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Trim your porch for Halloween

Trim your porch for Halloween

Instead of just tossing candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween this year, send them home with something to talk about.

Power to the pumpkin

Power to the pumpkin

Fall marks a time when corner lots, farm markets and grocery store parking lots are stacked with pumpkins for Halloween and Thanksgiving.

 

DIY for the Home & Garden

Lay a basement subfloor

A sound subfloor is needed when you're laying carpet, vinyl, laminate or engineered hardwood on a cement basement floor so the surface is...

Add light under a cabinet

A kitchen doesn't need to be totally remodeled to make it more functional. As an inexpensive but highly worthwhile investment, consider...

How to clean and repair gutters

Keeping gutters and downspouts clean is the first defense against soil erosion.

Replace a towel bar

We've all seen a towel bar dangling by one end, rendering it useless for hanging towels or anything else. Replacing a towel bar that's...

How to strip varnished woodwork

We've spent many a day removing varnish from woodwork, and while the results can be stunning, it's a messy, time-consuming job.

Replace a laundry tub

If your laundry tub is like ours, it does more than collect water from the washing machine. Over the years, our wash sink developed...

Install a faucet filter

To get a better tasting supply of drinking water at the faucet -- and to reduce harmful contaminants -- consider installing a drinking water...

How to lay vinyl sheet flooring

Today's choices in vinyl flooring can be staggering. You'll find that some of the hottest new designs mimic natural materials -- slate,...

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Build a weathered wood border for the garden

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