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Decide how you want to dive in and start with our cozy paint color picks to help you create your look. Note: Actual colors may appear differently than on screen. Always consult paint color chips. Palettes designed by Khristian A. Howell. Cozy Paint Colors by Room Cozy Living Room Colors A fireplace is a natural focal point in a living room, but you don’t have to actually have the architectural feature to enjoy its warmth....

Sculptural candles, often featuring bold colors to highlight their artful silhouettes, seem to be popping up at retailers everywhere lately. And according to Etsy’s 2020 holiday trend report, the retailer has seen an 86% increase in searches for abstract, modern, and geometric candles over the past three months compared to the same time last year. Whether you prefer to light them or preserve them as a decorative accent, these candles make a stylish statement on fireplace mantels, dining room tables, nightstands, and more....

Adding a Chapter to the Home’s Story Striking that balance encouraged Patricia to look at her 127-year-old house in Mill Valley, CA, somewhat like a book, with each previous owner contributing a chapter. “It’s a mix of styles and the histories of the people who have lived here,” she says. “I wanted to preserve the layers of architecture and those stories.” Art Brings Personality She combines her hippie-chic and midcentury modern styles to create an eclectic Victorian home that has an impact as soon as you cross the front porch and enter the living room....

Home renovation is a surprisingly popular topic in the YouTube community. Renovation videos rake up hundreds of thousands of views—even more if they feature celebrities or social media influencers. You can learn simple techniques like how to use a stud finder or learn about more advanced tools like a wet tile saw (which the Robertses avoided). Check out their favorite projects, mastered with the help of YouTube, and see how two average joes made this redo not only doable but done....

Plants for Creating the Easy-Care, Summer-Blooming Shade Garden Plan 6 Hydrangea (Light-O-Day): Zones 5-9 8 Hydrangea (Endless Summer Blushing Bride): Zones 5-9 4 Shrub rose (Rosa Little Mischief): Zones 4-9 2 Dwarf mock orange (Philadelphus ‘Miniature Snowflake’): Zones 4-8 9 Perennial geranium (Rozanne): Zones 4-8 6 Siberian iris (Iris sibirica ‘Sky Wings’): Zones 3-9 4 Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum ‘Prairie Sky’): Zones 4-9 2 Lilac (Syringa Tinkerbelle): Zones 3-7 1 Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snowflake’): Zones 5-9 5 Hydrangea (Endless Summer): Zones 4-9 3 Astilbe (‘Snowdrift’): Zones 3-9...

Along with the brushes, the set includes an extended reach attachment to help you clean tight places, like the space between stove grates or grout between tiles. The brand also offers other brush styles with different bristle strengths that you can use for surfaces like grills, plastics, cabinets, upholstery, and more. One five-star reviewer said using the brushes is a breeze, and they were “able to get into spots [that are] hard to reach and get my tub cleaned better than ever and make it look like new....

Test Kitchen Tip: Hard-cooked eggs made with eggs that have been refrigerated 1 week to 10 days after purchase are easier to peel.

cup 2 wood chips (oak, hickory, apple, maple, or pecan) cup 4 ice cubes Smoked Graham Crackers cup 1 wood chips (oak, hickory, apple, maple, or pecan) 12 graham cracker squares

Varieties of Coleus India Frills Coleus (Solenostemon ‘India Frills’) has deeply lobed narrow leaves with a chartreuse margin and maroon, magenta, and purple center splash. It grows in part or full shade. It trails to 1 foot. Telltale Heart Coleus (Solenostemon ‘Telltale Heart’) has heart-shape leaves with scalloped green edges and a deep purple-maroon center. It is slow to flower, so it needs little pinching or pruning to maintain its trailing shape....

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Tufted Hairgrass Care This plant grows best in moist, organically rich soil and part shade. It is an easy-to-grow perennial when planted in any average, well-drained soil. Be mindful of too much shade. Tufted hairgrass grows well in part shade—sites that receive at least 4 hours of bright light a day—but will not flower in full shade. It is semi-evergreen in Zones 7–9. Plant in spring then water deeply. Continue watering deeply every week or two during the first growing season....

Common Names The common name of a plant is easy to pronounce and, at times, wonderfully descriptive. Names such as blackberry lily, bleeding heart, goatsbeard, and fountaingrass offer a glimpse into a plant’s personality or appearance. A common name can also reveal clues about a plant’s origin, such as Ozark sundrops, or it can paint a picture of a flower, such as rose turtlehead. Common names are often confusing because the same plants might have different common names in different places....

How Power Moves Power comes to your home through the power company’s transmission and distribution lines, passes through a meter, and enters the service panel. In the service panel, the power energizes two strips of metal called hot bus bars. Circuit breakers or fuses attach to the hot bus bars. Power must pass through a breaker or fuse before it leaves the service panel and goes into the house through a branch circuit....