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Home & garden calendar, Aug. 24-30

Aug 19, 2025 5:58 pm - Upcoming garden club meetings, plant sales, and garden shows in the Chicago area.
FHA appraisers are not home inspectors

By Barry Stone
Aug 19, 2025 5:56 pm - Many homebuyers are unclear about the difference between an appraisal and a home inspection. Because of this, they forego a home inspection and are surprised when problems are discovered after the close of escrow.
You might not like spiders. But you want them in your garden

By Kate Morgan
Aug 19, 2025 5:46 pm - Although often feared, spiders are important garden predators that control pests, enrich soil, and support birds and other wildlife.
Composting helps the planet. This is how to do it, no matter where you live

By CALEIGH WELLS
Aug 19, 2025 5:37 pm - Composting helps the planet. Here is how to do it, no matter where you live.
Grow fruit trees in small spaces with the trick known as espalier

By JESSICA DAMIANO
Aug 19, 2025 5:29 pm - If you'd love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit.
The best blue paint colors, according to design pros

By Kathryn O'Shea-Evans
Aug 19, 2025 5:16 pm - As a paint color, blue is endlessly versatile, in part because it works well with many other colors. Here are nine shades of blue that designers swear by.
Home & garden calendar, Aug. 17-23

Aug 17, 2025 6:01 pm - Upcoming garden club meetings, plant sales, and garden shows in the Chicago suburbs.
Overwhelmed by chores? Try ‘batching’

By Jolie Kerr
Aug 12, 2025 5:42 pm - If you find yourself forever multitasking but never really accomplishing anything, batching may be the solution your stressed-out mind needs.
The case for carpet

By Kathryn O'Shea-Evans
Aug 12, 2025 5:31 pm - Wall-to-wall carpet has long been derided as suburban and dated. But some believe it deserves a second chance.
How to deal with that never-ending pile of kids’ clothes

By Marissa Hermanson
Aug 12, 2025 5:19 pm - We asked experts — by virtue of their professional training or their personal skill at home — for their best strategies for dealing with kids’ clothing: procuring it, organizing it, saving it, living with it.

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