Tag: interior
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Shop Smarter: Keyless Locksets
Entering without a key should make life easier for everyone, so look for the right bells, whistles, flashing lights-—and looks—before you buy
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How To Choose the Right Colors for Your Rooms
Bold can be beautiful without being garish.
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The Cambridge TV House: Updating a Classic Queen Anne
With a Scandinavian-style interior and an open layout, the latest TOH TV project tucks a much-improved floor plan inside the restored shell of an 1887 Queen Anne
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Save This Old House: Maine Second Empire
An 1860s merchant’s house shows off excellent examples of this high style’s elaborate detailing
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A Fireplace Face-Lift for Just $87
A blah brick hearth gets a cheery cottage-style refresher with some clever DIY woodwork and a high-contrast paint job
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A New Year’s Worth of Clever Home Solutions
Turn a downed tree stump into a planter, make a Mason jar chandelier, perfect your compost pile, and more smart ideas from TOH ‘s Home Solutions column
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Jigsaw 101: How to Use the Orbital-Action Setting
From our Tool School series: Pro tips on setting the blade to cut through different materials
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Impact Driver 101: When to Use an Impact Driver
From our Tool School series: Pro tips on choosing between an impact driver and a drill/driver
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Home Inspection Nightmares XXVIII
Questionable structural supports, scary wiring, explosives in the attic, and more sketchy building practices found by the home inspectors in The ASHI Reporter
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How to Design a Cozy Cottage-Style Interior
TOH’s guide to the architectural elements and interior details that give any house, big or small, cottage character