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Interior designers: Many ways to cut energy costs |
11-04-09 |
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Interior designers: Many ways to cut energy costs
MELISSA RAYWORTH,For The Associated Press
When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like... |
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A 'Well-Dressed Home' complements the closet |
10-29-09 |
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| NEW YORK (AP) — Are you a T-shirt-and-jeans person with a chintz living room, or someone who loves the structure of a suit but wakes up in a shabby chic bedroom?
The decorating world is shif... |
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RIGHT AT HOME: The nursery gets back to basics |
10-29-09 |
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| Once upon a time, the ideal for a child's room was a cozy haven filled with sturdy push-pull toys, handmade dolls and a few baskets of dress-up clothes.
That was before batteries, computer program... |
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Just for show: Fall decorating relies on veggies |
10-29-09 |
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| Fall is a busy time for decorating, second only to Christmas, and the period when vegetables are valued more for their beauty than their flavor.
Back when America was largely rural, bringing in th... |
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These walls were made for planting |
10-23-09 |
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| Let's plant a stone wall.
If only that were as simple as dropping a row of pebbles in the ground, stepping back, and waiting a few weeks or months for a wall to appear. But, of course, w... |
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Easy practices to reduce outdoor water waste |
10-23-09 |
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| The average American homeowner uses about 89,100 gallons of water a year on the outside of the home.
As more people switch to eco-friendly and energy-efficient practices, they're discoveri... |
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Lowe's 1Q profit falls, but tops Wall Street view |
10-23-09 |
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| MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Lowe's Cos., the nation's second biggest home improvement chain, said Monday that its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 22 percent but beat Wall Street's expectations ... |
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Lawmakers flood House with pet highway projects |
10-23-09 |
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| WASHINGTON (AP) — There are lots of bridges to cross and roads to travel for lawmakers bent on ending the time-honored practice of funneling money to their home states: at least 6,800 of them... |
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Recession may be near bottom, new data suggest |
10-23-09 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — New signals the recession could be nearing a bottom emerged Wednesday in figures showing that orders to U.S. factories surged last month for everything from computers to a... |
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Union: Shreveport GM plant to shut by 2012 |
10-23-09 |
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| General Motors Corp. plans to close its assembly and stamping plants in Shreveport, La., no later than June 2012, a union official said Wednesday.
Doug Ebey, the president of United Auto Workers L... |
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