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Index: Pages/ Home, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
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Warming up to cool weather entertaining
(NAPSI)-Increasingly, homeowners are turning their patios and decks into "outdoor living rooms." Now new patio heaters are making it possible to use these spaces for entertaining and relaxing practically year-round.
For example, new developments in patio heating like those from Outdoor Leisure are designed to extend the patio experience by providing body-level warmth in a way ordinary "mushroom-style" patio heaters can't.
Outdoor Leisure's Gas Light patio heater radiates consistent warmth for head-to-toe comfort. Also, a wind-resistant gas light provides a source of firelight that enhances patio ambience.
The company has also introduced a bar-height Bistro Table with a built-in heater for those parties when guests need a warm place to congregate.
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Painting touch-ups
made easy ...
(MS) - Your paint job looks great for a while after it is completed, but as time goes on dings or chips can be common. However, dragging out an entire gallon of paint for small touch-ups is a hassle. Instead, purchase small plastic bottles with screw caps at a dollar store or some other store. Ladle in some of the paint color you've used and label with the room or trim to which it is applicable (e.g. living room molding). Should a touch-up be necessary over time, simply retrieve the small container and use an inexpensive art paintbrush from a craft store to dab some concealing color. If shut tightly, these containers may keep paint for two to six months.
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(MS) - Water leaks, grease splatters, even sticky-fingered children can cause stains on painted surfaces in and around your home.
Unfortunately, if you try to cover a stain with a fresh coat of paint, the stain will probably bleed through - no matter how many coats of paint you apply. Fortunately, high quality stain killing primers are specifically formulated to permanently block stains and prevent them from ruining your new paint job.
Which primer should you use? It depends on the stain. Just follow this advice from the stain blocking experts at Zinsser.
Oil-Soluble Stains: For oil-soluble stains like kitchen grease, crayon, lipstick, graffiti, tar and asphalt stains, use a water-base stain killing primer, like Zinsser's Bulls Eye 1-2-3®. It's great for blocking oil-soluble stains on any paintable surface - inside and outside your home.
Water-Soluble Stains: If you try to block a water-soluble stain - such as common water stains and stains from markers, ink, food, nicotine, rust - with a water-base primer, the stain is likely to "rewet." Oil-base stain killing primers, like Cover Stain®, are specially formulated to block water-soluble stains in just one coat. And because Cover Stain is an interior/exterior primer-sealer stain killer, it's great for trap
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