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Hilton is adamant that house plants aren’t just props, but living things and family members. Treat them like treasured pets, he says – caring for them individually in a way that suits their needs – and only bring them home if you can really cope with the maintenance they demand. His biggest tip for care for house plants in winter? Cleaning them – not for aesthetics but to help them thrive in the poor light they tend to receive during darker days....

Married to world-renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow – star of E!’s hit TV series Botched – the Real Housewives of Orange County alum and her husband founded Consult Beaute (opens in new tab), a skincare line, 15 years ago. Her impressive list of endeavors doesn’t end there. Check out Heather Dubrow’s morning routine below, and continue scrolling to shop her carefully curated list of must-have items too. See: Best exercise bikes – the top indoor cycling machines to get you moving...

You’ll also be thrilled to learn that with these stunning interiors and expert tips, it’s surprisingly easy to take your living room ideas from so-so to stunningly beautiful. How can I make my living room beautiful? How can I make my living room beautiful? There are lots of ways that you can make your living room beautiful including updating your color scheme, adding luxurious accessories and increasing the amount of natural light that floods into your space....

When it comes to kitchen ideas specifically, preparation and cooking need effective illumination for safe and efficient working, of course, but as a multifunctional space many other demands are made on it, so you may be asking how much light does my kitchen need? ‘It’s best to enhance natural light when available (there’s nothing better than a sun-drenched kitchen in the morning), but we all have to turn to other sources when we need consistent lighting from dusk through dawn,’ says Lucinda Loya of Lucinda Loya Interiors (opens in new tab)....

Flower shapes vary widely in their complexity and size and include the large, multi-layered ruffles of the ‘Illumination’ series to the single, smaller and undeniably classy bergonia ‘glowing embers’ and ‘firewings pink’. The flowers of begonia semperflorens – aka wax begonia – are much flatter and simpler. Made up of four petals, two big and two smaller with dramatic central stamens these blooms are instantly recognisable. Happy growing en masse or filling a small planter, they are perfect flower bed ideas for bringing color and interest to an unused patch of land....

To enjoy your Christmas tree ideas for the maximum length of time, you may well want to put up the tree as early as possible, and that makes good care particularly vital so it doesn’t shed its needles and look less than lovely before the holidays are over. We’ve looked to the experts to reveal how to keep a Christmas tree alive. BBC Gardener’s World presenter Monty Don shared advice on his blog (opens in new tab), and we’ve got the knowhow you need from other pros, too....

Consider how you would like to use the space as part of your backyard ideas. Is it for alfresco dining and relaxing in, are you planning for it to be filled with flowers and foliage, structure from evergreens to create a living picture to be viewed from inside. or a more simplified, contemporary space, perhaps with a statement, soothing water feature? There are many backyard landscaping ideas you can draw on, and the materials used – from paving, aggregates and decking, to decorative edging and the hard materials employed for raised beds and walls – add texture and character to a garden, marking out the structure and leading the eye through the landscape....

Of course, it depends on the model, but it can be done at the press of a button (or a combination of buttons). Knowing how to mute a microwave and how to clean a microwave will mean cooking is a calmer and more pleasant experience, ultimately making your kitchen a nicer place to be. A quiet microwave also reduces distractions for those with open-plan living spaces and family members working from home....

Whether you are installing a new kitchen or are getting it professionally fitted, you may want to remove the majority of the current configuration yourself. And this majority doesn’t require too much skill to tackle. Or perhaps you want to paint kitchen cabinets and just want to discover how to remove doors and drawer fronts? The first thing to do is get the room ready by emptying all the cabinets. This means taking out all your crockery, pots, pans, cooking equipment, utensils, cutlery, glassware and food items from all the cabinets, both base and wall units, pantries, larders and any pull-outs....

Fortunately, Mac has a slew of built-in and third party diagnostic and cleaning utilities to help you speed the Mac right up. Check out the apps/tips listed below. 1. Onyx 1. Onyx Onyx is one of the best maintenance tools for Mac. It opens up hidden system settings that go well beyond Mac’s System Preferences. It lets you clean the system or user cache, deleting old internet files, system cache, user elements and more in the process....

And if you’ve taken the time to learn how to grow avocados and planted a tree grafted on a rootstock from a nursery in order to harvest your own fruit, you’ll want to keep it in the right way. Here, we look at how to store avocados whether you’ve cultivated them at home or brought them back from the store. How to store avocados How to store avocados The way avocados should be stored varies according to the ripeness of individual fruits, and whether each is whole, or has been cut....

We are glad to say that Microsoft has bundled several options for that. For starters, you get a dedicated screenshot-taking app known as Snip & Sketch in Windows 10. It is an advanced version of the Snipping tool. Currently, Windows 10 provides both the apps, but Snip & Sketch will soon replace the Snipping tool. We will first start with the methods that are usable in the tablet mode of the HP Pavilion x360 laptops, followed by the usual methods to take a screenshot....

This guide will show how to turn off Auto-Capitalization on iPhone. You can follow the same steps to turn it off on iPad as well. You can enable auto-capitalization again if you find the manual way of capitalizing cumbersome. Since the Apple Keyboard and Google Keyboard remain the most widely-used options, we’ll address both of them specifically. Of course, there are other keyboards available on the App Store for users. If you don’t want to use any of them, simply go the App Store and download a different keyboard of your choice....