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Cleaning & Organizing

How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

By Marisa Villarreal, Gretchen Heber

Grey stone wall, room, interior style with yellow niche, green vase of plant, bookshelf decor.

How to DIY a Wall Alcove in Any Room of Your House

By Kristen Mosier

Remodel or Move

Solved! Is It Better to Remodel Your Home, or Move to a New One?

By Melissa Graham

Small Closet Ideas

Easy DIY Projects

20 Big Ideas for Organizing Small Closets

By Manasa Reddigari, Eleanor Chalstrom

Worx Pegasus Folding Work Table Review

Worx Pegasus Folding Work Table Review: How Good Is This Sawhorse With Wings?

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15 Handy Uses for Dryer Sheets Around the House

By Bob Vila Staff

Maple butcher block countertop in a bright kitchen with white cabinets

How to Install Butcher Block Countertops

By Timothy Dale

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7 Easy Ways to Change Your Flooring

By Rachel Brougham

Gloved gardener hand spreads wood ash into garden with silver shovel.

How to Use Wood Ash in the Garden

By Audrey Stallsmith

woman in room with ladder and paint supplies holding a paint roller and looking at the wall she is painting

17 Easy Fixes for a Botched Paint Job

By Jennifer Noonan, Theresa Clement

Is It Cheaper to Buy or Build a Kitchen Island

Solved! Is It Cheaper to Buy or Build a Kitchen Island?

By Melissa Graham

attic-window-looking-out-on-snowy-hillside

How to Prep Your Attic for Winter

By Deirdre Mundorf

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15 Embroidery Patterns for Beginners

By Jasmine Harding

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Painting & Finishing

Solved! This is the Best Paint to Use on Wood

By Manasa Reddigari

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21 Household Problems You Can Fix With Vaseline

By Donna Boyle Schwartz

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Skills & Techniques

How to Load a Dishwasher the Right Way

By Michael Franco, Gretchen Heber

Coffee grounds on spoon

18 Clever Uses for Coffee Grounds at Home and in the Garden

By Jennifer Noonan, Donna Boyle Schwartz, Margaret Foley

three pairs of feet with wool socks on table in front of roaring fireplace

How to Get Your Fireplace Ready for Winter

By Donna Boyle Schwartz

Top-down view of mature smooth spinach plant growing in garden soil

How to Grow Spinach

By Audrey Stallsmith

mustard cover crops growing in a home vegetable garden in autumn

What Is Cover Cropping and How to Use It in Your Home Garden

By Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

Lack Of Sleep Concept. Stressed young African American woman suffering from insomnia, lying in bed and covering face, waking up throughout the night, feeling depressed about start of the working week

15 Easy Fixes for a Squeaky Bed

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila Staff

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Lawn Care & Gardening

How to Grow Ginger at Home

By Savannah Sher, Gretchen Heber

neem oil plant with green fruit

14 Nifty Neem Oil Uses for the Home and Garden

By Steph Coelho

Visual 1 - HomeAdvisor - Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets - Cost Range + Average - July 2023

Painting & Finishing

How Much Does It Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets?

By Brie Greenhalgh, Evelyn Auer

Visual 1 - HomeAdvisor - Tile Installation Cost - Cost Range + Average - August 2023 (1)

Building & Installing

How Much Does Tile Installation Cost?

By Katie Flannery, Evelyn Auer

concrete is loaded into a cart from a 200 liter orange electric concrete mixer, photo taken on a sunny summer day outdoors

10 Brilliant Alternative Uses for a Concrete Mixer

The DeWalt 10-inch table saw sitting on its stand in a yard while surrounded by several pieces of wood, some of which have been cut and some of which have not been cut

Precision Meets Portability: An In-Depth Review of the DeWalt 10-Inch Table Saw

By Glenda Taylor

The Husqvarna XCite 350 zero turn riding mower sitting on a green lawn

Can the Husqvarna Zero-Turn Mower Cut a Bumpy Lawn at Top Speed?

