More from Teresa Odle (Page 2)

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Appliances

What to Do When Your Refrigerator Is Not Cooling

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Teresa Odle

Small patch of dandelions on green grass.
DIY

How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

Staining a wooden shelf on an outdoor work station.
DIY

How to Stain Wood Furniture

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Hardscaping stairs in a backyard with a stone wall and foliage.
Curb Appeal

How Much Hardscaping Is Too Much? Experts Weigh In

By Teresa Odle

A man and woman measure a kitchen for remodels.
Interior

11 Ways to Reduce Construction Costs for Your Kitchen Renovation

By Tom Scalisi, Updated by Teresa Odle

A living room with grey carpet and white couch is on the left side, and a living room with light-colored hardwood flooring and a white couch is on the right.
Flooring

Carpet vs. Hardwood Flooring: Which Is the Better Option for Your Home?

By Timothy Dale, Updated by Teresa Odle

A suburban blue home with a tree planted in front of the front windows to provide shade.
Energy & Power

7 Landscaping Strategies That Can Lower Your Home’s Energy Costs Year-Round

By Teresa Odle

A maroon carpeted staircase with white banisters leads down to the first floor of a home.
Flooring

What Is the Best Carpet for Stairs?

By Andreana Lefton, Updated by Teresa Odle

Bags of both potting soil and garden soil, side by side surrounded by a few terra cotta garden pots.
Gardening

Garden Soil vs. Potting Soil: What’s the Difference?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

A long keyhole garden bed with two concave sections is mostly full of leafy green vegetables.
DIY

Keyhole Gardening: What You Need to Know to Get Started

By Glenda Taylor, Updated by Teresa Odle

Pink, spiky fruits of Ricinus Communis, or Castor bean plant.
Gardening

19 Plants You Should Never Grow in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Teresa Odle

A large ornamental grass with large feathery plumes surrounded by other bright flowers.
Gardening

The 22 Best Ornamental Grasses for Adding Drama to Your Property

By Glenda Taylor, Teresa Odle

Father and son working on a home improvement project in the backyard.
DIY

26 Insanely Easy Home Improvements You Can Do in 1 Hour

By Cynthia Ramnarace, Updated by Teresa Odle

A piece of pressure-treated wood, along with the materials needed to prime and paint it.
DIY

How to Paint Pressure-Treated Wood

By Teresa Odle, Bob Vila

Hand using scrape to spread grout on beige tiles.
Building & Installing

Sanded vs. Unsanded Grout: Which Should I Use?

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila, Katelin Hill, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person holds a trowel that contains granules of plant fertilizer.
Gardening

What Do Fertilizer Numbers Mean?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

When to Aerate the Lawn? Solved!
DIY

Solved! Here’s Exactly When You Should Aerate the Lawn

By Teresa Odle, Bob Vila, Manasa Reddigari

Red spoon full of diatomaceous earth.
Cleaning & Organizing

13 Handy Household Uses for Diatomaceous Earth

By Savannah Sher, Teresa Odle

Young person's hands hold garden hose with squirting water on the garden.
Lawn & Garden

14 Ways to Help Your Garden Survive a Heat Wave

By Steph Coelho, Teresa Odle

A family of four is roasting marshmallows in a fire pit in the outdoors.
Lawn & Garden

Fire Pit Safety: 13 Rules You Should Always Follow

Updated by Gretchen Heber Caitlin Castelaz, Teresa Odle

A person is picking tomatoes from a tomato plant in a garden.
DIY

Succession Planting: 6 Tips to Multiply Your Harvest This Year

By Debbie Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Man's hand holding a hand full of grass seed near a patch of green grass.
DIY

When to Plant Grass Seed to Get the Lushest, Greenest Lawn

By Amy Lynch, Teresa Odle

A gas grill with the top open, surrounded by materials and tools for cleaning it (including a plastic bin, garden hose, dish soap and more).
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean a Gas Grill the Right Way

By Teresa Odle, Amy Lynch

Person using garden tool planting sedum plant.
Gardening

17 Drought-Tolerant Plants That Can Survive Dry Spells

By Teresa Odle, Jennifer Noonan

A bee is hovering over a clover flower.
Lawn & Garden

9 Good Reasons to Consider Planting a Clover Lawn

By Teresa Odle, Lori Lovely

Cabbage leaves with holes caused by pests.
Garden Pests

Garden Wreckers: 13 Pests That Will Tear Your Plants Apart This Spring

By Teresa Odle, Andreana Lefton

How to Close a Summer Home
DIY

How to Close a Summer Home

By Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

10 Easy, Budget-Friendly Backyard Makeovers
Lawn & Garden

10 Easy, Budget-Friendly Backyard Makeovers

By Marie Proeller Hueston, Teresa Odle

Plant These 12 Hydrangeas for a Showstopping Garden
Gardening

Plant These 12 Hydrangeas for a Showstopping Garden

By Teresa Odle, Mackenzie Miller

22 Sneaky Storage Solutions for Your Deck, Porch, and Patio
Deck, Patio & Porch

22 Sneaky Storage Solutions for Your Deck, Porch, and Patio

By Teresa Odle, Katie Nolan

Suck It Up: 11 Vacuum Attachments You Should Own (and How to Use Them)
Cleaning

Suck It Up: 11 Vacuum Attachments You Should Own (and How to Use Them)

