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Giving Your Wood Deck New Life!
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Last week I described how to brighten a deck. This week I'll describe the entire deck refinshing process. Deck refinishing includes several steps such as: inspection, basic deck board repair and replacement (if needed), initial deck board cleaning, deep

Setting Up Your Home Theater System: About.com Video Tip
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Are you confused as to how far you need to sit from your TV, or projection screen, and where to place your loudspeakers so that they can sound their best? If so, check out an easy-to-understand video tip on setting your screen distance and loudspeakers

Onkyo Announces Two New 3D-Enabled Network Home Theater Receivers For Fall
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Onkyo has just announced two new high-end home theater receivers (TX-NR3008, TX-NR5008) that are sure to please technophiles. These receivers offer so many features I can only touch the tip of the iceberg in this blog post. First off, all three receivers

USDA agencies plant 'People's Gardens' in Nebraska
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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced recently that 'People's Gardens' now exist in all 50 states, two U.S. territories, and three foreign countries. USDA agencies in Nebraska have planted more than 20 People's Gardens across the state. To date,

Summer heat, dry spells don't have to halt gardening
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About one-fourth of the state already is abnormally dry and the rest is bracing for the usual summer scorch, but a gardening expert with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service said your garden can still thrive under these conditions. Don Wilkerson, Ph. D.,

A consumer craving for classical comfort
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Gregorius Pineo The Kepler Hanging Lantern. When Corte Madera's Restoration Hardware revamped its look last year, designers and consumers alike instantly took note. After previewing the collection, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, the founder of design blog

More than meets the eye
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Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle Jon Chester and Sharon Bliss with son Chester Bliss pose in front of their home in Bayview that, from the street, still looks like a small, wooden cottage. But from the back it soars three stories in a tower that contains three

Designed for entertaining
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John Sutton Photography The owners built this Sonoma County home from the ground up, choosing a 17-acre spot in Healdsburg surrounded by rolling hills and vineyards. When a Novato couple went looking for a home in Sonoma County, a

A landmark move
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Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Ed Hardy in the courtyard of his antiques gallery, soon to be the home of Restoration Hardware's San Francisco flagship. Restoration Hardware has purchased the Italianate palazzo that was home to the Ed Hardy

Old World Gardening Ideas
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Home & Lifestyle> Gardening > Garden Themes Want to create a garden with plenty of old world cottage charm? Use these tips for flowers, arrangements and garden decorations as a guide for creating your garden. Moss covered rocks are an essential

JULY LANDSCAPE & GARDENING CALENDAR
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June was unusually hot. But July is when it's really time to sit in the shade and think cool thoughts: sweet iced tea and icy lemonade, crisp green salads, ice-cold watermelon and homemade ice cream. When the temperatures rise into the mid-90s and the

Garden design ideas | Garden webchat, Friday 9th July, 1pm | housetohome
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Looking for garden design ideas and gardening tips? Get your garden questions ready for expert, Anne MacCaig, Friday 9th at 1pm. As a former TV gardener for UK Style's 'Model Gardens', Anne helped design and construct 28 gardens, so she'll have plenty of

Prince of Wales counts flowers in his garden
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The eccentric gardening habits of the Prince have been disclosed by Debs Goodenough, his head gardener at Highgrove in Gloucestershire. The Prince also insists on pruning the trees himself, keeps a duck to eat the slugs and has wild thyme planted on the

Carl Warner's fantastic food landscapes
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Commissioned by a butter company in Finland, this early scene was inspired by both the landscapes of Ansel Adams from Yosemite Valley and the yellow brick road from the wizard of Oz. Carl will be at Hampton Court Palace Show in the Growing Tastes tent

Space solves: Small lamp shades and exposed brickwork
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I have a standard lamp in my small front room. The lamp doesn't look right with a small shade, but a large shade means the lamp has to be placed a fair way from the wall, which is a waste of space. Can I get a shade with a flat side, or two flat sides,

Interiors: Design stars of the future
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One Year On is an annual showcase of hot new design talent. Focusing on work by designers 12 months after graduation, it covers every discipline from furniture to graphics and offers savvy consumers the chance to snap up a future classic. We've had a

July gardening essentials
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July is a difficult month in Bay Area gardens. In coastal areas, the sun will bake the garden for a few days in true summer fashion, and then the fog will rush in, bringing cool, misty weather and a good dose of mildew. Farther inland, gardeners must

Textiles 101: Care, storage and lighting
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in San Francisco, Calif., is in this week's Stylemaker Spotlight. Over the past 22 years, Kathleen Taylor has established herself as the go-to person in the design industry for antique textiles - often hung on a wall as artwork, used to upholster

Outdoor rugs add pattern to natural setting
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Outdoor rooms are no longer complete without a rug. "They're a fun way to add pattern to a natural setting," says Maine designer Angela Adams, who recently introduced an outdoor rug collection to her line of casually elegant furniture, fabric, bedding

Restoration Hardware's landmark move
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Restoration Hardware has purchased the Italianate palazzo that was home to the Ed Hardy antiques gallery. The South of Market landmark, with its elegant garden courtyard, will reopen in mid September as the Corte Madera company's first San Francisco

Custom, spec or tract: Which house fits you?
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Buying a new house means making lots of choices. But long before you choose between Roman and roller shades, you make the biggest decision: Should you buy a custom, spec or tract house? The choice depends on your schedule, budget and personality. Buying

EMP Tek Impression Series Home Theater Speaker Package - Product of the Week
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Finding a home theater speaker system that sounds great, looks great with your home decor, and is priced right, is not always easy. If you are looking for new set of loudspeakers for your home theater, you might want to check out the stylish and great

Clever ideas for window coverings
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Mix and match fabric and accessories for fabulous blinds When you're decorating a room don't forget the impact the window coverings you choose can make. A new range of blinds from The Fabric Box make it easier to customise your window treatments to

Win £1,000 to spend at Warren Evans
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36 BST Warren Evans has teamed up with the Guardian to give one lucky reader £1,000 to spend in-store across the entire Warren Evans range of handmade quality beds, mattresses and furniture. Using only Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood and

Good morning, sunshine
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At the allotment at 8am to do some watering, move some tagetes and to think about fertilizing with nettle tea, Though possibly not a good idea as Allan and I are to attend a funeral later in the morning, and the smell tends to follow you around for a

The Sound Bar Option
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You just purchased that fabulous big-screen flat panel TV, and now that you have it all set up it really does look great, but it sounds terrible. Let's face it, a TV's built-in speaker system usually sounds anemic at best and downright unintelligible at

Lowe’s or Home Depot
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Sometimes I feel like my home renovation project is a life sentence and my conjugal visits are spent at the hardware store. In addition to the many specialty stores I visit to find just what I need, I spend a good deal of time bouncing back and forth

Fab kitchen ideas on a budget
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From cheap and cheerful kitchen updates to instructions for making a cushion, here's what we loved on the blogs this week! Not had a chance to read the blogs this week? Tut tut - here's what you missed... Jenn at roomenvy got us all excited with these