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 Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Weekly Project Articles: General Household Tips
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Adjustable Shelves
Find out how to make nifty and easy adjustable shelves!
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An Easier Life
Looking for a few small ways to make your life easier? These three tips will help you out around the house!
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April showers bring home repairs
That old rhyme "April showers bring May flowers" may be true, but April is also the first post-snow opportunity to inspect your roof and other affected areas of your home.
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Baseball, Apple Pie & Your Home
With the help of a pleasant springtime distraction, chores can feel more like therapy. Here are a few tasks that are easy to complete.
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Best of the 2007 Hardware Show
The annual National Hardware Show draws exhibitors and attendees from every corner of the planet. At this year's event, we found several new products we love.
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By Golly, Citrus Fruits Can Be Eaten, Too

Recently we wrote about how to use citrus fruit (orange, grapefruit and lemon) for various cleaning tasks around the home. It was a fun article that was a compilation of tips we had discovered or conceived ourselves over the last 20 years.

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Can't afford to move? Five ways to get the best bang for your improvement buck when you need to stay
If house-hunting is not an option, here are five things you can do to maintain your investment--and perhaps make it a bit more livable.
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Computer Assisted Design can Help with Remodeling, Home Improvements.
One of the more important new developments for homeowners planning to remodel or renovate is the growing use of in-home ''computer assisted design'' programs that help visualize what a finished project will look like.
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Creating A Home Office
Thinking about a home office? Here are our tips on creating one that will allow you to be more productive!
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Gadgets Galore At Hardware Show
We recently returned from the 60th annual National Hardware Convention in Las Vegas, where more than 3,100 exhibitors displayed their latest and greatest offerings to 30,000 hardware industry attendees. It was at the new products pavilion that we found the newest and most interesting products
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Helpful Hints
Several helpful hints for the new year!
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Helpful Hints
Several helpful hints, including "Padding Your Workbench", "Waste Not Want Not (With Sandpaper)", and "Eye Safety With Style".
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Hot Weather Home Improvement Tips
As summer temperatures begin to sizzle, home improvement tasks become particularly challenging. Take these precautions when working in hot weather to protect your health and get better results.
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Household Tips
For some solutions to common household problems -- including taillights, deer, upside-down tomatoes, and fireplace drafts -- read on!
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Kitchen Renovation
A renovated kitchen not only will make meal preparation and cleanup more efficient, but it can also greatly improve the appearance and value of a home. Here are more details on renovating your kitchen!
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Last Chance Chores -- Before Winter
Winter is setting in and the cold, wet days to come will prevent us -- or at least make it very difficult for us -- to perform important tasks that affect our comfort and our pocketbook.
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New Years Resolutions for the Home -- 5 Things You Should Take Care of in the New Year
The New Year is a time of renewal. Maybe you're ditching the ice cream and promising to call your mother more often. But when you're making your resolutions this year, don't forget your home.
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Prime problem-solving tips, in and around the house
When the sun comes out in the spring, it's a good time to put an end to those little annoyances around the house that have been bothering you all winter.
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Seasonal Preparation
There is a laundry list of home maintenance tasks that should be performed as we move through fall and into winter. Here are a few of them!
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Simple Household Tips for First Timers
For graduates living alone for the first time, there could be some rude surprises setting up house without the help of mom, dad or a dorm maintenance crew. Having a few basic tools and a little knowledge can prepare you to fix a lot of things yourself and save money on repairs.
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Some Tidbits to Make Life Around the House More Pleasant in the New Year
We thought we'd share some of our best tips to help ring in your new year, home improvement-wise. We hope you find these tidbits as useful as we do.
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Useful Home Tips
Most of the time we focus on a specific topic or subject, but this week, we have some great general household tips for you!
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What's New At International Builders Show

Some of the new products at the recent International Builders Show were real attention-getters, and any one of them could be a "must have" for your next project.

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