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Top 5 Hummingbird Feeders Most Decorative Feeder: Muse Garden Hummingbird Feeder Best Rustic Design: More Birds Vintage Hummingbird Feeder Easiest To Fill: BOLITE Glass Hummingbird Feeder Best Plastic Feeders: eWonLife Hummingbird Feeders Best Pest Protection: Perky-Pet Pinchwaist Hummingbird Feeder Most Decorative Feeder: Muse Garden Hummingbird Feeder If you’re searching for a feeder that’s useful for both feeding hummingbirds and making a statement, be sure to consider this piece from Muse Garden....

Top 11 Tool Sets DEWALT Mechanics Tool Set DEWALT Combo Kit Craftsman Mechanics Tool Set DEWALT Cordless Drill Combo Kit Craftsman V20 Cordless Drill Combo Kit Apollo Tools DT9706 Original 39-Piece General Repair Hand Tool Set Cartman 148-Piece Tool Set WORKPRO 408-Piece Mechanics Tool Set Taiker 49-Piece Garden Tools Set Scuddles Garden Tools Set JUMPHIGH Garden Tools Set DEWALT Mechanics Tool Set This tool set comes with 192 pieces, including hex keys and socket wrenches, to help you perform all types of projects....

Steps for Building and Hanging a Custom Screen Door: Start by cutting the boards to size. In order to allow for the half lap joints on the rails, allow for an additional 2” for the length of the rails. This will allow for a 1” half lap joint on both sides. Cut the boards to size using a miter saw. Be sure to square up an end before making your cuts....

Previous episode: S42 E4 | Next episode: S42 E6 In this episode: Construction work and television production started on the new project in Narragansett, RI, but Covid put a halt to TV and placed restrictions on building. Five months later, we pick up where we left off with our 1887 Queen Anne Victorian. Kevin O’Connor, Richard Trethewey and Tom Silva set the stage for the restoration efforts. The house has been standing prominently in Narragansett for over a century, but it’s a shadow of its former self....

Building products innovator Huber Engineered Woods LLC has a reputation built on consistent product performance and commitment to people. Fueled by on-the-jobsite analysis and building science principles, AdvanTech® subflooring and ZIP System® sheathing and tape product solutions have changed the way construction teams build better buildings. About Huber AdvanTech and ZIP System products streamline installation, while providing dependable performance as critical components of quiet, stiff floors and weather-resistant, tight building envelopes....

Chalk it up to the power of the printed page. All the gardens that flourish around Densey and Ronald Juvonen’s Chester County, Pennsylvania, house are of Densey’s design, based almost entirely on landscapes she pored over in magazines and books. She clipped and photocopied—assembling file folders marked “stonework” and “color combinations”—and fueled her imaginings with visits to nearby Longwood Gardens. Drawing her plans to scale using graph paper, Densey formulated a unique mix of French and Italian formal landscaping up close to the house, with looser English gardens farther afield....

Before gas grills and outdoor kitchens, America fell in love with that symbol of suburbia, the backyard brick barbecue. As outdoor entertaining became a hallmark of the good life in the post-war 1950s, the open-air grill stood center stage, presided over by Dad, who ruled the flaming briquettes. We think it’s time to give these nostalgic cookers a second look. While you could buy a simple portable kettle grill to heed the call of the charcoal, there’s something alluring about a built-in masonry grill....

This article appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of This Old House Magazine. Click here to learn how to subscribe. Talk about a stress test—the pandemic has had many folks using their homes more intensely than they ever did before. Where once there was the ebb of occupants going off to offices and schools, it’s mostly been flow, with everyone trying to make their spaces do double and triple duty....

If you’ve ever forgotten to turn on the fan while trying to get a nice crust on a pan full of fish fillets, you’re familiar with the importance of good ventilation. In addition to whisking away unwanted odors, vent hoods remove moisture and grease, as well as carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other pollutants that cooking can release into the air. While these by-products may simply sound like nuisances, studies have shown that cooking without proper ventilation is one cause of poor indoor air quality that can negatively affect your health....

Paint expert Mauro Henrique helps a homeowner restore their beautiful backyard deck railings. After the homeowner explains that her deck is splintering, Mauro shows her how to prepare the deck for stain. The two tape off the cable railings and place tape around the composite decking before getting to work. Project details Skill Cost Estimated Time How to Choose the Right Stain There are three types of stains: transparent penetrating oil, semi-transparent, and solid stain....

