Do's and Don'ts of Home Painting Advice
Sapolin Paints offers practical guidance for DIY and professional painters. It emphasizes choosing a reliable dealer, reading labels, buying quality paint, obtaining multiple bids for professional work, detailed written estimates, and thorough surface preparation. It warns against unknown contractors, overreaching guarantees, mixing paint types, using improper brushes, thinning improperly, leaving cans open, and buying colors on separate days.
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New York
UPI
Sapolin Paints, Inc
Kitchen design matters more than kitchen size
Experts urge focusing on space and layout rather than size for efficient kitchens. Professional remodeling can transform poorly planned spaces with updated lighting, consolidated appliances, and added dining or work areas, often with free initial consultations and lower fees credited toward a future order.
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Cko’s
American Institute of Kitchen Dealers
Removing wax from walnut plywood finish
A reader asks how to remove wax that has settled into open grain after finishing with sealer and paste wax. Advice recommends stripping to bare wood then refinishing, using fine wire wool with turpentine and resealing.
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M.W.P
Miracle product oldest nature’s gift to ecology
The American Association of Nurserymen and industry groups tout a timeless miracle product that cleans the air reduces noise, enriches soil, purifies water, and enhances beauty. They describe trees shrubs grasses and plants as nature’s gifts addressing ecological challenges.
Small 9 by 9 Room Becomes Useful Study Sewing Space
Barbara Hartung outlines a compact makeover for a dark 9 by 9 foot room. Add two 32 inch bookshelves with a low seating cabinet, bright felt walls in alcoves, white walls and furniture, colorful cushions, simple curtains, and wall mounted adjustable lamps for space saving light. Consider one small upholstered chair to finish.
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Barbara Hartung
Sunflower judging and garden clinic Saturday event
Valley of the Sun Men's Garden Club hosts sunflower judging and a free garden clinic on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Phoenix Adult Center auditorium. Contest open to youth 17 and under. categories include largest diameter, circumference, head weight, and more with cash prizes for top sunflowers and embroidered patches for category winners. Pumpkin seeds will be distributed for the second annual Big Pumpkin Contest.
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Valley of the Sun Men’s Garden Club
Phoenix Adult Center
Citrus Way
Men's Garden Clubs of America
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