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20 Ways to Clean with Baking Soda

By Chaya Kurtz, Networx.com What's not to like about baking soda? It's cheap. It's available in every regular supermarket and in bulk at club stores. It's biodegradable and unscented. Baking soda…

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4 Ways to Eat Your Flowers

As many of our favorite flowers blossom, we're planning to incorporate the edible varieties into our menus. Here are four favorite recipes to add a bit of color and flora to your fare: Above: Of…

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In order to amass the 800 (!) wine corks that it took for a DIY tile installer in Saint Louis to tile her kitchen back splash with wine corks, she needed to find a lot of wine drinkers. If you want t…

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DIY: A Rustic Way to Cover Wood Floor Holes

Spotted on the floor of Mindy Marin's renovated barn: metal patches on her old wood floor—the handyman's version of patchwork. Marin covered up the holes in her wooden floor with zinc patches cut to…

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3 Different Ways to Build a Pallet Wall

If you're looking for a way to make an accent wall really pop, and if you want to give a room a rustic edge at the same time, a DIY pallet wall might be your jam. First, you're going to need pallets…

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A House Made from a Shipping Container

Do you ever wonder what happens to all those corrugated metal shipping boxes? Is there some graveyard where obsolete cargo containers go to be piled into a rusty, sad mountain of metal? Well, loo…

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4 Trendy Spring Decor Projects to Do Now

Hey there, trendy Wendies. Are you ready to deck your house out for spring? These four projects are fun and easy, and you totally can do them yourself. Let's get crafting! Vintage porch accessori…

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A Refreshing Treatment for Tired Feet

Whether you've been pounding the city pavement to chase after cherry blossoms or crouching in the garden to harvest your garlic scapes, your feet have been doing most of the work. Reward them with…

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This $1 Item Can Protect Your Plants from Pests

Here in the US, we can find dollar stores everywhere. But finding gardening supplies and row covers can take some effort. What if you could buy your gardening supplies at the dollar store? Would tha…

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25 Toilet Paper Tube Crafts

Do you feel guilty tossing those spent toilet paper tubes into the recycle bin? Check out some crafty ways to reuse them instead! For most of us, toilet paper is one of the areas where there isn't …

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