On average, installing compact fluorescent light bulbs will shave $30 or more off of your energy costs over the lifetime of the bulb. Find out why CFL bulbs save so much money for frugal households.

Some things just never get cleaned.  Either they’re in hard to reach places, places you can’t see, or they are hard to clean. Maybe they’re just such everyday objects that you don’t think about cleaning them at all.  Whatever the reason, I bet there is more than one item on the list below that you [...]

I love a good home improvement project, and am happy to be working with Delta to test out their new top-of-the-line touch activated kitchen faucet, the Pilar kitchen faucet with Touch 2O technology.

We recently found an old farm style kitchen table in pieces at a local consignment shop. It was easy to see its potential as a great kitchen table with a little imagination. All it would need is some sanding, stain, paint, and reassembly. This frugal project cost only a fraction of the same table at retail price.

If you’re a big fan of home decorating and interior design, you probably know who interior designer Kristan Cunningham is (from HGTV and the Rachael Ray Show). Her latest project is something that will help you even more with your home DIY decorating and redesign projects. It’s a new home design software from Punch! called Weekend Project.

It’s time for harvest eye candy, which means gorgeous photos of Autumn gardens and fall foliage! This week’s dream garden in Herefordshire is a woodland walk right out of a storybook. Notice the sign on the fence which reads, “Autumn Garden”.

 
 
It’s time for harvest eye candy, which means gorgeous photos of Autumn gardens and fall foliage!  This week’s dream garden is a true picture of an October Autumn day, complete with orange leaves on the trees.
Photo of the house at Forest Hills Gardens by Joe Shlabotnik.
Dream Garden of the Week
 
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This picturesque setting is the Humble Administrator’s Garden in Suzhou, China.

This short home DIY project video shows how to remove wallpaper. The skill level for this home DIY project is intermediate. How easy or how difficult it is to remove wallpaper depends greatly on factors beyond your control, such as what type of wallpaper was installed and if the walls were properly prepared before hanging the wallpaper.