Home and Garden
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Tiny powder room can make a big impressionSep 14, 2014 6:45 am - Very often, the powder room bath is the tiniest room in your house. Yet this traditionally minimal space can become one of your most alluring attributes, no matter how s...
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Seedheads give perennials another season of interestSep 14, 2014 6:45 am - To deadhead or not to deadhead — that is the question gardeners must answer as perennials reach their flowering finale. It is best to remove the spent blooms from a few ...
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Bring your garden indoors with cut flowersSep 14, 2014 1:01 am - Q. Do you have any tips for cutting flowers from the garden to bring indoors? A. When cutting flowers from the garden, it is important to avoid the possibility of transf...
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Decorating 'rules' have gone out the windowSep 13, 2014 6:30 am - Q. We have a lot of space in our new loft. A lot! What are the rules about arranging furniture? And what about colors? Everything we have is slick, modern, beige-ish (an...
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Plant mums and asters nowSep 13, 2014 6:01 am - Try to buy chrysanthemums and asters for fall color when their flower buds are just beginning to open. That way, the blooms will last longer in your garden. If you are ...
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Is your interior design depressing you?Sep 13, 2014 6:00 am - From time to time, at a cocktail party or when visiting a friend, someone will corner me and confess to me that they are depressed. As if I were a member of the clergy, ...
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This fall's home decor is an ensemble productionSep 12, 2014 6:00 am - Are you a fan of midcentury modern? Drawn to classic elegance? Does the handicraft of global décor grab you? There was an era when experts said to pick just one, but no...
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Exterior decorating: Updating with paints, trimsSep 12, 2014 5:45 am - Color and decorative pieces can improve the look of a home outside as well as in. Add trim boards, columns or porch accessories and you can dress up the facade of a hous...
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Mundelein group teaches others about self-sufficiency through homesteadingSep 10, 2014 11:01 am - Several Mundelein residents who say they want to inspire self-sufficiency and sustainability in others hope to improve quality of life by teaching the community to utili...
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Kindness to wildlife can pay off in the gardenSep 10, 2014 6:00 am - Competition and conflict have existed between people and animals since the first gardeners began sowing seeds on the ground. The critters just as quickly carried them aw...