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Black&Decker's DIY BooksTackle Home Decorating and Outdoor Building Projects
The Decorating Guide intersperses background information with clear instructions on such household projects as installing molding, replacing a towel bar, tiling a backsplash, hanging bifold doors, creating faux finishes, or reupholstering a chair. Outdoor Building projects include making patios, walkways, and decks; fences and walls; arbors, sheds, outbuildings, and porches; and — perfect for grandkids — treehouses and play structures more »
Chinamania, Whistler's Love of Blue-and-White and Museum Shopping
"Chinamania: Whistler and the Victorian Craze for Blue and White," a small thematic exhibition on view at the Freer Gallery until Aug. 2011, explores the significance of Chinese export porcelain in Victorian England, where it began as an object of serious aesthetic inspiration but soon proliferated as a status symbol. more »
My Paradise: The Finnish Summer Home
It is a place of relaxation and quiet retreat to nature. It is also a place where architects either further develop new ideas or crystallize essential themes from their other designs. Their own summer homes are very personal; like diary entries. more »
Shop for Home, Gifts and Self at Velocity
Have you thought about Holiday presents? Velocity might be a one-stop shopping experience for those names on your list. A Bob's Your Uncle Open Sesame Password Reminder Book, a Multi-Task Planner Journal, a Witches' Kitchen line that Christine O'Donnell might like, as well as an eco-friendly section, this site is fashionable, modern and good-humored. more »