Archive for March, 2010
Home Ec: 5 Things You Should Never Vacuum
Filed under: recalls and safety, cleaning, Essential Skills, Know-How
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Vacuuming is by far my most dreaded task — the moving of the furniture, clearing of surfaces — and soon after there’s all the dog hair to contend with (and the dog, whose arch nemesis is the vacuum cleaner…
How to Degloss a Surface for Paint Prep
Filed under: weekend projects, kitchen, painting, Kitchen & Bath, Small Projects, Living Rooms, Bedrooms, Essential Skills, Know-How, Living Spaces
Photo: Jolie Novak, AOL
Looking to repaint that glossy trim work or that varnished desk? You’ll have to degloss it first. whether you don’t, ther…
Links We Love: Surf Shack Table, Floating Shoe Rack & More
Filed under: organization and storage, art, Crafts, knock it off, Storage & Organization, Know-How, Crafts & Celebrations
that week, let’s kick things off with two very cool DIY space-saving projects!
Hartman Kable demos his DIY fold-down table. Photo: Ready Made
First up: the creative …
Hammer Tips & Tricks
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I confess: there was once a date when I hung pictures by pounding a nail into the wall with the heel of my shoe. But as I tackled more projects around the house and worked with different tools, I started pounding nails the right way: with a hammer. And next different hammers (…
Making News: Obama Outlines ‘Cash for Caulkers’ Program
Filed under: Living Rooms, Exteriors & Facades, Living Spaces, Outdoors
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Imagine whether the cooled or heated air in your home was festooned with little dollar signs. Now imagine those dollars signs leaking out of your house, one by one.
That’s basically what happens when…
The Daily Fix: Remove Dried Paint from a Wood Floor
Photo: Jolie Novak, AOL
Dried drips of paint are hard to avoid; it seems we’ve all got a few of these unsightly blemishes on our hardwood floors. Ideally, we’d catch all stray spots and splatters during the painting process and wipe them up while they’re wet, but few paint jobs are that tidy. Lu…