20 do-it-yourself jobs that take 20 minutes

1. Jazz up the cabinets

One of the quickest, most affordable ways to update the appearance of a kitchen or bathroom is to upgrade all the knobs and drawer pulls.

But before you head out to buy the new hardware, remove the existing pulls and carefully note their size and screw positions. The replacements of two-screw handles should have the same space between holes. If you can't find pulls to match existing holes in the drawer fronts or doors, find hardware that has a decorative escutcheon or back plate to cover up the old holes.

Before installing the new hardware, give the doors and drawer faces a good scrubbing. It'll be much harder to clean them after the knobs and pulls are installed.

2. Quiet rattling doors
When latched interior doors rattle, it's usually because of a poor fit between the lock set, strike plate and doorstop molding.

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