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Features

28 Ways to Customize Your Kitchen for Less

Lots of little things you can do to personalize your cook space

19 Ways to Dress Up Your Bath on a Budget

Bring out your grooming room’s inner spa with affordable tile, storage, and surface treatments

Departments

Before + After: Kitchen

A new recipe turns an old guest suite into a stylish and efficient food-prep zone with breakfast room seating

Paint Ideas

Choose neighboring hues on the color wheel to create a harmonious scheme

Landscaping

Tips and tools for shaping shrubs into green architecture

Photoshop Redo

Earth tones and cottage details spiff up a plain home

Like Old Times, Only Better

With an original wing that was once a 300-year-old outbuilding, a summer cottage finally gets the remodel it deserved

Get This Look

Outdoor living room

Shopping

Schoolhouse lights

Build It or Buy It

Picnic tables

All About

Stone countertops

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WorkShop

Whaddaya Call It?

Get to know your single-lever kitchen faucet so that you can fix it

Home Center Project

Turn copper tubing into a wall-mounted pot rack

Weekend Remodel

Build a sitting wall

Q + A

Keep gas fresh; banish creeping Charlie; use the right glue; seal an asphalt driveway; and more

Norm’s Tricks of the Trade

Line up crown molding end joints; cut through a plaster-and-lath wall; illuminate drywall surface flaws

Checklist

Easy ways to improve your home right now

Home News

Rebates for low-flow commodes; pool safety tips; see-through propane BBQ tank; and more

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June 2009

Reader Makeover Special!

May 2009

Enjoy Your Backyard More

April 2009

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Scott Omelianuk

Editor Spotlight

Scott Omelianuk Scott Omelianuk, Editor of This Old House magazine, began his long relationship with home improvement at age 15, when he started working after school as a carpenter's gopher. After years of jobsite toil and practical jokes—including being s… more

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