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Create the Perfect Kid's Room
Redecorating your child's room is more than a way to bring their space up to date. It can also be a great way for you to spend some time with your child, to see how their personal tastes have developed and to teach them some valuable lessons about negotiation as well.
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How to Choose a Style You Will Love to Live In
When you go home at the end of the day, your apartment, condo or house should be your sanctuary; but be honest, is it a place that really feels comfortable and welcomes you? If not, it's time to do something about it.
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The Look of Logs Without the Work
Who doesn't love the romantic look of a log home perched on a prairie or lake? But no one probably enjoys the work involved in maintaining a log home; caulking, chinking, sanding, sealing, staining, cleaning and battling bugs are never-ending chores. It makes you wonder how old Abe Lincoln ever found the time to leave his log home and run for president.
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Everyone Needs a Guardian Angel
This time of year, angels are everywhere - kids make snow angels when they play outside, you may have angel ornaments on your tree and you might even be baking angel shaped cookies. But angels aren't just a holiday phenomenon.
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How to Combine Styles After You Say 'I Do'
In the days leading up to your wedding, you can pretty much count on complications. The caterer calls you up and says he doesn't think he'll be able to find enough lobster tails to fill your order; or all of a sudden your uncle and his family will be coming after all and the priest just got called out of town on a family emergency.
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Real or Not, Fireplaces Add Warmth, Personality to Rooms
Realtors know that fireplaces are one of the most popular amenities buyers look for in a home, whether that fireplace is wood-burning or gas powered. They add a homey touch and are a perfect place to display family photos and holiday decorations. But adding a fireplace can be expensive.
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Let Nature's Renewal Inspire You
The days are getting longer, temperatures are warming up and soon there will be leaves on the trees again. You know what that means - time to redecorate. Every change of season serves as inspiration to make what's old new again.
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Baby Bedding Basics
The nursery at bedtime: Few battlegrounds have hosted more hard-fought wars. Few victories are as sweet as the sight of a sleeping infant. All parents know that getting baby to sleep - so you can sleep too - can be one of the most frustrating trials of parenthood.
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The Art of Decorating Your Child's Room
Decorating a bedroom together can be a great experience for both parent and child. While many young children aren't able to appreciate high design, most kids do know what they like in terms of color and shape. Allowing children to participate in designing their own room helps them express their individuality and experience the creative process |
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Autumn Inspiration: Imaginative Spruce-Ups for Your Yard
With temperatures soaring into the triple digits, nothing is more likely to trigger a mile-long smile than a break from the heat. As the final days of summer flicker away, the promise of cool, crisp fall air awaits. With autumn on the horizon, emerge from the AC and enjoy the outdoors with these inspirational spruce-ups for your yard.
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Five Can't Miss Tips for Brightening Your Bath
Most homeowners know by now that improvements to bathrooms can bring big returns on investment when it comes time to resell a house. But there's another equally compelling, often-overlooked reason to freshen your bath - it just feels good.
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What's Old is New Again
Walk into any recently built house on the Parade of Homes tour and you're likely to find at least one room with a totally rustic look. Here are some tips on how to create a similar look in your home.
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Easy Hang Wallpapers Take the Fear Factor Out of Installation
Blank walls in need of a makeover almost always beg the question: What color to paint? But before trotting off to the paint store for color strips and tester cans, consider a new alternative: wallpaper. Because one of the oldest home décor products - around since the 1600s - has been reinvented.
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Baby Room Basics
From choosing a name to attending birthing classes and stocking a nursery, impending parenthood can be overwhelming. Getting the nursery in order before the baby arrives is a good way to relieve at least one of the big stressors in the lives of new parents.
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Styling for Baby's Room
Decorating the nursery is not just about getting one major chore out of the way before the baby arrives. The nursery's décor makes a statement about the relationship the parent hopes to cultivate with the child - warm and loving, fun and stimulating, soothing and secure.
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Room Redesign: Teens Can Do it Themselves
In some ways, decorating a baby's room couldn't be easier. The room's primary occupant really doesn't have much to say about the décor. Enter the teen years. Now, she hates the pink carpet and floral curtains you thought were precious beyond words. He's into Japanese anime, and your clever pirate theme makes him want to walk the plank.
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The Safe, Easy Way to Hang Things on Your Vinyl Siding
Homeowners love to decorate their houses - inside and out. But hanging pictures on the wall in your living room is a lot easier than hanging a planter on your siding.
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Birth of an Accessorizing Queen - or King
The crib of your dreams is purchased, assembled and in place. Tiny clothes, burp clothes, bath towels and diapers are stored in a new dresser/changing table. All the nursery needs now is the baby - and a few accessories to add the finishing touch.
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Give Kids the World
When Todd Imholte signed on with a Hopkins, Minn. company that makes and sells wallpaper murals, he never guessed his job would have "global" impact for thousands of American school children. Yet once a year, Imholte, the president of Environmental Graphics, spearheads the updating of the company's top-selling product of all time - its World Map mural.
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