Home Guide 2023

The following stories offer tips for first-time home buyers, examine sustainable building materials, offer landscaping advice, and outline do-it-yourself projects that won’t break your budget and don’t require you to be an expert....
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Welcome to Home, our guide to owning, maintaining, and improving your domicile. In the following pages, we’ll offer tips for first-time home buyers, examine sustainable building materials, offer landscaping advice, and outline do-it-yourself projects that won’t break your budget and don’t require you to be an expert. The space where you live is more than a place to hit the pillow. It’s about making your house a home.

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Edible LandscapingHow to eat your yard, feed your soul…and improve your property value

Doing it YourselfSeven DIY projects that won’t bust your budget

Ten Tips for First-Time Home-BuyersWhat to do—and not do—when purchasing your first house

The Sustainable DreamCan Maui produce its own building materials?

Jacob Shafer

Sen. Schatz Spearheads E-Bike Rebate Bill

Sen. Schatz Spearheads E-Bike Rebate Bill

Good news for electric bike riders: On Tuesday, Hawai’i senior Sen. Brian Schatz introduced legislation that would offer a tax credit of up to $1,500 for e-bikes

OHA Offering $9 million in Grants

OHA Offering $9 million in Grants

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is offering more than $9 million in grants “to strengthen ʻohana (family), moʻomeheu (culture) and ʻāina (land) connections,” the agency announced