Home & Garden Infographics

Solid Patio Covers: Outdoor Living in Style

Solid Patio Covers: Outdoor Living in Style

A solid patio cover is an attractive way to make your outdoor living space functional all year long. Designed to blend into your home’s existing roofline, a solid patio cover boasts an excellent ROI and can provide decades of enjoyment. The following infographic from Rick’s Custom Fencing & Decking takes a look at some of the benefits and options associated with solid patio covers.

Slugs: Know Your Enemy

Slugs have attacked many gardens in the United Kingdom this year and they have done so with a fierce hunger. The battle has turned delphiniums and hostas into mere lace skeletons, but never give in. In the words of Churchill “Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” Wars are not won by slug pellets! We need to go back to the military books. So what’s the strategy?

Pergolas: Outdoor Living in Style

Pergolas: Outdoor Living in Style

A pergola is one of the most attractive and elegant ways to add interest to your landscape. Whether you’re looking to bring shade to your outdoor living space or create a walkway overhung with climbing vines, the pergola provides a simple, cost-effective solution that will add value to your home.

DIY Vertical Garden

DIY Vertical Garden

Garden walls or ‘vertical gardens’ have gained a lot of notoriety over recent years with designers such as Patrick Blanc setting the standards. Vertical gardens can come in all shapes and sizes, some scaling entire buildings, whilst others sit in offices, gardens or private homes.

DIY Pallet Furniture

If you are looking for a DIY project or upcyling idea, wooden shipping pallets are the perfect solution. In the infographic below by Bridgman, see how a versatile, cheap and abundant – with a little DIY know-how and a spare few hours, you can turn a disused wooden pallet into something spectacular.

How Neal Caffrey Would Break Into Your House

How Neal Caffrey Would Break Into Your House

Statistics show that 62% of crimes occur during the day between 10 am & 3pm. A criminal like Neal could steal your jewelry, firearms, silver, and cash in about 12 seconds once inside your home. How hard (or easy) can it be for a thief or burglar to break into your house?

Revealing Relationship Between Homeownership and Household Income

There are a lot of factors that impact the rate at which Americans own homes – especially household income. Often, the rise or fall of household income has much to do with how many Americans can afford to own homes. Throw in inflation and interest rates and it is easy to see what factors were involved with the decline of home ownership rates since 2004 and the housing market collapse in 2007.

In Real Estate, Local Is Best

Have you ever wondered where real estate websites get their information? This infographic from Redfin shows how local brokerage sites gather data, compared to national portals like Zillow and Trulia. The information comes from an independent study conducted by the WAV Group.

America’s Favorite Tool – The Power Drill

Even if you don’t consider yourself much of a do-it-yourselfer, chances are at some point in your life you’ve used a power drill. Check out this infographic from eReplacementParts.com to learn some interesting facts about America’s favorite tool.