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French Countryside in Your Very Own Home
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When you think of Provence and the French countryside, you're sure to see lavender fields and bright sunshine. While there are many elements that contribute to the French Country style of decorating, the resulting look is always rustic, old-world, and

Fix Your Garbage Disposal and Save $150
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Garbage disposals are the kitchen's workhorse but they love to quit just after a big dinner you've hosted for family or friends. But repairing them can be surprisingly easy and you can do it. I'll show you how make the repairs you need quickly and

Style on a budget
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After several years of subletting furnished apartments, Theresa Gonzalez was ready to sign the lease on her own place. In August, she got the keys to a 500-square-foot one-bedroom in Pacific Heights - a rental blessed with high ceilings, plenty of

Panasonic Admits Possible Diminished Plasma Black Levels
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One of the advantages of Plasma over LCD touted by manufacturers, press, and consumers over the years is the deeper black levels that Plasma TV technology can produce. However, with increased use of LED backlighting and local dimming, LCD TV technology

Blu-ray Disc Netflix Subscribers Grow to 1.23 Million in 2009
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Despite some doubters and increased competition from internet streaming, Blu-ray is not only on a steady growth path in player and disc sales, but also in rentals, especially with Netflix subscribers. For more details, check out the report from Home

East Texas Spring Landscape and Gardening Conference set Feb. 13
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Home>> Archives >> Stories Texas Feral hogs and vegetables are commonly not topics for the annual East Texas Spring Landscape and Gardening Conference, but times are changing, say horticulturalists. 'Recent national surveys and local

Sit on a masterpiece
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Last year, my sister bought a house. It was a real fixer: popcorn ceilings, a different grubby carpet in every room and termite damage. After her inspection, she found more things wrong. So she asked for a cash concession from the sellers. They weren't

Success in her second career
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Recommended reading: "Design blogs - like Habitually Chic by Heather Clawson, All the Best by Ronda Carman and Decor8 by Holly Becker - are terrific sources for new products and fresh design." (habituallychic.blogspot.com, www.allthebestblog.com,

Scrape away the muck and start planting bright-white snowdrops to give your garden new life
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The bad weather over the past month hasn't yet finished making a mess. Even after the snow has retreated, you are left with a garden that looks as if a rotting plague has just passed through it. Something about the combined action of frost and wind has

Suitcase Table Craft
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suitcase table, craft, step 2, top plate, drill, screws suitcase table craft step 2 Place the cut-out piece on top of a tall stool, then place the suitcase on top of the cutout. (This will push the board up against the bottom of the suitcase so you can

8 Bay Area designers' furniture lines
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Last year, my sister bought a house. It was a real fixer: popcorn ceilings, a different grubby carpet in every room and termite damage. After her inspection, she found more things wrong. So she asked for a cash concession from the sellers. They weren't

Furnishing with style on a budget
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After several years of subletting furnished apartments, Theresa Gonzalez was ready to sign the lease on her own place. In August, she got the keys to a 500-square-foot one-bedroom in Pacific Heights - a rental blessed with high ceilings, plenty of

The nutrition-packed fruit is a big boost to the garden as a pretty hedge or potted shrub
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It's time to plant blueberries. The plants, above, like acidic soil, wood-shavings mulch, plenty of water and good drainage. Get ready to catch those blues. Power-packed with antioxidants, blueberries are touted as a "super food," credited by medical

Onkyo TX-SR607 Home Theater Receiver - Product of the Week
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The Onkyo TX-SR607 7.2 Channel Home Theater Receiver brings high-end audio and video performance, as well as flexibility, at an extremely affordable price. This receiver is rated to deliver 90 wpc, and features Dolby Digital Plus. Dolby TrueHD, and DTS

Master Gardener: Watering natives
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THE CONTINUING California drought has many people thinking about planting California natives and other drought-tolerant plants. My own journey toward California natives began about 10 years ago when my husband and I purchased a home on a weedy, 1-acre

