Barbara Bellesi Zito is a freelance writer from Staten Island, covering all things real estate and home improvement. When she's not watching house flipping shows or dreaming about buying a vacation ...

Anyone who has driven a car in Minnesota over a winter or two is familiar with the three basic types of windshield ice scrapers. There’s the one-hander, a sort of short spatula small enough to fit in ...

The very first thing I did when moving into my 100-year-old house a decade ago was install a dishwasher; I couldn’t wait one minute to have a machine do all the dishwashing. But there are some things ...