Home & Garden

There’s no place like home—especially when it’s in tip-top shape. We’ve rounded up the best cleaning and organizing tricks, affordable decor ideas, DIY hacks, and more. Warning: Once you’ve got everything just the way you want it, you may never want to leave!

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Energy-Saving Home Improvements

If your utility bills were high last winter, you may be able to lower them this year by making some...


Perennial Possibilities for Autumn

Late summer and fall can be colourful times for your garden, with plenty of brilliant blooms and flamboyant foliage. Discover...


Childproof Your Home: A Room-by-Room Guide

Whether they're your own or just visiting, help protect children from the potential dangers in your home.  Children are curious...


Accessorize for Added Value

Accessories add variety to your wardrobe, transforming clothes from ultra casual to dressed up, or taking a simple outfit from...


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9 Things Your Renovator Won’t Tell You

Or: How to get the house of your dreams—without enduring a nightmare


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Who’s Hiring?

Check out these 15 hot jobs


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Propane Torch

Uses propane gas that mixes with the surrounding air to produce a hot flame (temperature about 1371°C/2500°F). Different tips are


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Pipe or Tubing Cutter

Produces clean cuts on copper or steel pipe or tubing.

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Pipe Wrench

Turns threaded pipes.


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Pipe Roller

Features an indented center groove in the cover to conform to the contour of heating pipes. Make sure you apply


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Heat Gun

Focuses a controlled amount of heat, usually between 121°C (250°F) and 593°C (1100°F), to soften paint so you can remove


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Paint Glove

For applying paint to unusually-shaped items, such as spindles.


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Brush and Roller-Cover Spinner

Cleans paint brushes or rollers.


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Hole Saw

Tempered hardened-steel teeth cut large holes in wood, metal, and sheet goods.


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Standard Router

Used for top-quality joinery and making decorative edges or surfaces.


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Skate-Wheel Jointer

Rakes out mortar to a depth of 12 mm (1/2 in.) from a joint. The length of the nail that


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Dead-Blow Hammer

Head is filled with steel shot and oil that absorb energy when the hammer impacts, eliminating any rebound in demolition

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Portable Work Center

Combines a workbench, tool stand, vise, and sawhorse in one compact unit.


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Sliding Compound Miter Saw

Has a blade assembly that slides along two rods, allowing you to cut wide stock by pulling the assembly toward


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Circular Saw

Used for fast straight cuts in wood or other materials. Upper blade guard is fixed; lower guard is spring-loaded and


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Multipurpose Electrician’s Pliers

Measure, cut, and strip wire; also crimp wire connectors and cut machine screws. As with other wire strippers, handles do


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Round-Nose Pliers

Favored by electricians, these pliers have smooth, tapered, round jaws designed for bending thin wire and sheet metal into different-sized


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Hand Stapler

Drives staples with a squeeze of the handle.

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Straight-Jaw Locking Pliers

Clamp firmly onto objects.


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Edge Clamps

Has two or three screws extending from the frame to exert right-angle pressure on the edge or side of a


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Glass Cutter

Scores lines in glass.


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Scrolling Saber Saw

Saber saw with a pivoting blade holder for cutting intricate curves and contours without the operator turning the body of


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General-Purpose Saw

Makes both crosscuts and rip cuts in wood.


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Sandpaper Discs

Convert an electric hand drill into a sander.