It’s a garage, not a junkyard. So why have you crammed it so full of stuff that you can no longer park your car in it? The garage is often the most cluttered area of a house, but it doesn’t have to be. With a few simple DIY storage solutions, you may be...
LA’s dry and sometimes unforgiving soil can make even simple yard projects challenging. You may find therapy in gardening, but do you want to work harder than you need to? In SoCal’s mild climate with year-round plant growth, the upkeep never ceases, even...
Imagine going 20 years without a haircut or grooming session. Now imagine you’re a Palo Verde tree. Same thing, different species. Unpruned Palo Verde is a tangled mess of brambles and branches, sometimes with no discernible tree form. But trimmed into shape,...
DIYers love tools. They collect them like squirrels gathering nuts for the winter — there can never be enough. But while owning every tool under the sun sounds appealing, is it practical? Renting tools instead can save space, money, and stress, especially for the...
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Except that some hammers aren’t meant for nails at all. The hammer, one of the first tools in human history and descended from a lowly rock, is now highly specialized and employed in various tasks from construction to...
There’s an unsightly crack in your once-pristine floor tile. How did it get there? Kids, settling foundation, the hand of God… who knows? More important, how can you get rid of it? Should you? And how soon? More than a nuisance, a cracked tile is a...
