Spring will eventually be upon us, and that means opening windows to let in the fresh air! Except my next-door neighbors smoke on their porch quite often. This results in cigarette or cigar smoke wafting into the closest windows, which happen to be in my living room. The duplexes in this neighborhood are a driveway apart from each other, so we're ( Read more... )

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Hear me out! I am usually against painting wood, especially since our house is almost 100 years old and beautiful. BUT 80% of the trim was painted by previous owners. Only the two front rooms are unpainted. For resale's sake (and my everything has to match sanity) should I paint the trim in the two front rooms? I would also have to paint a built-in ( Read more... )

in my apartment, we only have one kitchen counter, under our cabinets. the only problem is that it is basically unusable since it has been covered with several layers of contact paper, some of which are peeling up ( Read more... )

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I have recently moved an old marble table outside to our terrace and it will be sitting in sun, wind, rain, and snow all year long. Also, falling leaves and petals ( Read more... )

I moved into a rental house a few weeks ago and one of the windows has been pushed out of alignment with the frame. The screening is still intact but I can't push it back into the grooves of the window frame anymore ( Read more... )

I painted a door with a can of paint I used for my ceiling and ran in to some issues. The first issue is being ceiling paint it has no sheen to it and I'm finding it too dull. I'm assuming that's an easy fix, I can get some sort of clear gloss paint over it. The other issue is I just now knicked the door with my nail and chipped some paint off ( Read more... )

Hi all, this is my first post here - I hope you guys can help me out with some ideas!
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