Using recycled materials that you can find in your house does not mean that you are using old or worn out materials. The materials can be restored into something really good and also help your interior decoration look good and attractive. Below are some of the tips and ideas of using recycled materials for your ...
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Using tea leaves as fertilizer
The tea manufacturing industries always end up with lots of leftovers or waste products daily. The leftover teas can be used as fertilizer for your gardens and the tea manufacturing companies normally sells these wastes to whoever wants it. Some of the waste tea nowadays has been mixed with horse stable manure and sandstone sawdust ...
Using Old Doors to Build a Coffee Table
Use Old Windows to Build a Room Divider
In order to help save the environment, your old windows can be used as a unique room divider in your house. Due to the old window frames come with variety styles and sizes, you can choose either a multi-framed window for creating a touch of Old World class or even create something new, dynamic and ...
Making your garden organic
Organic fruits and vegetables are not only safer for human consumption, they also contain more nutrients than commercially grown ones. However, choosing to buy organic can be very costly. The more economical way and safer bet is to organically grow fruits and vegetable in your own garden.Space Going organic does not mean that you need a ...
Installing solar powered yard lights
Solar powered yard lights are a great way to light up your garden landscape without any special wiring or digging. These lights are safe, budget-friendly and have a small electronic circuit in each one along with a photocell. The electronic circuit will automatically turn it off and on as the day changes into night. The ...
Installing solar patio lights
Installing solar patio lights are the green way to keep your environmental and yet the same times add warmth and beautiful ambience to your outdoor patio area. It\'s not hard and does not require wiring or electrical work. The easy way to make your lights provide the most illumination is by positioning them where they ...
Green Initiatives for Your Home
What\'s green nowadays? Other than forest reserves, you can become a green citizen by reducing your carbon footprint and live a healthier life.Here are some tips to get your acts together:EnergyAssess the elements of your electrical tools: production materials, energy efficiency, performance, carbon emission and utility bills. Here, observe whether your tools are serving the ...
Making Your Own Green Shopping Bag
It\'s stylish. It\'s trendy. It\'s cheap and everyone owns one. Welcome to the craze of green shopping bags.You are perhaps right to say that shopping bag is like a re-invention of market basket from the good old days before plastic bag was introduced. Owning a shopping bag is definitely worth the while since it is ...
Removing Ice the Green Way
Heat melts ice. But if there\'s no sun and a snow blower just pollutes the air too much, what alternatives are there if being eco-friendly is your main priority? Remove the ice manually, of course. But don\'t wait until the snow turn into blocks of ice. With a bit of intelligence, you will get the ...
Creating a self-watering container for your plants
Self-watering plant containers are helpful for the environment if you are living in a green lifestyle. This creation is such a brilliant gardening innovation which helps the gardeners not only to save time and effort but also the water source as well. They are excellent tool to reduce the amount of wasted water from over ...
Growing Plumbago
Plumbago is a tender perennial shrub with beautiful blue flowers that blossoms from July to winter season. This plant grows easily in hot and dry condition; in fact, it is drought-tolerant and likes the heat. However, if you are living in a cold area and still want to plant Plumbago, you just have to use ...
Building a cheap fence
Planting dragon fruit
Dragon fruit or the pitaya is actually a cactus species. The plant comes from the genus Hylocereus, as the fruit usually grows at night. Tropical conditions are the best conditions to grow dragon fruits. If you are not living in a hot and dry weather, you can also grow dragon fruits in a greenhouse. You ...
Being a good garden coach
A garden coach is a person who works the same job as the landscape architect, a therapist and a landscaper. A homeowner, who has a garden that she/he is unhappy with, will usually hire a garden coach which, most times, two homeowners are involved. Usually, garden coaching is not a full time job. However, if ...
