The move from start to finish can consume you for a long time: planning, packing, moving, cleaning. When you arrive at your new home, you’re faced with even more challenges. It may seem like a small thing to decide where to put the best china or the everyday dishes, but after all the work of moving out of the old home, the last thing you need is one more big decision or another major project....
Provide Fresh Linens It’s crucial that you provide crisp, clean, and coordinated linens for your overnight guests. They’ll feel especially welcome and it’s an easy thing to do. Don’t pull out your family leftovers if you don’t have to. You don’t have to invest in the finest luxury linens to make someone feel special. Most discount specialty stores have large sections of discontinued styles of designer sheet sets and lovely imported towels....
Here are nine home organization hacks and ideas to try in your space. DIY Tank Top Organizer from Beloved Style Upcycled Pencil Holder from The Spruce Another Use for Old Bread Tags from Great Escape Publishing Repurpose an Antique Rake from Funky Junk Interiors Cleaning Closet Organization Ideas from The 36th Avenue Dresser Drawer Storage Project from The Painted Home Girl’s Bathroom Reveal from Eleven Magnolia Lane Hollowed Out Faux Book Storage Idea from Dear Lillie Ordinary Pallets in the Garden from Flea Market Gardening
Looking for a little inspiration? You’ll love these fresh and modern takes on yellow nurseries. Working with a tight budget? This design trick won’t leave you broke. With an easy-to-use stencil, a can of Benjamin Moore’s yellow raincoat 2020-40, and a little DIY know-how, you too can rock this look in your nursery for less than $75. This sweet little girl’s room spotted on Style Me Pretty boosts a soft blush pallet with an energetic shade of yellow, that draws the eye directly to the baby’s crib (as if that’s not where you were looking anyway)....
With some major guidance from Stefanie Russo, the program director of marketing for Fortessa, we’ve rounded up your must-haves for the perfect Thanksgiving table. “If you’re doing a more formal table, you can set a water glass and two wine glasses: one for white and one for red,” she tells us. “But you if have a smaller table or you want to be a little more informal, one good, all-purpose glass is great....
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About Ground Baths Ground bird baths come in a wide range of styles, materials, sizes, and shapes to suit any bird-friendly backyard. While basic circular or oval basins are perfectly suitable, more elaborate designs often look like large leaves, rock basins, logs, or sundials, and they may even incorporate bird bath fountains or drippers for extra sound and motion to attract birds. Some ground baths include heaters for winter months, and short legs or stands are also popular to elevate the bath a few inches, protecting the grass beneath it without raising it as high as a typical pedestal bird bath....
Other uses of perlite include masonry construction, cement, gypsum plasters, and loose-fill insulation. Perlite is also used in pharmaceuticals and municipal swimming pool water filtration as well as an abrasive in polishes, cleansers, and soaps. Perlite Production Perlite is a form of volcanic glass that is mined all over the world. It is an amorphous volcanic glass that has a relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian....
Which flowers can survive wind gusts and shifting shadows?Can the balcony support the weight of the containers and their contents?How can I water the plants without drenching the tenants below?Does my garden look as pleasing to passersby as it does to me?What happens when winter arrives? Learn more about growing a successful flower garden when you have no in-ground planting space and how to transform a few potted plants into your urban paradise....
Benefits of Raised Beds If you have poor, rocky soil or live in an area that has a high water table or overzealous rainfall, raised beds can solve your drainage and soil fertility issues. Some raised beds use the natural soil on the ground, while others are built empty and filled with a mix. Raised beds allow the soil to warm more quickly in spring. The soil is never walked on, so it doesn’t get compacted....
Major, encyclopedic remodel sites were next joined by a new breed: the home improvement/lifestyle blogger. These content producers weave family, friends, and experiences in with their home remodel projects, bringing it all down a personal level. No single type of home remodel blog is right for everyone, so this list of best remodel blogs spans the horizon of online advice out there. Young House Love John and Sherry Petersik are the best thing around right now on the remodel blog landscape as they delicately balance the homespun and personal with the professional and commercial....
Know that these vines are easy to grow, like full sun, and are drought tolerant once they are established. A bonus: some produce pretty, colorful flowers and a nice fragrance. Flower color: It’s not flowers that bloom, but large, papery, colorful bracts that come in various shades of red, pink, purple, orange, white, yellow, and orange. Size: 30 feet. If you want a vine that produces a riot of color up and across an arbor, trellis, or pergola and you reside in the Mediterranean or sunny climate, bougainvillea might be your answer....
Softwoods like Douglas Fir, Hemlock, Southern Yellow Pine, and Ponderosa Pine easily decay and provide an attractive food source to termites and carpenter ants. Forcing the preservative copper azole, type C (CA-C) into the wood transforms it into a useless food source for bugs and wards off fungi. Pressure-treated wood boards are easy to obtain at your local home center or lumber yard. Because you can pick it up yourself, no shipping costs are involved, as long as you have a truck or a vehicle with a roof rack....
It is a slender tree—one of the slenderest trees found in North American forests—with a narrow trunk that rarely reaches more than two feet in diameter. Black ash is often leaning or bent. The grey, fissured bark becomes scaly as the tree ages. It’s a long-lived tree that can get 150 and in some cases up to 250 years old. Black ash has male and female trees, and it produces small winged seeds in hanging clusters called samara that ripen in September and can remain on the tree until the late fall....
Look for warm shades of brown with strong undertones and pair with bolder colors for a sense of depth that feels unexpected and inviting. While eclectic style doesn’t mean anything goes, throwing many traditional decor “rules” out the window helps achieve that worldly, well-traveled vibe we love about the look. A rich chocolatey brown, such as paint colors like Farrow & Ball’s Tanner Brown, is a great way to add a richness and elegance to a space while still maintaining a cozy softness....
That’s why homeowners tend to gravitate to NM, or non-metallic, electrical cable (Romex is a popular brand of NM cable). NM wire is lightweight, easy to handle, and inexpensive. It’s simple to cut, rip, and strip, plus it pulls effortlessly through holes in studs. But occasionally you might open up a wall or ceiling and encounter a type of ribbed metal-clad cable called BX. In some cases, you might elect to use BX cable instead of NM cable....
But for wallpaper, textured walls are a poor base. Fortunately, there is a relatively easy fix that transforms textured walls into the perfect substrate for wallpaper. Why Textured Walls Don’t Work for Wallpaper Textured walls are such a poor base for wallpaper that the correct preparation technique—skim coating—will save you more time, labor, and cost in the end, even if prep takes longer than you’d like. Poor Adhesion When gluing one surface to another surface, the more surface contact, the better....
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a plant that offers considerable benefits to almost all its neighbors. It deters many pests, such as aphids, spider mites, fungus gnats, Japanese beetles, snails, and cabbage loopers. Garlic also accumulates sulfur, which is a naturally-occurring fungicide that will help protect your plants from diseases. A homemade powder or spray made from garlic powder or oil is a natural remedy for fungal diseases, and when planted in the garden, garlic is a good preventive measure for fungal infections....
