Home Improvement: Undead Edition by Charlaine Harris

Plumbers use smooth-faced pliers and wrenches to achieve perfect results. You can avoid buying special tools for one-time use by wrapping your soft-leather work glove around the fitting and using your standard pliers or pipe wrench over the protective cover. Installing a ventilating fan in your bath does more than just eliminate fogged-up windows, steamy mirrors and stale odors. It also helps prevent moisture-related problems, such as the growth of mold and mildew, that can be costly to remove and lead to health problems. Here, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows the proper way to install a bath vent fan.

Home improvementmeans the repairing, remodeling, altering, converting or modernizing of, or adding to a residential building. For cooling, the inexpensive solution is simply a fan. You can select between a rotating pedestal or tower fans or try a box fan that fits into your window space. If you have more than one box fan, it will create an air flow that could cool an entire floor of your home. Of course, air conditioners provide a cooler atmosphere than a fan.

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The burgundy red floor in the master bedroom of Sara and Andrew’s Massachusetts farmhouse didn’t fit the fresh and energetic personality of the newlyweds. But refinishing wasn’t an option on a limited budget. So to update the space, they painted the floor in a light checked pattern, using beige and white to warm up their cool blue walls.

I bet her mysteries have a lot of humor with the suspense, I’m looking forward to trying them. Kane – a brilliant example of how to write a story from an ongoing series of books to be included in an anthology. This story is perfectly capable of standing on it’s own, but will really satisfy fans of the Downside series as well.

Your cavelike kitchen feels that way because the dark cabinets have sucked all the light out of the room. But a brighter makeover doesn’t necessarily mean replacing those gloomy boxes with all-new one. As long as the frames and doors are structurally sound, you can clean them up and brush on some new paint—and within a weekend take that kitchen from dreary to sunny. All you need is some strong cleaner, sandpaper, a paintbrush, and a little elbow grease.

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With Leanne’s interior design expertise and Steve’s experience as a carpenter and licensed contractor, there’s no stopping this dream team. Delightfully Tacky covers home décor and DIY projects in a unique and fun way. We assure there is nothing even remotely tacky about Delightfully Tacky. You can learn a lot about setting up and completing DIY projects on a budget and without compromising on creativity or style. The blog also features sections on Style and Hair + Beauty, should that capture your fancy.

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They also share detailed tutorials that you can go through and become a semi-pro DIY designer. From painting to sewing, whatever captures your fancy, there is a good chance that the Jasiewiczs blog about it on Sew Woodsy. Want to spruce up the look and feel of your bedroom? Affordability and great home improvement ideas merge perfectly when Kate Riley, the eponymous Centsation Girl, blogs.

I’m not going to mark this as read or give it a rating because I’ve only read a couple of the stories so far. I do intend to finish it one day though so I’ll come back and add notes for the other stories as I read them. This is about Sookie and Sam helping out Tara in a remodeling project. “Mansion of Imperatives” by James Grady – Two couples can gain squatter’s rights by spending some time in an abandoned house.

Now its smooth and supple skin has turned brittle and cracked, opening the way for stubborn colonies of mildew to take hold, or for water to seep through and turn wallboard and framing mushy. Whether it’s around your sink, between a tub and its tile surround, or covering the joints of your shower stall — it has got to go. Sunlight streaming through windows can be an annoying distraction. Not to mention the neighbors who have more evening hours to look into your brightly lit living room. You could install shades to foil prying eyes, but swinging wood shutters would definitely be more beautiful. See How to Install a Low-Cost Stair Runner for full step-by-step instructions.