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10 Reasons to Keep Your Maid or Get One: Come Hell or High Water

1. Security Deposit Refunded. With regular house cleaning, getting the refund when you move-out should not pose a problem. When it’s time to move, offer your maid a few Benjamin’s to complete the move-out cleaning tasks such as clean...
Tonza BordenJuly 15, 2007

Trends in Furniture

Remember when everyone was buying contemporary furniture or early American furniture? Or French provincial? These days there really isn’t a furniture trend.
Bob BensonMarch 03, 2006

Adjusting Soil pH for Optimal Grass Growth

The pH of your lawn soil is an important factor that affects how your lawn grasses will grow. The pH value is an indicator that tells you whether your soil is acidic or alkaline. A balanced soil pH will ensure that your grasses are growing...
Jack GreenwoodNovember 17, 2006

Why You Need To Use Carpet Padding

You've found the perfect carpet and you are thinking about keeping your cost down by using either the old carpet padding or non at all. Stop! You'll regret this decision very quickly.
John MurrayDecember 26, 2005

Ideas For Your Interior Christmas Decorating

There are many different ideas for interior Christmas decorating. Interior Christmas decorating is an important part of most people's holiday festivities. For many people, the interior decorations are what defines the season of Christmas.
Adam PetersDecember 01, 2005

Tips On How To Remove Linoleum

Wish you knew how to get rid of your existing linoleum? Like all things renovation wise, it can be a tough job, but it is still something that you are capable of doing.
Beverly KaneOctober 12, 2006

Candle Making 101

If you'd like to try your hand at candle making, set aside two hours one day next weekend, and start with an easy project, using your old candles to test the waters.
M J PlasterFebruary 25, 2005

Confessions of a Student Painter: The Werner Ladder Incident

Reflections on ladder safety from a college house painter: Things Werner ladders were never meant to do Like many other starving college students, I had my job no one in their right mind would have taken.
Mark MontieAugust 28, 2006

Pine Furniture Care Guide

First, some background on PINE WOOD. Pine is a naturally soft wood which continues to "breathe", based upon changes in the local (home, office, store, etc.) humidity and temperature.
Steve HattrickMay 24, 2004

Environmentally Safe Ways to Remove Weeds

There is a lot of concern about herbicides and what they are doing to our environment. Large amounts of chemicals leech into our groundwater polluting our water supply.
Dean NovosatAugust 04, 2005