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Design Dilemma: Color Tips and Paint Tricks
Want a quick but dramatic change at home? Get out that bucket of paint! There’s no easier option for completely changing the feel of any room. What a shame that so many of us never take full advantage of the multitude of paint possibilities. Consider, for a moment, how different each of these “period” rooms […]
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Design Dilemma: 5 Options for Organizing Gadgets
A few years ago, we were all worrying about how to organize our growing collection of books. Remember bookshelves? But this is 2012, and these days we’re concerned not about organizing books but a growing collection of electronic devices, including our Kindles, Nooks, Ipads, Iphones, Netbooks, cellphones, external hard drives, flash drives and other assorted […]
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Design Dilemma: Turning Old Rugs into Art
How do you salvage an old damaged rug and turn it into something special? Numerous carpet companies have hit on an idea. We’ve seen it up close and think they’ve got something. ABC Carpet and Home, for one, has overdyed vintage rugs and called them “Aquasilk” as part of the store’s Color Reform Collection. They’ve […]