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December 2008
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12.23.08Kitchen Remodel Opens Up Work Space Without Enlarging Room
Kitchen Remodeling (3)Kathy Price-Robinson Los Angeles Times Shortly after Vicki Reitz and her husband bought a 2,500-square-foot postwar, split-level home in Burbank for $590,000, he asked her for a divorce and moved out. Not long after that, the interior designer decided to buy herself a Porsche Carrera and embark on a remodeling project on the 1947 Midcentury Modern. Among her goals: remake the dated kitchen (remodeled in the 1980s) into an elegant and functional cook's space, a project she completed in June. "I'm a serious baker," said Reitz, whose grandfather was a bread baker for Helms Bakery. "I make wicked lemon curd custard." Other specialties she makes ...
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12.22.08As Temps Drop, Simple Ways to Keep Cold Out
Uncategorized (0)Charles Ewing WGHP Fox-8 HIGH POINT, N.C. -- A chilly draft around doors and windows can put you in a deep freeze and send shivers through your wallet. But a few simple and inexpensive upgrades can make a huge difference in the temperature in home while reducing your heating needs by 10 percent. Weather stripping and window wraps can help keep cold air from coming in the most obvious places: your windows and doors. Kits are available for as little as $2 per window or door. Don't overlook outlets and light switches, which contain openings that also let cold air. Inexpensive covers for those are ...
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12.19.08Feeling Moody? Maybe It’s the Color of Your Room
Painting (0)Maureen Patzer Gannett News Service Would you consider painting your kitchen cabinets bright purple with lime green accents, your media room sunflower yellow or your bathroom cherry-blossom red? Kim Brooks and her husband embraced those very colors and began splashing vibrant hues throughout their South Nash-ville, Tenn., loft. Opting to design their living space around bold color, Brooks said, proved a logical and satisfying choice. "We needed our home to feel completely different from our office," said Brooks, who owns the Finer Things Gallery along with her husband, artist Rusty Wolfe. "The gallery is a gorgeous space, but the walls are white, the ceilings ...
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12.19.08Winterizing Your Landscaping
Landscaping (0)KCEN-TV The cold snap earlier this week may have affected some landscaping, but Central Texas gardeners say there's still a lot to do to winterize your yard. Old Man Winter didn't wait for the official start of the season to bring us our first freeze, but other past conditions could also affect how you’re landscaping looks right now. Bobby Storm owns Storm's Nursery in Waco. He says "A lot of times the drought's effect on the plant may not show up for a year, two years even three or four years." Storm says Central Texans need to keep their plants and shrubs ...
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12.09.08‘Green’ a Growing Kitchen Trend
Green Remodeling, Kitchen Remodeling (1)Alex Vega Associated Press In any home remodeling project, the kitchen typically gets more than its share of attention - and budget - even more so when it comes to an environmentally-friendly overhaul. From countertops, to cabinetry and electricity chugging appliances, options to reduce the carbon imprint of your kitchen abound. Before diving into a full-home green renovation, however, experts suggest leaving the kitchen for last. For one, sealing windows, upgrading the home heating system and insulation can have more of an impact on energy efficiency than anything done in the kitchen. Another reason: money. On a square-foot basis, kitchen remodels can easily end up eating much ...
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12.08.08Is Your Roof Weatherproof?
Roofing (1)Jim Walker Santa Clarita Valley Signal So, OK, maybe this story catches you a little late. With the bit of rain we had just before Thanksgiving, you may have found out the hard way that your roof needs attention. Our best intentions here at The Signal were to warn you about this after those high winds we had, and before the first rains came. Best laid plans. But those rains weren't all that heavy, so you could still potentially have a problem in a downpour, even if you didn't have a leak with the last storm. Did the winds damage your roof? Has time ...
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12.01.08Bathroom Design Looks to Combine Ease of Use with Pleasing Aesthetics
Basement Remodeling (0)Seth Augenstein New Jersey Herald SPARTA -- Statistics say we all spend about seven years of our lives there. Yet, the bathroom -- or lavatory, powder room, water closet, or whatever else you may prefer to call it -- is an absolutely vital part of modern life, no matter who you are. And no matter who you are, you will soon notice they are changing. Bathrooms are undergoing an evolution of sorts that aims to make this most basic of places available, appealing and adaptable to anybody and everybody. The concept is "universal design," and experts said its underlying philosophy is to ...
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12.01.08Cookin’ in the Updated Kitchen
Kitchen Remodeling (1)David Sharos Naperville Sun Rather than move, folks are choosing to improve. Home and kitchen remodeling services have been on the upswing for some time as owners are looking more and more to update their homes and increase their value, rather than sell and move out or up. The recent housing market slump has actually been a boom to Chris and Cheryl Catalano, owners of Kitchen Solvers of Naperville, a franchise full-service kitchen and bath remodeling business the couple brought to Naperville almost a decade ago. The couple began their business initially in Westchester before they came to Naperville, a decision based on the ...
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