Just like your fragile antiques and furniture, moving plants need special attention. Take some time to consider if it’s best to move your plants or if you don’t think they’ll survive, then make sure you find a good home. When You Can’t Take Your Plants with You If you’re moving from state to state or from one country to another, sometimes your plants aren’t allowed to move with you. Before you take plants with you, find out what species are allowed into your new state or country before you attempt to smuggle them in unknowingly....

Read the Fine Print We get it—it’s awfully tempting to quickly place a bid and throw caution to the wind so as not to miss out on that perfect item. But vintage dealer Lily Barfield of Lily’s Vintage Finds says that reading the item description and the terms and conditions listed on a site it ultra key. “You don’t want to purchase something you love, only to find out you missed an important detail,” she says....

Prepare the Kitchen If you’re moving into a new home, there’s a good chance it has not been properly cleaned. Before you take anything out of your boxes, give your new kitchen a good cleaning. Focus on places where you’ll be putting your dishes, cutlery, glasses, and pots. If possible, use contact paper to create a fresh, easy-to-wipe surface on shelves and inside drawers. Be sure your countertops and sink are clean as well....

While it sounds much like a task reserved only for masons, repointing brick mortar isn’t all that mysterious or difficult. In fact, you only need a few basic tools and some mortar. What Brick Repointing Is Mortar is the filling between bricks that holds bricks in place. When the brick is originally laid, one of the last steps is to point the brick. Pointing the brick means grooving out the mortar and remove excess....

Whether you’re working on a larger project or you’re a DIY newbie attempting smaller indoor home projects, mastering these three ways to safely hammer a nail will help you get the job done faster. Watch the video above to learn how to (safely) hammer a nail. Here’s How to Do It A clothespin is all you’ll need. With your hammer nearby, use the clothespin to clamp the nail so that the tip of the nail is poking out from one side of the clothespin....

There are many options for sprucing up a garage floor, and most homeowners have trouble deciding which way to go. An effective way to start thinking about a new garage floor is to divide the choices into two categories: coatings and coverings. There are four good options to consider. Coating Options: Paint and Epoxy One category of floor covering is those that are applied in a thin coat with a roller or brush and adhere directly to the concrete floor slab....

Used for shingles, trim, house siding, decking, fences, hot tubs, and gates, cedar is cheap, widely available, highly versatile, easy to fabricate, and best of all, it weathers exceptionally well. But one aspect is that cedar’s lovely red turns a monotonous gray surprisingly quickly. Once cedar has turned gray, there is no natural way of going back. The only alternative at this point is to tone the wood with a stain or other coloring agent....

Tops The type of top will determine how it is stored. In general, keep tops up high, such as on the top closet rod or upper shelves. This will make it easier to spot outfits when looking through your closet if you have tops on top and bottoms on the bottom. Button-Down Shirts and Blouses Always store button-downs on wooden hangers (you can also use slimline hangers in a pinch) and take them off the wire hangers and out of those bags as soon as you get them home from the dry cleaners....