Home and Garden
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Trends in outdoor furniture bring big style to tiny terracesMay 21, 2016 7:22 am - Shelter magazines this time of year are fond of featuring expansive outdoor spaces with sprawling gardens and entertaining areas. But for many people, especially city dw...
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Fashionable fixtures are in styleMay 21, 2016 7:13 am - Lighting does much more than provide illumination. It literally defines a space. The type of lighting chosen and the way it is placed within a room work with the wall co...
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Plan to rotate your crops to prevent diseaseMay 21, 2016 7:11 am - Rotate the crops in your vegetable garden to help control pest problems. This is the easiest way to practice organic, integrated pest management gardening. Many insects ...
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Well-maintained landscaping is vital for sellersMay 21, 2016 2:01 am - This is the time of year when many homeowners refurbish their landscaping, making their homes more salable and generally more attractive. "Good landscaping could potenti...
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Association boards must follow village ordinancesMay 21, 2016 2:00 am - Q. Garbage is picked up in our single-family homeowners association on Friday. Week after week, the same few homeowners leave their empty garbage cans at the curb all we...
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How to achieve savings discipline when it comes to retirementMay 21, 2016 1:00 am - Savings discipline is the willingness to forgo spending now in order to accumulate the funds needed to meet a valued objective in the future. The objective is critical b...
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Blooming Fest takes root in downtown West ChicagoMay 21, 2016 1:00 am - If you're going to hold a celebration called Blooming Fest, it's always nice to have Mother Nature on your side. Face it, it's hard to marvel at the wonder of plants - a...
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Board ignores its own harship provisionMay 21, 2016 1:00 am - Q. The declaration of my brother's association restricts leasing. The declaration does include a "hardship" provision that permits the board to grant exceptions to the l...
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How much to offer for a house is an inexact scienceMay 21, 2016 1:00 am - Q. We are looking for our first home, and we would like some guidelines on how much to offer when we find the house we want. How much bargaining do sellers expect? Any a...
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Advice for couples blending two homes into oneMay 20, 2016 6:00 am - For couples setting up a new home together, it's a challenge: how to merge two sets of stuff and two decorating styles into one space they both can love. “Emotions get r...