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Home & Family Freebies

Free printables, charts, ebooks, reports, software, patterns and resources for your home workshop, home projects and your family life.

Home & Family Freebies – General
Gardening Freebies
Home Improvement Freebies


Home & Family Freebies – General

www.getorganizednow.com: thousands of tips and ideas to help you organize your home, organize your office and organize your life!

www.familytime.com: Stories, recipes, kids corner, family tips, health and more.

www.growinglifestyle.com: A complete do-it-yourself site

www.mainstreetmom.com: Your weekly printable Home Task List

More printables from Mainstreet Mom such as a trip packing list, meal planner, a party planner, My Budget and more.


Gardening Freebies

www.gardenersnet.com: Everything to do with gardening.

www.diynetwork.com: Do it yourself projects and how-to’s for that new garden project and much more!

www.everydaymoms.com: Click on the individual journal pages to bring up the printer friendly version of the journal page. They have many in different colors so you can use multiples for different gardening projects, beds or gardens.

www.bhg.com: Better Homes and Gardens gardening section.

Be sure to check out Better Homes and Gardens Plan-A-Garden design page: planagardenhome: Plan-a-Garden lets you design anything from a patio-side container garden to your whole yard. Use your mouse to "drag-and-drop" more than 150 trees, shrubs, and flowers. Add dozens of structures like buildings, sheds, fences, decks -- even a pond!

www.thebutterflysite.com: Butterfly gardening articles: how to attract these beautiful, colorful creatures to your garden.

www.chestnut-sw.com: Select a seed group from the list to get seed starting information for popular plants.

www.burpee.com: The Burpee Seed online catalog with lots of handy gardening tips.

www.citygardening.net: Gardening for the city gardener.

www.ext.colostate.edu: Here’s a wonderful article on Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardening Using Annuals.

www.stokesbirdsathome.com: Basics of bird gardening, hummingbird flowers, shrubs for birds.

www.mastergardenproducts.com: The art of balcony gardening.

www.obsessivegardener.com: Love gardening? You’ll love The Obsessive Gardener!

www.lochnesswatergardens.com: They offer a wonderful online tutorial on how to build a beautiful water garden.

www.stokeseeds.com: Stokes Seeds is a distributor of flower, vegetable, herb and perennial seeds as well as many garden accessories to customers throughout North America. What makes Stokes Seeds unique is their focus on quality garden seed and extensive growing information.

Home Improvement Freebies

Budget Design Guide has a FREE Design Guide to help you personalize the different rooms in your house/apartment etc.

Free Kitchen Knife Rack Plan: This simple wooden knife rack keeps kitchen knives sharp and safe. Mounted under the cabinets, it reduces clutter on the countertop and keeps knives out of reach of small children. It is easy and inexpensive to make following the woodworking plans below. Simple hand tools are sufficient for this project.

www.minwax.com: Check out their free plans such as “Teddy Bear Bookends” for your little one, a patio planter and more – sections for beginners, intermediate and advanced.

www.diynetwork.com: Do it yourself projects and how-to’s for that new room you wanted to get started on, or the garden project, or how to install that skylight and much much more!

www.benjaminmoore.com: The Personal Color Viewer will help you choose that perfect color to go with your décor. This wonderful free online program is offered by Benjamin Moore Paints.

“Tempted by rich, sophisticated color? Considering the dimensional beauty of a specialty finish? Explore the multi-faceted world of color with the Benjamin Moore® Personal Color Viewer. This color visualization program allows you to experiment with color before picking up a paintbrush. Select an exterior home or interior room image from PCV’s vast pictorial library or import an image of your own home and create the look for your home that you love. This program allows you to experiment with the complete Benjamin Moore® color palette of over 3,300 hues.”

www.bhg.com: Better Homes and Gardens offers a unique onsite program called The New Arrange-a-Room. Move around heavy furniture with one finger until the layout is just the way you want it. You can resize the room, add doors, furniture and other details to see what your new room will look like! Save your creation to view later!

absolutelyfreeplans.com: Enjoy the free plans this site has to offer, such as plans on how to build the boat you’ve always wanted, indoor projects, outdoor projects, and lots of how to’s and information!

www.woodworkersworkshop.com: Free Woodworking Plans, Free Woodworking Projects, Free Woodworking Scrollsaw Patterns! These furniture and do-it-yourself woodworking plans category are organized starting with the alphabetical letter. Featuring downloadable plans from computer desks, wine racks, bedroom dressers, entertainment centers, gun racks and thousands more.

www.vintageprojects.com: Welcome to the Vintage Projects Collection! Our goal is to preserve the inspired DIY spirit of the past. Our free project reprints cover farm machines, the woodshop, machine shop, boats, archery and more. These vintage plans come from a half-century ago when do-it-yourself enthusiasts turned wood, metal and old motors into useful workhorses, functional tools, and toys.

Free woodworking plans: You will find some of the free woodworking plans to be found on the net. You won’t believe the huge amount of information he has put together with loads of links for free plans for your use!

plumbing 101: plumbing home improvement and repair diy articles.

Everything for home renovations: a complete guide for everything you need to know.

This home tips and remedies site provides you with many useful everyday tips and home remedies to make day to day life a little easier.

www.thisoldhouse.com: choc full of homeowner hints and projects! Be sure to check out their MATERIALS CALCULATOR to Calculate materials for any home project.

Great plans for you to use; lots of tips too.

Very useful site on how to clean everything: auto, pets, home exterior and interior, etc.

Welcome to Contractors From Hell.com: A site dedicated to providing information and resources on the do's and don't's of home remodeling, hiring contractors, homeowners rights and more importantly, understanding that it is the homeowners responsibility to ensure that their rights are protected and not violated by unethical contractors. Knowing this before you choose a general contractor and sign on the dotted line could very well keep you from having a home remodeling nightmare and horror story to share with family and friends.

Home Improvement Library: BobVila.com is ready to lend a hand Their extensive home repair article library is your source for reliable and informative advice on do-it-yourself home improvements, remodeling, and home finance topics. Many topics show videos on how to complete each project.

www.wannalearn.com

www.total-diy.com

www.askthebuilder.com

www.yourhomeimprovement.com

www.hometime.com

www.oldhouseweb.com: How-To's

www.bhg.com

www.holmesonhomes.com

www.diy.com

www.do-it-yourself.com

www.homeandfamilynetwork.com

www.homerepairforums.org

www.midrivers.com

www.csun.edu

Do-It-Yourself How-To's at Lowe's - Save on tools, equipment and more. Shop their great prices online. www.lowes.com

Do it yourself with the help of HomeDepot.com. Save time and money. www.homedepot.com






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