Articles filed under Industry Insider
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Holiday decorating is their businessNov 16, 2014 10:00 pm - Bob Jones Sr. and his daughter, Sandra, are connoisseurs of artificial Christmas trees. Jones has been making an annual buying pilgrimage to China for 28 years and Sandr...
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Support charity while clearing away clutterNov 07, 2014 11:01 pm - Lake Zurich-based Junk Remedy is becoming well-known in the Chicago area - not only for helping people to clean out their garages, basements, parents' houses or other ju...
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Doors make a dramatic differenceNov 01, 2014 12:01 am - Ruth Tinley hated the interior doors in her Libertyville home. The painted, flat, hollow wood doors were utilitarian and totally unimpressive and they had been that way ...
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Why picking the right sofa is so importantOct 25, 2014 12:01 am - Home designers have noticed that decorating trends tend to run in cycles of seven to ten years, said Anne Hildreth, a designer in the Vernon Hills Steinhafels Furniture ...
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Newest light fixtures are works of artOct 18, 2014 12:00 am - LEDs are taking over the world. The color from light-emitting diodes is continually improving, the price is continually dropping and homeowners are paying attention to t...
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Steady real estate market is a healthy one, brokers sayOct 11, 2014 12:01 am - Is the suburban Chicago real estate market getting better, or worse? You may have read home sales are slightly down, but prices are slightly up. "We are looking at a rea...
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Furnace tips to keep your home cozyOct 04, 2014 12:01 am - The heating season is just around the corner and while all of us are hoping we don't experience another bitter winter season like we did last year, there are no guarante...
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Aeroseal repairs heating ducts that leak moneySep 27, 2014 12:01 am - It is impossible for anyone who lived through last year's Polar Vortex to forget the bitter cold and heavy snow it brought to Chicago and much of the country. The unbeli...
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Rising prices fuel higher expectationsSep 13, 2014 12:01 am - Media reports about rising home prices, strangely enough, are starting to have a dampening effect on the local housing market, said Royal Hartwig, a member of the Royal ...
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Larger condominiums in demand at Prairie ParkSep 06, 2014 12:01 am - Jamie Smith joined the family business, Smith Family Construction of Wheeling, in 2009. He had just earned a degree in communications from Northwestern University and he...