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    Elen Turner
    Elen Turner is a writer and editor based in New Zealand's South Island. She writes about lifestyle topics and edits academic work in the humanities. She's the proud owner of a midcentury home surrounded by terraced lawns and fruit trees. Find out more about her work via her website.
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    By Elen Turner
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    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Sewing tools: repairing a hole in a sweater.
    How to Repair Moth Holes in Wool Fabric
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Tamukeyama Japanese maple in garden.
    How to Care for a Tamukeyama Japanese Maple
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Stylish bedroom interior in trendy blue.
    How to Mix Paint to Make Midnight Blue
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Cleaning boots on wooden background.
    How to Fix Leather Boots That Got Scraped
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Concrete retaining wall blocks, low dividing wall of yard.
    How to Paint Exterior Concrete Retaining Walls
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Small, gray bedroom with window and miniblinds.
    How to Get a Window Blind to Close Tighter
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Baking soda, White vinegar and baking soda with scrub sponge and white towel.
    How to Make Baking Soda Paste
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    living room with champagne pillows
    11 Brilliant Colors That Go With Champagne
    Design
    By Elen Turner
    Fresh figs and honey on rustic background.
    How to Germinate a Fig Seed
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Polishing leather boots.
    How to Remove a Grease Stain From Leather Shoes
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Kitchen with wood cabinets, round white pendant light, white counters, gray tiles, wood floors. A pantry with gray baskets.
    10 Cabinet Colors That Go With Gray Walls
    Design
    By Elen Turner
    A backyard with light blue Adirondack chairs on a slate patio with a fire pit
    3 Colors That Repel Insects
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
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    Can You Put Knotty Cedar Planking Down for Flooring?
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Double doors of a stainless steel fridge.
    When Can a Refrigerator Be Placed on a New Tile Floor?
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Grand Teton mountain range in black and white.
    What Are the Three Types of Landscape Art?
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Pink bedspread on bed in bohemian bedroom
    14 Paint Colors That Go With Cherry Wood Floors
    Design
    By Elen Turner
    Pulling out a thorn stuck in the finger.
    How To Treat a Thorn Puncture Wound
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Blueprints.
    How to Read Plumbing Blueprints
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Child painting small cardboard houses.
    The Best Way to Paint Cardboard
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Hanging a picture frame on a wall.
    How to Frame a Magazine
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Wood coffee table with a white stencil star pattern, white tray with accent pottery, mustard sofa with white pillows.
    How to Soften a Couch Cushion
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Landscape mural painted on wooden fence and gate.
    How to Paint an Outdoor Mural on a Wooden Fence
    Home Hacks & Answers
    By Elen Turner
    Bathroom with blue subway tile shower, vanity with white counter-wood cabinets, rectangular mirror and a vase with a dry plant cutting
    Can Bleach Be Used on Caulking?
    Home Hacks & Answers

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