Home bar ideas have shifted dramatically from the dusty basement wet bar of decades past. Today, residential bar design sits confidently alongside kitchen renovation and living room renovation as one of the most personal and expressive projects a homeowner can undertake. Having worked through dozens of home bar builds across Grand Rapids, San Diego, New … Read more
Learning how to build a fire pit is one of those outdoor projects that looks straightforward from a distance but hides several genuinely important decisions beneath the surface. I have helped homeowners build fire pits in backyard settings across the UK, USA, Australia, and Canada from simple dry stack stone fire pits on a $100 … Read more
Creating your own do-it-yourself floor cleaner is just one of those simple choices that builds up to become a truly valuable money saver and healthy choice in the long run. An average family spends between $200 and $400 per year on store-bought floor cleaners, most of which consist of artificial fragrances, toxic surfactants, and chemical … Read more
Selecting a new lawn mower appears to be an easy task, but when you begin to search for one, you get confused because of the wide variety of models including zero turn mowers, robots, and many types of engines you have no idea about. This is how I once stood in a hardware store aisle … Read more
Rugs go through abuse that no one tells you about until you are too late. I have had a wool rug go through a toddler, a couple of dogs, and coffee spills galore until I got the right do it yourself diy rug cleaner solution remedy. While carpeting can all be the same thing, rugs … Read more
First of all, when I decided to paint my walls for the first time without preparing them properly, I realized the hard way how costly mistakes with bubbles can be. I did not bother to clean the walls properly, rushed while applying tape, and put two generous coats of paint on the walls that still … Read more
A house requires a proper door, but no one really gives it much thought until it breaks. This is what happened to me with a hollow core door I had installed in my previous place; it did nothing but let all sorts of noise into my house. In my quest to find out what kind … Read more
For years, I purchased carpet shampoo by the gallon because I was under the impression that no other product could do the job as well as these. However, after my friend told me about her DIY carpet cleaning solution recipe, I gave up buying commercial products entirely because I discovered that these products are mostly … Read more
She recently redecorated her living room based on a single Pinterest board this past spring. Six months later, she despised most of her living room. It wasn’t because the items weren’t good; it was simply that they did not fit her style but rather another’s. That’s the risk with home decor ideas lately. There’s so … Read more
I ruined home fries for probably two years before I figured out what I was doing wrong. Same story every time potatoes went in the pan looking promising, came out pale, a little wet, sort of steamed instead of fried. I blamed the potatoes, then the pan, then the stove, before finally realizing the mistake … Read more
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