Deborah Donovan
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Who's smarter -- us or our furniture?Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The Campton Smart Console Table from Pottery Barn shows what furniture can do these days. It's red, it looks like an Asian antique. And it could just be smarter than we ...
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The center of attention: An easy-to-make holiday centerpieceDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's an easy way to make a centerpiece that will impress guests at Christmas dinner. I can say it's easy because my daughter made ours in a class at Cantigny Park. I j...
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State of appraisalsDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - While celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Appraisal Institute is working to solve serious problems in the industry and explain how it works. One federal bill the trade...
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Elgin author travels the world in search of antique German ornamentsDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - When you lovingly unwrap your grandmother's glass dove to hang on your Christmas tree, just think -- she could have left you a clown or a devil. And it would have been w...
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Beauty that's not just skin deepDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - There are rugs and then there are rugs. Emma Gardner, for example, designs handmade rugs. She has donated her new rug, the 6-by-9-foot "Chinese River," to a raffle for R...
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Office space finds a place in new home plansNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - A new home without a dedicated office would not be worth much to Kip Murphy. Murphy, an account executive for Dell Computers, works from his Bartlett home and does not c...
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How one couple lost their homeNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Crystal Neubauer wants others to know how she lost her Grayslake home. She contends she and her husband, Larry, fell through the cracks of a corporate lender that had gr...
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Communication with lender key, counselor advisesNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - Lynette Briggs is a counselor with the Dupage Homeownership Center, based in Wheaton. About 12 families a month are requesting help in preventing foreclosure, she said. ...
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Many factors fed housing breakdownNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - While some put the blame on borrowers and lenders for being greedy or outright fraudulent, the reasons why so many American homeowners are facing foreclosure these days ...
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Black-tie affairNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Many people like their Christmases nostalgic. They want to hang ornaments passed down through the generations, bake the cookies Grandma made and sing those old-time caro...