine’s Day

Perennials with heart-shaped leaves include Brunnera, Caladium, Hosta, and Violets.
How to Deep-Clean a Coffee Maker

How to Deep-Clean a Coffee Maker

A buildup of hard water scale and rancid coffee oils in a coffee maker is to be expected.
Wallpaper Isn’t Your Enemy Anymore

Wallpaper Isn’t Your Enemy Anymore

The new wallpaper does not apply the same way as it used to.
Paint a Wooden Floor

Paint a Wooden Floor

Wood floors made of mismatched planks pieced together, or those already painted, can be transformed with a good primer and paint for an attractive facelift.
Ask the Builder: Bring Back Vocational Schools

Ask the Builder: Bring Back Vocational Schools

It’s time to bang the gong and let young students know that being a plumber, electrician, carpenter, painter, etc., is both fulfilling and respectable.
Add a Decorative Lattice Arbor

Add a Decorative Lattice Arbor

Determining the size of the arbor is your first and most important step in building one.
Mammary Tumors Common in Unsterilized Female Dogs

Mammary Tumors Common in Unsterilized Female Dogs

Mammary tumors have multiple causes, the most important of which is hormonal.
Add Style With a Window Cornice

Add Style With a Window Cornice

For a dramatic improvement in any room’s decor, making and installing cornices over your windows is a wise choice.
Simple Secrets to Make Clothes Look Better and Last Longer

Simple Secrets to Make Clothes Look Better and Last Longer

You don’t have to machine dry your clothes to death to end up with comfy jeans and fluffy, soft towels.
Cats Especially Sensitive to Black Widow Spider Venom

Cats Especially Sensitive to Black Widow Spider Venom

Fortunately, black widows are not aggressive. They bite only when provoked or when their webs are disturbed.
Heart-Shaped Plants for Valentine’s Day

Heart-Shaped Plants for Valentine’s Day

Perennials with heart-shaped leaves include Brunnera, Caladium, Hosta, and Violets.
How to Deep-Clean a Coffee Maker

How to Deep-Clean a Coffee Maker

A buildup of hard water scale and rancid coffee oils in a coffee maker is to be expected.
Wallpaper Isn’t Your Enemy Anymore

Wallpaper Isn’t Your Enemy Anymore

The new wallpaper does not apply the same way as it used to.
Paint a Wooden Floor

Paint a Wooden Floor

Wood floors made of mismatched planks pieced together, or those already painted, can be transformed with a good primer and paint for an attractive facelift.
Ask the Builder: Bring Back Vocational Schools

Ask the Builder: Bring Back Vocational Schools

It’s time to bang the gong and let young students know that being a plumber, electrician, carpenter, painter, etc., is both fulfilling and respectable.
Add a Decorative Lattice Arbor

Add a Decorative Lattice Arbor

Determining the size of the arbor is your first and most important step in building one.
Mammary Tumors Common in Unsterilized Female Dogs

Mammary Tumors Common in Unsterilized Female Dogs

Mammary tumors have multiple causes, the most important of which is hormonal.