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10 Clever Tips to Style Your Home Cushions Like a Pro
Once reserved for the wealthy and royal, cushions are now an item of everyday luxury that complete spaces ranging from living rooms and bedrooms to outdoor seating areas.Deceptively named ‘throw cushions’ and ‘scatter cushions,’ mixing and matching these decorative pillows actually requires a little bit of know-how to get them looking just right.“Interior styling relies…
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Always Fighting With Your Plastic Wrap? Try Storing It in the Freezer
Most of us keep our roll of clingy plastic wrap stored in the same drawer as our aluminum foil and plastic sandwich bags. It seems to make sense to keep all of those food-preserving tools together, but it turns out we’re actually very wrong about one of those items: the plastic wrap. Think about it…
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14 Eco-Friendly Cleaning Hacks for Each Room in Your Home
More and more Americans are ditching chemical-laden cleaning products in favor of natural alternatives in the pursuit of a healthy home. Whether you make your own natural cleaning solutions using ingredients like vinegar, baking soda, and essential oils or you swear by a particular product range, knowing what ingredients and natural solutions work best on particular surfaces will ensure…
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Why You Should Clean Your Mattress — And, How Do It Like a Pro
Cleaning your mattress might not be at the top of your to-do list right now — but maybe it should be. A clean mattress can help prevent icky dust and pest infestations, but can also promote a better night’s sleep. So take a moment to learn how to clean a mattress properly, and you might…
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How to Use a Kitchen Compost Bin to Make the Most of Your Food Scraps
Food waste is full of nutrition which can be broken down and used as fuel for your garden plants. By using a kitchen compost bin, you can become a garden guru! From the skin of a potato, an apple core, to even eggshells — just about anything can be composted! The only food produce to…
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You Don’t Need to Rinse Before Putting Dishes in the Dishwasher — And Other Dishwasher Myths
The dishwasher is a modern kitchen essential. No more must we dread the chore of hand-washing and drying every dish, glass, pot, and pan that was used for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Although this appliance is one commonly found in the average kitchen, the correct way to load and run it is something of a…
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How to Completely Update a Room by Simply Changing One Thing
Everyone has that one room in their house that they don’t know what to do with. For whatever reason, something’s not clicking. The walls look drab, the decor looks bland or outdated, and the room just looks sad. You wish you could afford a full head-to-toe renovation where you can knock out a wall or…
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5 Surprising Things You Should be Cleaning Every Day
Raise your hand if you have an overflowing laundry basket at home. Okay, now keep your hand raised if you didn’t have time to sweep your floors today. Yep, that’s everyone’s hand still raised… except maybe Mary Poppins down the back there. Our busy lives can make it hard for us to stick to a…
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7 Tips for Designing and Decorating a Tiny House
Living in a tiny house has a lot of promise: low building costs, a more sustainable way of life, and of course, the ability to drive to another location if you ever get tired of waking up to the same vista. It was all of these things and more that drew Lisa Tranter, a tiny…
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How Dangerous Are Cruises, Really?
Alexus Sheppard has spent much of her life on the water (she even has a captain license) and is no stranger to cruise ships. But when she stepped onto the Viking Sky this past March, she had no idea that her vacation would soon take a turn for the worse and become any cruiser’s worst…