Home Improvement Today

The Open Gate Garden Club will hold its 14th annual Summer Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 10. Seven gardens will be featured this year in Fenton. Master gardeners will be available to answer questions, and plants will be labeled at each garden. The $10 admission (children 12 and under free) includes [...]

Try these herbs in your garden: variegated oregano, tarragon, chives, Italian parsley and stevia, and epazote, basil, lemon thyme and golden sage. Tap a pot’s bottom with your trowel to release a plant for transplanting. You can create an herb garden in 15 minutes No space or time for a vegetable garden? You still can [...]

This spring has seemed to bring mass flooding, broken levees and scrambled communities for a good chunk of the United States and Canada. Many home owners have found themselves unprepared and virtually helpless to the havoc this has caused for their homes; from severe water damage to the black mold growth which could consequentially follow. [...]

If you are working with Spandex for the first time, I recommend that you choose a pattern that does not need a zipper. Zippers can be tricky to put in non-stretch fabrics and they are much more difficult to put into a stretchy fabric such as Spandex. If you do put a zipper in Spandex, [...]

DAVISON TWP. Everyone knows a cops life can be stressful. Charles Schecter, who retired from the Flint Police Department after 30 years on the force, was no exception. I created this for him, said his wife, Judy, looking out across the backyard oasis of winding paths, a goldfish pond and two waterfalls that she and [...]

Ensamble Studio is back for an encore performance with this bizarre cow-eaten concrete enclosure, finally finished and ready to be a real living space if you can stomach staying inside chewed-out architecture. In case you cant recall , the construction of this strange little abode began with the digging of a pit, followed by the [...]