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The Perfect Finish for Your Tile (

August 4th, 2011

You have selected the perfect tile for your kitchen or bath and are ready to order. Have you thought about which trim pieces you will need to finish the job correctly? This is not the most exciting part of your tile shopping, but it is a necessary one. For most tile installations, the finishing pieces are a no-brainer: You go with either the matching surface bullnose or quarte ...

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Closer Look: Lindsey Adelman's Bubbles of Light

August 3rd, 2011

Lindsey Adelman's elegant and quirky blown-glass fixtures — delicate, industrial and organic-looking all at once — are popping up in kitchens, dining rooms and bedrooms all over the country. Her brilliance comes from her ability to find balance in opposing directions: Each of her pieces offers a push-and-pull between fragile and strong, hand-crafted and machine-made, masculine and feminine, r ...

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14220 Wheatley Ave, White Rock, BC

August 3rd, 2011

I just finished uploading this House for sale, 14220 Wheatley Ave, White Rock, BCSouth facing back yard. Quiet street of 12. QUALITY home is a Rancher with a full walkout. 1559 sq ft on Main and basement 1559. Total 3118 sqft, attached 2 car garage, panoramic Ocean View from Blaine across the Semiahmoo peninsula. San Juan's and gulf Islands No Wires Plenty of quality updates hard woo ...

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Keep Calm and Carry On: Going Beyond the Poster

August 3rd, 2011

When my husband and I bought our first house, I couldn't help but to look forward to choosing paint colors for the first time. Apartment living provided drab walls and flooring, and I was over it from day one. In anticipation of our closing date, I began to play with various color groupings and found myself leaning toward bright pinks and punchy citrons — surely the answer to my d ...

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The Case for Linoleum and Vinyl Floors

August 2nd, 2011

So far in this flooring series, I've discussed a variety of ceramic tile, plank wood, engineered wood and laminate floors. Rounding out but by no means completing this series are linoleum and vinyl — also called resilient flooring, or sheet goods. Resilient flooring's a better term because not all resilient floors come as sheets. What they have in common, however, is an ironlike durability an ...

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Kitchen of the Week: A Bi-Coastal Construction

August 2nd, 2011

Designing a kitchen is always a challenge, but it becomes much more difficult when you have to design the entire thing from more than 3,000 miles away. Houzz user Karen Heffernan was living in California while the construction on her soon-to-be-home in Boston was still being completed. But thanks to the help of her amazing builder and the power of the internet, she was able to des ...

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Goodnight, Irene: It's Time to Reclaim Your Basement

August 1st, 2011

Our thoughts and prayers go out to family, friends and everyone else affected by Irene, a storm that left devastating flooding in its wake. If that includes you, here are some tips for getting that water out of your basement and getting on with your life — plus some inspiration for making the basement better than it was.First, before doing anything, make sure it's safe to venture ...

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Create Your Own Massage Room

August 1st, 2011

Aaaah — relaxation! More and more we are looking to our own homes to provide a haven from the outside world. After spending a day hard at work and hearing news reports about the economy, when we come home, we want to be soothed. And admit it — just the mention of the word "economy" made your shoulders and neck tense up, didn't it? What better way is there to send the cares of the ...

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