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DIY

August 2024

  • How to improve your rental home on a budget

    Money hacks
    Decorating tips and DIY hacks: how to transform a rental home on a budget

  • Skincare products

    Change by degrees
    Ablution pollution: minimise your hygiene carbon footprint with some simple regime tweaks

July 2024

  • Man browses samples at CarpetRight retail store

    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

  • Daily fix: Lorna helps run things at Bath’s community Share and Repair shop.

    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

  • Paint tester pots, colour charts and a paintbrush

    From paint testers to wardrobe hacks: 12 home DIY dos and don’ts

  • A woman scrapes a wooden chair in her house in readiness for painting it

    DIY tips: low-cost ways to give your home an upgrade

April 2024

  • Money Hacks: How to refurnish the garden for free (or nearly free) WEB

    Money hacks
    How to refurnish your garden for free (or at a low, low cost)

  • Stacey Solomon in Renovation Rescue.

    TV review
    Stacey Solomon’s Renovation Rescue review – how is this mess Reese Witherspoon’s first UK TV show?

March 2024

  • Craftswoman teaching coworker weaving with esparto grass

    ‘It’s a worldly thing’: the ancient, multi-stranded craft of weaving baskets

  • Composite image of hands holding elements of handbag restoration including cleaner and scrubbing brush

    Closet clinic
    ‘Let’s give her a relaxing spa day’: how to restore a leather handbag at home

January 2024

  • Two senior men sitting on armchair and knitting.

    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

  • tim dowling and kids illustration

    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
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    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
  • An illustration of Tim Dowling.

    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

  • Woman with blue hair holding a hammer and tool kit

    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
  • guardian saturday writer collage

    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
  • dowling collage

    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

  • Composite image of Stuart Walford in three different handmade costumes

    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
  • tim dowling illo

    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
  • Broken zipper on a yellow hoodie

    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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