Home and Garden
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Have a laundry room awash in colorMar 30, 2012 5:00 am - Do you like to do laundry? For most of us, it’s a necessary evil, but with a little bit of organization, you can make your laundry room a fun-looking place, and help you...
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Grayslake garden club offers scholarshipMar 28, 2012 12:18 pm - The Grayslake Greenery Garden Club is committed to encouraging interest in all phases of home gardening, promoting civic beautification and promoting conservation of nat...
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If it’s a Hunzinger lollipop chair, value could be $1,000Mar 27, 2012 2:27 pm - Q. This chair has been in our family for some time now and we know little of its history or value. Local antiques dealers have given it the style name “stick and ball.” ...
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From artsy to functional, great designs at housewares showMar 26, 2012 3:00 am - Great new tabletop designs for your home turned up at the recent International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. We found Mondrian-inspired flatware at the Philadelphi...
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Tangerine Tango is spring’s hot color for homesMar 25, 2012 5:00 am - Bold, dramatic and invigorating, Tangerine Tango is dancing its way into home decor trends in 2012 with a punch of reddish-orange panache. The hue is a vivacious alterna...
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Navajo rug not worth much moneyMar 25, 2012 4:32 am - Q. While stationed in Phoenix in the mid-1980s, I bought this rug for $500 from an officer whose mother wove Navajo rugs. The textile was made using natural yarns, which...
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Craftspeople from hardest-hit areas of Japan display wares in ChicagoMar 25, 2012 2:00 am - Naked Pan makes cast iron cookware unseasoned until a cook gets ahold of it. Wired Beans makes beautiful red glasses. These companies and others from the areas of Japan ...
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Warm winter means no tulips for Kentucky DerbyMar 24, 2012 7:21 am - LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s called the Run for the Roses, but thousands of tulips are also part of the landscape at Churchill Downs during the Kentucky Derby. Not this year. ...
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Keep all your gear in order with these fun tech organizersMar 24, 2012 5:00 am - Got a lot of gadgets? Keeping up with new technology can create a knotty mess of wires and chargers in a home office. Luckily, the compulsively clean techie has fun, sty...
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Don’t let the weather trick you into planting too soonMar 24, 2012 1:00 am - Don’t be fooled into starting your garden too early. After a winter of above-normal temperatures, spring is following suit. Vegetable-garden veterans call this “false sp...