6 Small Tasks to Keep Your Kitchen Way Less Cluttered

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Certainly, bathrooms can be a common place for small bugs to appear due to moisture and warmth. Here’s a list ofCommon Small Tiny Bugs in the Bathroom and How to Get Rid of Them with easy and effective solutions.

When it comes to prime real estate inside your home, it doesn’t get more valuable than kitchen countertops. No matter how much (or how little) space you have, it rarely feels like enough.

If you know your way around the kitchen, you fully understand the importance of a sharp knife. While fancy knife skills are impressive, using a dull knife is bad for the knife and a potential safety concern. Fortunately, it’s so easy to keep your knives as sharp as possible at home that you will forget your visit to the local knife sharpener.

If you’re strapped for storage, your attention might turn to the laundry room. But before you start stuffing the space with bins and organizers, it’s important to know that some items simply aren’t a good fit for this area. 

Why do plants get sick? The simple answer is for lots of reasons, many of them similar to the reasons why we humans do. Take, for example, poor diet. Just as it’s one of the root causes of disease, poor growth and reduced life expectancy in humans, so it is with plants.

Kitchens are often warm and ideal for plants that need humidity, from elegant peace lilies to the vibrant Begonia rex. There’s a lot more moisture in the air in kitchens than other rooms of the house, due to cooking as well as use of appliances such as washing machines and tumble driers. Not all kitchens are warm and humid, however, and there are other factors to consider when choosing the best plants for your space – some kitchens are cold at night, a south-facing kitchen with big glass doors will receive lots of direct sun, while an old cottage kitchen may have dim lighting and small windows. Your kitchen may have windowsills in sun and shelves in shade. The key is to determine heat and light levels in the different parts of your kitchen and buy plants to suit your specific environment.

Trailing plants are all about how you display them, which makes them stand out with their cascading stems and leaves. These Pothos Ladder Ideas will help you achieve just that!

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Busy Lizzies continue to amaze me every year with their flower power – those above have been flowering since the beginning of June and show no sign of stopping, despite a large degree of neglect by the gardener; however, a dose of frost would quickly send them packing.

Kitchen islands are notoriously sparse spaces because they are often used as extra workspace in the kitchen for prepping meals. Plus, with just a few inches of elbow room on either side of the island top and bottom, it may often be difficult to decorate this smaller space.