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Halloween is creeping up quickly, which means it's time to prepare a seasonal welcome for friendly little goblins and guard against the hijinks of holiday tricksters. Dress and protect your home for the hauting season with these easy projects.
Get into the spirit:
Dress your home for Halloween with decorations that express your holiday style. Jack-o-lanterns become high art with the help of a pumpkin carving kit with a cordless carving tool that’s compact and lightweight for easy handling and carving templates to spark ideas for your gourd extravaganza. Add to the spooky welcome by trimming your front yard with unique decorations from Lowe’s.
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Light the way:
After you’ve made any needed repairs to well-worn walkways and rickety handrails at your home’s entry, upgrade exterior lighting with fixtures that improve visitors’ visibility and provide security against prowlers. Motion-sensing security lights help guard large yards and outside corners of your property. And you can create a welcoming path to your door with carved pumpkins or a perennial, low-voltage lighting solution. For a year-round lighting in disguise, add unique rock spot lights throughout the pathway.
Guarantee delivery:
A metal mailbox may suffer dents and damage from ghoulish Halloween pranksters, so prevent a problem and guarantee durability throughout the seasons with a durable rubber mailbox system. Or, consider building a brick support to house your mailbox.
After the ghouls have gone:
If you wake up on November 1 to after-Halloween messes like toilet-paper-draped trees, smashed pumpkins and errant eggs, a well-stocked cleaning arsenal will speed the recovery. Use a long-handled branch trimmer to take down TP, followed by a thorough rinsing to remove any remnants. Slick, slippery pumpkin pulp can be washed away with a multi-purpose cleaner and the new outdoor window cleaners work with your garden hose to clean out-of-reach windows and other egged surfaces.
Gear up now to ensure a happy and safe Halloween for you, your home and the trick-or-treaters. For more holiday and home maintenance ideas, visit
www.Lowes.com
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Tom Kraeutler
delivers
home improvement tips
each week as host of The Money Pit, a nationally syndicated
home improvement
radio program. His latest book
My Home, My Money Pit: Your Guide to Every Home Improvement Adventure
, is available at bookstores nationally.