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One of the best ways to welcome the spring season is by giving your home a warm-weather refresh. After you finish your spring cleaning, it is the perfect time to spruce up your house. You don’t have to break the bank (or your back!) getting your house ready for spring, and you don’t have to do major renovations to make your home ready. Adding small elements throughout your home, patio, and yard can make your house feel like a new home. Here are our favorite home styles for spring to add a little color to your place.  Start the Season...

Tekton sent out an email to newsletter subscribers today, to discuss their USA-based tool production. 8 years ago, I spoke with a Tekton manager, and they discussing efforts they were taking to turn the brand around. I purchased a large sampling of Tekton tools at the time, and while decent value-priced offerings, I was not terribly impressed. The quality was about the same as I had previously experienced with the brand. Their standards were low, and nobody really cared. But, that was 8 years ago, and the company was changing. A short time later, they came out with USA-made pliers....

I was never really that into gardening until I bought my first house. So I had no idea how many garden tools I’d accumulate in a few short years.  Since gardening tools come in all shapes and sizes, it can be challenging to find the right place to store them in your garage.   In this article, we’ll cover some of my favorite ways to store my garden tools. Feel free to combine a few, so you can get your tools more organized.   Potting Bench A potting bench is a specially designed structure that gives you a space to pot small...

Your email newsletter is one of your most powerful marketing channels. Between sharing news, making announcements, and nurturing relationships with your customers, newsletters can be molded into just about anything. While other marketing tactics go out of vogue, it begs the question: why have newsletters stood the test of time? Well, newsletters keep subscribers informed about your business or product without being overly “salesy.” They give subscribers the agency to engage with your business on their terms.  But there’s one condition…your email newsletter content needs to stay fresh, competitive, and original to keep readers from hitting that dreaded “Unsubscribe” button....

Get the scoop on what’s been trending in our community. Last month’s wintry weather kept many of us cooped up inside—and inspired us to indulge in a little retail therapy. Keep the cozy vibes going by curling with a cup of tea, sending a unique bouquet to a loved one (or yourself), and sparking a candle recommended by the founder of Brightland. For more inspiration, take a peek at our readers’ most-purchased picks from February. Design House Stockholm Knot Pillow "I’ve always been attracted to strange and unique things," says Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir as she explains how she developed her Knot Pillow...