By Teresa Odle, Katie Nolan

Epsom salt in gloved hand near plants.
DIY

How to Use Epsom Salt for Plants

By Teresa Odle, Andreana Lefton

Brown water stains on white ceiling.
DIY

Water Stains on the Ceiling? Here’s How to Fix Them

By Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

Blue junk container gets hauled away by white truck.
Cleaning

What Does the Junk Hauler Do With Your Old Stuff—And Why You Should Care

By Teresa Odle

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Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Creeping Charlie

By Bob Vila, Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

Person holding keys stuck in door lock.
DIY

5 Fixes for a Stuck Key

By Glenda Taylor, Teresa Odle

How to Get Rid of Squash Bugs
DIY

How to Get Rid of Squash Bugs—and Keep Them out of Your Garden for Good

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

Smiling, young couple does laptop in modern home on laptop.
Design

2023 Tax Credits and Deductions Homeowners Should Take Advantage of ASAP

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Teresa Odle

A cicada rests in the leaves of a bush after emerging from its shell. Early Brood X Cicadas have emerged 4 years early May 25, 2017 in Bloomington, Indiana. The insects, which have a 17 year cycle, were not due to eme
Garden Pests

The 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence: What You Need to Know

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Man wearing jacket adjusting home thermostat.
Heating

This Common Home Heating Hack Will Waste More Energy (and Money!) Than it Saves

By Glenda Taylor, Teresa Odle

Paint stripping DIY
DIY

How to Remove Paint From Wood

By Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

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DIY

19 Fall Gardening Practices That Will Protect and Enrich Your Soil in Winter

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

The Best Wood for Fireplaces
Fireplaces & Chimneys

The Best (and Worst) Types of Wood for Burning in the Fireplace

By Andreana Lefton, Teresa Odle

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DIY

20 Things You Should Stop Wasting Money on in 2024

By Teresa Odle

Couple decorating potted living Christmas tree.
Design

The Most Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree of All? A Living One

By Sandi Schwartz, Teresa Odle

Christmas lights in trash
Design

Don’t Throw Your Old Christmas Lights in the Trash—Do This Instead

By Tom Scalisi, Teresa Odle

How to Help Your Houseplants Survive the Winter
Gardening

How to Help Your Houseplants Survive the Winter

By Teresa Odle

16 Reasons You Really Need to Do a Better Job Cleaning Your Grill
Cleaning & Organizing

16 Reasons You Really Need to Do a Better Job Cleaning Your Grill

By Teresa Odle

Teenagers filling up watering cans with rainwater to water plants in backyard.
Lawn & Garden

The Great Debate: Is It Safe to Use Rain Barrel Water in Your Vegetable Garden?

By Teresa Odle

Old hotel and sign
Design

33 Haunted Hotels and Airbnbs to Book for a Spooky Halloween

By Manasa Reddigari, Teresa Odle

Woman watering garden
Lawn & Garden

18 Easy Grass Alternatives for Your Lawn

By Marisa Villarreal, Teresa Odle

13 Low-Cost Solutions for an Ugly Lawn
Lawn & Garden

13 Low-Cost Solutions for an Ugly Lawn

By Teresa Odle

19 Reliable Products That Have 100+ Years of Good Reviews
Cleaning

19 Reliable Products That Have 100+ Years of Good Reviews

By Teresa Odle

The Best Gardening and Plant Identification Apps for Your Smartphone
Gardening

The Best Gardening and Plant Identification Apps for Your Smartphone

By Teresa Odle, Alexa Erickson

How to Get Rid of Weevils
DIY

How to Get Rid of Weevils in Your Pantry

By Teresa Odle, Bob Vila Staff, Kelly Weimert

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Home Safety

When Is Hurricane Season? Now, Actually

By Deirdre Mundorf, Teresa Odle

Pink oleander flowers blooming
Lawn & Garden

14 of the Most Dangerous Plants in America

By Heather Blackmore, Teresa Odle

diy hydroponics
DIY

DIY Hydroponics 101: All You Need to Know About Growing Plants Without Soil

By Glenda Taylor, Teresa Odle

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Interior

25 Bad Habits That Could Burn Down Your House

By Manasa Reddigari, Teresa Odle

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Reviews

15 As-Seen-on-TV Products That Are Actually Worth Buying

By Bob Vila Staff, Teresa Odle

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DIY

11 Types of Lawn Weeds and How to Control Them

By Heather Blackmore, Teresa Odle

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DIY

12 Gardening Mistakes That Are Killing Your Plants

By Cody Calamaio, Teresa Odle

Top view of spotted lanternfly, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Garden Pests

Spotted Lanternfly Eggs Are Hatching Soon—Here’s What You Should Do

By Debbie Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Solved! The Best Time to Spray Fruit Trees
DIY

Solved! When Is the Best Time of Year for Spraying Fruit Trees?

By Teresa Odle, Mark Wolfe