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Adam Duritz lists Beverly Hills Post Office-area home at $8.25 million
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Adam Duritz, the dreadlocked front man for the Counting Crows, has listed his Beverly Hills Post Office-area home for sale at $8.25 million. The 8,679-square-foot Mediterranean has six bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms and sits on top of a summit overlooking

John McAfee cuts price of Hawaiian home
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There may be just one man whose name flashes across your computer screen more than President Obama's and that's John McAfee's -- whose anti-virus software is probably protecting the very machine you are reading this on. McAfee just lowered the price on

Gas Safe Register replaces CORGI
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Important public safety update As of 1st April this year, Gas Safe Register will be the new name and the official stamp for gas safety in Great Britain and will replace the CORGI gas register. From 1st April, only Gas Safe Register engineers should be

Housetohome gets 'twittering'
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Meet the latest member of social networking site, Twitter Not satisfied with filling you in on our latest stories once a week in our newsletter, we've decided to ?twitter' amongst millions of others on the increasingly popular social networking site,

Adventures in Haggling: The Retailers View
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ARE there bargains to be had in all furniture showrooms these days? The only way to find out, most merchants say, is to ask. It never hurts to ask about price, said Bob Wilms, the sales director of Coup dEtat, a San Francisco shop that sells antiques,

Narcissi
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Delicate, miniature early-flowering narcissi, including the sweetly fragrant Paper Whites, are native to the Mediterranean and will bloom beautifully inside over Christmas, New Year and beyond, bringing the fresh promise of spring Few winter flowers have

Shepherd's huts are the new country accessory
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There's something about a shepherd's hut; something transcendental, some Proustian tug to the past. Once seen, never forgotten and eternally desired. You could imagine Thomas Hardy's Gabriel Oak sitting inside one of these simple little structures,

Silbury Hill mystery soon to be resolved
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It is said that there is a greater concentration of ancient monuments in the Wiltshire countryside between Marlborough and Avebury than anywhere else in Britain. Many present an eternal puzzle to archaeologists as to how and why they came to be, but

Winter salads from the garden
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It never ceases to amaze me that, even with the exceptionally cold weather we've had in the past few weeks, I can still walk outside my kitchen door and pick a trugful of salad and good bunches of several herbs. I don't mean the obvious evergreen herbs

Gardening Tip of the Week
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Ice-melting products containing magnesium or potassium chloride are less damaging to path-side plants and turf than more traditional calcium and sodium chloride salts. Avoid using fertilizers as ice-melting material because they pollute runoff into

Breaking News: House Vote Fails To Delay DTV Transition
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In a failure to get a required two-thirds majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to authorize a delay, the DTV Transition appears to still be on for February 17th, 2009, unless the House decides to reconsider the issue again next week. However,

How Low Will They Go?
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It may be possible for shoppers to take advantage of the economic climate by bargaining with furniture retailers.

A Minimalist Loft, Accessorized Like Its Owner
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A SoHo loft captures the essence of its owner by combining minimalism with dramatic and opulent touches. Member ID orE-Mail Address: Password: Remember me on this computer.

The Meltdown in Home Furnishings
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Many well-known home-related retailers and manufacturers, as well as home design magazines, are faltering in the current economic downturn.

Country Diary: Robin Page welcomes the cold winter
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See you on the ice. As the days lengthen, so the cold strengthens. I hope that old saying comes true again this February. The 'global warmists' claim it won't and the traditional 'long johnists' claim it will. All I know is that after the recent brief

The 10minute gardener: sowing broad beans
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Now is a great time to sow broad beans in deep seed trays or modules if you have a greenhouse, a cold frame or a cool windowsill. They will take about 14 days to germinate and should be ready to plant out in early March for harvesting in late May and

Clean with a passion to keep boredom at bay, housekeepers advise
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Hamburg - A necessary evil, a burdensome duty or simply a source of stress - cleaning house is not everyone's favourite topic. And hardly anyone would think mops and rags could be combined with a wellness programme. But there is another way of thinking

Design classics available on the internet are often knockoffs
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Hamburg - When internet furniture dealers lure buyers with bargain basement prices for alleged design classics, consumers often end up with fakes, an interior design magazine in Germany reported recently. When the internet price is as little as one-third

Designer Yael Aflalo lists Hollywood Hills home at $3,995,000
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L.A. has gone ga-ga over Ya-Ya, and now the designer who created the sportswear line hopes to sell her Hollywood Hills home, just listed at $3,995,000. Fashionista Yael Aflalo is selling a 1930s New England traditional, remodeled in 2007 by the Los

Three Cures for Clutter
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So, you've set up an organized office space. Here's how to keep it that way: Get a handle on mail. 'When you get it, go through it immediately,' says Peggy Hackett, a professional organizer in the District. Pull out the junk mail and put it in the

Fixing Your Computer
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The top-rated computer repair shops (for quality and price) in the D.C. area, according to Consumers' Checkbook magazine (http://www.checkbook.org): BoonPC. Types of equipment repaired: PC desktops, Apple desktops, laptops and printers. 7720 Wisconsin

Two Local Furniture Stores Close
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Two more area furniture stores are going out of business and selling their merchandise at deeply reduced prices. For the past several years, high-end furniture maker Maurice Villency has been consolidating its retail stores to the New York area, because

Blog Watch
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Our pick to click this week: On Pure Style Home (http://purestylehome.blogspot.com), the local blogger and interior designer posts about a recent room redo. A client's spare bedroom that previously did double duty as an office area and workout room is

Molla Space: an international bazaar online
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Modern design enthusiasts have plenty to get excited about here in the Bay Area, but for those who feel they've seen it all, perhaps a leap across the ocean is in order. Luckily, it's not necessary to fly to Japan to look at what's hot there and in other

Roeper furniture fuses wood, metal
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Florian Roeper was born in Heidelberg, Germany, and raised there and in the Bay Area. But he chose to study art in the United States at the California College of the Arts because he knew he could get personal instruction and be able to set up his own

Designing a garden from the ground up
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Most homeowners approach landscape design in a way that is meant to meet their immediate need, whether that is screening, groundcover, shade or flowering plants. The proper approach to landscape design is multidimensional - considering interest on

English obsession with gardening 'prevents improvement of public parks' claims Harvard professor
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Harvard professor Martha Schwartz said the gardening culture has led to a profusion of beautiful private gardens. But policy-makers do not attach so much importance to the aesthetic quality of streets, squares or parks because the public does not demand

Shuttered Publications
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The first one to go was House & Garden. In November 2007, the 106-year-old magazine unexpectedly ceased publication. Soon after, Time Inc.'s In Style Home and Martha Stewart's Blueprint folded, and late last summer, Hachette Filipacchi Media's Home