Home and Garden
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New book explores Edith Wharton's design legacyJan 21, 2018 5:00 am - Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort ...
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Christmas greenery can now go in the gardenJan 21, 2018 5:00 am - Consider reusing your natural Christmas decorations by recycling Christmas tree branches (cut into 2- to 3-foot sections), swags, wreaths and other evergreen material as...
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Choose plants carefully for gardens exposed to road saltJan 21, 2018 5:00 am - Snow plows are welcomed in winter as they clear streets and spread salt, allowing us to travel in all but the worst snowstorms. In the spring, however, when the damage t...
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Know what you are buying with firewoodJan 21, 2018 5:00 am - Q. I usually use cottonwood in my winter fireplace, but I heard this might not be the best choice. Why, and what should I look out for when choosing the best kind of fir...
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Creative design for the disabled - and everybody else, tooJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - NEW YORK - From snazzy canes to tremor-proof spoons to a racing wheelchair, a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum highlights a surge in designs fo...
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How to get started in the business of investment propertyJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - Q. My wife is all fired up about the real estate people we see on TV. Do you have an opinion about investing in the courses they offer? They offer a free session at a mo...
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A new approach to mortgage designJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - For decades, the principal motivation driving home mortgage design was to increase affordability. The logic was that homeownership was desirable, and the more affordable...
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The best way to make the most out of small storage spaceJan 19, 2018 7:00 am - Organizing and decluttering expert Julie Morgenstern, who has run her namesake New York City-based business for more than 25 years, joined staff writer Jura Koncius on T...
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Don't think of antiques as investmentsJan 19, 2018 6:00 am - The antiques business has been going through a bit of a rough patch, what with the continuing vogue for midcentury modern and IKEA-addicted millennials' dislike for brow...
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Subway tile rises to the height of farmhouse chicJan 19, 2018 5:00 am - It's Season 4, Episode 11 of HGTV's smash hit, “Fixer Upper,” and Joanna Gaines is walking her husband, Chip, through her vision to transform a vacant turn-of-the-centur...