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House & home

» 10 quick, easy and affordable kitchen updates
Want a new kitchen but, can't afford it right now? How about making a few updates to change the look of your kitchen without ever having to go to the bank?

» Kitchen and bathroom cabinet rejuvenations - on a budget
Are you looking for a new look for your kitchen or bathroom cabinets...without the cost of replacing your entire kitchen or bathroom cabinets?

» The pride of home ownership
Since the early 20th century, the concept of the American dream was introduced into society in the United States, whereby each and every family was encouraged to purchase and own their own home.

» Two of the most common unwanted guests
Insects, bugs, pests, whatever you want to call them, have always been a nuisance to homeowners.

» 5 secrets to buying quality discount furniture
Let’s face it – furniture is not cheap.

» Toilet installation made easy in five steps
Besides matching colors and style with the rest of you bathroom or powder room, you will want to consider a few more points.

» Removing mold stains from your hardwood floors
Wood floors are a glorious addition to your home, as well as extremely practical.

» Hardwood flooring in the bathroom
When building or remodeling a bathroom, people have shied away from using hardwood flooring in those spaces.

» Mosaics and decorative borders for interior decorating live on
Mosaic as a decorative practice has been around for over 5,000 years, independently attempted by such dispersed groups as the early Sumerians of Mesopotamia and the Mayas and Aztecs of South and Central America.

» How to choose suitable home theater seating
Choosing the right Home Theater Seating is an important element of your overall Home Theater design.

» Decorative interior painting can give surfaces a more distinctive look than ordinary painting
Decorative interior painting offers unlimited possibilities for customizing and personalizing your home.

» Finding the basics of rustic design
In the world of interior design, most styles are fairly precise.

» Kitchen decorating: Kitchen window treatment ideas
There is a vast selection of kitchen window treatments out there for you to choose from and all you have to do is pick one.

» How to choose a home coffee maker
There are two main considerations when buying a coffee maker for your home or small office: type of brewer and features.

» Remodeling your bathroom on a budget
When you want to give your bathroom a facelift, you may not have the available funds that you want to create the best space possible. If you are on a tight budget, there are some ways to update your bathrooms look and do it for less.

» 5 reasons to organize your home today
Home organization isn't just for neat-nicks or those drawn toward organized living.

» Spring cleaning is always in season
Lemon scents wafting through the halls, dust bunnies banished, crisp, clean curtains waving in the wind. Ahhh, spring cleaning.

» Choose spice racks that help you organize your home
Today you have almost as many choices of spice racks as you do of the spices they contain.

» What two words will double the space in your home?
Just two words and a bit of explanation about them will help you to double, maybe even triple, the space in your home now. Those two words are "Go vertical."

» 7 little things that you can do to organize the kids' rooms
Sink to their level. Get on your knees in their room to view things from a kid's level.

» 7 baskets that help with home organization
Baskets are a perfect "tool" to use in organizing your home. They're often inexpensive, beautiful and functional items.

» Clear clutter at home with baskets
What's an item that can help you organize every room in your home, helps create the appearance that you're a tidy housekeeper (even if you're not), and perks up your decorating scheme?

» Spring cleaning - Time to tackle your closet
Take a look at your three piles. If you are anything like me, pile 1 and 2 are probably pretty small and almost everything in your closet ends up in pile 3.

» Spruce your environment - Spruce your spirit
After a long winter, this is the time of year to spruce up your environment with a good Spring Cleaning. It’s amazing what doing this can do for one’s state of mind.

» An affordable shotcut to designing your dream home
You have likely been making mental notes for years. Every book or magazine that you read and each home that you visit has become a source for pieces to the puzzle that can become your new home.

» Clean your house in half the time
When cleaning your house, the first thing you need to do is to find a supply and tool apron.

» Re-using old picture frames
It's fun taking something apart and putting it back together again in a new creative way. I work in an office where we had a lot of old promotional type posters that were very expensively matted and framed.

» Good as new!
If I've learned anything from my husband, it's to take care of what you've got.

