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Renovation Tips for Small Bathroom Spaces

It is quite fun to renovate or remodel your bathroom; however, if you have limited space, then things can get quite challenging. It is hard to come up with brilliant ideas as to how you can fit everything you want in a tiny space. Another challenging thing is how to

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Home Makeover
Home Style
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Your Guide to a Complete Home Makeover

Redesigning the areas in your home might prove to be a challenging task that will take weeks of preparation and maybe even months of installation. To keep your priorities in check, here are some tips to keep your home makeover a seamless and hassle-free experience. Reassessing your current wares Though

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Home Improvement
Home Style
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Home Improvement: Why the Right Type of Flooring Is Important

One of the main reasons why most homeowners tend to steer clear of home improvements is the sheer amount of effort and resources required to accomplish such a feat. While not every aspect of a home requires a sizeable investment to improve it, it is always a good idea to

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Younger
Food
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3 Foods to Help You Feel Younger

The fountain of youth has filled our legends and dreams for centuries. Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a magic pill or cup of life that gave us eternal youth and an escape from aging? While these fantasies aren’t coming true anytime soon, mother nature has provided us with

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Floodlights
Home Style
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Tips on Using Floodlights to Enhance your Outdoor Living Space

Floodlights are not just used for sports fields, recreation centers or other huge public spaces. Some types of floodlights are designed for home use, such as for security or landscapes. Floodlights are often used to illuminate a broad area though there are more focused kinds used for stage lighting. They

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Bathroom
Home Style
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7 Ideas for How to Renovate Your Bathroom

Home renovation can be both an exciting and overwhelming affair. Now that you have the time, funds, and the services of a contractor, where should you start? What are the motions to go through in order to fully transform your home? Some key areas of concentration would likely be the

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Dream Home
Home Blogs
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How to Live in Your Dream Home Without Paying For It

You want to live in a villa in Thailand? How about an gorgeous apartment in New York City? Perhaps you dream of a house in rustic Italy, or a condo by the beach in Australia. You would think you would probably have to be very well off to enjoy those kind

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Plants
Gardening
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What Plants Are Hard to Kill and How to Treat Them

It goes without saying that every gardener wants to provide the best possible conditions for the plants to grow. However, this is hard in some regions of the world where there is either too much snow or where it is simply too arid for most plant species to thrive. That

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Downsizing
Home Blogs
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How To Make The Most Of Downsizing Your Home

It’s only ever when you have to move homes that the amount of stuff around suddenly seems like too much. When did you get so many random vases? Was it ever a good idea to invest in DVDs with director commentary? Furniture presents a unique challenge, some things are horribly

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Diabetes Superfood
Better Recipes
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The ADA’s New Cookbook Helps You to Plan Your Meal

Eating a diet rich in “superfoods” can help you manage your blood glucose and meet your health goals. That’s why the ADA’s newest cookbook not only contains more than 110 superfoods-rich recipes, but also offers 40 days of balanced meal plans that will delight anyone with or without diabetes. You’ve

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Downsizing your home
Home Keeping
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Thinking About Downsizing?

Let’s unpack the pluses and minuses of deciding to downsize your home. There are a lot of reasons to consider downsizing your home: as you approach retirement, to make future moves easier, to live a less stressful / expensive life. Whatever your reasons for considering downsizing, there are pros and cons

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Home & Food
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How to Prevent Home Fires During Christmas

It seems as if every year the holiday season begins earlier. Along-side Halloween costumes in the stores are dancing Santa’s and reindeer. But in our mad dash to get our home decorated for the holidays and organize the gatherings, it’s easy to forget about the additional fire hazards that come with this

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Host Thanksgiving
Home & Food
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8 Tips to Host Thanksgiving in a Small Apartment

Thanksgiving dinner can be enjoyed in any sized space, with whatever furniture and resources you have. Thanksgiving in a small apartment is possible and there are plenty of tips that can help you make the most of your small apartment. 1. Planning, planning and (you guessed it) more planning The

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Organized
Food
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3 Tips to Get Organized Before the Holidays This Year

October has come and gone, and as we barrel into November, everyone’s focus seems to have shifted to Thanksgiving and beyond. Radio stations have begun playing Christmas music; stores and shopping malls have already put out their decorations, and there is a distinct chill in the air. Without a doubt,

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Better Recipes
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Tomato Gravy

There’s a true old saying, “It is hard to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato” and the only problem with that saying?  Homegrown tomatoes only come once per year and sadly, they are almost gone. Perhaps we have been holding the solution to crime, drugs and

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How Can You Avoid Packing on the Holiday's Pounds?
Food
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How Can You Avoid Packing on the Holiday’s Pounds?

The holiday season is officially upon us. It’s the perfect time to spend enjoying the company of friends and family. Between holiday dinners and parties and get togethers with loved ones, you’re likely to be surrounded delicious food and sweet treats. It’s easy to see how calories can really start

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Food
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Giving Thanks for Good Health: Mr. Food’s ADA-Approved Thanksgiving Day Menu

This Thanksgiving, you don’t have to sacrifice flavor to eat healthy. Mr. Food Test Kitchen and the American Diabetes Association offer a tempting (and diabetes-friendly) Thanksgiving menu that will satisfy your holiday cravings without derailing your meal plan. Everyone looks forward to the comforting flavors of Thanksgiving. After all, who

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Food
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14 Guilt-Free Keto-Friendly Dessert Recipes

Think you can’t have dessert on a low carb or keto diet? Or are you struggling to find keto-friendly dessert recipes that actually taste like what you’re craving? Today’s 14 keto-friendly dessert recipes prove you can enjoy (practically) guilt-free and delicious treats without sacrificing or forgoing ketosis. If you like

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Myths
Food
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Mythbusters: The Biggest Cholesterol Myths You Never Knew

Whenever your thoughts wander from that salad bowl in front of you to a mouth-watering, super tasty triple cheeseburger, resist the temptation. Remind yourself that you need to keep your cholesterol in check, or you’ll die of a heart attack or something similar. Although this thinking will keep you on

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