More from Teresa Odle (Page 2)

A woman sits in front of a fan to cool off in her humid home.

How to Lower Humidity in the House

By Deirdre Mundorf, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person wipes a paste with a cloth across black granite countertop.

How to Clean Granite Countertops

By Teresa Odle, Bob Vila

Why Is My House So Humid

Why Is My House so Humid?

By Melissa Maynard de Kerch, Evelyn Auer, Updated by Teresa Odle

An ant climbs a small yellow flower.

12 Plants That Repel Ants Naturally

By Audrey Stallsmith, Teresa Odle

Mosquitoes hovering outdoors.

How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes and Keep Them From Coming Back

By Melissa Graham, Updated by Teresa Odle

Tumble of Strawberries

How to Grow Strawberries

By Audrey Stallsmith, Teresa Odle

Trusted contractor in the kitchen shaking hands with a homeowner

The Home Improvement Heroes of 2025: 26 Companies for Any—and Every—Project

By Jeff Keleher, Sophie Kaemmerlé, Reviewed and Updated by Teresa Odle

Water leak on ceiling of apartment unit.

Repair & Maintenance

Water Stains on the Ceiling: Common Causes and Solutions

By Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

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How to Grow Onions

By Audrey Stallsmith, Teresa Odle

Woman aerating the garden lawn with a digging fork.

How to Aerate Your Lawn

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Birds eye view of a gardener using plastic bottles as cloches over seedlings in a gardening bed.

20 Dirt-Cheap Ways to Maintain Your Garden This Season

By Kelsey Savage, Updated by Teresa Odle

A family gets ready to leave their home for vacation.

How to Keep Your Lawn and Garden Happy While You Are on Vacation

By Kat Hodgins, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person wearing work gloves pulls up dandelion with garden trowel.

How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

A professional landscaper mows a beautiful lawn.

The 18 Best Things You Can Do for Your Lawn

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

A person in work boots using a shovel to work in garden soil.

4 Types of Soil Every Gardener Should Know

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

The grass of a lawn burning in a wildfire.

Fire-Resistant Landscaping Tips Every Homeowner Should Know

Someone out of frame pours oil into a red lawnmower.

What Type of Lawn Mower Oil Should I Use?

By Amy Lynch, Teresa Odle

Close up view of grass seeds coming out of a handheld seed spreader.

How to Overseed a Lawn

By Teresa Odle, Stacey L. Nash

Blue fertilizer spread on a green lawn.

Types of Fertilizer For Your Lawn and Garden

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

A hand wearing a yellow gardening glove uses a small shovel to sprinkle sulfur on a garden plot.

How to Lower pH in Soil

By Amber Guetebier, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person wearing garden gloves cuts thick weeds with a sickle.

Homemade Weed Killers and Preventative Treatments That Really Work

By Teresa Odle, Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Gretchen Heber

A woman in a blue shirt with red hair scrubs a pink-tiled bathtub with black mold damage.

Cleaning and Preventing Black Mold in the Bathroom

By Bob Vila, Evelyn Auer, Updated by Teresa Odle

Wiping down a wooden surface to remove wood stain.

Painting & Finishing

How to Remove Stain From Wood

By Debbie Wolfe, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Blue colonial house covered in snow

The 20 Best Products for Surviving Winter

By Jasmine Harding, Teresa Odle, Bob Vila

Kitchen with white cabinets and stainless refrigerator with wet floor.

Repair & Maintenance

Why Is My Refrigerator Leaking Water?

By Amy Lynch, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Electric humidity meter held up near window with condensation measures moisture in air.

Heating & Cooling

This Is Your Home’s Ideal Indoor Humidity Level

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila Staff, Updated by Teresa Odle

Orange peel textured blue-and-white striped walls in an Alice in Wonderland-themed bathroom.

Painting & Finishing

How to Texture Walls 5 Different Ways

By Michael Franco, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Woman wearing a plaid flannel shirt removes a light bulb from a small lamp with a beige shade.

Lighting & Electrical

Why Are Lights Flickering in My Home?

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila, Updated b Teresa Odle

Many numbered felt Christmas stockings in red, white, and green hanging from a string in a living room.

Holidays & Celebrations

40 DIY Advent Calendar Ideas to Help You Count Down to Christmas

By Manasa Reddigari, Caitlin Castelaz, Updated by Teresa Odle

Close front-facing view of a coyote.

How to Keep Coyotes Away From Your Property

By Melissa Graham, Updated by Teresa Odle

Green lawn (with a bit of clover) in a colorful landscaped formal garden.

How to Level a Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

A traditional-style home with brown siding and brick chimney on a snowy day.

Lawn Care & Gardening

3 Last-Minute Winterization Projects You’ll Regret Skipping

A father and son are staking a young tree together.

How to Stake a Tree the Right Way

By Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Teresa Odle

A family walking into their home with reusable bags, a rain barrel outside of the door, clothes hanging on a clothesline air drying in the backyard.

Skills & Techniques

Finding Middle Ground: How to Practice Sustainability at Home With Less Stress

Geraniums indoors in a window.

