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Buying a room air conditioner: How big? How Much?

Convert any fireplace or wood stove into a pellet stove

Tom Silva's step-by-step method for hanging clapboard to keep it level and watertight.

13 simple things you can do to cut down on your heating bills, save money, and have a warm house.

Contractor Rich Rosenfield's step-by-step guide to creating a tempered-glass enclosure

Painting and decorating contractor John Dee's step-by-step method for a well-clad wall.

How to choose the best model for the job at hand

Gutters bring roof runoff down to earth. Here's the (long and) skinny on what to look for.

How to tell well-made sink, tub and shower fittings from the polished pretenders.

Here’s what to look for to find a qualified home electrician familiar with the type of work you want done.

Electric holiday lights and displays sparkle and wow, but they're also potentially dangerous

In this guide, we discuss various door materials and what you need to know about picking a new entry door system.

There's no secret to deck maintenance—repair the deck, clean it and protect it. But learning tricks the pros use can make the job go faster and the results last longer.

A common sense approach to outdoor lighting.

How to replace a window with a classic French door

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to work with this durable material

Change your outlook by replacing a flat picture window with a beautiful bay.

How to pick quality vinyl siding and the contractor who installs it.

On New England's north shore, This Old House gives grand rebirth to a once-stately, uniquely American Shingle-style house by the sea.

The guys headed west for the winter to raise the roof on Jan Winford's 1907 Craftsman-style bungalow in sunny Santa Barbara.

A closer look at the anatomy and history of these water-saving commodes.

This Old House converted a 1906 Arts and Crafts-style church into a single family home for Laurie Ann Bishop and Mark Dvorak.

Bad paint jobs can happen to good people with old houses — even when they listen faithfully to everything the paint salesman tells them. The reason is a surprising revelation about the compatibility of oil and latex paints.