How-to

QuickTip: Hanging Holiday Lighting

Before you head outside to string up your holiday lights, here’s a quick-tip for staying safe on a ladder (phrased in the form of a question):…

QuickFix: Touch up appliances, wood, tile

Life gives the gifts of scratches and dents, and while you can treasure the memories of those moments, you might not want the evidence to…

QuickTip: Make shorter showers more fun

Shorter showers save money, but really how much? It makes perfect sense that when you use less water, you’ll save on water and energy bills….

QuickTip: Don’t do it by hand.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t wash your dishes by hand or pre-scrub them like my hard-core cleaning friend. The dishwasher isn’t just saving you…

Snow Removal After a Blizzard

After being buried in the blizzard of 2010, residents of the Northeast are once again preparing to dig themselves out of as much as 1-2…

FixitUp Fitness: DIY Pull-Up Bar

Health and fitness is an important part of life at MyFixitUpLife. And as much as we like to stay fit, trust me—despite the fact that…

Tile Saw QuickTip: Drip Loop

Here’s a Quick Tip for operating your tile saw safely that BATH-Tastic Bath Crasher Matt Muenster would like: add a drip-loop to the cord so…

QuickTip: Shut Off Garden Hose

Sun-Tzu, legendary author of the classic military guide—something that over the centuries has also become a model for business and in some regards, life—The Art…

Build an Inexpensive Firewood Rack

I come by my nickname, “the 2-by-Guy,” honestly. Whenever I’m scoping out new tools as an editor for HGTVPro, in the back of my mind…

Quick Tip: Cleaning a Paintbrush

Clean paintbrushes are happy paintbrushes. Sure, you can use the “wrap-in-foil-and-stick-in-the-fridge” trick if you get in a jam, but the real key to getting a…

QuickTip: The So-Called Moly Bolt

I don’t know why some people call hollow wall anchors “moly bolts”—maybe its some reference to them being made of plastic—but they do. I know…