Tweet By Joanne H. Shawcross I once had some friends get married and they combined two apartments full of stuff into one house. What a design ‘train wreck’ that was – A maroon sofa with a turquoise coffee table… Don’t feel bad if you’re a person who has difficulty with coordinating colors in a room. […]
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Build Green – Home
Tweet The other day I saw gaps in my wood floor and that was my indicator to stop using our bathroom exhaust fan. In winter, low moisture content in the air (relative humidity) affects not only our home interiors and furniture but our comfort and energy bills. As doors open, cooking, showering and even people […]
Tweet About 90 percent of the power used by a traditional light bulb creates heat, not visible light. That’s why, as a kid, I could make Teddy his favorite brownies in my Easy Bake Oven. These days though I want my bedroom to be lit for reading, not heating, so I banned incandescent light bulbs. […]
Tweet 2011 tax credits help you have a greener home Yippee! For the third year in a row, you can get federal tax credits (and more) for your green home building or remodeling. Many people mistakenly believe the $2,000 federal tax credit for new, energy-efficient homes ended in 2010, but Congress extended the perks through […]
Tweet ================ Highly Recommended ================ Now available – Sneaky Solar Strategies That Pay Over & Over Video This video has the home energy comfort answers you’re looking for. ============== Click the blue title to learn more. ============ 10/10/10 at 10 am we picked up a new addition to the family – an Abyssinian cat named […]
Tweet ==================== Highly Recommended ===================== Now available – Sneaky Solar Strategies That Pay Over & Over Video This video has the home energy comfort answers you’re looking for. Click the blue title to learn more. ================================================================= 10/10/10 at 10 am we pick up a new addition to the family – an Abyssinian cat named Axum […]
Tweet On Saturday, September 25 2010 there’s going to be National Drug Take-Back Day at a location near you. Can’t happen soon enough, if you ask me. Today, seven students at a North Carolina middle school face criminal charges after trading prescription narcotics at school. These 11 to 13 year-old kids were raiding their home […]
Tweet The calendar says it’s the first day of autumn, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. Stifling heat has stubbornly plagued our Carolina Sandhills area all summer. And if the forecast for highs in the 90′s continues, this week will mark 100 days of 90-degree plus weather in 2010. Now That’s what I call […]
Tweet Until his death in January 2010, recluse J.D. Salinger was known for shunning his fans for peace and privacy. Today, he’d be mortified to learn his toilet of all things, has become a literary-giant collectible. A memorabilia dealer is hawking the 1962-vintage throne for $1 million on eBay. (Not exactly the next unpublished manuscript […]
