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Q. DEAR TIM: My ceramic tile shower has severe water damage. I was cleaning the shower when the tile caved in, creating a hole in the wall. How can I install tile in the shower so this will never happen again? Is this a job...(more)
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Julie Deffense, and her husband, Jacques, spent seven years designing and building their house north of Lisbon, incorporating many elements more common in Pennsylvania than Portugal.
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Here's the test: How do you feel when you see a large slope planted with English ivy? If you gasp in horror, you're in the vanguard of the native-plant movement. If you think, "How pretty," you might be aesthetically correct. But, from a practical standpoint,...(more)
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We used to worry about catching a cold from an old house's drafts. Now we worry about losing our shirts. Part of our country's housing stock was built when heating fuel was cheap and insulation unheard of. So present-day folk who assume ownership of older...(more)
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This is a good time to batten down the hatches by caulking, sealing and weather-stripping every cold air entry point of a home.
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Brussels is famous for its tall, narrow town houses, but the slender entrance hall and impossibly high ceilings leading into Justine Glanfield’s home seem almost like a pastiche.
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In the home of Galen Wolfe-Pauly, a third-year architecture student at the Cooper Union, most of the furnishings have been built from found materials.
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Project FeederWatch enlists volunteers to document declines in bird populations — by keeping a record of the birds who show up to dine at their backyard feeders.
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A house that sits atop Point Dume in Malibu, Calif., goes to great lengths to both hide and hint at its payoff.
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In some parts of suburbia, despite the economic downturn, there is still a move afoot to bulldoze the old and start all over again.
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Q: DEAR TIM: The last major storm knocked out my electric power for days. I'm wondering if I should invest in a portable generator or a standby generator. What's the difference? How do you determine what size electric generator to purchase? Do you think I...(more)
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