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12 High Impact, Low Cost Home Improvement Projects

| Published on Apr 1, 2024 In the realm of home improvement projects, not every job requires a large budget to be effective. Low-cost projects can have a big impact, changing the appearance and function of your home without breaking the bank. These projects…

Redditors Share Best Ways to Hang Wall Decor Without Nails

| Published on Mar 29, 2024 There are many reasons to avoid hammering a nail into the wall — like renting your home and wanting your security deposit back. Other reasons include not wanting to marr your walls with tiny holes or the…

Advice by Home & Garden Overload March 25, 2024

Secrets Your Plumber Won’t Tell You

| Published on Mar 25, 2024 Plumbers don’t consciously keep secrets from you. They have a vast store of knowledge and don’t know what you don’t know. Usually, a plumber is in your house to solve a problem. Everyone wants the job done…

DIY Projects Ideas by Home & Garden Overload March 16, 2024

Remodeling Wisdom: 10 Budget Backsplash Hacks

When the kitchen remodeling budget is tight: 10 ideas for finessing the backsplash issue. 1. Glass Above: An artist’s studio kitchen is full of creative and inexpensive remodeling ideas: The backsplash is a sheet of painted glass, salvaged from an old project and…

Advice Green Thumb Ideas by Home & Garden Overload March 13, 2024

5 Quick Fixes: Plastic-Free Ways to Start Seeds

Buying plastic starter pots and trays certainly isn’t going to tip the world into a climate disaster, but when there are so many plastic-free options these days, you have every reason to choose sustainable over synthetic. Below, five Gardenista-approved, Earth-friendly options for…

Advice Green Thumb by Home & Garden Overload March 13, 2024

Indoor Gardening 101: The What, When, and How of Repotting Plants

Do your plants need to be repotted? What are the signs they have outgrown their pots? How do you actually repot anyway? Will repotting hurt your plant? Repotting isn’t hard. Let’s get started. N.B.: Featured photograph by Justine Hand, from DIY: How to Care for…

Advice Green Thumb by Home & Garden Overload March 6, 2024

Why Are My Seedlings Not Coming Up? All About Damping Off

You promised yourself you’d do better this year and start your seeds on time. You have the supplies, the seeds, a good location with a lot of light (or a grow light). You’ve checked the back of the seed packet and it’s…

Ideas Shopping by Home & Garden Overload February 27, 2024

Steal This Look: A Lush Country Living Room in the Canadian Wilds

When John and Juli Baker of Toronto shop Mjölk bought an 1800s farming stone house north of Lake Ontario, it was an impulse. In spite of that fact, the interior came together quite thoughtfully courtesy of their signature Scandinavian-meets-Japanese style (see their…

Advice Green Thumb by Home & Garden Overload February 23, 2024

Kim Stoddart on The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden

If you go online to search for a book on vegetable gardening, you’ll discover there are literally thousands of titles on the topic. One new standout in the category is The Climate Change–Resilient Vegetable Garden: How to Grow Food…

Shopping by Home & Garden Overload February 22, 2024

Editors’ Picks: 10 Essential Kitchen Tools

If there were a fire in the house, these are the kitchen tools we would take with us; 10 simple, low-tech implements for stirring, grinding, measuring, peeling, grating that we couldn’t live without. Above: Julie’s pick is a simple Ceramic Mortar &…

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