» Who's got the button?
How many articles of clothing do you own that are laying about the house patiently waiting for you to find the time to sew a missing button back on them?

» Greeting card grab bag
I admire people who are always thinking of others, sending out greeting cards just to let someone know they're thinking about them. But greeting cards are so expensive these days.

» Do commercial & homemade household cleaning products work equally?
The results are in! Homemade cleaners equal and even outperform commercial household cleaning products!

» Heirloom decorating
I love to surround myself with things from the past. To me "heirloom" doesn't necessarily mean something really old, because memories are always in the making, and displaying a family keepsake can be treasured whether it's from last year or fifty years ago.

» Lighter fluid: The best label & scuff mark remover
The first time my husband saw me scrubbing the black heel marks off of our kitchen floor with a toothbrush, he said, "You know lighter fluid will take those marks right off."

» 10 common uses for baking soda
Make a paste of baking soda and water and rub on insect bites to relieve itching ...

» Consignment shopping pays off
Is your closet full of clothes you never wear? You can bet there are a lot of people who have a closet or dressers full of clothes they never wear.

» Easy apple centerpiece
Someone recently shared with me a great, easy idea for making a table centerpiece.

» Homemade household cleaning products
Have you ever wondered what people used to clean their house before so many different kinds of cleaning products were so readily available on the market?

» Hunting for bargain books
It's easy to find bargain books if you know where to look for them.

» Homemade facial masks and scrubs
Make a paste from a little oatmeal and water. Apply to face and allow to dry. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

» Homemaking 101: Practice makes perfect
I recently paid a quarter for one of the most inspirational homemaking books I've yet to come across.

» Second-hand clothes, first-class style
Consignment shopping can be fun as well as rewarding.

» How you can preserve cut flowers
You can preserve the fresh beauty of flowers for years in their natural vivid colors without a great deal of work or expense.

» 5 simple formulas you can make
Metal polish and more ...

» For sale
I am easily bored. A fact that can, at times, drive my husband mad. It is usually just something simple that I have grown tired of like a book that I am reading although sometimes it can be a bit more life changing.

New articles

» How to choose a home coffee maker
There are two main considerations when buying a coffee maker for your home or small office: type of brewer and features.

» Remodeling your bathroom on a budget
When you want to give your bathroom a facelift, you may not have the available funds that you want to create the best space possible. If you are on a tight budget, there are some ways to update your bathrooms look and do it for less.

» Obesity and weight loss - Muscle and the importance of low body fat!
Today you have a good chance of getting diabetes or becoming obese or both. And if you do, then chances are you will be in for a long life filled with pain, discomfort and little quality in your life. However, it does not have to come to that.

» Student travel - Backpacking in Europe
For the fortunate few, life isn’t complete without a backpacking trip through Europe.

» Cambodian taxi chaos - a leaf, a radiator and a MacGyver moment
The roads in Cambodia are vicious, angry slabs of asphalt filled with potholes that would qualify as valleys in some countries.

» Alternative therapies for acid reflux disease
Acid Reflux Disease, or GERD, is a common disease which affects approximately 5-7% of the population.

» Smart kids: Use it or lose it this summer
The brain is like a muscle -- you use it or lose it. During summer vacation is your child "losing it"?

» Weight loss - The importance of low body fat
Most people will always have a love – hate relationship with the scale in their bathroom.

» Parents - Create an emotionally healthy connection with your child
Creating a loving emotional connection with your child starts when the mother becomes pregnant.

» Planning stress management
Deadlines at work, demanding bosses, bills to be paid at home, kids demanding for time and attention, changes in the environment, etc. AAARRRRGH.

» Infidelity discovered? 10 ways to calm your powerful feelings
When you find out about the affair, the first few hours, days and weeks can be emotionally wrenching to say the least.

» 5 reasons to organize your home today
Home organization isn't just for neat-nicks or those drawn toward organized living.

» The hidden truth about diets
Quick, what's the first thought that pops into your head when you hear the word "diet?" Probably that when you're on one, you feel like you're going to "d-i-e" right?!

