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How-To Landscaping Videos

How-to landscaping videos can facilitate landscaping chores, if you view them with a problem-solving eye. Consult these how-to landscaping videos for tips on everything from lawn mowing to creating oceanside landscapes.

Elements of Garden Design - Working with Color

Color is arguably the most prominent factor in a garden design and often the first one considered. Good garden design involves knowing how to combine colors so that the final product has a cohesive and pleasing effect. Here are some tips to train your eye to see color and for combining color in the garden.

Xeriscape Gardening - Planning for a Water Wise Garden

Xeriscaping doesn’t mean deserts and cactus or even a drought plagued, barren landscape. Xeriscaping is a method of gardening that involves choosing plants that are appropriate to their site and creating a landscape that can be maintained with little supplemental watering. Here are the seven steps of xeriscaping, common sense guides to gardening in harmony with your site that can be applied to any type of garden design.

Choosing Plants for a Small Garden

Every plant looks tempting in the nursery center or catalog. How do you know what will do well in your garden? There are some guidelines for what to consider when shopping for plants for your garden. While there are times to indulge yourself with whatever plant catches your fancy, when designing a small garden, every plant matters. Choose wisely.

Landscape Design Ideas

Need landscape design ideas for your own yard? Study these photos illustrating landscape design ideas and learn about the concepts the pros employ.

Types of Flowers

These plant lists introduce beginners to the different types of flowers and foliage plants suitable to grow under particular landscape conditions. I.e., whether you're planting in sun or shade, in wet or dry conditions, you need to know which types of flowers will thrive there.

Spring Lawn Care

If you neglect spring lawn care, you'll pay for it the rest of the year. But while you shouldn't neglect it, spring lawn care doesn't require nearly as much time as mowing does in summer.

10 Ways to Make Gardening Easier

Gardening easier means you can garden more. Use these smart gardening tips to make your gardening chores and maintenance less time and labor consuming and make your time in the garden more enjoyable.

8 Tips for Landscaping With Dogs

Landscaping with dogs requires serious compromises. Strategies for landscaping with dogs may force you to alter plans that you would otherwise have for your yard, for instance, avoiding extensive lawns that will only be stained by their urine.

Decorating Tricks to Make a Small Space Look Larger

There are things you can do to make a small room feel more spacious, less cramped. Read some of the tricks here.

Roses - How and When to Prune Roses

Pruning rose bushes is intimidating to many gardeners, but actually very good for the plants. Becoming an accomplished rose pruner takes time and practice, but keep in mind that it is very hard to kill a rose with bad pruning. It is better to make a good effort at pruning roses than to let them grow rampant. Here are some basic rose pruning guidelines for use in your rose garden.

Container Vegetable Gardens

You don't need a plot of land to grow fresh vegetables. Vegetable container gardening can offer high yields in small spaces. With some thought to selecting bush or dwarf varieties, almost any vegetable can be adapted to growing in a container or pot. Container vegetable gardening is perfect for plants that take up little space, such as carrots, radishes and lettuce, or crops that bear fruits over a long period of time, such as tomatoes and peppers.

Remodeling Your Bathroom

Remodeling or redecorating your bathroom can be a lot of work, but this very private space will be your haven. The information here will help you plan ahead, gather ideas, and be on the road to a wonderful new bathroom.

10 Simple Tips for Arranging Furniture

Although interior designers spend years learning how to arrange furniture, here are 10 basic guidelines that any layman can master. Study them, and you’ll be arranging furniture like a pro.

Remodeling Your Bathroom

Follow these bathroom remodeling steps to transform an ugly, barely-functional bathroom into a thing of beauty!

Bringing the Garden Indoors

Want to feel like you're living outside all year long? Using furniture, fabrics, accessories and finishes, you can make any room feel alfresco--no matter what Mother Nature has in store.

How to Tile a Shower

A tiled shower is the holy grail of bathrooms - clean, neat, and custom-made. But can you tile a shower yourself? Yes.

Save Money on Your Bathroom Renovation

Identify aspects of bathroom remodeling that drive up costs--and find solutions for lowering those costs.

10 Tips for Buying Antique Furniture

You don't have to be an expert to know if a piece of antique furniture is any good. Most problems can be detected by a layman in 30 minutes. Here are 10 tips for testing the quality of antique furniture.

Eleven Bathroom Renovation Tips

Eleven great bathroom renovation tips to kick off your remodeling project with a bang.

Interior House Painting Rules

Interior house painting is a potentially messy, time-consuming job. Follow these rules and I guarantee your project will go faster and be cleaner.

In 10 Steps, Replace Old Electrical Outlet With New Electrical Outlet

Are your old electrical outlets old, worn, and loose? Replace them with new, safer electrical outlets. This is one of the easier quick-fixes you can do, and it'll make your house look a lot spiffier!

15 Minute Cleanups for Every Room

15 Minute Cleanups allow for a quick cleaning or maintenace cleaning inbetween more thorough cleanings. Find out how to clean any room in 15 minutes or less.

Conquering Clutter- The 4 Container Method

With four boxes, this method will clean out the clutter from your cabinets, closets, and every room in your home. Working room by room you'll determine where your clutter falls in the categories of trash, sell or give away, storage, and keepers. Conquer the clutter in your home with this straightforward easy method.

5 Ways to Get Yourself Motivated to Clean

If you find yourself unmotivated to clean, try these five ideas to get yourself motivated to clean. Find a way to get yourself excited about cleaning.