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Tackling Pet 'Fur'stration and More Tips for Living with Pets

“Would you please stop shedding?” I beg Luke, our 55-pound hound mix (Great Pyrenees, German Shepherd, Chow Chow, Bassett hound and a few...

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Home Buying in a Sellers’ Market

I went house hunting last weekend. No, not for me. I tagged along with my daughter and her fiancé, who are moving from Texas to Colorado...

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Handmade Quilts Soften Edges in High-Tech Homes

I don’t know about you, but my weekly screentime hours are embarrassingly excessive. The more attention I pay to my electronic devices,...

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Feeling Crafty? 7 Tips to Setting up a Home Hobby Room

“A room of one’s own,” author Virginia Woolf declared back in 1929 was a must if a woman was going to be a writer. Nearly 100 years...

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Pandemic Prompts Big Boom in Homemade Crafts

And here’s one more good result born out of the pandemic. Many more people started using their hands and hearts to make crafts at home....

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Murphy Beds Go From Slapstick to Sophisticated

Just the name Murphy bed makes me laugh. It conjures memories of hilarious scenes in slapstick comedies, where the beds, possessed with...

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Home Librarian Judges Books by Their Covers and More

Forget sizing people up by their clothes, cars, or careers. You want to know someone? Look at their books. What people choose to fill...

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Single and Living Solo, and That's How We Like It

As long as we’re celebrating the month of love, I thought this would be a good time to speak out on behalf of the 36 million singles out...

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Hutch Makeover: Five Steps to Add Pizzazz to Display Cabinets

Here’s the problem with being a home design columnist who talks to a lot of creative people who have good taste and good ideas: Once you...

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Design Podcast Pulls Back Curtain on TV Home Makeover Shows

“Those TV home makeovers that happened in a one-hour episode? People don’t realize, I had a crew of 100, and it took us a week to do one...