I feel your pain on the weather-stripping front. Last year, I went full engineer-mode—thermal imaging camera borrowed from a friend, caulk gun at the ...

Great tips here, especially the painter's tape trick—I wish I'd known that sooner. I recently tackled my first window leak and spent way too long wres...

I've been in a similar boat...first-time homeowner here, and I briefly flirted with the idea of smart windows. But man, those prices made my wallet cr...

Haha, your shrink-wrap story sounds painfully familiar—I had a similar experience last weekend. Thought I'd be clever and skip the step stool by stand...

Went with laminated double panes in my place, and honestly, they're pretty impressive at cutting down noise. Can't compare directly to triple panes, b...

Cracking windows open does help, but honestly, as someone who's still adjusting to homeownership (and the bills that come with it), I'm a bit skeptica...

Graphite powder does work pretty well, but yeah...the first time I used it, my white window frames ended up looking like a crime scene investigation. ...

Haha, speaking as someone who just bought my first house and is still figuring out how half the gadgets work... blackout curtains are already my "high...

Same here on the tilt-in feature—didn't even realize how much I'd appreciate it until I tried cleaning the upstairs windows without needing a ladder (...

I had a similar experience when I first moved into my place. I put reflective film on my big living room windows thinking I'd save a bunch on AC costs...