Home and Garden
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Inexpensive ways to give your bathroom a spalike feelApr 20, 2013 4:00 am - Upscale hotels get bathrooms right. The puffy white towels are carefully folded and stacked, toiletries are lined up in a countertop tray — even the toilet paper is fold...
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Feelin' groovy in a home made of foamApr 20, 2013 1:00 am - “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere,” wrote Dr. Seuss in the classic “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” In Minnetrista, Minn., th...
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Art in the garden: Put trees first in design plansApr 20, 2013 1:00 am - Flowers are usually the first thing folks consider when planning a new landscape, but trees should be at the top of their lists. Trees have the greatest visual impact an...
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Select plants best suited to your garden’s conditionsApr 19, 2013 1:00 am - After a long Chicago winter, it is easy to let spring fever take over when ordering plants from catalogs or buying plants from garden centers. But to ensure a successfu...
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Private school teaches well-off students to conserveApr 14, 2013 5:00 am - Students at Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school consider the value of food scraps and the environmental impact of hair dryers. These are among the curricular wrinkle...
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The new gold standard in furnishingsApr 14, 2013 4:00 am - HIGH POINT, N.C — There was an unmistakable glow of gold tones emanating from so many showrooms here when the nation's top furniture makers and sellers gathered for anot...
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Illuminate storage spaces to make finding items easierApr 14, 2013 1:00 am - Even the most organized people can misplace things. That’s because the places we put our stuff — closets, drawers, cabinets — usually are some of the darkest in the hous...
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HGTV designer's style rooted in the suburbsApr 09, 2013 5:30 am - Shopping for home decor at Scentimental Gardens in Geneva last week, HGTV designer Meg Caswell found inspiration everywhere. “Oooh, those would look so good in a foyer,”...
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Advice for Midwest gardeners available in new bookApr 06, 2013 11:00 pm - Planted in a metal dishpan in heavy soil with no drainage and limited light, the tomato seeds shouldn't have done well. But a little girl's window sill experiment thrive...
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Is Regina music box noted for its high value?Apr 06, 2013 5:51 am - Q. I was wondering if you had any info on this Regina music box. I inherited it when my grandmother passed away, but supposedly it was purchased for my great-grandmother...