Around the Home

Around the Home
For Mortgage, Lending, and Reality information see our Financials page

Repair

ABP1 (Repair tips and much more)
Acme How To (Repair information)
Appliance 411 (Help with repairing appliances and locating manufacturers)
Appliance Repair (Links to many repair sites)
Around the Home (Forum from Travel Forum)
Arrange a Room (From Better Homes)
Article City (Articles on all sorts of things)
Ask A Handyman (Ask away)
Ask The Builder (Tim Carter of Ohio)
Associated Content (How to articles on many subjects)
Build Easy (Building plans and home help)
Building Science Corporation (New products for your home and how your home should work)
Clark Howard (Consumer Action Center)
Contractors (Find out if your contractor is legit)
DIY Life (Tips for your home projects)
DIY network (Tips on making and fixing things around the house)
Design Flooring Center (Articles and tips for your floor)
Design Workshop (Make your own house plans)
Do It Yourself (And save money)
Does It Work? (Find out if those TV ads are right)
Easy 2 DIY (Tips on home repair)
eHow (Over 15,000 step by step instructions)
Environmental Home Center (Find environmentally safe products)
Fast Plans (Make your own house plans)
Fix It Club (How to fix things and recycle)
Fixer (Fix your own VCR)
FixYa (Find a product and get answers to problems)
Floorplanner (Free software for rearranging your home)
Forest Stewardship Council (Wood and paper products)
Greener Choices (Find better appliances for your world)
HAVC For Beginners (How to and what for)
Hint and Tips (Household, pets, computer, and landscaping)
Hints From Heloise (Hints for everything)
Home Building (New ways to build homes)
Home Depot (The big orange box)
Home Living Digest (Articles about repair, pests, cooking and much more)
Home Owner Net (Articles and tips from owners like you)
HomeStore (Home improvement, shopping, and finance)
HomeTime (As seen on TV)
Home Tips (Free advice and articles for your home)
How Stuff is Made (How stuff is manufactured)
How Stuff Works (From toilets to computers to the human body)
How Things Work (Or why they don't)
How To Make Cardboard Furniture (Print out the templates)
How Products Are Made (Just what it says)
Ice Stone (House products made from recycled glass and concrete)
Jim's Home Repair Stuff (Articles on many home systems and repairs)
ImproveNet (Find a contractor, repair tips)
Instructables (How to make things)
Low Impact Home (Designs and plans)
Moen (All your plumbing needs in a really neat website)
Money Pit (Tips, newsletter, radio show, and articles)
Mother Earth News (Do it yourself help)
Natural Handyman (Tips for fixing all kinds of things)
Old House Web (Advice for you old structure)
Part Store (Find a part for your appliance or garden tool)
Plumbing Tips (From Peerless)
Popular Mechanics (Repair tips for home and car)
Puzzle Floor (Newest flooring material)
Quikrete (Home repairs for the hardened worker)
Rate It Green (Housing and furnishing products that are easy on the environment)
Realtor.com (Official site of the National Association Of Realtors)
Remodel Or Move (Help to make your decision)
Renovators (Have an old house?)
Repair Clinic (Free advice for appliance repair and finding part numbers)
Safe Manuals (Find manuals for your stuff)
Sci.Electronics.Repair (How to repair household electrical items)
Service Magic (Find tips and contractors)
Sketch It (Make your own house plans)
Solder Tips (Videos on how to solder)
Standby Power (How much power are your appliances using just sitting there)
Stringed Instrument Repair (Catalog from Stewart MacDonald)
Suite101 (Search on many topics)
This Old House (PBS TV show and repair tips)
Thrifty Tips (Tips on saving money)
Toiletology (Care and feeding, I mean repair of, you guessed it - toilets)
User Manual Guide (User manuals for all kinds of products)
Wiki How (World's largest how-too manual)
Wirewise (How to hook up all your electronics, registration required)
Wise Geek (Questions and answers)
Wood Central (Everything you wanted to know about woodworking)
Zipper Kit (Fix that broken zipper yourself)

In the Kitchen [back to top]

