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Home & GardenHome & Garden
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A home's new owner should ask seller for lowdown
After house-hunting, negotiating a price and working out details of his move, Patrick O'Leary was ready to tackle the real work: understanding and operating the various mechanical systems in his new, 6,000-square-foot home.
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In kitchens or clothes, moths are hard to rout
A couple of years ago, when my daughter was about 3, she delved happily into a container of freeze-dried strawberries and yelled over the "prize" she found inside.
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Filling your toolbox with the essentials
If you're looking for the perfect housewarming gift, check out a hardware store. People moving into a new place will probably want to hang a few things and change a few things.
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Tips on creating an instant home office
Job-seekers, take note: You want to be productive in planning your next move, and writing cover letters on your bed probably isn't going to cut it. That's why more and more people are thinking about how to create an instant home office.
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Four kitchen basics can clean entire house
A little digging in the kitchen cupboards is all that's needed to round up enough supplies to polish, clean and disinfect every room in the home.
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Sewing surges in popularity
The rules in the sewing lounge read like metaphors for good living: Know where your fingers are at all times. No running with scissors. Look before you cut.
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Letting it slide: accepting a clean enough house
When Amy Herendeen first became a stay-at-home mom, she dedicated a lot of time and effort to keeping house. But the chores were often interrupted by her daughter's needs. Trying to be the "perfect housewife" and take care of an infant left her feeling frustrated and angry.
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Home decor this fall: 'Perfect' is out, real is in
Perhaps the biggest theme in home decorating going into fall is comfortable, real, personalized style.
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Want designer looks at big-box prices? Try hacking
Home decorators who once would have dropped thousands of dollars on designer furniture are now, in a down economy, looking at inexpensive, self-assembly pieces from big-box stores as a jumping-off point for more custom designs.
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Roses have their problems, but still...
Read about roses, talk to other gardeners about growing them, and insect and disease problems seem inevitable.
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A bright idea: Philips lets flat lights out of lab
Someday, our ceilings and walls might radiate light, illuminating indoor spaces as brightly and evenly as natural daylight.
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Shrubs can be 'great green furniture' for the yard
Blooms may be losing some luster among cash-strapped gardeners weeding out nonessential spending. A practical option is investing in an assortment of low-risk, high-return shrubs.
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Patience rewarded: Climbing hydrangea takes time
For about 15 years, a big yellow garage marked the south boundary of our backyard garden. It set off the blue bigleaf hydrangeas very nicely, but it wasn't exactly the look we wanted.
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Enchanted places: Decorating with kids' book art
"Look, Spot! Look and see... ."
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In home decor's cyclical world, wallpaper is back
This spring, Oprah declared that wallpaper is back.
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Use incentives to attract your favorite songbirds
Backyard bird watching is a fairly simple exercise. Provide enough food, water and cover, and birds will come flocking. Playing favorites, though, calls for using the right kinds of incentives.
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Designers find common cause with global artisans
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, gifted craftspeople who can express age-old traditions in beautiful ways often lack access to raw materials and distribution venues. And they may have no expertise in getting their goods to a wider marketplace.
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For an easy new look, try painting old furniture
Got the do-it-yourself itch but little time or cash to spare? Look around at the furniture you've already got. Some of it probably could use a refreshing coat of paint. In fact, a new color may put the "wow" back into a room.
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Window box design: Color, repetition, plant shape
Why are some window boxes so beautiful while others are so blah?
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Garden journal can go beyond the practical
On Oct. 22, 1994, I was on my knees, planting daffodils and glory-of-the-snow beneath an oak tree, when I paused for a moment and lay back on the lawn to take in the beauty around me — bright sun, perfect temperatures, a bit of fall foliage and plenty of birdsong.
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Anticipated hurricanes leave coastal homeowners exposed
As the 2009 hurricane season arrives, many homeowners are finding insurance is either more expensive, or harder to get.
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Gardeners exchange seeds and know-how at swaps
Kathy Tinius is growing some unusual sunflowers in her yard this summer, and has good reason to believe the varieties will thrive.
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Composting a technique to improve home's eco-friendliness
A popular way to increase a household's eco-friendliness is to start composting.
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Many beautiful plants can harm as well as charm
Lily-of-the-valley, clematis and chrysanthemums are attractive plants that can make your heart soar. Problem is, they're also capable of shutting it down.
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Realtors pick up hammers to mend homes in need of repair
In Charlotte's Villa Heights community, volunteers will reshingle a roof that lets in rain for kitchen pots to catch in the living room.
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