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Get Your Home Ready for Summer

You’ve been ready for summer since January, but what about your house? Here are 20 reminders from our networks to get your home prepped and ready for warm season—inside and out. And don’t forget to download and print out our handy summer checklist!

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Be Grill Prepared

Whether you’re grilling up brisket in Birmingham or mahi mahi in Miami, summertime is barbecue time. Be sure to have all of your BBQ essentials on hand before Memorial Day. If you’re using a charcoal grill, don’t drench the coals in lighter fluid—you’ll just end up with food that tastes like, well, lighter fluid. Instead, invest in an inexpensive chimney starter to quickly and safely light the coals.

Check out some more barbecue and outdoor entertaining tips and ideas

Also be sure to avoid BBQ fires with a few pointers from This Old House


Get all of these great tips in a convenient checklist! Download and print out the file here

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When decorating this Mexican hideaway, designer Myra Hoefer wanted the house to look like it had been abandoned years ago, and the sand and sea had swept over it. All of the items in the house would have been washed up from a shipwreck on the beach. “Spanish settlers would have brought these beds over with them,” Hoefer says of this iron four-poster bed with an almost colonial look to it.
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Make sure your sprinkler system is good to go for the summer, as you’ll need it to keep the lawn green, the flowers blooming, and the Slip ‘n Slide slippery. Check around outside for swampy areas, erosion or dying plants—you could be losing water and not even know it. Find out more about potential irrigation problems at Southern Living
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