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natural shower spray ! (click through for tutorial)" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8358081ff69e201bb091f5f7f970d image-full img-responsive" src="http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8358081ff69e201bb091f5f7f970d-pi" title="Make your own natural shower spray ! (click through for tutorial)" style="border: 0px;" />I think you tend to learn most of your main cooking and cleaning habits  from whatever you saw your parents do (or not do) growing up. While I have been trying to make a lot of healthy changes in my life in recent years and opt for more nontoxic options, I never really relied on some of the more harsher chemicals to clean my house, and I'm pretty sure that's mostly because that's how my mom cleaned our home growing up. I clean most surfaces with simple soap and water whenever I can get away with it and only pull out the chemicals when something really calls for it (although I'm looking for natural soluti...

The apartment's location is just perfect. The layout is charming. Even the price is reasonable. This place is almost too good to be true, you think. And then, you see the bathroom. Tiles the color of pink baby aspirin . Or fixtures in a shade of green that just screams " mint chocolate chip ." Or perhaps a white one that has turned dingy and yellow with age? Call it "vintage." Call it "retro." Or, just be honest and call it OLD. Old Bathrooms, New Advice Your first instinct may be to rip out the outdated bath, right down to the studs, but that isn't always practical. For one thing, many rental buildings won 't allow it; for another, do you really want to spend $30,000 re-doing a bathroom you intend to use for just two years? Even if you own the home, that bathroom renovation may have to wait a while. There's the leaky roof that has to be fixed IMMEDIATELY, and the kitchen that has to be redone before you can scramble an egg or brew a ...

Danny Lipford: This week is the second and final show on the renovation of Today’s Bath. Announcer: Today’s Homeowner with Danny Lipford , the voice of home improvement , with projects, tips and ideas to help you improve your home. Danny Lipford: We’re right in the middle of a two part renovation called Today ’s Bath, it involves the renovation and updating of two different bathrooms, one being a very small master bathroom that was in this area and then on the other side of the wall even a smaller bathroom that was kind of the guest bathroom and we’re making them a lot larger by encroaching into this area which was once the master bedroom . Now, by taking up this space we were able to create this very nice custom walk -in shower than a very long vanity, two different sinks, and this cozy little niche for the whirlpool tub. Also the existing guest bathroom ’s a lot larger, a lot more functional and we had enough space left over by encroaching into this bedroom to create a very nice...