If you’re looking for a way to turn your life upside down, look no further: upside-down houses are the interactive attraction you didn’t know you needed! The Upside(down) of life All over the world, engineers, architects, and artists are building upsid…
College Student Turns Her Closet Into An Adorable Bedroom For Her Dog
If you are a pet parent, you would agree that nothing matters more than the happiness and comfort of our pets. At one point or another, a pet parent would be caught doing certain things that might be considered a little…extreme. Whether it’s that expensive sweater or strikingly cute collar, we dote on our pets…
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Affordable Solar Homes Produce as Much Energy as They Use
Being environmentally conscious doesn’t guarantee the money needed to become “green.” Although recycling and choosing to walk instead of driving makes a difference in reducing one’s carbon footprint, many people who desire to use only healthy renewable sources of energy sometimes feel limited due to cost and accessibility. For this neighborhood in Örebro, Sweden, this…
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Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: Secrets of Companion Planting and Popular Planting Combinations
Do you remember the nursery rhyme about a certain garden-planting Mary? Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. If you’re like most amateur gardeners, you probably haven’t put much thought into how to plant your garden to maximize its fruitfulness….
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Grow a Living Playhouse For Your Kids
In recent years, there has been a growing disconnect between children and their food. Most kids have never set foot on a farm or in an orchard, only ever seeing food go from the grocery store to their house to their plate. Thousands of children have never before witnessed the food they eat actually growing…
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Homemade Oven Cleaner
Keeping your oven clean is very important because the burnt, baked-on food can release carcinogens as it continues to burn. Off-the-shelf oven cleaners contain a lot of toxins and if it comes in contact with your skin, you could suffer, since it can eat through your skin. Natural oven cleaning products and green cleaning products can…
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This is How Some Italian Businesses are Decreasing Their Plastic Waste
As efforts are being made worldwide to decrease plastic waste, many innovative ideas have surfaced on social media platforms. With this, we can’t help but admire what’s happening in the bars/restaurant scene in Italy. It seems only fitting that bucatini pasta, the tubular noodle, is the new eco-straw of some Italian businesses. Many establishments are…
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How To Grow Your Own Garlic – It’s Easier than You Think!
Garlic is one of those spices that can bring an entire dish together. Roasted, toasted, sautéed, pureed, fried, baked… however you choose to incorporate garlic into a dish, the flavor is all yours to savor. Garlic is strongly aromatic, and it’s been recognized for ages for its culinary and medicinal uses. Growing garlic is one…
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Selecting the Perfect Watermelon
Most people think that picking the perfectly juicy, red and tasty watermelon is a game of luck. Watermelon season usually runs through the summer from May to September, but this can also depend on the climate in your region. I’ve had some bad experiences selecting these fruits myself, but now, I know better than to…
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Scientist Repopulates a Rare Butterfly Species In His Backyard
The California Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor hirsuta) is one of the most beautiful butterfly species in the world. With iridescent color tones and a vampire-like appearance, the caterpillar blossoms into an adult fly with stunning black forewings and hindwings spun with twilight blue hues and sea-sand beige that you could stare at for days. Native…
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This Mobile Home Comes With Its Own Mobile Porch And Greenhouse
In an age with a growing awareness of the dangers of overpopulation, the tiny living movement is showing some promise. Well, this charming tiny house that comes with its very own greenhouse and porch is sure to help promote the minimalist lifestyle. Most people like their homes to be big and spacious. In 2014, the United…
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Guide To Growing Your Own Asparagus: The Vegetable That Will Give You A Bountiful Harvest Every Year for Thirty Years
If you can patiently nurture your asparagus shoots for the first three years, you’d gain half a lifetime of assured harvests in the spring of every year. The tender asparagus shoots (spears) are the edible, refreshing part rich in natural health boosters and phytonutrients. The young stem shoots sprout when the soil warms up above…
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Botched Microblading Procedure Leaves Woman with Four Eyebrows
Long gone are the days of over-tweezing, waxing, and threading. It’s the late 2010’s, baby, and having your eyebrows on fleek means keeping them full and well-shaped. While many women opt to color in their brows with eyebrow pencils on a daily basis, microblading is also a popular choice. But as one Kansas City woman…
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The Ultimate Room-By-Room Spring Cleaning Checklist
Spring-cleaning is one of the most relaxing ways to blow off steam. This activity one way to purge your home of negative energies and to let in positive vibes… and it will be clean too, which is helpful for the neat freak in us. All the dirt, dust, specks and lint that may have gotten…
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Stock Tank Pools Are the Future, Starting This Summer
Pools in the summer are life savers. You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t enjoy a refreshing, cool dip in the hot summer. Public pools are available, no doubt, but who doesn’t like the idea of a pool in their backyard? It can be way more hygienic and comfortable. Overall, having your…
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Australian Couple Turns 3 X 20 Ft. Containers into an Amazing Home
From using carton paper to make cute slippers to turning 20ft containers into one of the most comfortable and beautiful homes in the world. Imagination is our only limitation. A sweet young couple who live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia has managed to transform three shipping containers into an amazing and attractive little home. They’ve put…
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Tiny House for Under $1,000
We’re betting you’ve already noticed the tiny house trend is still going full speed ahead. Tiny houses offer inexpensive solutions to leave a smaller footprint on the environment, simplify your life and detach from the tempting draw of over-consumption, and have your own independence that even a condo or high-rise apartment can’t offer. For some,…
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