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Home and Garden
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General Information
- Better Homes & Gardens
BHG.com, a companion web site to the Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, focuses on decorating, crafts, entertaining, cooking, and gardening. Resources on this site include: a recipe center, a decorating center, a plant finder, step-by-step guides, slide shows, and more.
- HGTV (Home & Garden Television)
Log on to the HGTV web site to find a program guide and episode finder, an interactive library of step-by-step guides for home and garden projects, discussion boards, and tips for decorating and remodeling your home.
- Martha Stewart Living
At MarthStewart.com, discover tips, instructions, and recipes for cooking and entertaining, gardening, crafts, holidays, organizing, decorating, weddings, and more. [back to top]
Home Decorating
- Interior Decorating
The About.com guide to home decorating includes information and additional resources organized by room type, project, or elements. Select a category from the directory to see lists of links, articles, and how-to guides.
- Home and Garden: Decorate
The decorating section of the Homestore.com provides articles, features, and images for the following categories: by room, color, crafts, design, features, feng shui, fountains, furniture, lighting, and paint.
- Decorator Secrets
The Decorator Secrets web site offers tips, tricks, articles, and guides for interior decorating and design. Also available from this site is a directory of 250 home decorating web sites organized into 22 categories.
- Suite 101: Budget Decorating
As one of the 600 topics available from Suite101.com, this web site offers advice about decorating on a budget. While articles and links are still available, the discussion boards on this site are no longer maintained. A link to a current interior decorating themed discussion board is provided. [back to top]
Home Improvement
- Bob Vila
Use BobVilla.com to find expert advice for home projects, participate in discussion boards, use the Bob on TV index, search the home improvement library for articles, take advantage of the online design tools before starting a project, or read product and services reviews.
- DoItYourself.com
DoItYourself.com offers information about the following topics: home improvement; automotive buying, selling, and repair; decorating and crafts, gardening and landscaping, and lifestyles and finance. This site also offers a search for qualified local contractors, forums, links, and mortgage and investment calculators.
- This Old House
The web site companion to the This Old House TV program includes guides for home improvement, a homeowner’s handbooks, magazines and books, and store, as well as information about the show.
- Home Maintenance and Repair
Provided by Michigan State University, this database contains links to full-text articles about home maintenance and repair. The articles are listed alphabetically by topic, but can also be searched by keyword.
- ImproveNet
With a variety of tools and services, ImproveNet.com, allows users to locate a contractor or architect, schedule small repairs, determine cost estimates and materials needed, find advice and step-by-step project guides, read articles, or browse design ideas and home plans.
- Popular Mechanics: Home Improvement
The Home section of Popular Mechanics web site provides access to current and archived articles about home improvement. Browse the list of articles or select a topic from the drop down menu. [back to top]
Gardening
- About.com: Gardening
The About.com index for gardening provides articles, information, and links organized into the following plant and gardening categories: design, edibles, free, indoor, masters, natives, natural, ponds, problems, projects, gardens, reference regions, resources, seasonal, small space, soils, techniques, themes, therapy, wild, zones, and more.
- Howard Garrett, the Dirt Doctor
The DirtDoctor.com offers information about Howard Garrett and his radio show, TV segment, and newspaper column. Use the information center of this web site to locate information about organic gardening.
- Garden Web
Use the Garden Web to search the HortiPlex database of plant images and data, participate in discussion forums, browse the listings of gardening clubs and mail-order businesses, check the calendar of gardening events, or post requests for seeds and plants on the Garden Exchange.
- National Gardening Association
NationalGardening.com is the largest syndicator of online gardening content on the Internet. This site offers a range of information and resources for indoor and outdoor gardening, as well as an online store for purchasing tools and seeds and online gardening courses.
- Ortho
The Ortho web site includes product information, gardening projects, and advice about weeds, bugs, gardens, and lawn care.
- Gardener's Supply Company
The Gardener’s Supply Company provides gardeners with tips, how-to articles, and an ask-an-expert service, together with an online store selling gardening supplies and garden related products.
- Encyclopedia of Plants
Available from Botany.com, the Encyclopedia of Plants provides information about the care and cultivation of many varieties of annuals, bulbs, cactus, succulents, fruit, grass, water plants, herbs, spices, houseplants, perennials, shrubs, bushes, trees, vegetables, vines crawlers, and wild flowers. A description and instructions about planting, soil requirements, pruning, and propagation are included for each plant.
- Neil Sperry's Gardens
Neil Sperry’s Gardens web site provides information about Neil Sperry’s gardening magazine, garden show, radio program, and books. Also available from this site are weekly updated gardening tips, answers to frequently asked questions, feature articles, and a directory of gardening resources. [back to top]
Cooking and Recipes
- Cook's Thesaurus
This web site offers an encyclopedia of cooking that includes thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
- About.com: Food and Drink
The About.com Food & Drink guides provide access to web sites, resources, tools, articles and recipes for the following categories: barbeques/grilling, busy cooks, desserts/baking, home cooking, low fat cooking, vegetarian cuisine, cocktails/beer, coffee/tea, wine, and international cuisine.
- Recipe Source
Students of the University of Berkeley created this web site, a growing online database of over 70,000 recipes. Recipes can be searched by ingredient, type of dish, and ethnicity.
- AllRecipes.com
AllRecipes.com is a community-based recipe and meal planning web site. Recipe collections include: salads, soup, vegetarian, special diets, holiday, baking, quick and easy, for kids, best brands, and more. Recipes are grouped by category and alphabetically.
- Internet Public Library: Food
The index of online food resources compiled by the Internet Public Library, include both recipe databases and informational web sites. Separate lists are provided for the following categories: desserts, drink, ethnic, exotic/unusual, restaurants, and vegetarian.
- Kraft Foods
The Kraft foods web site includes: a recipe search with options for searching ingredients, meal occasions, and recipe types; a cooking school with tips and techniques; and a healthy living section with healthy recipes (with nutrition information, meal planners, and a resource for diabetic choices. Kraftfoods.com also allows users to create an online recipe box.
- Cook's Calculator
Use the Cook’s Calculator, available from Epicurean Online, to convert weight, temperature, and volume measurements. [back to top]
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