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DIY

11 Inventive DIY Fountain Ideas for Your Garden

By Bob Vila Staff

Man assembling table.
DIY

15 Coffee Table Plans for Building Your Own Living Room Furniture

By Kat Hodgins

A one-piece toilet with the lid up to reveal a silver bidet spray nozzle.
Interior

How to Install a Bidet Attachment

By Timothy Dale

Closeup of a young woman dropping an effervescent antacid in a glass of water.
DIY

19 Surprising Alka-Seltzer Uses for the Home and Garden

By Savannah Sher

Visual 1 - HomeAdvisor - Hardwood Flooring Cost - Cost Range + Average - July 2023
DIY

How Much Does Hardwood Flooring Cost?

By Katie Flannery, Evelyn Auer

Beadboard wall in a beautiful home office
DIY

How to Install Beadboard

By Theresa Clement, Mark Clement, Bob Vila Staff

White door opening into clean bathroom.
Interior

How to Get Your Bathroom Guest-Ready in 20 Minutes or Less

By Debra Immergut

How To Fix A Stuck Zipper
DIY

How to Fix a Stuck Zipper

By Amy Lynch, Gretchen Heber

A before and after comparison of a remodeled bathroom.
DIY

11 Lessons I Learned Renovating My Old Home

By Kristen Mosier

View of neighborhood with fall leaves on the ground
Lawn & Garden

16 Leaf-Raking Lessons No One Ever Taught You

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila Staff

Modern toilet in bathroom
Interior

How to Replace a Toilet Seat in Less Than 30 Minutes

By Joe Provey, Tony Carrick, Bob Vila Staff

BV Readers' Projects
Exterior

The Fastest-Growing Home Improvement Project Actually Has Nothing to Do With the Home

By Sophie Kaemmerlé

vintage-wooden-phone-on-a-wall-shelf-phone-nook
DIY

7 Ways to Repurpose These Old House Features

By Anna Castelaz

Lit carved pumpkins on grass
DIY

How to Preserve Pumpkins Without Harming Wildlife

By Gretchen Heber, Manasa Reddigari

The Best Paint for Metal, Solved!
DIY

Solved! What’s the Best Paint for Metal Surfaces?

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila Staff

Genius Solutions for Retrofitting Old Homes
DIY

12 Genius Solutions for Retrofitting Old Homes—With or Without Renovation

By Glenda Taylor

Man working on light bulb craft
DIY

9 Surprising Things You Can Make with Light Bulbs

By Kristen Mosier

Shot of a young woman sniffing a clean load of laundry
DIY

How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

By Marisa Villarreal, Gretchen Heber

Grey stone wall, room, interior style with yellow niche, green vase of plant, bookshelf decor.
DIY

How to DIY a Wall Alcove in Any Room of Your House

By Kristen Mosier

Remodel or Move
DIY

Solved! Is It Better to Remodel Your Home, or Move to a New One?

By Melissa Graham

Couple sitting on stairs in middle of home repair
DIY

25 Easy Home Repairs You Should Never Pay Someone Else to Do

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila Staff

Small Closet Ideas
Interior

20 Big Ideas for Organizing Small Closets

By Manasa Reddigari, Eleanor Chalstrom

10 of the Best Electric chainsaws on grass near chopped wood
Reviews

The Best Electric Chainsaws, According to Our Testing

By Tom Scalisi, Mark Wolfe

Worx Pegasus Folding Work Table Review
Reviews

Worx Pegasus Folding Work Table Review: How Good Is This Sawhorse With Wings?

By Tom Scalisi

A senior woman in her 60s at home, sitting in a messy, cluttered room, looking away with a serious expression.
DIY

11 Minimizing Methods to Help You Live With Less—and Why You Should

By Kat Hodgins

Person putting dryer sheet in an empty mailbox
DIY

15 Handy Uses for Dryer Sheets Around the House

By Bob Vila Staff

person feeling for car air conditioner temperature with hand in front of vents
DIY

How to Recharge Your Car’s AC at Home

By Tom Scalisi

Maple butcher block countertop in a bright kitchen with white cabinets
DIY

How to Install Butcher Block Countertops

By Timothy Dale

beagle-lies-on-a-furry-white-rug-over-a-greige-vinyl-plank-floor
DIY

7 Easy Ways to Change Your Flooring

By Rachel Brougham

Gloved gardener hand spreads wood ash into garden with silver shovel.
Lawn & Garden

How to Use Wood Ash in the Garden

By Audrey Stallsmith

How Much Does Fire Damage Restoration Cost?
DIY

How Much Does Fire Damage Restoration Cost?

By Timothy Dale

Closeup of freeze-dried strawberries and blueberries
DIY

How to Freeze Dry Food the Right Way

By Deirdre Mundorf

woman in room with ladder and paint supplies holding a paint roller and looking at the wall she is painting
DIY

17 Easy Fixes for a Botched Paint Job

By Jennifer Noonan, Theresa Clement

Is It Cheaper to Buy or Build a Kitchen Island
Interior

Solved! Is It Cheaper to Buy or Build a Kitchen Island?

