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10/05/2008

It doesn’t take lots of money or high-tech gadgets to discourage burglars
MINNEAPOLIS — You might expect a tightwad like me to recommend a cheap home security device. Guilty as charged. Spending $1,000 or more on a real burglar alarm seems like overkill when you can get the job done for much less with good locks and a few fakes.

Barrels of Fun
WAYNE TOWNSHIP, Ohio Chris Deffenbaugh can’t bear to see reusable materials go to waste.

Tents and canopies bring shade to backyard gatherings

It’s fall and time to clean up the mess from summer
ALBANY, N.Y. — You may want to fight it, but summer is over, and it’s time to start preparing your home for fall. Here are a few things to do around the house this month:

Use floor lamps to shine light on rooms that lack ceiling fixtures
Chances are that if you own an older home, your living room has never had a ceiling-light fixture.

Bench seating at the dinner table is stylish, popular and practical
It was Easter Sunday, circa 1995, and my mother had tolerated her dining table situation for the last time. The rectangular, drop-leaf, six-capacity table where we had eaten so many meals was no longer practical for our family of eight. Seven-year-old Hayley, the youngest of her six daughters, was making do squeezing around corners every night, but it wouldn’t be long before her string-bean stature — and appetite — would require more seating space, more table room, and more time at the table.

09/28/2008

Make sure you’re ready before buying first house
WASHINGTON — The decision about whether to buy a first home is complex. You need to consider the state of your finances, how well you understand the process and even the stability of your romantic life.

Tend to basics before putting your house on the market
PHILADELPHIA — A colleague has decided to downsize to a condo and has added her house to the substantial existing-home inventory in Philadelphia.

Disco-era decor is mushrooming
Have furniture designers been spending their idle hours watching Swingtown? The high-end pieces now arriving at the Boston Design Center have the unmistakable look of furniture and textiles inspired by the sophisticated side of the 1970s.

Outsourcing the news won’t really work for Rhode Island
I saw an article the other day saying that outsourcing has come to the newsroom. Reuters now has reporters in India filing U.S. business stories to U.S. publications, while various newspapers here have “offshored” editing and press release rewrites to low-wage countries to save costs.

Outsourcing the news won’t really work for Rhode Island
I saw an article the other day saying that outsourcing has come to the newsroom. Reuters now has reporters in India filing U.S. business stories to U.S. publications, while various newspapers here have “offshored” editing and press release rewrites to low-wage countries to save costs.

Modernism’s midlife crisis in the age of Ikea
WASHINGTON Thousands of homes in the region — joining 198 million others around the world — recently received the new Ikea catalog. For many of us, it has become the season’s most gripping bathroom read. The clean lines of the new Pax wardrobe, with its sleek Ardal glass doors, demand to be admired. At $5, Ikea’s Evert stool empties piggy banks, not bank accounts.

The humble shed gets a makeover as office, den and guest cottage
NEW YORK Three years after renovating their 1903 brownstone in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Greg and Cheyenne Morris turned their attention to their backyard, which contained an odd assortment of disused items — sinks, toilets, Virgin Mary statuettes, wheels from street vendor carts and a moldering stucco garden shed. They cleaned up the yard, made preparations to demolish the shed and asked an architect to draft plans for a free-standing studio to be used as a bedroom and office.

Banishing odors from a smelly fridge
Folks who lose power, after a storm or from another outage, are left with a lingering problem: refrigerator odor.

Kovel: Vintage inkwells are a hot collectible

New coat of color gives instant face-lift to a dowdy room
In these tough economic times, sprucing up your home might be the last thing on your mind — or in your budget.

09/21/2008

Front-loader owners raise a stink; Smelly- Washer to the rescue!
MINNEAPOLIS Appliance repairman Paul Flynn, of Savage, Minn., was getting calls from customers suffering allergic reactions to their foul-smelling front-loading washing machines. During nearly every $150 service call, Flynn found mold and mildew inside the inner tub.

All Fired Up
SEAGROVE, N.C.

The cold hard facts about home freezers
Sales of freezers are up, according to Mike Goodwin, merchandising director of appliances/food preservation for Lowe’s Companies Inc., which operates more than 1,575 home-improvement stores across the United States and Canada. Goodwin attributes the rise to the increase in energy costs and grocery prices, which have people organizing their trips to stores and buying in bulk.

California family lives in ‘Mr. Blandings’ Dream House’
FRESNO, Calif. — The moment Ed and Margaret Lujano walked into the white colonial house at Terrace and Palm avenues in Fresno 14 years ago, it became their very own dream house.

Spare the caulk and pay the price this winter
Winter brings cleansing rains, billowing snow, crystal clear star-filled evening skies — and energy bills that can choke a horse.

Old-fashioned baby furniture finds new life in today’s nurseries
Design-conscious parents who want the best for their children are looking for contemporary furniture pieces that may someday be heirlooms.