The Curse of Duncraig Castle Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:12:23 -0000 Sam and Perlin Dobson bought a run-down castle in the Scottish highlands and then invited the entire Dobson clan to live there. That’s when things took a disastrous turn.
Homesteads: Up, Up and Away Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:34:12 -0000 Luxury treehouses give adults a vacation home in the backyard.
Ask the Contractor: My Basement Floods. What Should I Do? Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:42:51 -0000 Floodproofing a basement, replacing windows and more.
In Brussels, a Town House With a Vintage Vibe Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:57:51 -0000 Brussels is famous for its tall, narrow town houses, but the slender entrance hall and impossibly high ceilings leading into Justine Glanfield’s home seem almost like a pastiche.
On the Cheap: Thinking Like a Student Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:20:13 -0000 In these economically difficult times, there is much that can be learned about creative home design from college students.
A Wall of Drawers and a Bartered Bed Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:35:36 -0000 Kayt Brumder, a fifth-year architecture student at Cooper Union in New York City, focused on maximizing space in her apartment in East Harlem.
L.A. Times - Home & Garden
Hot Property: Julianna Margulies' Santa Monica home for sale at $4.5 million Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Hot Property
Whenever I walk into a hospital emergency room, I still look for Nurse Hathaway -- the one who goes the extra mile for her patients, even when someone who looks like George Clooney is distracting her at the moment.
Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society house tour spotlights a 1908 survivor brought back from the brink. Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Architectural photographer Mary E. Nichols and Keith Wood saw good bones beneath the Wilton Place property's shabby facade.
AS an architectural photographer and confirmed "house-aholic," Mary E. Nichols has seen many a residential wreck. But the 1908 specimen at 212 S. Wilton Place -- part of an L.A. street listed on the National Register of Historic Places -- was a house of horrors.
Only in Malibu: the $2-million mobile home Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Bluff-side Paradise Cove and Point Dume Club take manufactured-home living to new heights.
If you want to live among gas-guzzling, tax-evading, hippie-gypsies running from the law, then Malibu's mobile-home parks are not the places to look (as the Who might otherwise suggest in its hit song "Going Mobile"). Here you will find no country-trekking trailers, but double-wides and manufactured homes placed permanently atop sweeping ocean-side bluffs. In fact, the term "mobile-home park" is rather misleading in this mansion- and estate-packed section of the globe.
In Los Angeles, a 1900s White House for the not quite presidential Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 A certain Pennsylvania Avenue address has spawned imitators across the continent, including Beverly Hills' once-grand Rosewall estate.
JOHN McCAIN doesn't know how many houses he owns, but he wants 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Ever since the "presidential palace" was completed in 1800, the White House has been the ultimate American address. For a century it was our largest house, more than double the size of Monticello and Mount Vernon combined.
Los Angeles County Arboretum's Art in the Garden Initiative Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:59:04 -0700 How does the Los Angeles County Arboretum's garden grow? Very artfully, thanks to the launch of its Art in the Garden Initiative.
Home and garden events in the Southland Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants hosts its annual Fall Festival.
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Christian Science Monitor | The Home Forum
Close encounter of the royal kind Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500 Prince Charles was about to visit the local art museum, and I had inadvertently stumbled into the big event.
After school – special Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500 Amid the afternoon carpool rush, a photographer captures a quiet moment of friendship.
The seasons fly by Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500 On an Alaskan hiking trail, the appearance of different birds signal summer's end and winter's approach.
The child in us Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500 A Christian Science perspective on daily life.
Toys 'Я' (for) us grown-ups! Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500 Sales of toys are down – except to adults, who love to collect the toys that were popular when they were younger.
Tree branches without borders Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500 When limbs creep over property lines, neighbors can get testy.
Denver Post: Lifestyle
When Dow says ow, practice mindfulness
editor@denverpost.com (By Howard Cohen / McClatchy Newspapers)
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:40:45 -0600
Our worries. They're crescendoing like the finale of Beethoven's "Ninth": Bailouts, buyouts. Recession, depression.
Buccaneers' timid plan was doomed to fail
editor@denverpost.com (Martin Fennelly The Tampa Tribune)
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:36:22 -0600
Barack Obama was at this football stadium not too long ago to make an acceptance speech. Subject: change.
Carve out a snack the kids will crave
editor@denverpost.com (By Jim Romanoff / The Associated Press)
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:14:45 -0600
Providing a snack for a child's classroom is no simple task, especially when it comes to Halloween.
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