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As a homeowner, you know that maintaining, improving, and decorating your home often feels like a full-time job. Luckily, with a little planning and tips from our comprehensive list of resources, you can breeze through every season of the year.

Homeownership Help for Every Season

If you’re new to homeownership or just need a little help planning out yearly tasks, you’re in the right place. Below, we’ve listed some seasonal home maintenance projects to perform throughout the year:

Winter

  • Replace HVAC filters
  • Clean your kitchen range hood filter
  • Wash window interiors
  • Insulate piping

Spring

  • Schedule a routine HVAC tune-up
  • Clean your gutters
  • Clean your clothes dryer exhaust pipe
  • Prepare garden beds for the growing season
  • Reseed your lawn
  • Inspect outdoor appliances before grilling season starts

Summer

  • Clean outdoor furniture
  • Clean window exteriors
  • Weed your garden and apply mulch to beds
  • Power wash decks and walkways

Fall

  • Winterize your sprinkler system
  • Perform routine gutter maintenance
  • Rake leaves and clear walkways
  • Prepare your lawn and garden for the cold season
  • Replace weather stripping around doors and windows

The seasons bring more than just routine maintenance tasks; they also welcome fun holidays to incorporate into your home design. When outfitting your home for every celebration, Today’s Homeowner has you covered with countless guides to safe and creative decorating. We’ll help you transform your home into a haunted house, set your Thanksgiving table, and deck the halls come December. No matter the season, you and your home can welcome it in style.

Spring Home Improvement Guide

Find helpful tips on how to spring clean and maintain your house both inside and out, including cleaning refrigerators, sinks, cabinets, clothes dryers, computer and TV screens, ceiling and vent fans, windows, roofs, gutters, and more.

Hints for Holiday Preparation

In preparation for the holiday season, the Today's Homeowner crew help sisters Missy and Chick get their home and outdoor space ready for entertaining.
Shoveling snow on sidewalk in front of house.

Winter Survival Guide for Your House

Watch this video to find out how to prepare your home for winter by applying plastic film to windows, insulating attics and water pipes, and dealing with snow and ice.

How to Make Holiday Topiaries

To make your own holiday topiary, you'll need a tomato cage, a pot, some garland, lights and decorations.
Danny Lipford caulks around a home's windows while Chelsea Lipford Wolf applies window insulation.

October Home Maintenance To-Do List

Tackle these home maintenance chores to tighten up your house and save money during cold weather.
Danny Lipford on the set with "America's Morning Headquarters" hosts Anaridis Rodriguez, Stephanie Abrams and Reynolds Wolf.

Easy and Economical Ways to Prep Your Home for Fall

Danny Lipford visits The Weather Channel to explain some simple and economical things homeowners can do to prepare their homes for fall.

Fall Home Maintenance How-To

Danny and Allen help new homeowners Payton and Hunter Black perform some much needed maintenance and repair projects on their home, including replacing rotten porch columns and cleaning and repairing neglected gutters.

Summer Tips for Comfortable Living

Summertime offers more opportunities to enjoy the Great Outdoors, but before you have some fun in the sun, you need to make sure your home is ready for the season.
House with snow around it

Winterizing Your Home

With winter here many Americans are looking for ways to save money on the rising cost of heating their homes. In addition, this is also the time of year when homeowners may want to take a look at some unwanted visitors who can do some real damage to areas of the home you may never see.