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Yearly Archives: 2007

Home Restoration Blogs I’m Reading Lately

Home Restoration Blogs I’m Reading Lately

I’ve taken some breaks from tackling any big projects on my home for the moment while I save up some cash for some spring outdoor projects. But while I may not be working on my own living space very much at the moment, I’m definitely still getting my share of home improvement learning through...
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How Not To Install A Set of Stairs

Stair Stringer

This is about my recent adventure in putting together a set of outside stairs on the side of my house. This is not a how-to article, but rather, an article about what not to do. This is an embarrassing do-it-yourself mistake. We had a new sliding glass door put into our house a few...
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Baby-Proof Your Cabinets By Installing Tot Locks

Review and Install Tot Locks

I have a one year old son now and he’s already running around the house grabbing everything he can put is little hands on. We’ve already protected all the outlets and put up doorknob guards on most of the doors, but our cabinets were still fairly accessible to our son until recently. I did...
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Refinishing a Child’s Rocking Chair

Before and After photos of a refinished children's rocking chair.

About a month ago my wife picked up a little toddler-sized oak rocking chair at a yard sale for $3.00 and brought it home for our son who is about to turn one year old. The chair looked as though it had been left out in a rain once or twice or at the...
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How To Clean A Ceiling Fan

How To Clean A Ceiling Fan

If your home has ceiling fans, then you know how absolutely disgusting and dirty they can get after running for 24 hours a day for months at a time, especially if your home has central AC or forced hot air heat. Ceiling fans naturally move the air in the room and by doing so...
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How To Plant Grass Seed Quickly and Easily (Photos and Video)

Quickly Plant Grass Seed

I’ve been spending the summer trying to landscape my backyard but one of the problems I’ve had is large patches of yard which didn’t have any grass planted at all. I don’t have a lot of time because I have an infant son, so I wanted to plant grass but not spend a whole...
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Learn From My Plumbing Mistake: Don’t Pay $133.75 For A Tiny Rubber Washer

A Plumbing DIY Mistake

Last night we ran a bath for our son and when I turned off the hot water a strange thing happened: the hot water did not turn off. I twisted and pushed and turned, but no matter what I did with the 40 year old shower faucet, the hot water kept running out as...
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How To Care For and Maintain Your Central Air Conditioner

DIY Central Air Conditioner Maintenance

Now that summer is in full swing here in most of the United States my thoughts have turned to my central air conditioning unit and how thankful I am that I have it! My central AC unit is about ten years old and I’m going to have to start thinking about replacing it in...
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How To Hide Your Flat Screen TV in Plain Site

Hide Your TV

I don’t yet have one of those super-duper big screen HD TVs for my house yet mostly because I don’t yet have a place to really put it. Right now I just have a 20 year old particleboard entertainment center along a large empty wall in my living room. I’m thinking about designing some...
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How To Mow Grass The Right Way

How To Mow Grass

A lot of people still think that the secret to a healthy green lawn has to do with all the chemicals and fertilizers you dump on the grass and little else. But you can save yourself a lot of money and keep your lawn healthy in a more natural way with the proper use...
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Guide to Super Glues and Adhesives

Guide to Super Glues and Adhesives

If you ever walked down the glue and adhesive aisle of your local hardware store you’ll realize there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different kinds of glues, epoxies and adhesives available for almost every specialized application you can think of in home repair or otherwise. The sheer number of chemicals, bonding agents, tubes...
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