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Build a window box with vintage flair for your flowers. Our step-by-step guide covers crafting, installing, and decorating with antique trim.

In this guide, we'll explore all the types of wood fences you can add to increase the privacy and curb appeal of your home.

A look at the best table saws—including portable, hybrid, and cabinet models—to consider for your workshop.

Here’s how to allergy-proof your home from invisible irritants and banish them for good.

These creative, reader-made plant tags leave those boring old plastic stakes you get at the nursery in the dust

Grow additional specimens from those you already have to fill out your garden beds or share with friends—for free.

Charming and practical, these hardworking fixtures deliver high-performance light and a vintage look to any home

Refaced cabinets and a handful of inexpensive finishing touches, like new hardware and a resurfaced countertop, update an inefficient and claustrophobic space

The new TV season of This Old House premieres this weekend on PBS! (Check local listings.) Get an advance look at the project house in Auburndale, Massachusetts

Leaning house parts, trapped animals, and lots of bad electricity. Check out our latest frightening discoveries from the field, courtesy of the ASHI Reporter

By adding together all the little ways a renovation can consider eco-friendliness and energy savings, one modest bungalow earned top honors from the country's oldest green building program

Transform an unused spot in your yard into a breezy, comfortable space for outdoor dining and entertaining. Check out these 25 unique ideas.

A 1960s shore house gets upgraded for a family of today—with two new rooms, built-ins to corral clutter, and trimwork details that artfully blend new and old

For one novice gardener, a blank-slate backyard became a canvas for a series of color-packed flower beds built over time

Dreary white and drab beige might not make you happy—try out these mood-boosting colors in every room in your house.

One couple used scaled-down fixtures and a blast of color to upgrade their shoe-box bath

Learn how to build an outdoor bar cart and wheel out this dedicated serving station to offer guests cocktails and brews.

If you’re looking for the best flowers that offer vibrant color all summer long, check out these no-fail, flowering plants.

Having trouble keeping your garden alive? Here are 12 low-maintenance plants ideal for gardeners with black thumbs.

Here are 20 safe and effective ways to prevent deer from damaging your yard and eating the plants in your garden.

The crew from This Old House TV teams up with a nonprofit to bring a foreclosed Second Empire into the future

Take a look at eight distinct types of pebble mosaics—from subtle and classic to vibrant and eclectic—to inspire your next project.

Learn about household hazards—and take a look at some what-not-to-do pictures—to find out how to make your home a safer place.

A lawn mower is essential equipment for anyone who wants a trim and tidy lawn. This Old House's experts tell you how to choose the best push lawn mower for your grass-cutting needs.

Home isn't always the safest place to be—especially when wild creatures decide to step inside