Home and Garden
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Celebrity designer celebrates sights, scents of springApr 01, 2012 6:00 am - Kelli Ellis is an interior designer for all seasons. But when spring rolls around each year, she is truly in her element. An award-winning celebrity interior designer, t...
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Put some Pantone pow in your gardenMar 31, 2012 6:00 am - Tangerine Tango is making big fashion headlines this year, attracting more than the usual attention given to any single color. Selected by the Pantone Color Institute (t...
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Small space helps people live simpler, greener livesMar 31, 2012 5:00 am - Smaller is better. That's how sustainability and design experts seem to see it nowadays. “When you have less space, you tend to have less stuff,” says Sarah Susanka, aut...
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Talking with Architectural Digest editor Margaret RussellMar 30, 2012 5:00 am - Margaret Russell took the helm of Conde Nast’s venerable international shelter magazine Architectural Digest in 2010. She started her career at Glamour magazine after gr...
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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...