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Sunday, May 11, 2008
An open house can excite anyone from the initial homebuyer to people looking to move up, downsize or discover their dream abode. Consider, then, a whole weekend of open houses. That's what you'll have with The Post and Courier's "A Place to Call Home Tour" on May 17-18.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
For months, the Long Fence Co. tried wooing customers with $400 and $500 rebates if they spent a few thousand dollars on fencing or stone paving.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
I bought an older house that is structurally sound, but it is not very efficient. My budget is limited, so how do I determine which energy-saving improvements to do first without losing its character?
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
People use too many colors and just "try too hard" when arranging flowers, says floral designer Joseph Smith of Nashville. He suggests:
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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They live! My praying mantises hatched. All 150 of them. I would pass out tiny cigars to celebrate, but most of them promptly died. Very sad.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Wouldn't it be neat if bedsheets had pockets for your reading glasses, TV remote or some tissues for when you have the sniffles? Now, they do.
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Pat Hoyt has awesome home repair and maintenance skills. But she's been sharing tools with her husband for more than 15 years. So when she's ready to work, the right tool for the job is often unavailable. Laurie Byrd usually does her home-improvement projects in the yard. But the tools Byrd uses are not sized for women's hands, and she thinks that she could work longer and have better results if they were designed with women in mind.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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CHICAGO — For me, memories spring up with the shoots of wild ginger under the ferns in a shady spot by my front door. It's a Midwest woodland native, but it's not native to my suburban yard; my mother dug up a clump for me some 10 years ago from her dune-top garden in Indiana. That house is gone now, and the spot, with its fabulous lake view, is part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. It's a joy to my mother and me that the stretch of dunes we love is protected and public forever. But I also treasure the leathery leaves and subtle red blooms of the ginger because they always remind me of my mother and her lifelong love of native plants and natural places.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
We have an old house, and the front door enters into a mud room/laundry room off the kitchen. How do you make an entrance like this more inviting as well as very functional? How do you make it flow into the galley-style kitchen? I'd appreciate any ideas.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Did you know that the perfectly equipped house should have 19 different types of flatware?
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Kewpie is the name of a nude, elflike baby with fat cheeks, wide eyes, a topknot and tiny blue wings. Rose O'Neill drew the first Kewpies for a Ladies' Home Journal story in 1909.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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Here is a woodland herb that can be found in shaded forests, often along damp, mossy creek banks in rocky woods. In the Southeast, it is most commonly seen in the mountains and Piedmont counties, but it also occurs, here and there, in the coastal plain. It is very widespread in North America, and was first named from plants seen in Canada. Its distribution includes all of the Eastern states, south to northern Florida, and west to the Great Plains. It even jumps over to a few places in Colorado.
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