Results for: DIY
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Five Cheap Ideas for Your Container Garden This Summer
If you’re looking for ideas for container gardening, no matter how small your space, this is for you!
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The 11 Queerest Episodes of HGTV
I’m a home improvement gay, determined to watch enough HGTV to one day level up. Thus it just leaves me with a lot of ideas but lacking the capacity to bring any of them to fruition. I can talk a good game, though!
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Queer Design 104: Putting It All Together
Sometimes even when it feels like everything in a space should work, something still feels off. And if that’s the case, there are a few things that you can try to get your reality to align with your vision.
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Notes for a Queer Homemaker: How To Clean Your Kitchen
My hope in crafting this guide for cleaning your kitchen is that it makes the task never feel daunting, even when your kitchen is absolutely a mess – and believe me, your kitchen will be a mess more than once if you use it as it’s intended to be used.
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Spaces & Places Community Gallery
As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!
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The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: What You Need to Do as Spring Turns Into Summer
The moral of our queer tale in our gardens is the same as it is our lives: just keep fucking planting until something survives.
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This Queer House, Vol 10: New Year, Newly Organized Queer House
It’s okay if your end result isn’t completely bare and minimal and perfect; the most important thing is feeling in control of the spaces you create.
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This Queer House, Vol 9: End of Year Mailbag
This month, we tackle reader-submitted questions and run through a step-by-step tutorial for rewiring a lamp.
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This Queer House, Vol 8: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
In this month’s This Queer House, I’ll show you how to get your home ready for winter by keeping the warm air in and the cold air out with a DIY draft stopper, as well as a few other helpful tips.
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This Queer House, Vol. 3: How to Recaulk Your Bathtub Before Crying In It
There are lessons to be learned here from my misfortune, probably, so this might end up reading more like a what not to do than a tutorial.
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This Queer House, Vol 5: How to Patch Walls and Other Easy Moving Tips
If you’re moving this fall, one way to help ensure that you get a full security deposit back from your landlord or management company is to repair any obvious issues in the apartment.
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Helping You Help Yourself #52
Being friends with anyone, taking action on typos in your books, negotiating down debt, houses for owls and more!
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This Queer House: Outfitting Your Toolbox, Hanging Pictures Properly
Just take your time, measure early and often, trust your instincts, and you’ll be a pro at hanging stuff in no time.
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This Queer House, Vol. 4: Easy Wood Restoration
This is not a full restoration. I did not sand everything down and start from scratch. What we’re doing here is more like restoration-lite, but it should be enough to salvage a Craigslist (or yard sale or attic) find nine times out of ten.
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Helping You Help Yourself #47
DIY cat houses, how to avoid losing things, pigs can learn to scream, ditching bad Tinder dates and more!
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Helping You Help Yourself #49
Some stretches for your wrist! How to tell if a crowdfunding project is a scam! Many thoughts on raising plants! How to photograph the MOON!
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This Queer House, Vol. 2: It’s Electric!
Get ready to dazzle friends and loved ones with a new dimmer switch that is sure to set the mood for any occasion.
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Homesteady: DIY Baseball Cap Storage
If you’ve been struggling to figure out where to keep all your caps, let this DIY baseball cap storage solution help you out.
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Helping You Help Yourself #43
Online therapy, figuring out whether your plant is dead, tax prep, sending faxes and more!
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Helping You Help Yourself #39
Calling your reps, figuring out what kind of shirt you’re wearing, making babies laugh, saving money, a Wonder Woman tiara, and more!