Home and Garden
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Editor's Choice: Fox Valley holiday lights winnerDec 23, 2014 4:30 am - An interview with Jim and Vicki Lococo Q: How long have you been decorating your house like this? Jim Lococo: 25 years. Since we got married. Q: What inspired you to go ...
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Editor's Choice: Northwest holiday lights winnerDec 23, 2014 4:30 am - Q: How long have you been decorating your house like this? A: Since 2008 at this house, before that a condo in 2005, and before that my parents home since I was a kid. ...
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Editor's Choice: Tri-Cities holiday lights winnerDec 23, 2014 4:30 am - Q: How long have you been decorating your house like this? Dale Evensen: 18 years. As long as we've lived here. Q: What inspired you to go all out with your decorations?...
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Holiday Lights contest winner learned from GrandmaDec 23, 2014 4:00 am - Since he learned to walk, Neil Berkowitz has been helping his grandmother Theresa Mabus put up holiday lights at her Prospect Heights home. Mabus would put on a large di...
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A look at one woman's collection of more than 500 SantasDec 22, 2014 11:01 pm - The love of Christmas is often handed down from one generation to another. Linda Schielke's parents loved Christmas. It's no surprise that she loves the holiday as well....
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Need a little Christmas? This house has a lot!Dec 22, 2014 10:00 pm - Q. We fell in love with this house because there was a perfect place for the Christmas tree - in the front hall beside the stairs! I've been widowed for four years - no ...
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Functional tinware makes an elegant additionDec 20, 2014 11:01 pm - TOKYO - An elegantly curved wineglass, a slender champagne flute and a standard beer tumbler - imagine these drinking vessels made not of glass, but of tin. Tinware, whi...
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Designers more prominently display TVsDec 20, 2014 11:01 pm - No longer something to hide in a bulky piece of furniture, televisions in the modern home have been elevated to a position of near reverence. The TV has transitioned int...
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No room for a Christmas tree? Embrace the unexpectedDec 20, 2014 5:30 am - WASHINGTON — How do you make a small space feel like home for the holidays? Can it even be done? When traditional decor is out of the question (in other words, if your a...
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To see, yet not to be seenDec 19, 2014 5:00 am - Q. We loved the picture window in the master bath of our new house — that's one reason we bought it. We didn't know it was a problem until after we moved in and realized...