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You Should Keep a House Diary
If you’ve ever struggled to match a paint colour, buy the right lightbulb for your refrigerator, or remember where you buried a drip line outside, you need a house diary. It’s a simple compendium of all the things you don’t really consider important enough to save in your jumbled file of “house stuff” (admit it,…
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Rearrange Your Garden by Using ‘Hidden’ Pots
You put a lot of work into your garden, so nothing is quite as frustrating as stepping back to take it all in and realising you’re not really happy the way it’s all arranged. Whether that has to do with aesthetics or more practical matters, like a certain plant needing to be in a sunnier…
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How to Polish Your Car (and Why You Should)
In addition to what’s under the hood, your car’s resale or trade-in value also takes the appearance of its exterior into account. Along with washing it regularly, you should also aim to polish it once or twice a year — although because it’s abrasive (to varying degrees, depending on the cut), no more frequently than…
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You Really Can Use Paint to Make a Room Look Bigger or Smaller
No house or apartment is perfect. Even if it seems perfect when you first move in, your needs will shift over time, and you might wake up one day and realise your bedroom, office, or the living room looks too small, too big, or otherwise weirdly shaped. Changing the physical characteristics of a space is…