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Five novel ways to sell your house

a shared story    7 hours 42 minutes ago
How do you shift your home in the credit crunch. Desperate vendors are trying some unusual methods.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Renovating a French Mill

a shared story    4 weeks 5 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
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.   comments (0)  | report problem



Training the Climbers: A Guide to Vines

a shared story    5 weeks 3 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
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)  comments (0)  | report problem



Associations Suffer as Homeowners Do

a shared story    2 days 5 hours 42 minutes ago
Shirley McCoy stopped paying her homeowners association fee six months ago. She figured she was doing the job the association should be -- filing complaints against neighbors who violated the rules, cutting the lawn of the foreclosed house next door and picking up litter in...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem



A Lesson in 'Rainscaping': Building a Garden That Makes the Best Use of Water

a shared story    2 weeks 3 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
It's been raining a lot lately, this being hurricane season. While it's good to leave our drought of the past three years behind, it's clear that sudden drenching rains, or sustained heavy rain, can cause flooding and serious damage. When water falls too hard or...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem



Four tips to save home energy and your money

a shared story    4 weeks 1 day 21 hours 42 minutes ago
Many Americans spent the summer struggling to fill their tanks as the price of gas topped $4 a gallon. Added to that worry this ...   comments (0)  | report problem


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The New Trophy Home, Small and Ecological

a shared story    15 weeks 2 days 15 hours 18 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.  comments (0)  | report problem



Kitchen Design That Evokes and Invites Movement

a shared story    2 weeks 3 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
Last week, I saw the most remarkable kitchen I have ever encountered. It looked as though a dancer or a sculptor designed it. On one side of a simple galley arrangement, the cabinets were held in the embrace of a thick, curved, black walnut butcher-block...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Reinventing the Mobile Home

a shared story    6 weeks 6 hours 42 minutes ago
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)  comments (0)  | report problem



The Fix: Venting the House to Keep It Safe

a shared story    11 weeks 5 days 6 hours 42 minutes ago
A surprising number of appliances in the home need to be vented to the outside to get rid of toxic fumes.   comments (0)  | report problem



Do It Yourself

a shared story    2 weeks 3 days 12 hours 42 minutes ago
Q. We want to get new windows for our house and are considering either new-construction windows (replacing jambs, sills and all) or just so-called replacement windows. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type of window? -- J. Hoffman A. I think replacement windows...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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Organizing the Garage Without Pain

a shared story    3 weeks 3 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
Few household activities inspire more dread than reorganizing the garage. Americans' garages are filled with the requirements and detritus of daily life -- paint cans, golf bags, bicycles, dusty trophies, power tools, old clothes, boxes of moldy magazines. Sometimes it gets so stuffed that the...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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