Person harvesting peanuts from garden

How to Grow Peanuts

By Audrey Stallsmith

A person using the best heat gun option to melt colorful wax for an art project

The Best Heat Guns

By Timothy Dale

Lawn Care & Gardening

7 Types of Plant Covers All Home Gardeners Should Know

By Steph Coelho

How to Paint a Room in 9 Steps

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint a Room in 9 Steps

By Maureen Blaney Flietner

The Best Cement Mixer Options

The Best Cement Mixers for Your Concrete Projects

The Worx Landroid M robotic lawn mower sitting on grass

How Well Do Robotic Lawn Mowers Work? This Worx Landroid Review Answers That Question

A front view of the ShelterLogic storage shed in a backyard

Building a Shed Looks Easy—Here’s What We Learned When Building a ShelterLogic Shed

The Kushlan concrete mixer set up in a yard

See What Happened When I Used the Kushlan Cement Mixer to Pour a Shed Foundation

The Gorilla GLMPXA-22 ladder set up as an extension ladder reaching up to a roof

The Versatile Gorilla Ladder May Be The Only Ladder You Ever Need

By Glenda Taylor

workers planted flower bulbs in town park

Lawn Care & Gardening

How to Plant Bulbs in Fall

By Kelsey Savage, Gretchen Heber

how long does it take for spray paint to dry

Painting & Finishing

Solved! How Long Does It Take for Spray Paint to Dry?

By Deirdre Mundorf

how to grow jalapenos - jalapeno plant care 101

How to Grow Jalapeños

By Audrey Stallsmith

Gardening. Female adult raking green lawn grass with rake tool on her backyard

Lawn Care & Gardening

How to Kill Grass—and Why You Might Want To

By Brenda Silva

How to Remove Paint from Concrete

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Paint from Concrete

A close-up of a person making an adjustment to the best table saw fence option

5 of the Best Table Saw Fences for DIY Woodworking

Triangular shade sail in a verdant backyard

How to Install a Shade Sail

Is DeWalt a Good Brand?

By Glenda Taylor

Mini-Split Leaking Water

Solved! 5 Reasons for a Mini-Split Leaking Water (and How to Address Them)

By Katie Flannery

Dirty pool filter cartridge held over splashes coming from a swimming pool

How to Clean a Sand, DE, or Cartridge Pool Filter

By Timothy Dale

The best shower door option installed in a spacious and bright white bathroom

Bathroom Remodeling

The Best Shower Doors

By Savannah Sher

who to call for home repairs

Solved! These Are the 7 Types of Professionals to Call for Home Repairs

By Katie Flannery

a large white bottle pouring a stream of clear bleach with a blue background

13 Surprising Uses for Bleach Around the Home

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Kelly Weimert

Spraying window with windex

14 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Windex

By Donna Boyle Schwartz

monstera plant care 101 - how to grow monstera indoors

Lawn Care & Gardening

Monstera Plant Care 101

By Glenda Taylor

Close view of hand wiping a TV screen with a microfiber cloth

How to Clean TV Screens the Right Way

By Deirdre Mundorf

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Lawn Care & Gardening

Calathea Care 101

By Glenda Taylor

Rear View Of Senior Couple Pointing Finger In Front Of House

How to Paint a House

Man holding ashes from a fire pit

20 Surprising Ways You Can Use Ashes From Your Fire Pit or Fireplace

By Jennifer Noonan

Backhoe digging for a residential swimming pool

13 Home Improvements You Might Make That Your Neighbors Will Probably Hate

By Alexa Erickson, Gretchen Heber

The Wagner Paint Sprayer set up next to a barn alongside all its accessories

The Wagner Paint Sprayer Provides the Best Bang for the Buck in Our Latest Test

By Glenda Taylor

Roofer laying shingles on steep roof

Don’t Try This at Home: The 13 Most Dangerous DIYs

By Cody Calamaio, Tom Scalisi

bright indirect light

Lawn Care & Gardening

What Is “Bright, Indirect Light,” Anyway?

By Audrey Stallsmith

Visual 1 - HomeAdvisor - Walk-In Tub Cost - Cost Range + Average - June 2023

Bathroom Remodeling

How Much Does a Walk-In Tub Cost?

By Lori Lovely, Evelyn Auer

person cleaning a blackstone griddle with a metal scraper

How to Clean Blackstone Griddles

By Deirdre Mundorf

Painted room with tools on the floor

Painting & Finishing

How to Get Rid of Paint Smell

By Caylin Harris, Kelly Weimert

A group of the best pocket chainsaw options together on a picnic table

The Best Pocket Chainsaws, Tested

By Tony Carrick