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Ladder Safety
Ladder Safety
Make sure your project is a help to your home, not a harm to your body.
Washing Walls
Washing Flat Paint or Enamel?
Attack a wall with the right approach.
Safety
Save Your Shins and Other Needed Body Parts
Develop safety habits that get your home clean without doing you in.
Organizing Strategies
Organizing Solutions for Small Spaces
There are four key organizing rules to consider if you are working with a tiny house, an older home without closets, a city apartment or even downsizing from big to small.
Garage Organizing
Fitting the Car in the Garage Drives Storage Solutions
Some of us use that garage for storage. Others use it to actually park the car. If you are the former, you might not believe it possible but you can use your garage for both storage and the cars.

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Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning To-Do's You May Forget
While covering the usual spring cleaning to-do's, include these other tasks for a cleaner, healthier, and safer home.
Organizing Products
Storage Solutions - Looking Up
Running out of space in your garage? Consider if an overhead garage storage rack will work for your home.
Garage Organizing
Fitting the Car in the Garage
Many consumers are discovering a whole new place to park their cars – in their garage! There is now some high tech assistance in the form of a handy laser-beam equipped parking assistant.
Window Cleaning
Cleaning windows: Shedding daylight on a dirty subject
How to choose the best squeegee and use it to make window cleaning quick and easy.
Motivation
What to do with the rest of winter
When spring can't come fast enough, keep yourself busy by planning ahead and making simple changes to your home.

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Ladder safety
How to do it right when you have to work high off the ground.
Wooden beams
Use a vacuum cleaner occasionally to keep ahead of dust, grime and cobwebs.
Window Cleaning
Extension pole
These attachment tools allow for the safe cleaning of a home’s high and hard-to-reach areas.
Gutters
Gutter, rain
Dirt streaks on gutter facings are hints that this job is overdue.
Awning
Awnings
Tread lightly while cleaning these sun screens.

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Decorating Style
How to make a house a home - in affordable style.
Organize Your Garage In No Time
Provides step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow to-do lists to help you get your garage organized and keep it that way.
Kitchen Remodeling For Dummies
Guidance for redoing the kitchen, whether you do it yourself or hire a contractor.
Speed Cleaning 101
Cut your cleaning time in half.
Green Cleaning
Green Cleaning for Dummies
Provides sustainable and healthy solutions for every room in the house - from the kitchen and bathroom to the laundry room and garage.

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Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Prevention, Preparation, and Resources
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Using Green Cleaners
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.
Organizing Strategies
How To Organize a Desk
Does your desk look like a robber rifled through it just before a hurricane hit the room? Organize it so that it gets under control and stays that way.
Shower
How To Clean a Shower
If the grime in your shower looks like something that would be more at home in a horror flick than in, well, your home, it’s time to take control.