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How To: No Iron, No Problem! A Stupid-Easy Way to Get Rid of Wrinkles

We've all done it—you're rushing out the door when all of a sudden you notice your shirt is embarrassingly wrinkled. Sure you could break out the ironing table, wait about 100 years for your iron to heat up, then carefully go over every last inch of fabric. But you're lazy, terrible at ironing, or, if you're like me, both. So don't work harder, work smarter!

How To: 5 Purdy Paint Tools Every DIY Painter Will Love

Brought to you by Purdy Paints The art of painting requires excellent tools. And with so many options on the market, it can be hard to find a brand that works for you and your DIY project. That's where Purdy comes in.

How To: Make Your Own Chalk Paint

If you're a big fan of home improvement, then you've you've probably painted a wall or item in your day. Not only can it get expensive, it's also time consuming, and very often just plain boring. Waiting for paint to dry so that you can add another coat is, well…like waiting for paint to dry.

How To: 5 Apartment Improvements You Can Do in an Hour

Presented by Apartments.com When looking for a new apartment, it's hard not to notice the improvements (on large and small scale) needed prior to moving in. While your landlord may be taking care of new carpeting, cleaning the central air vents, and fresh paint on the walls, there may be some additional improvements on your list that you can take care of on your own. Here are five quick improvements you can check off your list before the big move.

How To: Add Essential Oil to Toilet Paper to Eliminate Bathroom Odors

With fragrance-filled sprays, scented candles, diffuser sticks, and other air-freshening products, the scent lasts just a few minutes and doesn't always mask what you were hoping to cover up. When it comes to the bathroom, scented toilet paper might sound like a terrible (and silly) idea, but it's best at eliminating stinky smells over a long period of time.

How To: Fold Your Fitted Sheets Nice and Neat

Folding fitted sheets seems nearly impossible, but with a neat trick it's just as easy as folding a blanket.

How To: Make a Garden Trug

This is a simple design built from reclaimed wood and purchased ¼” wood slats. It cost very little and only took a couple of hours to complete the build. The goal was light weight, shallow and wide for collecting leafy vegetables, easy to handle and somewhat attractive.

How To: Remove Drain Stopper to Better Unclog a Bathtub

Sit back grad some popcorn and learn how to remove the drain stopper, or plunger from your bathtub, so that you can replace it, or remove a hair clog.

How To: Adjust Skid Plate Shoe Height on a Snow Blower

Learn how to set or adjust the skid plate or show height on your snow blower so that the scraper is off of the ground.

How To: Install a Battery Float Charger Maintainer on Your ATV

How To Install a Battery Float Charger Maintainer On Your ATV

How To: Tighten a Loose Snow Blower Belt - Toro - Tutorial

This video will show you how to tighten a loose snow blower belt on a Toro snow blower. This would work on a Toro 624, 724 and 824. Also many other snow blowers that have a Briggs and Stratton engine.

How To: Apply Silicon Caulk to a Bathtub or Shower Surround

This tutorial will demonstrate how to apply silicon caulking to a bathtub or shower surround, so that it's waterproof, and will not leak.

How To: Make a Wooden iPhone Amplifier from Pallet Wood

This pallet wood project is a really cool pallet project as you can make it from just one pallet board, it's super easy to make, and it's virtually free. The extra sound that comes out is quite surprising. Having said that, don't expect it to sound like a fully fledged designated speaker or you'll be disappointed.

How To: Protect Your Home from Mice for the Winter

Brought to you by Tomcat. Falling snow, warm fireplace, delicious hot cocoa, quiet reading time, mouse. Quick quiz - which one is not like the other? Nothing can ruin a perfectly cozy afternoon in your home like a pest on the loose. With dropping temperatures, you may have some unwelcome residents, like mice, looking for shelter from the cold.

How To: Christmas Tree Tutorial

How to Make a Macrame Christmas Tree with Beads. This tree can be a good gift for New Year's or Christmas eve. You can use it as a Christmas tree decorations.

How To: Macrame Snowflake with Beads

How to make a macrame snowflake with beads - easy tutorial. To make this snowflake you only need to know a square knot.

How To: Easy Snowflake Tutorial

How to make a snowflake - easy tutorial. To make this snowflake you only need to know a square knot.

How To: Make an Awesome Set of Side Tables!

