Articles filed under Home & Garden
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Look for luck when decorating for Chinese New YearJan 20, 2012 5:00 am - An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but did you know a bowl of tangerines can usher in good fortune for the Lunar New Year? In Chinese, their name sounds like the word...
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Think like a designer when you rotate cropsJan 16, 2012 12:00 am - When you shop from catalogs it’s easy to just click and buy. But when it comes to seed catalogs, there’s a lot more to the process of picking out what vegetables you wan...
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How much would you pay for a good night's sleep?Jan 15, 2012 5:00 am - How much should you pay for a mattress and box springs? Does it amaze you to learn that some people go as high as $90,500? What about $35,000? That makes $3,500 sound l...
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Treasures in your attic: Glass rolling pin may be worth doughJan 15, 2012 12:00 am - Q. I believe this glass rolling pin may have been made by my grandfather’s brother, Joseph Pote. He was a glassblower around the late 1800s and lived in East Strouds...
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Use screens to give new life to a roomJan 14, 2012 11:00 pm - I caught screen fever at an early age. I was just a little kid, playing at my friend’s house, when I happened into her dining room and spotted the most amazing floor scr...
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Too soon to pick, but not to chooseJan 14, 2012 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — For the gardener, the new year is the perfect annual moment to resolve to do better. The next six to eight weeks give us a luxury unknown in the growing sea...
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Spreading rock on your garden can help feed soilJan 14, 2012 5:00 am - If you feel like getting out in the garden, now is as good a time as any to spread rock on the ground. Or not (more on that later). You say your ground already has enoug...
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Patterns transform a master bedroomJan 12, 2012 11:00 pm - How do you turn a boring master bedroom into a bold expression of timeless, yet traditional, design? As I tackle my latest project, you'll see that the solution depends ...
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Books get new life in decor items, art piecesJan 09, 2012 5:00 am - Stacks of books turned into tables? Volumes made into shelves? Pages turned into sculpture? Library purists, remain calm. Because we're going to talk about doing things ...
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Set decorators use decor to flesh out charactersJan 09, 2012 12:00 am - Our rooms speak volumes about us — and set decorators for television shows specialize in knowing what they can say. Using colors, accessories and telling details, set d...