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So you’ve scrubbed the grout with a toothbrush, bleached every speck from the vanity, wiped that mirror till your arms ache. What a way to spend a Friday night. (Though honestly, you can’t take those cleaning-supply-ravaged hands out in public anyway.)
The grim economy is prompting more and more unlikely homeowners to turn their extra rooms into cash. Have you recently taken on a housemate – or moved into someone’s home – to save money? If so, how has it gone? What advice would you give others about making a housemate situation work well? Send your comments to ddemarest@theolympian.com by 10 a.m. Monday.
The English are the best gardeners in the world.
Spring color and fragrance from bulbs is far from our minds when all we see is the funny dried, brown things in garden stores.
If you are like me, holidays seem to arrive out of nowhere and suddenly I’m expecting a house full of relatives and wondering when I’m going to get the food shopping in.
The second week of November is a light bulb moment – think about bulbs this week and it will be light on your budget.
Staging a home for sale can set it apart from the competition and make it inviting to the greatest number of buyers. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has these suggestions for staging your home for less than $1,000.
Lifestyle guru Susie Coelho believes that in this depressed economy, now is the time to expand rather than contract your lives. Just do it with an eye toward the green of nature rather than of money.
What's new: New tool offers 16 socket sizes
TOKYO – During his lunch breaks, Hayato Kashiwagi slips out of his office in Tokyo and heads for a nearby building where, on the rooftop three stories up, he tends a garden teeming with vegetables.
A half-dozen women glide through the water, forming and reforming in kaleidoscopic patterns.
The visual warmth of a spectacular sunburst and slender crescent moon emanates from the entryway floor in Bonnie Wyatt’s home in Seattle.
Nothing says English gardens like the fragrant, double-flowering David Austin roses. One can purchase David Austin roses at local nurseries, but it was with great delight that our garden-loving travel group made a pilgrimage in September to the original David Austin rose garden and nursery in Albrighton, England.
Interior designer Barbara Barry’s style evokes classic Hollywood stars Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn: serene, sophisticated, timeless. The female form inspires her furniture designs.
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