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Use A Paring Knife To Sharpen Your Vegetable Peeler

3:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | It’s important to keep your knives sharp for a safe and efficient kitchen, but it’s easy to neglect the other bladed tools, like your vegetable peeler. Food weblog Chow shows us how to keep a sharpener’s edge with a paring knife. More »
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Creatively Display Your Cables When Hiding’s Not An Option

5:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | We’ve talked time and time again about new and different ways to hide the unsightly cable nests lurking in your home. Instead of squirreling them away, artist Maisie Maud Broadhead cleverly decorates with them in plain sight. More »
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How To Make Your Fireplace More Efficient

1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Fireplaces are lovely and cosy to sit around but not too great for actually heating your home. Increase the efficiency of your fireplace with these tips and get some of that wasted heat back. More »
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Hide Ugly Door Buzzers With A Hinged Mirror

8:30AM Whitson Gordon | No matter how nice the pads, some rental buildings have very ugly legacy items in plain view: intercoms, doorbells, even exposed electrical boxes. Home improvement website Unplgged has an easy solution for covering them up. More »
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Make Easy, Less Messy Bacon In A Waffle Iron

12:30AM Kevin Purdy | You love bacon, but cooking it in a pan is tough to time and leaves you with scalding-hot grease to dispose of. The microwave? Please. Food science miracle worker Alton Brown shows how a waffle iron makes the best bacon. More »
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Project Cleanup: Reclaiming My House After Domestic Disaster

12:00PM Angus Kidman | Getting your home more organised is one of those tasks that’s easy to put off endlessly, but after a pipe bursts and floods the entire place, you don’t really have much choice. Welcome to Project Cleanup. More »
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Make A Moss Terrarium For Low-Maintenance Greenery

9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you want some greenery in your home or office but you’re not too keen on, or skilled at, tending a high-maintenance plant, a moss terrarium is a hassle-free bit of greenery you practically have to try to kill. More »
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DIY Sliding Chandelier Stays Clear Of Projectors

8:00AM Sarah Rae Trover | So you bought yourself a brand new projector, but there’s one not-so-tiny problem — your ceiling-mounted lighting is in the way. Check out the DIY sliding solution that Swedish designer Linus Ã…kesson has implemented in his own living room. More »
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Use A Bungee Cord To Chop Wood More Efficiently

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Chopping wood is a satisfying, yet laborious task. Give yourself an efficiency boost with this simple bungee-cord organisation video tip. More »
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How Bicarbonate Of Soda Can Save Your Bathroom

4:00PM Angus Kidman | We’ve talked about the virtues of bicarbonate of soda (or baking soda for our US cousins) for reviving towels. Tech blogger Gail Lipscombe also found it pretty handy for reviving a messed-up vanity basin. More »