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DIY

August 2024

  • Skincare products

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

    Reduce your beauty products to a few key items that can easily be made at home, such as face moisturiser and Castile soap

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

  • tim dowling illo

    The Tim Dowling column
    Tim Dowling: Mark the handyman is improving all our lives, even the tortoise’s

  • Broken zipper on a yellow hoodie

    Closet clinic
    How to fix a broken zipper – and not give up on the garment

  • Saturday magazine - Tim Dowling online illo. (The first of a new series of six illos for his column) guardian saturday gardening collage

    The Tim Dowling column
    Tim Dowling: masonry – how hard can it be? But I’ve got to find the right trowel …

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