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How to Connect a Drip to Sprinkler Pipes


When there’s plenty of rain and the water table is high, running the sprinkler system daily keeps both the yard and the lawn nourished and healthy, but you have to use water more efficiently in…

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Does a Craftsman Lawn Tractor Belt be Adjusted?


When the blade drive belt on a Craftsman lawn mower wears, it loosens and starts to slip. Each the event the blades won’t rotate. Blade drive belts on Craftsman lawn mowers aren’t designed to be…

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The Case for Losing the Conventional Lawn


I’m already nostalgic with this summer months. Warm days spent frolicking outside, picnics, ice cream, birds chirping and the nonstop noise of lawnmowers as the odor of freshly cut grass wafts across the garden. But…

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The Way to Get Along With the Neighbors — and Live Thumbnails in Home


Seeing people bringing a tall ladder or electricity tool from a neighbor’s home to theirs is a frequent sight in my block. In the evenings a lot of us sit outside on the front porch…

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Say 'I Do' to Beautiful Wedding Memory Displays


I was decorating to get a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary. From the process of sorting during their wedding photos, I believed ways to keep in mind a wedding day besides pictures or video. I…

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Basement of the Week: Surprises Around Every Corner


When it arrived to remodeling his customers’ basement, designer Jeff Lindgren appeared to their two major passions: matches — everything from pool, and Frank Lloyd Wright. “When they called me, the owners had only helped…

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Elephant Leg Column


The elephant leg column is as much a component of Craftsman style as quarter-sawn oak. This column is tapered. Starting out enormous in its base, it tapers to a top, or funding. Additionally, it has…

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Basement of the Week: For the Love of Games and Sports


You know a cellar is quite important to a family when it takes a significant effort of engineering to make it happen. Excavating this cellar on the beach involved pumping out and purify sea water…

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A Texas Home Gets a Healthy, New Start


Health is occasionally directly affected by the health of your home. Potential dangers lurk in paint, fibers, electronic equipment — you name it. No one understands this more than ecological health professor Jules Elkins, who…

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18 Home Exteriors Gone Wild With Color


There’s not any principle (unless your homeowners association includes one) that houses need to be painted beige, grey or ecru. And why should insides have all the fun when it comes to colour? In the…

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