101 Cookbooks (Recipes for all kinds of things)
All Great Recipes (Try them and let me know how they are)
All Recipes (Try some out)
(Groceries)
Apples (Recipes and info about the best type of apples)
Big Oven (Recipes)
Belly Pleasers (149 recipes online)
Better Nutrition (Food tips)
Betty Crocker (Recipes and meal planning)
CandyUSA (Front door to candyland)
Christmas Cookies (Recipes for the holidays)
Cookie Recipes (Cookies cookies everywhere)
Cooking Bread (Bread recipes)
Cooking By Numbers (Recipes from what your have in the cabinet)
Cooking Inn (Recipes and so much more)
Cook's Thesaurus (Cooking encyclopedia)
Copy Kat Creations (Recipes from your favorite restaurant)
Cork'd (All about wines and wine reviews)
Coupon Mom (Sign up for meal and coupon deals)
Cyber Soup (One-stop cooking website)
Drink Mixer (Recipes for your favorite drinks)
Dollar Stretcher (Ideas to make your dollar go farther)
Eggs (Recipes and information)
Epicurious (Quick recipes and shared ones)
Evite (Send email party or dinner invitations with a theme)
Food 411 (The ultimate food resource)
Food and Recipes (Native American recipes)
Foodie View (Recipe search engine, search by ingredient)
Foodio 54 (Searchable recipes)
Fruit and Veggie Guru (Everything you need to know about fruits and veggies)
Greener Choices (Environmental choices)
Healthy Fridge (Good nutrition for the heart)
Home Living Digest (Articles about repair, pests, cooking and much more)
Honey (Honey isn't just for Pooh)
Household Products Database (Learn about what's really under the sink)
Idaho Potato Commission (Jazz up those spuds)
Indonesian Recipes (Hundreds of them very well indexed)
Leftover Chef (What's in your refrigerator?)
Meals Matter (Recipes and meal planning tips)
Nutrition (From Nutrition.gov)
Nutrition Data (Nutritional data for any food or recipe)
The Opinionated Beer Page (Reviews of beers)
Passionate Vegetarian (Recipes and theory)
Pioneer Thinking (Recipes, stain removal, gardening, crafts)
Planet Tea (Comprehensive tea information)
Popcorn recipes (And everything else about popcorn)
Recipezaar (All kinds of recipes for the holidays, search by ingredient)
Recipe Goldmine (Recipes and household cleaning tips)
Recipe Spin (Over 7000 free recipes)
Science of Cooking (From the Accidental Scientist)
Seasoning Mix Recipes (Even KFC is here)
Tea Chef (Learn to cook with tea)
Vegan Outreach (Guide to Cruelty-free eating)
World Wide Gourmet (Recipes and tips from Les Chefs)
World Wide Recipes (Recipes from around the world)
World's Healthiest Foods (With recipes and suggestions)

Cleaning and Safety (also see Shopping if you need more than advise) [back to top]

America's Most Wanted (Have you seen this person?)
Battery Recycling (Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation)
Hints from Heloise (Tried and true)
Carpet Guru (Everything you wanted to know about carpet)
Chore Buster (Share the chores fairly)
Cleaning.com (Cleaning tips and hints)
Empties 4 Cash (Recycling program)
EPA search (Search anywhere for dirty neighborhoods)
Fabric Link (How to clean carpet and fabrics)
Family Watchdog (Protect your family from sex offenders)
Fly Lady (Organize your home and life)
Garbage (How can you reduce waste)
Good Housekeeping (Stain buster)
Housekeeping Channel (Tips on cleaning your abode)
How To Clean Anything (House, car, pets, yard...)
How To Clean Stuff (You got stuff, clean it)
Light Bulb Selection (Find an energy efficient replacement)
List Organizer (Ready made to-do lists)
Make-Stuff (Cleaning tips and crafts)
Megan's Law (Sex offenders by state)
My Stuff (A free little program for home inventory)
Re-arrange A Room (Before you lift that sofa, from Better Housekeeping)
Ready.gov (Prepare your emergency kit)
Recalls (US Consumer Product Safety Commission)
Recalls (Consumer Product Safety, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, etc.)
Safety Alerts (Recalls on the things you buy)
Simply Green (Things to make out of the stuff you throw away)
Spot Crime (Find out about crimes in your neighborhood)
Stuff Safe (Free home inventory software)
Wacky Uses (Odd uses for cleaners around the home)
Weird Facts (How household products were invented)

Out in the yard [back to top]