By Melissa Graham

attic-window-looking-out-on-snowy-hillside
DIY

How to Prep Your Attic for Winter

By Deirdre Mundorf

Woman embroidering pattern
DIY

15 Embroidery Patterns for Beginners

By Jasmine Harding

back of woman painting wall to wall cabinets white in diy project
DIY

Solved! This is the Best Paint to Use on Wood

By Manasa Reddigari

Overhead shot of person putting finger in vaseline
DIY

21 Household Problems You Can Fix With Vaseline

By Donna Boyle Schwartz

Woman hand opening a refrigerator door
DIY

How to Organize a Chest Freezer for Safe, Long-Term Food Storage

By Deirdre Mundorf

young woman squatting in kitchen and loading a dishwasher
DIY

How to Load a Dishwasher the Right Way

By Michael Franco, Gretchen Heber

Coffee grounds on spoon
DIY

18 Clever Uses for Coffee Grounds at Home and in the Garden

By Jennifer Noonan, Donna Boyle Schwartz, Margaret Foley

Modern style kitchen interior design with dark blue wall.3d rendering
Design

These 10 Moody Paint Colors Will Help You Get More for Your Home Sale

By Eleanor Chalstrom

three pairs of feet with wool socks on table in front of roaring fireplace
DIY

How to Get Your Fireplace Ready for Winter

By Donna Boyle Schwartz

Top-down view of mature smooth spinach plant growing in garden soil
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Spinach

By Audrey Stallsmith

mustard cover crops growing in a home vegetable garden in autumn
Lawn & Garden

What Is Cover Cropping and How to Use It in Your Home Garden

By Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

Lack Of Sleep Concept. Stressed young African American woman suffering from insomnia, lying in bed and covering face, waking up throughout the night, feeling depressed about start of the working week
DIY

15 Easy Fixes for a Squeaky Bed

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila Staff

Ginger root with green sprout on a wooden background. Close up.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Ginger at Home

By Savannah Sher, Gretchen Heber

neem oil plant with green fruit
DIY

14 Nifty Neem Oil Uses for the Home and Garden

By Steph Coelho

Visual 1 - HomeAdvisor - Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets - Cost Range + Average - July 2023
DIY

How Much Does It Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets?

By Brie Greenhalgh, Evelyn Auer

Visual 1 - HomeAdvisor - Tile Installation Cost - Cost Range + Average - August 2023 (1)
Interior

How Much Does Tile Installation Cost?

By Katie Flannery, Evelyn Auer

concrete is loaded into a cart from a 200 liter orange electric concrete mixer, photo taken on a sunny summer day outdoors
DIY

10 Brilliant Alternative Uses for a Concrete Mixer

By Mark Wolfe

The DeWalt 10-inch table saw sitting on its stand in a yard while surrounded by several pieces of wood, some of which have been cut and some of which have not been cut
Reviews

Precision Meets Portability: An In-Depth Review of the DeWalt 10-Inch Table Saw

By Glenda Taylor

The Husqvarna XCite 350 zero turn riding mower sitting on a green lawn
Reviews

Can the Husqvarna Zero-Turn Mower Cut a Bumpy Lawn at Top Speed?

By Mark Wolfe

Person harvesting peanuts from garden
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Peanuts

By Audrey Stallsmith

A person using the best heat gun option to melt colorful wax for an art project
Reviews

The Best Heat Guns

By Timothy Dale

plant covers
Lawn & Garden

7 Types of Plant Covers All Home Gardeners Should Know

By Steph Coelho

How to Paint a Room in 9 Steps
DIY

How to Paint a Room in 9 Steps

By Maureen Blaney Flietner

The Best Cement Mixer Options
Reviews

The Best Cement Mixers for Your Concrete Projects

By Tom Scalisi

A group of the best robotic lawn mowers tested, with the Worx Landroid M robotic lawn mower front and center
Reviews

How Well Do Robotic Lawn Mowers Work? This Worx Landroid Review Answers That Question

By Mark Wolfe

A front view of the ShelterLogic storage shed in a backyard
Reviews

Building a Shed Looks Easy—Here’s What We Learned When Building a ShelterLogic Shed

By Mark Wolfe

The Kushlan concrete mixer set up in a yard
Reviews

See What Happened When I Used the Kushlan Cement Mixer to Pour a Shed Foundation

By Mark Wolfe

The Gorilla GLMPXA-22 ladder set up as an extension ladder reaching up to a roof
Reviews

The Versatile Gorilla Ladder May Be The Only Ladder You Ever Need

By Glenda Taylor

Group of people waving small American flags
Design

12 Mistakes You Should Never Make With the American Flag

By Jamie Birdwell-Branson

Person holding paint roller with white paint
DIY

How to Remove Paint From Everything

By Donna Boyle Schwartz