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How To Design A Vacation Rental Designer Maia Roffey of Black Sheep Interior Design shares five tips for maximizing your vacation rental budget when you're home.

How to Choose the Best Wood Floors for Your Home There's good reason to love wood floors: They're a classic that works with virtually every interior style. There's also, as you may have realized if you've ever looked into installing them, much more to them than you may realize. So, without further ado, our breakdown of the types and styles of wood...

How to Build a DIY Deck Lounger Recently, my husband and I realized our dream of putting in a swimming pool, which we surrounded with a composite deck. And since we ended up with lengths of leftover decking, I saw an opportunity to put them to use by building a pair of lounge chairs.

18 Backyard Landscaping Ideas to Perk Up Your Space Use plants, hardscaping, and other backyard landscape design elements such as water features, fencing, and arbors to create privacy and beauty.

What You Need to Know to Eliminate Weeds From Your Garden Wild plants that pop up where you don't want them can be tough to control. Fortunately, there are plenty of tips and tricks that will help you get rid of these leafy invaders naturally. It's hard to have compassion for weeds, but they're just plants growing in places where they're not wanted ( some....

The Best Patio Lighting Ideas to Brighten Your Outdoor Space For maximum enjoyment, your patio should effortlessly transition between daytime and nighttime. This is especially true if you live in a locale where spending time outdoors midday is ill-advised unless you're neck-deep in a cool body of water. By the time the sun sets, it's prime patio time.

A Complete Guide to Choosing Neutral Paint Colors If you think neutral paint colors are boring, think again. "A neutral paint color isn't basic; it is the quiet MVP," Jennifer Hunter, a New York-based designer, says. She emphasizes that wall paint acts as the foundation in a room, anchoring all the other design elements.

Bring Feng Shui Outside With These 5 Elements We've long schooled ourselves on the indoorsy art of feng shui. The ancient Chinese tradition is chockablock with advice on how to live your happiest possible life at home, whether it's where to place a mirror or how to arrange your headboard.

Home Sales Are Getting Canceled at the Highest Rate Since the Start of the Pandemic Some homebuyers are backing out of deals as a slowing housing market gives them more room to negotiate. Others are being forced to renege on contracts because higher mortgage rates mean some homes are no longer affordable.

14 Decor Items HGTV Stars Use In All Their Designs Our HGTV designers know best. They use simple tried-and-true accessories in every design, and that's what makes their spaces functional and beautiful. We did some research, and we pinpointed which accessories our stars can't get enough of.

Expert Breaks Down An Abandoned $20K Home Ready For Renovation Today on Architectural Digest contractor Nick Schiffer from NS Builders takes us through an abandoned 1930's-era house in Pittsburgh, PA that's asking only $20,000 for the keys. There's no mistaking how much work needs to be done to make it livable again, but at just about $12 a square foot with 3-b...