Is a carpeted bathroom ever a good idea? Carpeted bathrooms emerge from time to time as micro-trends. Despite some surges in popularity, carpeted bathrooms have never gained real momentum. moodboard / Getty Images Bathrooms, especially those with bathing facilities, arehigh-moisture environments. And it is inevitable that moisture will find its way in or under carpeting. Avoid carpeting that is made from organic materials such as wool. Synthetic materials dry out much faster than do organic materials....

When shopping for carpetingand for many other types of floor coveringsoffers for free or included installation abound. It’s a tempting deal. What can be better than free, especially forexpensive purchaseslike whole-housecarpeting? The Spruce / Kevin Norris As withall types of flooring, you will incur installation costs. However, usually, installation costs are baked into the carpet’s cost. In other cases, it might be better to pay for installation separately. Learn more details about free carpet installation and carpet installation fees in this guide....

The offer to carpet the stairs usually represents an extra fee. Should youinstall carpeton the stairs? It is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves topainting. The Spruce / Christopher Lee Foto Carpet works wonders on stairs like this. One thing it doesn’t fix, though: squeaky stairs. Where carpeted stairs really excel is in houses that havenoisy stairs. This noise is often resulting from young children....

Learn the key differences Carpet and hardwood are two of the most common flooring materials. They are also the most different from one another. There are somenatural fiber carpetsmostly cotton or woolbut most are made from nylon or polyester. Margot Cavin / The Spruce Carpeting is manufactured in huge rolls and purchased by the square foot. Solid hardwood flooring is made of felled trees milled intorough lumber. The edges are shaped with tongue-and-grooves that allow the boards to interlock as they are installed....

Though there are a few similarities, these are different windows for different uses. Another difference is the way they open and close. Casement windows are operated by a manual crank on the house interior. The Spruce / Brianna Gilmartin Turning the crank engages a gearbox that pushes the window open or shuts it. Double-hung windows have both an upper and a lowersash(windowpane unit) that slide up and down. The user holds a handle and lifts either sash straight up or down....

So be careful to grow in a cat-proof area. Can You Grow Catnip Inside? Catnip is not an especially difficult plant to grow indoors. ​The Spruce / Anastasiia Tretiak It thrives on a sunny location in well-drained potting soil. If it goes into flower, snip off the flower buds to encourage stronger leaf growth. Catnip can be grown in a container at least 8 inches wide by 8 inches deep....

However, it doesn’t need to be such a chore. How Often to Clean a Ceiling Thankfully, ceiling cleaning doesn’t need to happen very often. (Popcorn ceilings are a different storylearn how to clean themhere.) The Spruce / Meg Mac Donald Consider cleaning your ceilings every other year, or when you move out or move into a new place. To keep your ceilings clean longer, scroll to the end of this article....

If you hit links we provide, we may receive compensation. Target Looking for a way to add some nostalgic holiday flair to your decor this season? Look no further than ceramic Christmas trees. Target The fun thing about these ceramic trees are how many sizes and colors they come in now. Want to make a colorful ceramic tree line up on your windowsill? There are tiny bold ones for that!...

Is Ceramic Tile Flooring Right for You? Ceramic tile may be the only flooring material that truly works in any room of the house. The Spruce / Margot Cavin In other words, you really can’t go wrong with tile. The Spruce / Margot Cavin This helps to keep the air free of irritating materials that can be harmful to asthma and allergy sufferers. It all depends on the quality of the tile and the difficulty of the installation....

As the second of three sisters, creativity was always her refuge. Where are you from and what was it like growing up there? I grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, a coastal town in the deep south. The Spruce / Photo Illustration by Corinne Mucha / Monique Floyd Photography / Laura Sumrak Photography My parents were secondary school educators, and my dad was my middle school principal. Education and structure were pretty important in our household....

So what style of freezer should you buy and what will work better for you? There are trade-offs to each punch in of freezer. you’re free to segregate types of foods using cardboard boxes to better organize freezer contents. Hero Images / Getty Images All these features add to the ease of sorting and storing contents. Although it’s possible for you to better organize an upright, there are constraints. They are often long and lower to the ground than an upright freezer....

This slow-growing, small ornamental tree provides a lot of aesthetic value and wow-factor for its size. This distance will provide enough area for each tree to get enough sunlight to achieve its best blooms. Aim for soil with alow pH (under 7.0). CHAO-FENG LIN / Getty Images Water Keeping your Chinese fringe tree well-watered is essential to keep it producing plenty of flowers. Temperature and Humidity The Chinese fringe tree is not incredibly fussy regarding temperature and humidity....

* Compostimproves the moisture-holding capacity of thesoil, adds nutrients, and feeds soil microbes. These microbes are key to the complex process that makes food available to grass plants. A healthy microbe population encourages a dense green lawn. Francesca Yorke / Taxi / Getty Images Compost spread on top of thatch can also speed thatch decomposition and eliminate the labor of mechanical removal. Complications of Topdressing But there is a problem: Compost quality varies....