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Funky shower curtain | Bathroom ideas
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Looking for inspirational bathroom ideas? Brighten up your scheme with a funky shower curtain. We love this 'singing in the rain' design from presentprovider.com. Not only is it a bargain at £12.75, it's a great way to inject some humour into your home.

Eco-friendly outdoor paints
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Give your outdoor living space a paint makeover Looking to update your garden? A lick of paint can work wonders in your outdoor space, so get creative with this season's hottest shades. We love the new exterior paint range from Earthborn Paints. Not only

A passion for paint
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In a town where politics is often the main dinner dish, it's refreshing to find a Washington household where the merits of August Morning vs. Asbury Sand can stir up a spirited debate. Those Benjamin Moore paint names are frequently on the menu when

Color tips
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Eliza and Adam McGraw are fearless when it comes to choosing paint colors. Here is their philosophy and some practical advice on selecting colors yourself. Find colors from your past that inspire you. The McGraws drew from their childhood rooms and every

What's new in paint products
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Dial it in: A new breed of iPhone applications has taken paint planning to a new level of interactivity. For example, snap a photo of your room with your phone, then use PaintingWalls to see how different colors will look on the walls. Build a replica of

Tweet about paint
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We recently started a conversation on Twitter about paint color by adding #PostPaint @_chrissyb_ @JuraKoncius @ColorSizzle @AprilDecorates -- J.K. and M.B. And check out these top paint blogs: Bossy Color Color Me Happy Living Color

$30,000 Backyard Makeover
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TruGreen, a company synonymous with lush, verdant lawns and gardens is sponsoring a sweepstakes to help homeowners get the backyards of their dreams. Enter the TruGreen Ultimate Backyard Makeover Sweepstakes and you could win a $30,000 Lowe’s gift card

10 wild tulips to flower from March til June
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Last spring, we went as a family to Crete to get some sun and look at wild flowers. The most spectacular find in a week of plant riches was a small hilltop above Spili, in the middle of the island, carpeted with tulips. It was the species tulip, Tulipa

Home Theater Term of the Week - Decibels (db)
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A Decibel is a measurement of Sound level. Our ears detect changes in volume in a non-linear fashion. A decibel is a logarithmic scale of loudness. A difference of 1 decibel is the minimum perceptible change in volume, 3 db is a moderate change, and 6

Consumer Alert: Harman Kardon To Provide HDMI 1.4a Upgrade For Select Home Theater Receivers
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In a surprise announcement, Harman Kardon is providing owners of three of its current home theater receivers (AVR2600, 3600, and 7550HD) a firmware upgrade that will enable HDMI 1.4a 3D compatibility. Ordinarily, upgrading HDMI 1.3a to HDMI 1.4a is not

Letting nature be your guide
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Joe Fletcher Photography If there's one thing the houses featured on the American Institute of Architects' Marin Home Tour teach us, it's how to work with, not against, nature when crafting dwellings. Each of the five homes on the May 15 tour embraces

Bye bye blackbird
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A creamy carpet of nodding wood anenomes, a riot of sunshine yellow celandine, with sprays of pear blossom in plenty on all three espaliers. After a never-ending Siberian-style winter, signs of early summer have finally made it over the North Sea to the

Choose Copper for the Kitchen or Bath
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When it comes time to replace a kitchen or bath sink, bathtub, or counter top, you might focus on the obvious stainless steel or porcelain. But there is another popular choice that can add character and warmth to your space - copper. The warm tones of

The Bench That’s Boss
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One of the most underappreciated tenets of good interior design is the ability to edit. (As I packed and unpacked boxes for last weekend’s big move, I realized that it’s a skill I should dutifully work on acquiring.) Because we have access to so many

Storage ideas | WEBCHAT | housetohome
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<a href='http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=1300a944a5' >Storage ideas for every room</a>

Our dog eats her feces
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Q: We feed our 4-year-old dog dry dog food and her bowl is kept full, so why does she regularly eat her own feces? How can we get her to stop? A: Coprophagia (the act of eating stool) is a common problem. Before starting treatment as a behavioral...

Hurricane blows in a loving orange ball of fur
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Anna Peskoe Bubba, named after Bill Clinton, arrived a year after Hurricane Andrew. Labor Day 1993 in Homestead, Fla., one year after Hurricane Andrew, at that time the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Then-President Bill Clinton was viewing

Housetohome launches new video channel
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NEW Get DIY advice from the experts and all the latest decorating ideas Housetohomehas launched a brilliant new video channel, packed full of inspirational decorating ideas, celebrity interviews and expert advice. Get tips on how to hang and strip

Avatar Blu-ray Disc Release Puts Spotlight on Firmware Update Issues
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After excitedly purchasing Avatar on Blu-ray, many consumers quickly became disappointed when they got home and found that the disc would not play on their Blu-ray Disc player. Although not an issue with most players, it seems that many players made by

Toshiba 46UX600U LCD NetTV with LED Edge Lighting - Product Review
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The Toshiba 46UX600U is one the new breed of TVs that incorporate network media player/extender capabilities, allowing access to both PC and online-based audio/video content, such as Vudu, Pandora, and podcasts from CNET, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. The

Eat, Pray, Love: Find Balance at Ubud Hanging Gardens
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In her bestselling book, Eat, Pray, Love , which has been made into a movie starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem due for release this summer, author Elizabeth Gilbert travels to Bali to find the balance between pleasure and devotion. Her journey of

Home and garden sites saw traffic drop in March
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Websites including Lakeside.com, eBay Home and the online selling arms of Home Depot and Lowe's and eBay saw traffic drop in - More -

Tell us.
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Our weekly House Calls column invites Washington area readers to submit rooms that need decorating help. Rooms are matched with local designers who propose ideas for a makeover. Submit rooms to makeover@washpost.com. This week's room: An Arlington

Delayed bluebell displays will be glory of the spring
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Each year at many of nature reserves, these jewels of our woodlands come alive, in April and May, and turn forest floors into an ocean of sapphire. According to Brian Eversham, chief executive of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and

Do You Have Bed Bugs?
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Bed bugs have been staging a comeback in recent years. Thanks in part to the ban on DDT, the use of less toxic (but less effective) pesticides, and the rise in international travel, these relentless, resilient, reddish-brown pests are quickly becoming a

In hyacinth heaven
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I've just been on a trip to Holland to visit tulip breeders and - at the end of April - imagined panels of colour as far as I could see. As in Britain, the Dutch spring is at least three weeks late and there was hardly a tulip in sight. Despair or

Reconsider the rhododendron
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When my plane from Edinburgh was cancelled and I had to divert to the train, I realised there was a silver lining to the Icelandic ash cloud: I could bring more plants back as hand luggage. And with my bags bulging with rhododendrons, I wasn't half as