The Spruce: November 2025

For November, I asked interior designers to tell us how to update our kitchens on a shoestring and tapped pest-control experts to find out what the deal is with baking soda and mice—and learned a thing or two about rodent control. I also reached out to the American Cleaning Institute to learn why and how many of us are cleaning our bathrooms wrong. Click on a thumbnail to view the story.