Home Design

How to Add Mountain Modern Style to Your Home Decor—Wherever You Live

From home stylish and coastal granny to rustic farmhouse, trends that center houses around earthy…

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How to Start Planning a Home Renovation

Whether you're updating a basement, a restroom, or your entire house, the house restoration process…

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How to Use Paint Swatches the Right Way (and Pick the Color You Really Want)

Everyone who has ever painted a space based upon paint swatches or chips-- and without…

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Food & Cooking

Martha’s Trick for Preventing Soggy Waffles Works Every Time

The age-old expression "breakfast is the most essential meal of the day" rings most true…

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How to Store Bacon Grease (and Use It in Future Recipes)

Keeping a container of remaining bacon grease on hand to use as cooking oil for…

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The Right Way to Freeze Bananas

There are few fruits more flexible than bananas. You can blend them in shakes, bake…

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Reverse Searing Is the Secret to Cooking Restaurant-Quality Steak at Home

There are seemingly endless ways to prepare meat. When you sear a piece of meat,…

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From Cappuccino to Romaine Lettuce, Learn How Some of Your Favorite Foods Got Their Names

Have you ever stopped to think of the origins of your breakfast? Not in the…

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Gardening

How to Grow and Care for a Lemongrass Plant

You know lemongrass as that yummy zing of taste in a Thai soup or Indian…

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How to Grow and Care for Peonies to Ensure Beautiful Blooms Year After Year

Every flower is beautiful in its own right, but there's something specifically alluring about the…

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How to Grow and Care for Fountain Grass

Easy to look after and teeming with design chance, water fountain yard, likewise known as…

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Holiday Planning & Ideas

Our Best Valentine’s Day Card DIY Ideas

For Valentine's Days past, you once dutifully crafted numerous handcrafted cards as a trainee in…

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The Meaning Behind Popular Valentine’s Day Flowers, From Roses to Sweet Peas

We give flowers on Valentine's Day as a way to show our love and appreciation…

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How to Make Dairy-Free Versions of Your Family’s Favorite Holiday Recipes

For chef and author Carla Hall, it's not the holidays without substantial amounts of cornbread…

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The Fastest Way to Chill Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

Getting the temperature level right is instrumental to taking pleasure in white wine at its…

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How to Brine a Turkey the Right Way

Turkey is a relatively lean bird, and the breast-to-leg ratio isn't perfect: By the time…

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Weddings

Who Gets an Invitation to the Rehearsal Dinner?

Crafting the guest list for this occasion can be practically as tough as choosing who…

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What to Wear to a Black-Tie Wedding

Black tie is the most official of the bridal gown codes ( aside from white…

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How to Tell Your Loved Ones—Especially Your Parents—That You’re Engaged to Someone They Haven’t Met

Congratulations, you're engaged! Even as you enjoy this celebratory minute with your partner, you're most…

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Kate Middleton and Prince William Raced Each Other During a Spin Class—Here’s Who Won

Whether they're evaluating each other's mixology abilities or taking pleasure in a courtside date night,…

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11 Bachelorette Party Ideas the Bride-to-Be (and Her Entire Wedding Party) Will Love

We can all agree that a bachelorette party must make a bride-to-be feel liked and…

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When it comes to spending for the wedding, there are varying views. While generally the…

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