The Old House Blogger Contest is Back With a Halloween Spin Editor's note: the submission guidelines were amended on October 26th to make it easier for entrants to submit their stories. Love scary stories? Love blogging? The Old House Blogger Contest is back, but this time we want your old house related ghost stories. Enter the Old House Blogger Contest: Halloween Edition for a chance to win a $500 Lowe's gift certificate ...

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If you're anything like me, you've stored old household items in the back of the garden shed or garage in hopes of repurposing them in some grandiose restoration project. In reality though it's only a matter of time before your slightly annoyed but understanding significant other politely asks you to either dump it, sell it or #ReuseIt. In continued support of National Preservation Month and "old is the new green," we're ...

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It came down to the wire! Again, I have to say how impressed we were by the quality of the submissions we received for this little blogging contest. We're excited to announce the winner of the Old House Web blogger contest is: Bless this DIY Mess Elaine and Dylan Vitone, the Fighting Friars of Home Renovation, are renovating their 1920s Pittsburgh home, "one do-it-yourself disaster at a time." Elaine blogs about the ...

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