» Exercising - How do you sustain momentum
The number one reason people say they do not exercise is lack of time.

» Survival China travel tips and tricks
These China Travel Tips, Survival Techniques, will help you get around and make your trip to China easier, so you will be able to experience the real China with a little less stress.

» Losing weight is not about numbers - It's about perspectives!
Any dietary plan on the market has some portion of it that works, but the basic principle of any good eating program, no matter how sugarcoated, centers around calories IN— calories OUT.

» The weight loss key to success - Are you a sell out?
The only way you will follow through on an exercise program is to be sold out.

» Weight loss, fitness, and a peace of mind for life!
I am Greg Ryan, a high profile fitness expert with 50,000 hours of paid personal training under my belt, and twenty years of consulting health clubs.

» Weight loss - The soft drink diet
In the early ninety’s doctors were beginning to see the growing trend in American’s waist lines.

» Parenting - Roots and wings
I’m sure many of you have heard that old Hallmark card adage that goes something like this: Parents give their children two great gifts---one is roots, the other is wings. This is what I address in this article.

» The wonderful benefits of the Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Diet is now recognized as one of the healthiest in the world consisting as it does of large amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables, salads,nuts,seeds, omega-3 rich oily fish, olives and olive oil and being comparitively low in dairy products and red meats.

» The Costa del Sol - Europe's premier holidaty destination
Since the 1960's and the advent of package holidays the Costa del Sol has always been one of the premier holiday destinations in Europe, and with good reason.

» Get out and play: Top 7 outdoor exercises
Do you remember when our parents used to yell at us to go outside and play? They would get so tired of us running around the house munching junk food and fighting with our siblings that they would practically kick us out of the house!

» Spoiled rotten: The big 3 reasons for fitness failure
Read below to learn how this mistaken philosophy is applied on a frequent basis when people practice the 3 basic tools of fitness: Cardiovascular Training, Resistance Training, and Nutrition

» Backpacking trips - Ten essential items
I've had backpacking trips that included rain, snow, lightning, rockslides, altitude sickness, and twenty-mile days - all in a summer weekend. Wilderness trips can be dangerous, but you can make then less so, by having the following ten essentials in your backpack.

» Picky eater kid nutritional guidelines
Although many children are picky eaters at some stage in their lives, the experts say not to worry.

» Fitness goal secrets revealed here for the first time
Everybody finds it hard to arrange time to do various day to day chores or tasks, including your muscle and fitness training.

» Adult ear infection
Though adults are not affected as frequently as children, it is important for adults to be aware of how adult ear infection can affect them.

» Do you have an acid reflux problem?
Most people have digestive problems that create a variety of illnesses that we see as they age.

» Granada Spain - Glorious city of southern Spain
Situated at the foot of the southerly Sierra Nevada ski resort, Granada is one of the most splendid cities of eastern Andalucia.

» How to think clearly
Does your mind sometimes feel like a television station you can't quite tune in?

» How to remember things
What's the biggest problem with memory tricks?

» Relationship tips: 16 practical dramatic ways to know if he/she is really changing
Every relationship hits a snag, or worse, a major crisis (such as infidelity), that demands significant change if the relationship is to survive.

» Backpacking with sand, snow and coyotes
I was backpacking in the Sleeping Bear Dunes. It was March, so when I made it through the woods and over the dunes, I'd have miles of beach to myself.

» How to know if you are in the right career
Ever wonder if you are in the right career? If you are like most people you have.

» Arthritis - The pain and the reasons
Many fear the pain of arthritis as they age. But, it can attack anyone at any time.

» Easy steps to weight loss
It can be intimidating to follow a weight loss plan, right?

» How to save money on air fares
Unless you are a frequent business flyer and have your air fares paid for by a company you will need to consider how to save money on air fares.

» Treat your anexiety disorder effectively
If you find symptoms of anxiety disorder in any of your near and dear ones then the best way is to visit your physician as soon as possible.