Over the past 25 years, Murray Anderson has tackled practically every home improvement project imaginable. An avid DIYer, he has upgraded, remodeled, and refurbished his homes all on his own. Now he has turned his focus to sharing that expertise with his DoItYourself.com readers.
In addition to his home improvement articles, Murray's published work includes articles on personal finance, computer maintenance, and small business strategy. His work has appeared in numerous online and print publications in both the United States and Canada, among them, The Consumer Economist, The Almanac for Farmers and City Folk, Garden and Hearth, and The Dollar Stretcher.
Murray's been married for over 30 years, and he and his wife have two children.
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Creating a Bedroom Retreat
These days, it seems like everyone’s rushing to meet deadlines or be someplace at a speci...
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Designing Your Own Headboards
Looking for a way to give your bedroom some more style and elegance but can't afford to buy a b...
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Arranging your Furniture Effectively
Effectively positioning or laying out the furniture in your living room is more of an art than...
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Designing Your Mud Room
Originally a small room off the side or back entrance of a home where people took off their &qu...
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So, What's a Mud Room?
No it's not a room made from mud or adobe but until 25 or 30 years ago unless you lived on...
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Planning and Preparing for your Concrete Patio
A concrete patio isn’t something that can be easily removed or replaced so if you’...
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Choosing Quality Paint
Simplistically, premium quality paint saves you work and money. If you only need to paint you...
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Faux Finishing - Lime Washing
The attraction of faux finishing is that you can use ordinary paints in combination with glaze...
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Installing Wallpaper
Installing or hanging wallpaper so your finished project ends up with a professional look is a...
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All About Venetian Blinds
You're just moving into a new house, and you need to do something to cover those windows. Or, m...
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Shutter Installation for Interior Windows
Window shutter installation has been a way of ensuring privacy and controlling light while addi...
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Fixing your Gas Stove
Gas stoves aren't magic and in most cases when something goes wrong with your gas stove, f...
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Organizing Cords and Cables
If you've ever been inside a telephone central office or switching center or even just seen pi...
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Concrete Decisions
Before you can actually pour the concrete for your new concrete patio, you still need to figur...
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Estimating the Cost of Your New garage
A new garage is a great addition to a home since it adds resale value as well as providing extr...
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Planning Your New Garage
Most homes built in the last twenty five years have a garage for a good reason – it adds...
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All Garage Doors aren't Created Equal
For most homeowners garage doors aren't an ongoing topic of conversation. However, over ti...
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Clean Gutters Mean Dry Basements
While you may not have thought about it, gutters play an important role in ensuring your baseme...
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Maintaining Garden ToolsOld sayings stay around because there's lots of truth in them. A perfect example is "if you tak...
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Must Have Tools for the Garden
Along with the arrival of spring comes thoughts about spring gardening. Working in a garden is...
