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DIY
August 2024
Money hacks
Decorating tips and DIY hacks: how to transform a rental home on a budget
Change by degrees
Ablution pollution: minimise your hygiene carbon footprint with some simple regime tweaks
July 2024
Most of Carpetright’s £345m debts are unlikely to be repaid
Customers, suppliers, landlords and Microsoft are owed £213m, say administrators of collapsed retailer
June 2024
The great DIY revival: meet the people who’ll try to fix anything
A new repair subculture is flourishing across the UK. Meet the experts and tinkerers sharing lost skills to make do and mend
May 2024
From paint testers to wardrobe hacks: 12 home DIY dos and don’ts
DIY tips: low-cost ways to give your home an upgrade
April 2024
Money hacks
How to refurnish your garden for free (or at a low, low cost)
TV review
Stacey Solomon’s Renovation Rescue review – how is this mess Reese Witherspoon’s first UK TV show?
March 2024
‘It’s a worldly thing’: the ancient, multi-stranded craft of weaving baskets
Closet clinic
‘Let’s give her a relaxing spa day’: how to restore a leather handbag at home
January 2024
Closet clinic
Purls of wisdom: the wellbeing benefits of knitting and crocheting
Calming, attention-extending and even social, fibre crafts are a feel-good hobby that may even help with pulling through challenging times
December 2023
The Tim Dowling column
Tim Dowling: my year in numbers – turning 60, 23 gigs, one brazen fox and zero kids at home
It’s been a successful 2023: I’ve fixed the garden trellis, taken my own blood pressure (18 times), and discovered a loft
Secondhand gifts and DIY decor: seven ways to make your holidays a little greener
Avoiding plastic and food waste can be difficult during the festivities. Experts share how to mix sustainability and revelry
The Tim Dowling column
Tim Dowling: Mark the builder is still fixing the house. Does he really need to make the bed, too?
He’s doing all the jobs I was supposed to do – I can see him from my office while I pretend to work
November 2023
Through the roof
The Trans Handy Ma’am: the home repair TikToker championing renters
Mercury Stardust makes DIY home repair videos centering renters – and the person who thinks they can’t fix anything
The Tim Dowling column
Tim Dowling: it’s raining indoors. Someone needs to get up on the roof
The sudden nature of the cascading water, however, is actually a good sign, says Mark the builder
The Tim Dowling column
We have a new attic room – and promptly fill it with old junk
Mark the builder has finished the loft conversion. Now I need to figure out how to use the ladder without killing myself
October 2023
Closet clinic
Stuffing, staples and sequins: how to assemble a grownups’ costume box
In childhood a dress-up box can be the starting point for endless adventures. As an adult, it can save money, stop waste and offer a chance to play
The Tim Dowling column
Tim Dowling: Mark the handyman is improving all our lives, even the tortoise’s
His competence is highlighting how my incompetence has, over many years, kept our lives the same, or made them slightly worse
Closet clinic
How to fix a broken zipper – and not give up on the garment
From caught fabric to zips that won’t stay up, it’s often possible to fix them on the fly; and what cannot be repaired can always be replaced
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