Home and Garden
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Six ways to make your kitchen smarterNov 18, 2017 5:00 am - Want to make a great pot of coffee from your bedroom? Or you're not sure if the leftover mashed potatoes sitting in the fridge are still good? Manufacturers have your ba...
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Why the HECM reverse mortgage market is stuntedNov 18, 2017 5:00 am - During my lifetime, retirement planning has become more and more challenging. People are living a lot longer, which makes retirement periods longer, and fewer people ret...
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Homeowner worried about wall cracksNov 17, 2017 5:00 am - Q. Our home is less than a year old and cracks have already formed at the metal edges near the wall corners in some rooms. Our fear is that settlement problems are causi...
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How long to wait before reducing the priceNov 17, 2017 5:00 am - Q. You have advised that a house priced right will sell, and if it is not selling, it could be priced too high for the market. Obviously, all situations are unique, but ...
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Satsuma pottery made in Japan since 1600sNov 12, 2017 5:01 am - Q. Enclosed is a picture of a vase that has been in my family many, many years. As an avid reader of your column, I recently noticed a question about a similar vase. It ...
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Companies, communities bet on tiny-house livingNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - We've all been watching the tiny-house phenomenon for a while now. Tiny houses have become a fad since the cost of housing has skyrocketed in parts of the country and sa...
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Garden indoors and purify air with houseplantsNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Gardeners may be finishing up some fall cleanup in perennial borders, straightening their garden sheds and cleaning tools, but there's no doubt about it — the gardening ...
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What are you hiding, or accentuating?Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - The decorative folding screen has become a common interior furnishing that is both functional and aesthetically impactful. It is believed screens were original to China,...
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Is workplace stress killing your cubicle plant?Nov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Many of us work in open-plan offices where our allotted cubicles are small but our own, so to speak. We personalize them with baubles that mean little to others but a lo...
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Remove invasive buckthorn growing in your yardNov 12, 2017 5:00 am - Buckthorn is an invasive tree and common weed in Chicago area gardens. It tends to hold green leaves later than other deciduous trees and shrubs in fall so it is easy to...