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Yard and Garden

How To Find the Perfect Furniture Balance in Your Backyard

Tweet An outdoor living space feels complete when furniture fits naturally rather than competing with the landscape or open areas. Finding the right furniture balance in a backyard requires more

Yard and Garden

Best Practices for Managing Overgrown Properties

Tweet A neglected yard or parcel of land can quickly become difficult to manage. Tall grass, thick brush, invasive plants, and fallen branches don’t just affect curb appeal—they can also

Featured Garden Maintenance

How To Use Hedging To Beautify Your Yard

A well-maintained hedge can add tremendous aesthetic appeal to your yard. Hedging is a skill rather than a routine, such as lawn mowing.

Landscaping

Having Your Yard Landscaped? How To Relieve The Stress

Most people know how important good landscaping is. Studies show that natural beauty can enhance a person’s overall mental and physical well-being.

Landscaping

Ideas to Add More Zest to a Boring Yard

Your yard should be a reflection of your personality, taste, and style. It should feel welcoming when you come home and bring pleasure to your eye.

Landscaping

Spring Is On It’s Way: 4 Tips For Prepping Your Yard For A Summer Of Dreams

It’s time to turn your yard into a perfect reflection of the season. It only takes a few things to make a major differences in your home’s appearance. It really is amazing how much of a difference your yard can make for your whole house.

Yard and Garden

Getting Your Yard Ready for the Summer Season: 4 Things to Remember

Summer is finally here and that means that many homes will be getting their yards in shape for a season of playing, gardening, and entertaining.

Landscaping

Updating Your Yard This Summer? Tips To Save Money And Get The Look You Want

The yard is one of the most notable features of the home and often determines the property value. For those looking to spend more time outdoors during the summer season and enjoy activities in the yard, there are several upgrades available that can be done at a low cost.

Yard and Garden

Backyard Birding: Getting Ready for Spring

As winter recedes and spring advances, you will begin to notice some changes around your yard. Of the feathery kind.

Driveways / Walkways

Winter Clean Up: Snow, Ice and Yard Care

Tweet It is a pretty scene popularized by Currier and Ives Christmas cards in the 1800s. It is also a scene that may present a big problem for the homeowner

Storage Space

5 Outdoor Storage Solutions That Make Sense

Tweet As in not using a tarp to protect lawn equipment that should be stored in a safe, dry place. Rely on a tarp and you may find that certain

Home Structure

What You Should Know About Fire Pits

Tweet Fire pits can be operated ‘year round including in the middle of a harsh winter, offering respite for sleigh riders, skiers and snowboarders alike. Here’s what you need to

Ponds and Fountains

Small Backyard Pond Considerations and Tips

Tweet Ponds provide water for wildlife and can attract a variety of birds and animals that may be absent from your yard at present. Building a small pond is a

Outdoor Structures

Rent-to-Own Sheds: Bargain or Not?

It is a fact: if you need a new shed for your yard, you can either pay cash or you can finance your purchase.

Outdoor Structures

Fencing Considerations for the Dog Owner

The old saying goes, “Good fences make good neighbors.” For dog owners, good fences make good neighbors, safe pets, and fewer pet-related problems.

Yard and Garden

How to Choose a Tree Cutting Professional

Your home is your castle, but it is the greenery that surrounds it that gives your property its distinctive look.

Home Interior

Use Your Tax Refund for Home Improvement Projects

You’re getting money back from the IRS this year, funds that you can save or put to some other use such as paying off your credit cards, funding a vacation or perhaps handling a long-desired home improvement project.

Yard and Garden

Smart Tips for Eliminating Ticks in Your Yard

Warmer weather has people spending more time outside, soaking up the sun, tending gardens and enjoying wide-open playtime. That increased time spent outdoors also puts people at greater risk of encountering ticks, tiny arachnids that inhabit woody areas, brushy fields and can be found close to your home.

Yard and Garden

You Can Create a Backyard Bird Habitat

There may be no better or well received update that you can do to your yard then to include a bird habitat. Generally located in the backyard, away from traffic, noise and constant human interaction, a backyard bird habitat requires very little from you other than a supply of fresh water, a source of food and cover.

Home Structure

Unique Home Gift Ideas for Mom

Tweet Christmas presents with home renovation in mind. What will you be getting your mother this Christmas? If mother is advanced in age, widowed and finding it difficult to maintain