Home and Garden
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Garden indoors and purify air with houseplantsNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Gardeners may be finishing up some fall cleanup in perennial borders, straightening their garden sheds and cleaning tools, but there's no doubt about it — the gardening ...
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What are you hiding, or accentuating?Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - The decorative folding screen has become a common interior furnishing that is both functional and aesthetically impactful. It is believed screens were original to China,...
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Is workplace stress killing your cubicle plant?Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Many of us work in open-plan offices where our allotted cubicles are small but our own, so to speak. We personalize them with baubles that mean little to others but a lo...
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Remove invasive buckthorn growing in your yardNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Buckthorn is an invasive tree and common weed in Chicago area gardens. It tends to hold green leaves later than other deciduous trees and shrubs in fall so it is easy to...
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Leave your winter yard a little 'wild'Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Q. I heard I should not cut down my perennials as it benefits wildlife. Is it true? A. Leaving your garden alone in fall is a great idea. As cold weather comes, wildlife...
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It's wise to change locks after the closingNov 11, 2017 5:00 am - Q. When you wrote about real estate closings, one of the things you did not mention was to change the locks, or have the lock cylinders changed, so that the old keys no ...
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Getting a California look on the East coast - or anywhereNov 10, 2017 7:00 am - Los Angeles designer, artist and product creator Justina Blakeney joined staff writer Jura Koncius recently on The Washington Post's Home Front online chat. Q. I am a br...
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'Tax cut' may very well be costly for homeownersNov 10, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - The message sent by Republicans in the tax overhaul bill they launched last week is unmistakable and blunt: We think homeowners and buyers have gotten much ...
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There's an art to creating an enticing vignetteNov 05, 2017 5:01 am - My first collection, or attempt at displaying items, as a child was boxes. Made of any material: cardboard, wood or plastic, I would organizes them by sizes and stack th...
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Demilune table has a bird's-eye viewNov 05, 2017 5:01 am - Q. The table in this photo is made of walnut and was given to my mother by a dear friend, who is now 96 years old. So many coats of white paint covered the table that it...