Category: Home Improvement

November Home Maintenance Tasks that will make your Holidays Brighter

With Thanksgiving approaching and the winter holidays around the corner, there are things to look forward to (and prepare for) this time of year — even with the adjustments we are having to make because of the pandemic. Batten down the hatches for winter weather and get a jump on holiday prep, so you can […]

You can Tackle these 5 November Home Maintenance To-Do’s over a Weekend

With Thanksgiving approaching and the winter holidays around the corner, there are things to look forward to (and prepare for) this time of year — even with the adjustments you may be making because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.  Here’s the good news: these five home maintenance to-do’s can be easily accomplished over a single […]

Things to Check Off Your November Home Maintenance To-Do List that take just an Hour or Less

With Thanksgiving approaching and the winter holidays around the corner, there are things to look forward to (and prepare for) this time of year. What’s great about these home maintenance to-do’s is that they can all get checked off your list in just an hour or less.  So it will be easy to batten down […]

November Lawn and Garden To-Do List: Shrubs and Trees

Fall gardening chores tend to have a “bedtime” theme – before your plants begin their long winter’s nap, they need to be tended and tucked cozily into their beds. Fall gardening is also an exercise in delayed gratification – new plants will barely put down roots before going dormant, cleaned and amended beds won’t show […]

November Yard and Garden To-Do List: Perennials and Bulbs

Fall gardening chores tend to have a “bedtime” theme – before your plants begin their long winter’s nap, they need to be tended and tucked cozily into their beds. Fall gardening is also an exercise in delayed gratification – new plants will barely put down roots before going dormant, cleaned and amended beds won’t show […]

November Yard and Garden To-Do List: Cleanup and Maintenance

Fall gardening chores tend to have a “bedtime” theme – before your plants begin their long winter’s nap, they need to be tended and tucked cozily into their beds. Fall gardening is also an exercise in delayed gratification – new plants will barely put down roots before going dormant, cleaned and amended beds won’t show […]

Want to take your Home from Drab to Fab? HGTV’s Now Casting for ‘Down Home Fab’ Season 3 With Chelsea and Cole DeBoer

Are you dreaming of taking your home from drab to fab? Do you want to be featured on HGTV? Chelsea and Cole DeBoer are back for Season 3 of Down Home Fab, and they want to hear from you. When it first debuted on HGTV in January of 2023, Down Home Fab was an instant hit with viewers. On the […]

Daylight Saving Time Starts this Weekend. It’s the Perfect Time to Check Your Smoke and CO Detectors

Daylight Saving Time (DST) arrives on Sunday, when we “Fall Back” and get a welcome extra hour of sleep in the morning (even if we lose the extra hour of daylight in the evening). And with cold weather arriving, holidays fast approaching, and furnaces and fireplaces cranking up, this month is the perfect time to […]

Simone Biles shares progress on her $3M Texas Dream Home Reno

After conquering her “redemption tour”—aka the 2024 Olympics in Paris—Simone Biles is ready to embrace her homebody era by sharing her experience in renovating her $3M “dream home” lakefront property in Texas. As House Beautiful reports, in 2023, the gold medalist shared that she’s living out her HGTV dreams and broke ground on a brand-new home […]

Electric Wallpaper Could Help Warm Poorly Insulated Homes During Winter

Researchers in Scotland are testing electric wallpaper as a cleaner alternative to gas-based interior heating. If the trial goes well, it could allow people living in cold climates to keep their homes warm without pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. As ExtremeTech reports, two Scottish universities collaborated with the Glasgow City Council on the project. […]