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Garden lime can correct soil pH while boosting vital plant nutrients. Here’s how to use it the right way.

Bring out your home’s best features—and hide its flaws—with these trendy trim colors.

Country elements and new-age amenities combine to create the rustic-chic design style known as modern farmhouse.  

Finding the right bathroom lighting can help make your morning (or anytime) routine more personal.

Keep your doors from slamming or from getting locked out with a dependable door stop.

Bored with standard-issue picture frames? With a little time and a few items you may already have on hand, you can make your own frames that will be as personal and meaningful as the memories they hold.

Spanish settlers set the standard for creating uniquely beautiful homes constructed to beat the heat. 

When a home is damaged by flood waters, it's a race against the clock to rid the space of debris and contaminated water, and restore it to rights. These products will make the job easier.

One of summer's great pleasures is lazing in a hammock, sleeping, reading, or doing nothing at all. Here are some great homemade hammock ideas for creating a beautiful, relaxing chill zone of your very own.

Step into the future with a new smart home system to control lighting, media, and security from your smartphone or smart home hub.

With this BBQ thermometer probe, monitor what’s cooking outside while you’re inside preparing other food in the kitchen or watching the big game.

Remember the folk tale (or the folk song) about the “crooked little man” and his “crooked little house”? When you travel through Vermont, he might come to mind thanks to the many crooked windows adorning area farmhouses. Turns out they’re called witch windows—but why? And why are they so common in New England?

Clear out the cobwebs in your cellar and shop-vac the floor because we’re about to drop some incredible ideas for transforming an unfinished basement into a personal, purpose-built space you'll use (and love) every day.

Prepare for dipping temperatures now to prolong the vegetable harvest, protect tender buds, and keep flowers blooming longer.

If large houseplants that require too much light and “leg-room” reduce you to tears of frustration, try little baby’s tears, which “weeps” prettily in the shade.

If you think you need tons of sun to grow beautiful flowers, think again. These plants thrive in the shade and produce loads of colorful blooms.

Understand one of the most important steps of a successful paint job so you’ll achieve professional quality results.

Let fresh fragrance naturally pervade your indoor space with the help of pretty potted plants.

Before building a new shed or planning an extension for the home, it’s important to understand setbacks and how they may impact your plans.

Which is worse: letting the rims of glasses collect germs from contact with the shelf, or having the inside of your cups collect dust because they’re placed upright?