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How to Choose and Hang Wallpaper
Pasting patterned paper or wallcovering onto your walls gives a nicer finish than paint alone. It can take a while to master the technique, but quality wallpaper like a grasscloth…
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How to Choose a Refrigerator
Essentially, these are just temperature-controlled kitchen cupboards. They work by using a refrigerant gas to cool the air as it is passed along a sealed pipe system inside the refrigerator…
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How to Care for Houseplants
For best results, concentrate on foliage and flowering plants that are renowned for being easy to care for and hard to kill. Save delicates and exotics for the experts. How…
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How to Care and Clean Living Rooms
Floors Hard floors - cork, wood, laminate, ceramic, stone, slate, and marble - should be swept or vacuumed regularly. Go over them with a damp mop to keep them fresh.…
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How to Buy Sofas and Upholstered Chairs
More than just somewhere to sit, the seating you choose for your living room sets the mood of the room and buying a new sofa can modernize your whole living…
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How to Stamp a Chair
Stamping or block printing was one of the earliest means by which fabrics were decorated mechanically. The method is simple: a relief image is carved onto a wooden block, dipped…
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How to Solve Storage Problems
Storage is often a problem. In particular, it is hard to know where to store things in a neat and attractive way. So it's a great alternative to find a huge…
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How to Paint Sisal Matting
Many of the decorative paint techniques used on floors and floor coverings in the past are still used today, adapted to make the most of modern materials. One of the…
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How to Paint a Storage Chest in Tartan
Any type of plaid or check gives a bold and cheerful feel to a room, but the richest and most evocative of all plaids is tartan. An extremely versatile material,…
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How to Make a Gingham Ribbon Bedspread
Most girls have definite ideas on how they want their room to look and the majority, though not all, will want the final effect to be pretty and feminine, probably…
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How to Hang Pleated Fabric on Walls
As far back as the Ancient Greeks, and until the introduction of mass-produced wallpapers in the nineteenth century, hanging fabric on walls provided not only decoration but also a measure…
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How to Dye Fabric
Dyeing fabric is such a simple decorative solution that it is often overlooked. Yet what could be easier when faced with a plain white or off-white fabric or trimming than…
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How to Decoupage Table Top
Decoupage is the art of decorating surfaces with paper cut-outs and varnishing them to give the impression of hand-painting or inlay. Traditionally used on screens and boxes, it has vast…
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How to Decorate a Shelf with Sheet Music
If you like the basic idea of decoupage, but not the amount of work involved, use whole sheets of music or wrapping paper instead to cover furniture. A smart blue…
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How to Create Lemon Tree Mural
Creating a mural is enormous fun and a great way to allow your artistic side full rein. This does not mean you need the technical and artistic virtuosity of a…
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How to Create a Print Room
The print room was a form of interior decoration that was briefly popular in Europe in the late eighteenth century. Usually, the prints were pasted directly onto the wall and…
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How to Plan a Child’s Room
The day of the formal nursery is past but, where possible, the new baby should have a room to himself, which in time can double as a playroom. The aim…
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How to Understand Plumbing
Although your home will probably already have water and electricity installed when you arrive, from then on it is your responsibility to use them correctly. Learn more about how the…
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How to Use Your Home Wisely for Storage
Walk around your home and assess it carefully. Are there large spaces over some of your doors, or under or over the stairs, as well as the more obvious alcoves…
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How to Work with Home Electricity
Most electrical design and electrical repairs should be carried out by a skilled electrician like this Thompsons Station electrician and get them carefully tested. Remember: electricity can kill, so be careful. In…