Previous episode: S42 E29 | Next episode: S43 E1 In this episode: On the morning of November 8, 2018, the 27,000 residents of Paradise, California woke to an orange glow in the Eastern sky, but it wasn’t the sun. The worst wildfire in the state’s history was heading towards them. By sunset, 85 people would be dead and 14,000 homes, about 90%, would be completely destroyed. A year later, with the help of thousands of workers, Paradise is rebuilding....

Best Scent Control: BISSELL PowerFresh Steam Mop This steam mop’s 16-ounce water tank heats up in just 30 seconds to clean your sealed hardwood, granite, marble, ceramic, and linoleum floors. It has three steam levels to give you more or less water vapor based on how tough the grime is. It also comes with a soft head pad, a scrubbing head pad, two scent discs, and a carpet glider. Key Features 6....

Can’t remember being impressed by a basement? Then this transformation might be a first. The windowless central gathering space downstairs in this 1950s house in Portland, OR, started out dimly lit and all chopped up. “Structural columns and walls divided the space—it was very dark and just grody,” says designer Max Humphrey, who tackled the redesign after renovating the upstairs. Simply put, he adds, “You didn’t want to hang out down there....

Steps: Project details Skill Cost Estimated Time Tools & Materials Band saw Welder Power grinder Table saw hot glue gun Belt sander Paint brush Cut the angle iron to length, in this case 16”. Next, make L-shaped cuts on both ends of two of the pieces. Cut the round bar stock to length, in this case 16”. Weld the angle iron into a frame. Smooth out the welds with a grinder....

Past Meets Present Stroll downtown Charleston, South Carolina, past the carefully preserved facades of its early-19th-century houses, and it’s not hard to conjure the top-hatted gents and hoop-skirted ladies who traveled its streets by horse-drawn carriage. And nowhere is that imagined pre–Civil War era more vivid than in the Ansonborough neighborhood, located on the east side of the city’s peninsula, and home to This Old House TV’s most recent project house....

In this video, Nathan Gilbert helps a homeowner struggling with the look of a plain front door trim in a neighborhood full of ornate entryways. After explaining that the homeowner’s current entryway is a very common design, the two look at some PVC moldings Nathan thinks will do the job. Project details Skill Cost Estimated Time How To Replace Exterior Door Trim Don a pair of safety glasses and remove the existing trim around the door....

There’s a missing element in most American kitchens, and it’s not a $7,500 range or a 4-acre refrigerator. No, it’s simply good lighting. And a well-lit kitchen begins with under cabinet task lighting. Project details Skill Cost Estimated Time These hidden fixtures, which are fairly easy to retrofit beneath upper wall cabinets, bathe the countertop in bright white light—a boon for everything from dicing veggies to reading recipes. Connect the fixtures to a dimmer switch, as shown here, and you also have the key to dramatic accent lighting or a night light for midnight snackers....

After moving to Stowe, Vermont, from New York City in 1996, Fina Johnson began transforming her Cape Cod house from merely livable to efficient and comfortable. Her latest endeavor: installing a laundry chute from her bedroom closet to her newly finished basement. “I work in real estate and keep seeing laundry chutes in all of these houses—they’re ingenious,” says Johnson. “I won’t miss climbing up and down my stairs as much either....

This article appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of This Old House Magazine. Click here to learn how to subscribe. As winter winds down and spring starts to appear, you’ll want to take care of a few simple projects to prepare your home for the warmer months ahead. From cutting back roses to cleaning your AC condenser, read our simple tips below. Cut back roses Roses should be pruned in early spring, while still dormant, to encourage blooming, improve air circulation to prevent disease, and control size....

Previous episode: S21 E5 | Next episode: S21 E7 In this episode: Mason Mark McCullough takes us on a house call to Dallas, Texas, where a homeowner’s sandstone steps are starting to cause issues. After noticing that the bond between the pre-existing concrete steps and the new sandstone veneer is failing, Mark and the homeowner get to work. First, Mark shows the homeowner how to carefully remove the sandstone veneer with a hammer and chisel....