eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
(121)
(48)
(26)Top 50
About two years ago I moved into a house that has about 50% of the square footage of my old house! I gave items to relatives and friends, sold items on eBay, had yard sales, donated to thrift...
Storing your wine collection properly is important for your continued enjoyment. Properly installing a wine cellar shelf is easy to do with a few tools and some knowledge. We will discuss various...
It's 10pm. Do you know how your bookshelves look? I took a look at mine last week and thought it would have made a great backdrop for a Steven King movie. So, I summoned up the courage to tackle...
This article will teach you how to refinish your kitchen cabinets. Refinishing is more affordable than buying all new cabinets and with some time and patience can give your kitchen just the...
Why should you decorate your closet, after all it is a room that no one sees, right? Wrong! You see this room every day even multiple times a day. If you have a beautiful decorative closet you...
Children's closets can easily become cluttered and disorganized, but there are many ways to make the most of even a very small closet in your child's room.
Many people live in small spaces that have tiny kitchens, yet they still need to store food, so these ideas for storing more food in small spaces can be very helpful.
It is hard to keep a home organized especially if you have small children. It seems like everyone undoes everything you do to keep things tidy! Don't they appreciate it? These things among many go...
IKEA makes some very functional, affordable and easy to assemble furniture. The IKEA Expedit bookcase comes in many different colors (beech, birch, black-brown and white) and sizes (8, 16 and 25...
You want to make money from your writing and become a published author. You've decided to go for it but you need a space to do "it" in without spending much money. Don't wait until you...
Sometimes in a home you have certain windows that have a bad view or no view at all like the side of the next building, or a sidewalk where people walk by your window. I have a few ways to...
Tired of the clutter? Round up your posse and prepare for a showdown. Here's how to whip your house into a home.
Look on the pantry shelves of anyone you know and you can find out a great deal about the woman of the house. Clean out and organize your pantry and you will have a neat and orderly pantry instead...
To get the most out of your pantry shelving you need to organize it. Whether you like to cook or just do it to survive, cooking will be much easier when you optimize your pantry shelving to make...
We all know that it's a good thing to have an emergency supply of food, water and other supplies. What we may not know is how to accomplish that goal. It isn't just about accumulating. You have to...
Having a clean bookshelf is hard sometimes. Most of the time it ends up cluttered with stuff falling out and in the wrong position. Or with things that do not belong there.
We all need extra storage! This is a way to repurpose jelly jars, and baby food jars. This can be any jar that has the easy lock seal tops on them. We need storage for all of our trinkets and...
Is your house getting way to cluttered? Do your hoarding habits cut down on your ability to enjoy the things that actually matter? Are you just too lazy to clean up your junk? Well we've all been...
A stud is a wooden 2-by-4 or 2-by-6. Studs make up the inside frame of a wall. Heavy shelves or pictures are most secure when mounted to wall studs.
If you have a very small pantry, or are using cupboard space as a pantry, you probably don't have enough storage space for all of your pantry needs. Making the most of the space you have...
Cube shelves are actually fun to build. Cubed shelves normally don't have a backing and are designed to sit on the wall for decorations or whatever you want to put on them.
When you write, you need a place for your computer, your research materials and lots of files. Here are ways to get the space needed for productive writing.
By reading this article you'll learn how to organize the clutter! Steps on how to make your home look like it has more space and less clutter.
It's back to school time again! Why not get a head start and organize your locker on your school's organization day? With a few dollars spent, you can keep everything neat, organized, and easy to...
Organizing a kid’s room will make it much easier for them to put items away and keep it clean.
MAKING MORE SPACE… Do you want more enough space for the little things that you collect, But don’t want hands touching, or have to dust them, but want to display them all? I have the...
I have never built anything in my life, but I decided to try and build an entertainment center, because frankly, the ones you buy now fall apart!
One of the fundamentals to making a hobby into a money making venture is organization. Having the luxury of being a hobby quilter means that you can pull your quilt out whenever you want and put...
A new refrigerator represents a major purchase. With so many models and features now available, finding the refrigerator that's right for your family requires some forethought and a good deal of...
Need a bigger house? You probably just need to corral the contents inside the home you have. Start by getting rid of what you can-- anything broken beyond repair, items no longer used, clothes...
Whether your an avid reader, or you just want to look intellectual and polished having your own home library can give your home a touch of high class beauty.
Do you have older kitchen cabinets that need a make-over? Have you ever lined your dresser drawers with a pretty paper or does under your bathroom sink need a major jolt of color and light? Maybe...
My husband used to install custom closet organizers professionally for new construction homes, and I had the opportunity to work along with him on a few jobs and watch the process. In this...
The pantry in my house is very similar to the pantries of almost all my friends' houses, which are all fairly new. They usually consist of a closet, or walk-in type closet with four equally spaced...
There are places that we may move into that are very small and don't have any cabinet space, or closets. There are ways to work around this. Shelving open air cabinets, are the way to go. You...
"I have nothing to wear!" is a common phrase uttered by women everywhere. No matter how many clothes you have, sometimes you just can't find anything that matches, or you've completely lost track...
there are many places in our homes that most of us do not utilize, and if we need more storage, we need to take another look around.
It can be really exciting moving into your new apartment - but what do you do with those white walls? You can work with them and try a modern or shabby chic look to incorporate the white walls...
Here are some suggestions to preventing odors from your refrigerator and keep it smelling fresh.
If your fridge smells even after you've cleaned it - try this easy solution! It really works! At work we had a fridge that smelled so awful that we didn't even want to open it - because it made...
Polyurethane applied to the inside your kitchen cabinets create an easy to clean surface. With polyurethane you’ll have a surface that discourages the growth of germs. Roaches and other creatures...
Suggestions abound on the correct way to handle meat; like thawing meat in the refrigerator rather than on the countertop, washing hands immediately after handling meat, keeping meat separate from...
In this age of changing media where you can download audio books, print out electronic books and find reference materials on virtually anything online, what is the purpose of owning a book?...
Is your kitchen in desperate need of organization? Sometimes it's the simplest ideals that make the biggest organizational impact on a kitchen.
Create inexpensive utility shelves for your garage of storate with free pallets.
Few rooms have to store as many needed items as a kitchen, so this is usually the area of the home with the greatest storage issues. While storage for ordinary items can be tight, it's much worse...
The way camping equipment is stored is critical to ensuring your investment is protected and it will last season after season.
A teen room must be a place where he is proud to take his friends. It should be decorated to match his interests. It should also be a great place for a teenager to study.
Many do-it-yourself kits are available for organizing a closet, but how do you decide what configuration will work for you? Here are a few simple ideas to help you get organized.
Build a simple bookcase. Not to impress the carpenters or cabinet makers, just to hold your books and stuff.
Copyright © 1999-2009 eHow, Inc. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. en-US Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
