Home and Garden
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Plant your cold-sensitive plants after average last front dateMay 03, 2015 7:00 am - You can encourage more flowers next year on rhododendrons and azaleas if you deadhead them right after they finish flowering. Very carefully pinch off 1/2 of the sticky,...
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Books, books and more books: Proper display of books starts with a good purgeMay 03, 2015 1:01 am - Argentine writer, poet and essayist Jorge Luis Borges once said, "I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books." I, too, love books. For many years, my homes have been...
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Compost bin, rain barrel, native plant saleMay 03, 2015 1:00 am - The Rain Barrel, Compost Bin and Native Plant Sale is set for Saturday, May 9, at the Independence Grove Forest Preserve in Libertyville. The sale will be from 9 a.m. to...
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How your next home might run off a batteryMay 02, 2015 7:33 am - ROCKVILLE, Md. - The future of home energy sits in Josh and Susan Fried's basement near shelves of old tools and canned soup, an unadorned box the size of a wine cooler ...
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Designers make over rooms in mansion where filmmaker John Hughes livedMay 02, 2015 7:00 am - Top Chicago designers inserted subtle tributes to the late John Hughes in the Lake Forest mansion where he lived and created legendary movies like “The Breakfast Club,” ...
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Old-fashioned nasturtiums never go out of styleMay 02, 2015 7:00 am - Nasturtiums have been grown in gardens for centuries. The Incas planted them as vegetables and as medicinal herbs. King Louis XIV displayed them in the palace flower bed...
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Know your options for reverse mortgage prices, feesMay 02, 2015 1:00 am - Senior homeowners looking to shop the HECM reverse mortgage market for the best price - meaning the lowest interest rate and origination fee - have a major problem. Unli...
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Quorum not needed at annual meeting of unit owners.May 02, 2015 12:00 am - Q. Must a quorum of the board members be present at the annual meeting of the unit owners? A. A quorum of the board is not necessary at any meeting of the unit owners; a...
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Go ahead, pine for those faux-wood tilesMay 02, 2015 12:00 am - Samantha Friedman, an interior designer based in Bethesda, Maryland, and a featured designer in the 2015 D.C. Design House, joined staff writer Jura Koncius on the newsp...
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Bank on it: A fresh spring look for less than $100May 01, 2015 6:00 am - Now that spring is here, you might be antsy to freshen up your home. But don't fret if you don't have the budget for a full-blown overhaul. If you want a new look, there...