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Young man making coffee in a tiny kitchen

Kitchen Remodeling

How to Set Up a Temporary Kitchen When Your Real One Is Under Construction

By Sandi Schwartz

Polycrylic vs Polyurethane: Which Finish to Use On Your Wood Project

Repair & Maintenance

Polycrylic vs. Polyurethane: What’s the Difference?

By Michelle Ullman, Phillip Tinner, Updated by Timothy Dale

A woman folds her clothes and puts them in metal black baskets and boxes. Nordic style minimalism.

Cleaning & Organizing

35 Ideas for the Most Organized Home Ever

By Manasa Reddigari, Margaret Foley

Gluing carpeting down on concrete floor.

Building & Installing

How to Remove Carpet Glue

By Katelin Hill, Bob Vila

The Best Ryobi Pressure Washers Options

The Best Ryobi Pressure Washers

A spacious outdoor deck stained a cedar color with patio furniture on top.

Repair & Maintenance

The Dos and Don’ts of Sealing the Deck

By Timothy Dale, Theresa Clement, Bob Vila

A collage of all the best potting benches tested in 2024.

Lawn Care & Gardening

We Put The Best Potting Benches Through 6 Weeks of Testing. Here Are Our Best Performing Choices

By Debbie Wolfe, Glenda Taylor

Woman with yellow rubber gloves uses a long-handled brush to clean beige vinyl siding on a home.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean Vinyl Siding

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila

Person uses epoxy to fill a cracked tile in floor.

Repair & Maintenance

How to Fix a Cracked Floor Tile Without Replacing It

By Nicole Fallon-Peek, Updated by Theresa Clement

Cropped photo of two people's hands with blueprints, kitchen tile and color swatch samples on a table.

Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchen Remodel Cost: A Budgeting Guide for Homeowners

By Meghan Wentland, Evelyn Auer

Man in blue shirt and apron uses garden loppers on branch.

How to Sharpen Loppers—and Why You Should

By Glenda Taylor

Seven of the Best Hose-End Sprayers for lawn, garden, and outdoor cleaning

After Hours of Hands-On Testing, These Are the Best Hose-End Sprayers of 2026

By Tony Carrick, Glenda Taylor

A group of the best gas string trimmer options together outside on the ground

We Spent 2 Days Testing the Best Gas String Trimmers. Here Are Our Top Picks

By Timothy Dale, Mark Wolfe

Woman sitting on her kitchen floor, painting her brown lower kitchen cabinets blue.

Painting & Finishing

Should I Paint My Kitchen Cabinets? Consider These 5 Things First

By Melissa Graham, Updated by Theresa Clement

The Best Kitchen Appliances Options

Kitchen Remodeling

The Best Kitchen Appliance Brands of 2026

By Timothy Dale

How to Paint Formica Countertops and Cabinets

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint Formica Countertops and Cabinets

By Michelle Ullman, Bob Vila

Woman's gloved hands touching herbs in her potted herb garden.

Lawn Care & Gardening

8 Herbs You Never Thought to Grow But Definitely Should

By Sandi Schwartz

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 uses needle-nose pliers to remove faucet cartridge from kitchen faucet.

Skills & Techniques

How to Fix a Leaky Faucet

By Timothy Dale, Michael Franco

A group of concrete cleaners on a concrete driveway

Cleaning & Organizing

We Tested the Best Concrete Cleaners and Our Results Were Extraordinary

By Mark Wolfe, Glenda Taylor

Ground-level view looking up into an outdoor sconce in which a light bulb broke in the socket.

Repair & Maintenance

3 Ways to Remove a Broken Light Bulb

By Katelin Hill, Bob Vila

A man installs a rain gutter to the exterior of a home.

How to Install Rain Gutters

By Tony Carrick

A can of white paint and paintbrush in front of a half-painted wall of brown floral wallpaper.

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint Over Wallpaper

Person wearing brown jacket holding a pencil uses a tape measure to measure a board.

Skills & Techniques

How to Use a Tape Measure

By Timothy Dale

Woman wearing ear and eye protection cuts a 2 x 4 with a circular saw at an outdoor workbench.

How to Use a Circular Saw

A speed square is propped up against ear protecting headphones, a pencil nearby.

Building & Installing

How to Use a Speed Square for DIY Projects

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila

Set of keys hanging from a lock in the door.

Repair & Maintenance

How to Rekey a Lock

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Smiling woman and man painting an interior wall.

Painting & Finishing

The Home Project That Brings the Most Joy Is One You Can DIY

By Sandi Schwartz

A hose splitter with four hose attached to it outside in the garden

We Found the Best Garden Hose Splitter to Handle Your Irrigation Demands

By Tony Carrick, Mike Bruton

Young woman looks a cabinetry display in home improvement store. A male salesperson is helping her.

Kitchen Remodeling

10 Kitchen Cabinet Styles to Consider for Your Next Renovation

By Theresa Clement

8 pump sprayers lined up on a lawn

We Spent 9 Hours Testing the Best Pump Sprayers for Fertilizers, Pesticides, and Herbicides. Here Are Our Top Choices

By Tony Carrick, Glenda Taylor

Eight of the Best Lawn Mower Blade Sharpener on a garage floor

After Extensive Hands-On Testing, Here are The Best Lawn Mower Blade Sharpeners

By Mark Wolfe, Tom Scalisi

A couple viewing a home with a remodeled kitchen.

