Ever got tired of waiting for the paint to peel? Well, look no further than wallpapering the four walls of your home! You\'d be surprised what a simple wallpaper can do to brighten up (or bring down the mood, depending who you are) the atmosphere in your house. Not only that, it\'ll be sure to ...
Author Archives: Mike
Selecting the Right Wallpaper for Your Home
Wallpapering is a method widely used to change the look of your walls in the home without resorting to the need of re-painting. Wallpapering can be a DIY project you can do over the course of a couple of weekends (depending on the size of your wall) or just an overnight job. There are many ...
Choosing energy-saving light bulbs
It\'s a splendid way to splash your cash, and save money in the long run too – buy energy-saving light bulbs! Don\'t we all love the environment, isn\'t it our responsibility and our duty to protect it? Yes, the easiest way to save the environment is to invest on lower wattage, newer, energy saving bulbs. ...
Maintaining Your Swimming Pool
Maybe you have a swimming pool, are you doing what it takes to maintain and keep it clean? Having a swimming pool can bring lots of joy and entertainment, but if you don\'t do what\'s necessary to maintain it, you won\'t find it that enjoyable anymore. Because different people are constantly using the pool, it\'s ...
Applying Wallpapers
Wallpapers can be used to decorate every part of your house – living room, dining room, study room, kitchen and others. Before you start wallpapering, you must know how to apply it. Prepare the working area.You will need an area to work on. It can be a different room, or merely a table for you to ...
Decorating Your Desk with Wallpapers
Desks usually have the most boring surface imaginable – it's either pearly white , slightly grayish or brown. It looks dull, especially for ladies who enjoy decorating, accessorizing and personalizing just about everything, from bags to cellphones. Now you can personalize your desk with wallpapers that speaks your personality – princess-y wallpaper if you are ...
Stripping Old and Putting Up New Wallpaper
Wallpapering isn\'t a difficult project to undertake, as long as you adhere to certain requirement that needs to be done prior to putting up the new wallpaper. As with the previous chapter discussing prepping the wall, you need to remove any existing old wallpaper before sticking the new ones on the surface of the wall.Getting ...
Decorating Your Kitchen With Wallpapers
Wallpaper is a fantastic mean to jazz up a lackluster kitchen. From eccentric patterns to textured solids, wallpaper comes in a great variety of design to decorate your kitchen with. Try to remember that strong colors and busy patterns that will definitely have a minimizing effect on the size of your space while the light ...
Prepping the Wall before Wallpapering
Prepping a wall before you begin the actual wallpapering is a very important step to ensure that your wallpaper adheres to the wall properly. Not only that, it also ensures that removing it in future is easier should you decide to change the wallpaper then. Vinyl-acrylic sizing is applied to the wall like paint to ...
Harvesting and Storing Your Strawberries
Harvesting and Storing Rhubarb
Rhubarbs are hardy plants that can survive the cold very well. They require very little maintenance, and are great condiments for deserts. Come harvest season, all which is required by the gardener is to cut the entire plant early spring. You can also divide the plant to share with others or to increase the rhubarb ...
Growing Rhubarbs in Your Garden
Rhubarbs are cold weather perennial plants that are very winter hardy and are also drought resistant. They propagate from rhizomes and buds which can be divided (after 4-5 years of growth), and produces crops from its crowns. Temperature below 40 F sets the rhubarb crown to dormancy and stimulates bud break and subsequent growth for ...
Growing Mesclun Salad Outdoors
Mesclun salad is a mixture of small, young salad greens that may include lettuce, spinach, frisée, arugula, mustard greens, endive, Swiss chard, dandelion, or sorrel. The word \'mesclun\' originates from the Southern French word \'mescla\' which means "to mix." You can cultivate your own mix of salad either indoors or outdoors. When planting salad greens outdoors, ...
Growing Mesclun Salad
Mesclun are salad greens that you can cultivate outdoors in the garden or indoors in a container. They are a mix of salad greens which are also available from the wild and are made up of different kinds of leaf and loose-headed lettuce. Mesclun salad originates from Provencal France and is a mix of chervil, arugula, ...
Caring and Storing Your Eggplant Fruits
The eggplant (also known as aubergine or brinjal (Solanum melongena)) is a perennial plant which is part of the night shade family of Solanaceae and genus Solanum. It is related to the tomato and potato and originates from India and Sri Lanka. Mature plants grow up to 150 cm (57 inch) tall and obtain large ...