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How do you shift your home in the credit crunch. Desperate vendors are trying some unusual methods.
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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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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)
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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)
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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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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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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)
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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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submitted by Robby for team staff news 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.
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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)
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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)
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