Articles filed under Home & Garden
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How to decorate with mirrors without turning your home into a fun houseJul 06, 2019 7:00 am - Typically a final pit stop to check your look before you run out the door, mirrors serve an important function in most homes. They can be simple and subdued, or artful, ...
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Elephant's Breath, LOL Yellow and Mizzle: How do paint companies name their hues?Jul 05, 2019 7:00 am - Several years ago, I painted a bathroom in my house a rich, smoky blue. Everyone who sees it asks for the color name. When I answer, “Benjamin Moore's Gentleman's Gray,”...
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Best to admire poisn ivy's lovely leaves from a distanceJul 04, 2019 11:00 pm - Poison ivy may be food for birds, but it is quite the irritant for people
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Two enemies of outdoor wooden sculptures: Rain and sunJul 04, 2019 11:00 pm - Q. When the white oak holding up half the hammock at my vacation home died, I did not want to move the hammock. I hired a talented chain-saw artist, Andrew Mallon, to ca...
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Services help apartments deal with mountains of boxesJul 04, 2019 11:00 pm - As online shopping becomes ubiquitous, so do the boxes delivered to homes across the country. For apartment dwellers - and the managers of the buildings they live in - i...
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An oak-killing pathogen has been found in Illinois; experts are on alertJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - Forestry, botanical and agricultural experts in the Chicago area are on alert for a plant pathogen that has killed large tracts of oak trees on the West Coast and been d...
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Pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death found in IllinoisJul 01, 2019 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The pathogen which causes Sudden Oak Death, a plant disease that has killed large tracts of oaks and affected many native plant species in California...
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Bees create quite the buzz at North Aurora libraryJul 01, 2019 11:00 pm - On June 22, bees were the business at Messenger Public Library in North Aurora. With words, slides, video clips and honey samples for tasting, Bartlett apiarist Reid Roo...
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Algonquin Garden Club celebrates 90 yearsJul 01, 2019 11:00 pm - The Algonquin Garden Club celebrated its 90th anniversary with a luncheon June 18 at Boulder Ridge Country Club in Lake in the Hills. John Regan from Twisted Stem, an in...
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Why white still is ultra popular in homesJun 30, 2019 7:00 am - It seems like everything that's old is new again. Throughout interior design history, time and again, designers are faced with the request to create an all-white decorat...