The gardenia plant is a beautiful plant especially when it is in full bloom and you managed to ensure that its condition is always a good and perfect condition. The plant not only comes with beautiful flowers but also provides magnificent fragrance during flowering and when it is fully blossomed. Depending on the climate, the ...
Painting concrete steps
Instead of the usual looking concrete steps, why not give it a new coat of paint to refresh the look of your home. In order to achieve that, choosing the right type of paint is crucial. The paint should stick on to the concrete and slip-proof as a protection to you and other people who ...
Painting wrought iron
When the weather takes its course, anything on the way will have to bear the consequences. Wrought iron is one of the things will be most affected by the weather changes. One solution to restore their original beauty is by painting them. The paint coats will protect the wrought iron from heat and moisture, thus ...
Building a garden windmills
Wouldn\'t you want to create your own fancy garden by adding a windmill that you yourself build? This windmill project is beautiful and can be small enough to be placed to a flowerbed. Either this or you can build a bigger windmill as the focal point of your garden. You can make your garden windmill ...
Protecting cabinet bottoms under sinks
How to start laying hardwood flooring
Hardwood floor are among famous choice for flooring. The beauty and the warmth of hardwood flooring is the main reason why these are used as flooring among many people. Hardwood flooring planks come in many types and finishes. The most common you can get from the market are the groove edges and tongue that will ...
Building a formal entrance garden
You don\'t have to be in Versailles to have a beautiful formal entrance garden to welcome visitors. If you have small garden entrance, it might not seem to offer much scope for an extended symmetrical arrangement. However, a small standard tree in a square bed can make a charming formal front garden. Here are methods ...
Building edging and step stones for your garden
Having brick edging around the garden and lawn areas is both attractive and functional. You can choose an almost endless variety of earthy brick colors will enhance your greenery and simplify mowing and trimming chores. You can build your own brick edging by yourself and perhaps this project will be the easiest of all outdoor ...
Building elegant brick edging for your landscape
What makes a good taste? It doesn\'t have to be a liking for metal over wood or wood over plastics. It\'s a matter of personal taste, and is not that necessarily bad or good. For example, if you are going to have series of bookcases in your home, they should be all the same design. ...
Installing your bathroom stall doors
There is always the time when you think that by calling the carpenter or handyman could save your house problem in no time. But you don\'t have to, because you can do it by yourself. The best thing about handling your own installation is that you can save more and expand your knowledge and skills ...
Choosing the right blinds for your French door windows
More How to Guides
In order to get a better focus on what we do here on DIY Guides we have started a more general "how to" site called Guidezee. On Guidezee we will be much broader in the terms of questions we try to help you out with, we are doing a slow start over there but at ...
Growing mushroom kits
Mushroom kits have become so popular for their versatility. We want to grow our own instead of buying it from the store. So, the mushroom kit is like a half-way measure. Mushroom spores cannot be sold in packets like other vegetables seed. So you have to purchase the mushroom kits which contain semi-unprocessed state of ...
Ways to grow potatoes
Potatoes are now so common with many more varieties being added over the years. We desire to know more on how to grow potatoes in little pots of their own and mostly without chemicals. There are several questions you need to ask yourselves, on deciding which type of potatoes whether the choice will be "Earlies" ...
Caring for a Hebe (Veronica) plant
Hebes (Veronica) plants are one of those plants that have the "girl-next-door" looks. In fact, most gardeners may have a Hebe plant or two as fillers instead of the focal plant in their beds. One of reasons, Hebes plant grows without too much fuss. However, the Hebe is sometimes bundled in with the Veronica family ...