13 Plants You Can Winter Indoors

By Mark Wolfe, Updated by Teresa Odle

A family sitting around the fire and enjoying activities.

How to Build a Fire Pit in Your Backyard

By Michael Franco, Updated by Teresa Odle

Small dial thermometer set on a refrigerator shelf.

Repair & Maintenance

What to Do When Your Refrigerator Is Not Cooling

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Teresa Odle

Staining a wooden shelf on an outdoor work station.

Furniture & Design

How to Stain Wood Furniture

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Hardscaping stairs in a backyard with a stone wall and foliage.

How Much Hardscaping Is Too Much? Experts Weigh In

A man and woman measure a kitchen for remodels.

11 Ways to Reduce Construction Costs for Your Kitchen Renovation

By Tom Scalisi, Updated by Teresa Odle

A living room with grey carpet and white couch is on the left side, and a living room with light-colored hardwood flooring and a white couch is on the right.

Carpet vs. Hardwood Flooring: Which Is the Better Option for Your Home?

By Timothy Dale, Updated by Teresa Odle

A suburban blue home with a tree planted in front of the front windows to provide shade.

7 Landscaping Strategies That Can Lower Your Home’s Energy Costs Year-Round

A maroon carpeted staircase with white banisters leads down to the first floor of a home.

What Is the Best Carpet for Stairs?

By Andreana Lefton, Updated by Teresa Odle

Bags of both potting soil and garden soil, side by side surrounded by a few terra cotta garden pots.

Garden Soil vs. Potting Soil: What’s the Difference?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

A long keyhole garden bed with two concave sections is mostly full of leafy green vegetables.

Keyhole Gardening: What You Need to Know to Get Started

By Glenda Taylor, Updated by Teresa Odle

Pink, spiky fruits of Ricinus Communis, or Castor bean plant.

19 Plants You Should Never Grow in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Teresa Odle

A large ornamental grass with large feathery plumes surrounded by other bright flowers.

The 22 Best Ornamental Grasses for Adding Drama to Your Property

By Glenda Taylor, Teresa Odle

Father and son working on a home improvement project in the backyard.

Easy DIY Projects

26 Insanely Easy Home Improvements You Can Do in 1 Hour

By Cynthia Ramnarace, Updated by Teresa Odle

Hand using scrape to spread grout on beige tiles.

Building & Installing

Sanded vs. Unsanded Grout: Which Should I Use?

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila, Katelin Hill, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person holds a trowel that contains granules of plant fertilizer.

What Do Fertilizer Numbers Mean?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

When to Aerate the Lawn? Solved!

Solved! Here’s Exactly When You Should Aerate the Lawn

By Teresa Odle, Bob Vila, Manasa Reddigari

Red spoon full of diatomaceous earth.

Cleaning & Organizing

13 Handy Household Uses for Diatomaceous Earth

By Savannah Sher, Teresa Odle

Young person's hands hold garden hose with squirting water on the garden.

14 Ways to Help Your Garden Survive a Heat Wave

By Steph Coelho, Teresa Odle

A family of four is roasting marshmallows in a fire pit in the outdoors.

Fire Pit Safety: 13 Rules You Should Always Follow

Updated by Gretchen Heber Caitlin Castelaz, By Teresa Odle

A person is picking tomatoes from a tomato plant in a garden.

Lawn Care & Gardening

Succession Planting: 6 Tips to Multiply Your Harvest This Year

By Debbie Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Man's hand holding a hand full of grass seed near a patch of green grass.

Lawn Care & Gardening

When to Plant Grass Seed to Get the Lushest, Greenest Lawn

By Amy Lynch, Teresa Odle

A gas grill with the top open, surrounded by materials and tools for cleaning it (including a plastic bin, garden hose, dish soap and more).

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean a Gas Grill the Right Way

By Teresa Odle, Amy Lynch

Person using garden tool planting sedum plant.

17 Drought-Tolerant Plants That Can Survive Dry Spells

By Teresa Odle, Jennifer Noonan

A bee is hovering over a clover flower.

9 Good Reasons to Consider Planting a Clover Lawn

By Teresa Odle, Lori Lovely

How to Close a Summer Home

How to Close a Summer Home

By Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

10 Easy, Budget-Friendly Backyard Makeovers

10 Easy, Budget-Friendly Backyard Makeovers

By Marie Proeller Hueston, Teresa Odle

Plant These 12 Hydrangeas for a Showstopping Garden

Plant These 12 Hydrangeas for a Showstopping Garden

By Teresa Odle, Mackenzie Miller

22 Sneaky Storage Solutions for Your Deck, Porch, and Patio

Deck, Patio & Porch

22 Sneaky Storage Solutions for Your Deck, Porch, and Patio

By Teresa Odle, Katie Nolan

Suck It Up: 11 Vacuum Attachments You Should Own (and How to Use Them)

Cleaning Supplies

Suck It Up: 11 Vacuum Attachments You Should Own (and How to Use Them)

By Teresa Odle, Katie Nolan

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