Telegraph Chelsea gardener: "For my sons to lose their mother so young seems grossly unfair."
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Andy Sturgeon, the designer responsible for this years Telegraph garden at the , returned late home to Brighton after a meeting last June. Sarah, his partner, was already asleep so he watched a film on the sofa, and dozed off. The next morning, after a

Home and Garden Calendar: Feb. 6-12
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TODAY Farm Riverside Arts Market, San Marco's Market, Cold Weather Containers Garden Tour, Great Outdoor Adventure Tree Festival, Oakleaf Green Market, TUESDAY Jacksonville Orchid Society Meeting WEDNESDAY Canning Workshop: Sweetheart Jam, Fun with

Garden Q&A: Planting flowers you can eat
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I have read topics in your column about edible landscaping. Specifically, I'd like to plant edible flowers. Can you give me suggestions? While edible flowers might not be for everyone, especially for those with hay fever, asthma or allergies, there is a

Gardening: Lawn and garden do's and don'ts for February
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February usually marks the last real month of winter in our area. In some years it is bright, sunny and warm for weeks, but we should not allow ourselves to do too much, thinking winter is over. We can still have that last hard freeze into April, but at

Comparing indoor swings
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If your Valentine's Day tradition consists of an all-black ensemble and an existential crisis, we say: It's time for a pick-me-up. Way up. We've rounded up our favorite indoor swings - designs that can be mounted to your ceiling and enjoyed solo. To

New sofa concept - change it every day
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If you think every version of plywood and foam sofa has already been created, think again. Israeli designer Ron Arad, who lives and works in London and who, enabled by computers, creates organic designs that challenge norms of form and material use, has

February garden tasks
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Our typical February brings heavy rain, freezing temperatures and one or two deceptively warm days of false spring. Now is the time to complete winter tasks in preparation for our real spring. The approach of spring sends early-blooming plants into bud -

Vernon Applegate creates Hillsborough Hip home
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Call it Hillsborough Hip. Or in the words of the homeowner: "Rock star meets fashion designer meets pop artist." Interior designer Vernon Applegate's latest project is a departure from the traditional Mediterranean and stately Tudor homes he has worked

Monty Don on Mastercrafts
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Its about self-reliance, says Monty Don emphatically. If the world is at best changing, and at worst crumbling all around you, youve got to look after yourself, youve got to be able to do things. The broadcaster, writer and perennially popular gardener

Interiors: Fabrics and wallpapers
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Walls and floor papered in Contour 60645, £39/10m, from the Virtue Collection by Harlequin. Side table (made from two cable reels) covered in Porden wallpaper, £43/10m, from Designers Guild. Cindy table lamp, £125, by Kartell, from Heal's.

Let's move to Machynlleth, Powys
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What's going for it? Where oh where, oh great sage of the byways of Britain, I am occasionally (OK, once) asked, may one reside in a truly ethical manner? Where are there community green energy initiatives, perhaps, water-powered hillside railways,

An Englishman's grain silo is his castle
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From the road the twin towers of Honeycrock farm, with their battlements and arrow-slit windows, are hardly visible. The face the Surrey farm presents to the world is much more ordinary: from the front it appears to be a half-timbered, mock Tudor,

No flowers please: wallpaper exhibition exposes the dark side of the home
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On Oscar Wilde's deathbed it was a case of mortal combat between him and the wallpaper – and the writer lost. Among the wallpapers that can be seen in Manchester from today, in the first major UK exhibition devoted to the subject, there are certainly

Weekend guide to collecting
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It's always a good idea to check ahead to make sure the event information is current. Would you like to have your flea market, estate sale, rummage sale or other antiques and collectibles related event... Friday, February 05, 2010 It's always a good idea

For the calmest garden, just add water
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There is something unequivocally soothing about it. Who among us doesnt immediately feel calmer when gazing out to sea or being lulled by the sound of a waterfall? So its not surprising that water features are one of the best ways of bringing a Zen-like