Home and garden questions, answered
Contractors, designers and growers explaining what a job involves, what it costs and where people get it wrong. Useful whether you are doing it yourself or hiring it out.
5 home & garden questions answered
What vegetables can you plant in the fall?
Joe Lamp'l of The joe gardener Show names his top 10 fall greens, from lettuce to collards, and explains how to time sowing around your first frost.
Answered on The joe gardener Show
How do you meal plan from a garden in summer?
Homesteader Melissa K. Norris (Pioneering Today Podcast) on letting the garden set the menu, batch-cooking protein and keeping the kitchen cool all summer.
Answered on Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
What color makes a small room look bigger?
Lighter walls and ceilings make a small room read as bigger, and the old 'dark colors recede' rule often fails. Dan Hansen of Home In Progress explains why.
Answered on Home In Progress
What makes a kitchen look cheap?
Interior designer Sally Soricelli (Design Your Home podcast) names the four mistakes that make even expensive kitchens look cheap, and how to fix each.
Answered on Design Your Home
Can you refinish hardwood floors yourself?
Eric Goranson and Treadline Hardwood on Around the House: why DIY floor sanding goes wrong and how to choose Swedish, water-based or oil finishes.
Answered on Around the House with Eric G: Upgrade Your Home Like a Pro