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Many Americans spent the summer struggling to fill their tanks as the price of gas topped $4 a gallon. Added to that worry this ...
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A secluded mill has been transformed into a site for weeklong vacation packages themed around French cooking, architecture, art or bike rides through the Loire countryside.
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Vines can be trained onto almost any structure -- deck, porch, shed, pergola, wall, fence, pole or arbor. The type of climber being trained determines how it should be attached. Plants climb in different ways: Aerial roots. Ivy and trumpet vine have adventitious, also called...(more)
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The home of Jane Prophet and David Richardson combines bright, modern spaces and lots of light with mid-century wood furnishings and textures.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 11 weeks 1 day 11 hours 6 minutes ago
For the high-profile crowd that turned out to celebrate a new home in Venice, Calif., the attraction wasn’t just the company and the architectural detail. The house boasted the builders’ equivalent of a three-star Michelin rating: a LEED platinum certificate.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 12 weeks 2 days 10 hours 30 minutes ago
After plenty of spring rain, gardens are growing lushly again, a contrast with last summer's drought. So it's time to get back to normal garden management activities. That means you should deadhead flowers, encourage summer blooms, prune shrubs, fertilize, weed, monitor pests, and cut dead...(more)
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Vanessa and Jim Graziano walked appreciatively around the small Loudoun County house decorated in tasteful beige and ocher furnishings. Wine bottles sat enticingly on the granitelike countertops. A spacious wooden porch framed the front door. But it was the more mundane details that grabbed their...(more)
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A surprising number of appliances in the home need to be vented to the outside to get rid of toxic fumes.
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submitted by Julia Leigh 8 weeks 1 day 18 hours 7 minutes ago
In rebuilding the Oakland and Berkeley hills after the big 1991 fire, people faced nearly identical circumstances. They were all building in the same era, in the same climate and on similar terrain. Many had experienced the same unspeakable trauma. Stronger codes after the fire meant...(more)
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A well-researched landscape design can go a long way toward lowering energy costs and putting homegrown food on the table. Nature has given us the tools to save money while being environmentally conscious. Focus on alleviating or harnessing the power of the sun. Your house...(more)
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A young bunny munching on grass is barely aware of the audience he attracts while he eats lunch. Bees buzz everywhere. A butterfly lands on a flower to sit and sip a while. It's yet another day in the new Habitat Garden at Busch Gardens...(more)
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submitted by Jenna 71 weeks 11 hours 42 minutes ago
CAN size matter too much? A lot of the furniture, lighting and accessories unveiled by the world's best-known designers here proved this equation: Accessible technology plus bloated ego equals big mistake.
Too often, good design took a back seat to folly at the home furnishings extravaganza. There...(more)
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