Arbor Day Foundation (Learn about trees)
Backyard Gardner
Better Homes & Gardens
Book of Insect Records (From University of Florida)
Botany (Plant and gardening encyclopedia)
Brick Walks and Patios
Buckeye Gardening
Bug Guide (Learn all about bugs)
Bulb.com (All about planting, cutting, and showing bulb plants)
Burpee Seeds
DIY Data (Woodworking plans for stuff around the house and yard)
Dr. Greenfingers (Articles on lawn and garden care)
EarthShip (Alternative housing materials)
Free Trees and Plants (Just pay postage)
Frost Dates (From Victory Seeds)
Garden Gate (Answers for your garden problems)
Garden Guide Wiki (Contribute your own hints)
Garden Guides
Garden Here (Trade plants and seeds for free; requires sign-up)
Gardener's Network (More information than you can shake a spade at)
Gardening (From the BBC, build your own garden online)
Gardening For Pleasure (From Australia but still helpful)
Gardening Tip Sheets (From Natorp's, a family owned business)
Garden Web (Forums databases and more)
Google Sketch (Design your home or yard)
Helpful Gardner (Keep those plants alive)
Herbal Gardens (Grow your own herbs)
HGTV (Home & Garden TV)
Hoistman (Plans for building stuff)
Horticultural and Environmental Guide (Oklahoma State University)
Hosta Gardens (Over 100 varieties)
House Plant Care (From the Garden Helper)
Hummingbird Society (Advice on attracting hummers)
Jerry Baker (From PBS and radio shows but check out Tips & Tonics)
Joe's Goals & Logbook (Sign up and track your progress)
Landscaping Solutions (Tips on landscaping)
Lawn Institute (Reclaim your turf)
Make-Stuff (Gardening tips)
National Gardening (Gardening tips)
Perennials (University of Vermont)
Plant Database (From Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Residential Landscaping (North Carolina State University)
Rotten Neighbor (Is your neighbor telling on you?)
Rude Neighbor (Vent your story here)
Science of Gardening (Gardening tips)
Spring Hill Nursery (Plan your garden and order plants online)
Talking Plants (From NPR radio)
Tree Of Life web project (That's an interesting bug. Wonder if its poisonous)
University of Maryland (Lawn & plant care)
Virtual Plant Tags (Find what that plant is)
Wildflowers (From the USDA Forest Service)
You Grow Girl (Gardening and yard tips)

Pests & Pets [back to top]

AID Pest Control (North Canton, Ohio)
Alley Cat Allies (Care for feral cats)
(Pet supplies)
American Aquarium (Supplies for your ponds and aquariums)
Animal Organizations (Help the animals)
ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
Best Friends Animal Society (Animal rescue information)
Breeder Web (Breeds of dogs)
Care For Animals (American Veterinary Medical Association)
CFA (Cat Fanciers' Association)
Dr.'s Foster and Smith (Pet medications and advice)
Dog Breed Info Center (What kind of dog do you want?)
DogInfo (All about dogs)
Bow Wow Meow (How to name your pet)
Healthy Pet (Articles and pet hospitals)
Home Living Digest (Articles about repair, pests, cooking and much more)
Infinite Cat (Fun things about cats)
Insectclopedia (All about bugs and pests)
Mar Vista Animal Medical Center (Medical advice for your pets)
National Pest Management Association (Manage those pests)
Orthopteroid insects (Database of 25,000 species)
Paw Sense (Cat proof your computer keyboard)
Pest Management Resources
Pest Web
Pest World (National Pest Management Association)
Pet FBI (Lost pet and pet rescue information in Ohio)
Pet Finder (Over 150,000 adoptable pets)
Pet Health (Find vets, free health software and forums)
Pet Loss Support (For when you loose your best friend)
Pet Meds (Pet information)
Pet Professor (Help for all your pets)
Pet Sage (Articles about pet health)
Pet Sitters (Find a pet sitter near you)
Pet Supplies Plus (Pet supplies probably)
PetCo (Animal supplies)
PetsMart (Animal supplies)
Pets Welcome (Find out what hotels will let you bring pets)
Pets 911 (Lost pets, adoption, and shelters)
Pet Times (Source for pet news)
Save An Animal (Click to feed a pet, and other clicks to save a life)
Simple Pet Care (Cats, dogs, horses, birds...)
Urban Entomology Program (University of Toronto)(Everything you didn't want to know about termites)
University of Kentucky Entomology (Lawn & plant care)
What's That Bug (Identify those bugs)
Virtual Pet Cemetery (Commemorate your pet)