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When decorating, small adjustments can seriously make such a huge difference in how your space looks. In her new book, Home Decor Cheat Sheets: Need To Know Stuff For Stylish Living, Homepolish designer and Buzzfeed [...]

Every year you tell yourself things will be different. You'll actually start winterizing your home ahead of time.But you procrastinate and end up curling up in a fleece blanket once again when the thermometer dips.Now is the time to look around your home, determine the spots where it may be vulnerable and take steps to fix them before the first cold snap.Here's how you can make your home [...]

Gardeners should have their own version of Reinhold Niebuhr's famous Serenity Prayer, which is about accepting the things you can't change. At this time of year, especially, we might acknowledge all the upkeep not performed in our gardens and just let it go. If there are vegetables or fruits we had no time to dry, freeze or can before their time was up, we must just say, with equanimity, "Oh, well, I'll do better next year." [...]

True, an open plan home offers a lot to love – more light, more room, and a less cramped feeling than you’d generally have with a more traditional style house or condo. Unfortunately, though, this increasingly popular housing design is not without its drawbacks. Folks who live in open spaces usually describe their No. 1-problem with this type of layout as the difficulty and expense in effectively heating their home when the chilly season starts. To help you out, here are six [...]

Would you paint the walls of your home black? A bedroom? Living room? Powder room? We're not talking blackish brown, as in bistre or chocolate. Or dark gray, a la charcoal or arsenic. Or deep red _ rosewood or wine. We mean pure black: achromatic color of prehistoric cave paintings, ancient Greek pottery and fictional 1980s album art. (Remember the all-black LP cover from "This Is Spinal Tap"? To quote lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel, "It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer [...]

Your garbage disposal is headed into crunchtime. The holidays, with their endless vegetable peels and plate scrapings, make this hardworking appliance, found in just over half of American homes, work overtime."The day after Thanksgiving is our busiest day of the year," says Paul Abrams, spokesman for Roto-Rooter, a major provider of plumbing, sewer and drain cleaning services. "It's the time your plumbing is [...]

Your garbage disposal is headed into crunchtime. The holidays, with their endless vegetable peels and plate scrapings, make this hardworking appliance, found in just over half of American homes, work overtime."The day after Thanksgiving is our busiest day of the year," says Paul Abrams, spokesman for Roto-Rooter, a major provider of plumbing, sewer and drain cleaning services. "It's the time your plumbing is [...]

How much does it take to buy a home?Mortgage site HSH.com has updated its estimate of how much annual income a household would need to buy a home in major metropolitan areas in the US, according to third-quarter 2016 data.In Q3, mortgage rates fell across the board for the second quarter in a row, which offset small increases in home prices in all but four major markets, making it more [...]

Think of Costco and the first things that come to your mind include free samples and supersize everything. Home décor is probably far from your train of thought. However, we realized that the discount store has quite a few hidden gems within its warehouse.From abstract art to comfy furniture, Costco truly steps up the game when it comes to making your home complete. So next time [...]

Hurricane Matthew gave our Judge Arthur Solomon Camellia garden a stiff uppercut as it brought down a lot of large trees. But now one month later, the fall blooming camellias are bringing in guests: pollinating visitors like honeybees that are relishing every moment. The bees seem to be in ecstasy as they literally dive into a cave of pollen. It's not just one bee to a flower but three or four at a time.Mention fall blooming camellias and the first thought is most likely the [...]