Kitchen Remodeling

Not All Kitchen Remodels Have High ROI, but This Is How Experts Say You Can Hit the Sweet Spot

By Sandi Schwartz

Person Holding a White Seed Putting it on a Pot with Soil

Lawn Care & Gardening

Editor-Favorite Seeds for Proven Performance and Exceptional Flavor

By Katie Barton

Person wearing work gloves pulls up dandelion with garden trowel.

Lawn Care & Gardening

How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

A broken window and decayed wall.

Repair & Maintenance

How to Fix a Crack in Glass

By Michelle Ullman

Person wearing yellow rubber gloves cleans tile grout with a toothbrush and a white powdery scrub.

Cleaning & Organizing

8 Ways to Clean Stained Grout

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Bob Vila

Closeup of grout float pressing grout between tiles, with a container of grout in the background.

Skills & Techniques

How to Grout Tile on Floors and Walls

By Kit Stansley, Gretchen Heber

A group of the best pressure washer soaps outside before testing.

Cleaning & Organizing

Our Favorite Pressure Washer Soap Easily Cleaned All of Our Outdoor Spaces

By Glenda Taylor, Tony Carrick

Water sprinklers irrigate the lawns of several bungalow homes.

Lawn Care & Gardening

How to Install an Underground Sprinkler System

By Michael Franco, Updated by Timothy Dale

How to Clean a Humidifier - On a Weekly Basis

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean a Humidifier

By Jennifer Noonan

Using a broom to dust a popcorn ceiling.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean a Popcorn Ceiling

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

Woman uses mesh drywall tape to cover a hole in drywall.

Repair & Maintenance

How to Patch Drywall

A designer and contractor painting a wall beige and looking at paint fan deck.

Painting & Finishing

The 11 Best Beige Paint Colors for Any Room in Your Home

By Savannah Sher

A crack running through a white interior wall.

Repair & Maintenance

When Should You Worry About Cracks in Your Walls?

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

Woman nails the front of a birdhouse onto the rest of the structure.

Easy DIY Projects

How to Build a Birdhouse

By Chris Gardner, Tom Scalisi

A dry basement after cleaning up leaking walls.

Building & Installing

Waterproofing Basement Walls: The Dos and Don’ts

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Colorful flowers planted in dirt, a trowel stuck in alongside.

Cleaning & Organizing

Bob Vila’s 10 “Must Do” Projects for May

By BobVila.com Staff

How to revive a winter-weary lawn

Lawn Care & Gardening

Dormant, Not Dead: 7 Ways to Bring a Tired and Weary Lawn Back From the Brink

By Amber Guetebier

how to move a hot tub

How to Move a Hot Tub

By Timothy Dale

A hand holding a cloth to wipe a wooden countertop

Repair & Maintenance

Countertop Care 101

View from inside of man looking into an empty refrigerator.

Repair & Maintenance

Why Is My Fridge Making Noise?

By Katelin Hill, Bob Vila, Updated by Timothy Dale

10 of the Best Electric chainsaws on grass near chopped wood

The Best We Tested 15 Electric Chainsaws—Only 7 Made The Cut, According to Our Testing

By Mark Wolfe, Tom Scalisi

Several router bits lined up in wood shavings.

15 Types of Router Bits Every DIYer Should Know

By James Fitzgerald, Updated by Theresa Clement

The Best Power Tools and DIY Products Option DeWalt 20V MAX Lithium-Ion Compact Drill Driver Kit

Building the Essential Toolbox: 20 Tools You Can’t DIY Without

By Jasmine Harding

Man with green baseball cap varnishes a plank of wood.

Painting & Finishing

How to Varnish Wood Furniture and Flooring

Group of Tested Paint Sprayers

Painting & Finishing

We Tested the Best HVLP Guns on the Market—Here’s What We Found

By Bob Beacham, Mike Larson

Woman uses grout float to apply new matching grout to existing grout and tile.

Repair & Maintenance

Grout Repair: A Step-By-Step Guide for DIYers

By Katie Flannery

Man from the torso down holding a chainsaw in the outdoors.

Repair & Maintenance

What to Do When Your Chainsaw Won’t Start

By Dan Casarella

The Best Hearing Protection

Based on Our Tests, These Are the Most Effective Products for Hearing Protection

By Tom Scalisi, Mark Wolfe

Brian Brigantti - aka @redleafranch- in his garden.

The 5 Must-Have Gardening Tools Brian Brigantti—aka @RedLeafRanch—Uses Again and Again

As told to Sophie Kaemmerlé

How To Get Rid of Sugar Ants

How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants: 5 Steps to Banish These Sugar-Loving Pests From Your Home

By Danielle Fallon-O'Leary

A mom and daughter potting up tomato plants to grow at home this summer.

Lawn Care & Gardening

Experts Say You’ll Want to Grow This Humble Plant in Your Backyard This Summer

By Sandi Schwartz

A person using a chainsaw in action on a large log.

How to Use a Chainsaw

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila, Updated by Timothy Dale