Laying your head down on a comfortable, supportive pillow shouldn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. DreamNorth offers not one, but two Premium Gel Pillows for an unbeatable price. Of course, when it comes to getting a restful night’s sleep, price isn’t everything. Read on for our verdict on this pillow’s performance, material, texture, and more. Material: Animal-friendly and chemical-free DreamNorth’s Premium Gel Pillows come nicely packaged, with each pillow tightly rolled into a cylindrical shape that’s wrapped in airtight plastic and tucked inside a zippered bag....

Instantly recognizable as part of the Dyson clan, the Dyson Ball Multi Floor 2 is the descendant of a short but highly influential line of overachievers and sweeping (get it?) success stories. Since the ’90s, James Dyson and his merry band of engineers have been rustling feathers in the vacuum industry, leaning in on commercial behemoths like Hoover and Bissell. Inspired by the failures of what was on the market—most notably how vacuums would lose suction as their filters became more clogged with dust—Dyson threw everything he had into designing a better vacuum from the ground up....

At the Spruce, our team is made up of a mix of organization enthusiasts and those that would rather kick back with a new Netflix series than KonMari a closet, but years of living in small spaces has made even the most organization disinclined among us experts at making the most of the space we’re in. Below, our editors share their best advice for making home organization a bit more enjoyable and tips to find more storage space in even the smallest studio apartment....

Many people intentionally group their houseplants together. Whether you’re doing it to keep your plants near each other to make caring for them easier or because it looks nice, grouping houseplants can be super beneficial for a number of reasons. It’s aesthetically pleasing to group plants together and can instantly add something special to your space. It’s also a great way to cut your watering time down — if you have your plants near each other, you don’t need to wander around your home with a watering can in hand, trying to remember which plants need to be watered that day....

I got hand-me-down dishes from my brother for my first apartment with a friend, and bought the cheapest matching set I could find at IKEA when I moved in with my partner. My thinking was, the star of the mealtime show is the food, so what does it matter how the pretty the venue is? Now, I realize how wrong I was. I’m a complete convert aware of the power of a good dish now that I own the Fable dinnerware set and mugs....

Why Upgrade Your Fireplace Tiles? Look around you. Most newer homes, if they have a fireplace at all, have the typical white MDF build-out mantle. If that doesn’t ring a bell, just imagine a sculpted-looking, too-fancy-for-words mantle that sounds hollow when you tap it with your finger. Yes, that’s modern building techniques for you. But one way to infuse your home with an elegant, traditional look is to add fireplace tiles....

Fast-growing foxtail lilies should be planted in the fall. Also known as desert candles and king’s spears, fast-growing foxtail lilies grow from 3- to 8-feet or even greater depending on the species. Foxtail lily foliage is strappy and insignificant and may begin the fade before the flowers even form. The late spring bottlebrush-shaped flowers come in warm shades of yellow, orange, pink, and coral, and open from the bottom of the spike to the top....

Task lighting is the lighting we use to clearly see something we are doing. Reading lamps and desk lamps are two examples. General lighting is the illumination we use to light up the whole area, to help us walk around and find our way to specific areas and additional light sources. Most often, these days, general lighting is provided by overhead electrical fixtures. In the kitchen, these can be one of three types — recessed fixtures, surface fixtures, and pendant fixtures....

Replacing your liquid detergent with laundry pods may seem like a small change, but it’s a mighty convenient one as well. It eliminates the need to measure and pour detergent; clean up spills or drips; or leave the bottle tipped upside down when you’re trying to siphon just one more cup. While Tide Pods are perhaps the most well-known laundry pod, others exist—including eco-friendly ones like Grab Green 3-in-1 Laundry Detergent Pods....

As perennials, these plants are normally grown in the ground, but the right varieties of stonecrop are very easy to grow in containers, where their fleshy, succulent-like leaves make your container designs truly unique. Stonecrops/sedums come in lots of different colors, sizes, and textures, and like succulents, they can withstand rough conditions and even extreme neglect. Stonecrops are the very definition of a drought-tolerant plant, which makes them ideal for growing in containers, where it can be especially difficult to maintain moisture levels....

If you can fall into a rhythm, it’s possible to keep a hibiscus plant thriving for a decade or more, with blooms in the summer. Remember, though, that the blooms will likely never be as large as those in South Florida, California, or Hawaii, where hibiscus blooms can be as large as dinner plates. Growing Conditions for Tropical Hibiscus Light: Place outside in the summer, gradually acclimating to more light....

And yet, there is a gray area when it comes to kitchens since these rooms can best be described as semi-moist, or sporadically moist. It may be possible to use hardwood as a flooring material, but much depends on the nature of your household. A very busy household or a home designed so that traffic comes directly into the kitchen from a pool deck or garage is probably not the best place for a wood floor....

Washer Vibration The possible causes of washer vibration included an unbalanced load of laundry, the washer may not be level, or the washer feet may not be locked or in contact with the floor. Be sure the washer feet are in firm contact with the floor. Level or balance the washer and tighten the jam nuts so the legs and feet won’t shift. Check the floor for sagging. You may need to add a piece of plywood under your washer to keep it level....

Popular types of indoor lighting such as pendant lights and track lights are showy attention-getters. At the other end of the spectrum, hidden lighting can light up the room or parts of the room, while performing their job and tucking quietly away. Hidden lighting can work alone but most often it will work in conjunction with exposed ceiling, sconce, pendant, or chandelier lighting fixtures. To install, open-air soffits are built at the top of the walls....

So, it may be surprising that there are several advantages to painting your home’s exterior by hand. Painting a house manually saves money, fits into your daily schedule better, helps you see siding problems up-close, and can provide more thorough coverage. Find out if spray-painting a house or painting it by hand is best for your next job. Paint Cost and Conservation One gallon of exterior acrylic-latex on a clean, painted surface will easily hit or exceed the manufacturer’s estimates of one gallon per 400 square feet of painted space if it is applied using a paintbrush or roller....

Holly Blakey Takes Inventory “I am a huge fan of just simple inventory-taking. You can’t do it all at once. But I am talking about slowly carving out time once a weekend or swapping out your Netflix hour for inventory on one spot in your home. It’s important to tell people that even as a professional organizer, I am not spending my weekends organizing. It’s actually why people outsource organizing. You have to be gentle with yourself and create an organizing plan that is practical and sustainable....