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• June 2013 Issue No. 169

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  • Editor Spotlight

    
    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
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  before + after: kitchen

  Shifting a peninsula opens the way for more storage and prep space

  • BONUS: For more ideas on how to create a cozy open kitchen
  

  Photoshop redo

  With a new facade and the right accents, a boring bungalow gains the Craftsman feel its owners admire

  37 easy ways to upgrade your outdoor rooms

  DIY ideas designed to make alfresco spaces special

  planter's punch

  Thanks to a careful plan, familiar and unusual plants thrive in five flowing garden rooms

  if these walls could talk

  A pre–Revolutionary War house's journey to a stylish rebirth

  upgrades

  get this look for less

  Updated Victorian bath

  shopping

  Colorful, classic porch rockers

  build it or buy it

  Window box

  • BONUS: Find the cut list and instructions for this project

  all about

  Path lighting

  • BONUS: Find step-by-step instructions on how to install a path-light system

  home solutions

  home solutions

  Turn harp-back chairs into an outdoor bench; 10 uses for sandpaper; get your hardscape in shape; negotiate a better deal on project supplies; and more

  • BONUS: Find more smart uses for leftovers
  

  • BONUS: How to build an outdoor bench from dining chairs
  

  • BONUS: How to age a terra-cotta pot
  

  • BONUS: How to antique a brass fixture
  

  • BONUS: How to give metal the look of copper verdigris
  

  • BONUS: How to give wood a driftwood tone
  

  • BONUS: How to give metal a faux rusty coating
  

  • BONUS: How to make new glass look like mercury glass
  

  how-to projects

  budget redo

  Paint-striped walls and a handy banquette help create a colorful, cozy breakfast nook–crafts corner

  paint ideas

  Enhance a favorite room feature by surrounding it with a unique stenciled motif

  • BONUS: Get the complete how-to for this project

  landscaping

  Learn how window-box gardens can beautify the view from outside—and inside—your house

  weekend remodel

  Serve up your grilling masterpieces with a cedar food cart on wheels

  • BONUS: Find the cut list and instructions for this project online

  • BONUS: Watch a video of this project being built

  ask this old house

  Q + A

  Watering tips for a new lawn; don't smother your trees with mulch; restore a butcher-block table so that it's food-safe; and more

  step-by-step

  Install a skylight

  TOH tested

  Cordless 12-volt oscillating tools

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  • BONUS: Build a driveway marker
  

  • BONUS: Secret Garden
  
  

  letter from This Old House

  Black-thumb confessions

  checklist

  Easy ways to improve your home right now
  

  • BONUS: Watch a how-to video with TOH general contractor Tom Silva
  
  

  digital highlights

  • BONUS: Flip through thousands of entries in the 2013 Reader Remodel Contest
  

  • BONUS: Watch a video of how to paint kitchen cabinets
  

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  save this old house

  A detailed Queen Anne for a dollar in Hope, Indiana