How to make a set of Rustic Bedside Tables from Pallet Wood! Pallets are a great source of recycled wood and are perfect for this project. I decided to make the bedside tables to replace the dodgy ones that l currently have and also to add to my ever expanding pallet wood furniture collection.

How To: Make a Scroll Saw Pattern

This method can be used on any kind of scroll saw pattern. Animals, people, inanimate objects, etc. Done on paper and scanned onto my computer only to clean them up and color them in to display. Three part series.

How To: Make a Portrait Scroll Saw Pattern

I do mine on paper and in these two videos I will show you how to do them. Doesn't involve a computer unless you want to clean them up and color them in to show others.

How To: Make a Vase from a Slab of Wood Using a Scroll Saw

The video link included shows in text how I do it from start to finish. The description tells a little more. This particular vase is made of Aromatic Cedar and is 10 inches around.

How To: Outsmart Mice

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How To: Offset a Door in a Door Frame

This video will show you how to move or offset door in a door frame.

How To: Learn How to Cut Outlet or Light Switch Hole in Sheetrock

Learn How To Cut Outlet or Light Switch Hole in Sheetrock

How To: Make a Floating Shelf (Awesome Pallet Wood Project)

This rustic floating shelf project is one of the easiest pallet jobs that l have ever done. Floating shelves look great as there aren't any shelving brackets visible, which makes the whole look very streamlined. My floating bookshelf also has the added feature of movable bookends with a handmade wooden nut!

How To: Clean Low Water Light Sensor on a Weil McLain Gold Boiler

If your Weil McLain Gold water boiler has stopped working due to a low level water light being on, this video will show you how to clean the sensor.

How To: Remove a Broken Light Bulb Safely from a Lamp.

This is a how to video on how to remove a light that broke from a lamp. This is also easier than destroying a potato. Just be sure to please unplug the lamp before attempting this. Failure to do so can result in serious injury or death. Never allow children to perform this operation.

How To: Make a Stool from Recycled Wood.

How to make a stool from recycled wood. The rustic wooden stool l'm making in this video is dual purposed. Initially it's for a child but it can also be used as a step stool. I made this stool from hardwood fence palings but you could also use pallet wood. It's a very simple stool to build and should only take a couple of hours or so to make.

How To: Build a Coffee Table

How to make a rustic coffee table from reclaimed pallet wood. My coffee table is a combination of pallet wood for the legs and frame, and an old painters plank for the top. The coffee table has a drawer which is perfect for the remote controls or the TV Guide. You could even use this coffee table as a TV Stand. I tried it and it looks really good.

How To: Create a Stunning Autumn Floral Sculpture

Beth O'Reilly AIFD TMF shows us how to make a structural arrangement using stacked Oasis foam disks inside a beautiful container.

How To: Make Easy Macrame Owl - Wall Hanger Tutorial

How to Make Easy Macrame Owl - Wall Hanger Tutorial. You can use this Owl as a Wall Hanger or a Necklace. Changing the string sizes, you can make a bigger or a smaller owl.

How To: Build an Awesome Hall Table!

How to build a Hall Table from recycled wood pallets. I love pallet furniture and this wooden pallet project is no exception. It's easy to build and costs very little money. The hall stand is made entirely from old pallets and hardwood fence palings. Hall tables are very practical and are suited for those narrow areas where a normal table would be to big. My hall table, or hall stand also includes drawers which makes it a handy spot to put your car keys or mail.

How To: Build an Awesome Grind Box!

How to build a really easy, but AWESOME Grind Box.! A grind box, or a skate box is a must for any skater. The grind box in this video is not only very easy to build but it can be made in under a day and with minimal tools. This grind box also has wheels that makes it incredibly easy for the kids to move around. The coping is galvanized steel with a slightly rounded formed edge. This makes for an ultra smooth grind! The skate surface is thick plywood, which makes for a very solid and tough gri...

How To: Clean Your Blender

Put a squirt of dish soap in the blender. 2. Fill blender with hot tap water 3. Put lid on and take the blender for a whirl. 4. Rinse, dry and done!

How To: Use a Tape Measure. Very Handy Tip!

How to use a tape measure so that you can write on it clearly. Tape measures are one of the most useful tools in your tool kit. Unfortunately it's difficult to write on them clearly because of its glossy surface. In this video l show you how to modify your tape measure to turn it into a really handy note pad.