This time last year, the Kiwanis Park on Credle Street in Pittsboro was a fenced-in area with swings and other standard play equipment. The area without equipment was a steeply sloping grassy hill.
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End tables look best when they are just below the arm height of a sofa, not looming over it, according to Elaine Griffin, author of "Design Rules: The Insider's Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator" (Gotham Books; $22.50). (Yippee!
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It takes just moments for Sam June to decorate his family room for the holidays.
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Events
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Parade of Homes
Take a peek at the 44th annual Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County Parade of Homes tour.
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Raleigh women Lisa Soutendijk and Catherine Shields are feeling like textile rock stars.
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The Twilight soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, "New Moon," a movie directed by a man and not a woman.
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One of my favorite things to decorate is my dining table. Combine place mats, chargers, different dinnerware, napkins, napkin rings - and let's not even get started on the centerpieces and candles. Think of all the possibilities
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1. "NBC Sunday Night Football: New England at Indianapolis," NBC, 22.39
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Tasteful Garden:
Half of the Southern gardeners I know say growing garlic isn't worth the trouble. The other half enjoy growing it and love the flavor of homegrown garlic.
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Homemade gifts from the kitchen are culinary treasures. They have a personal touch and in these challenging economic times, a present from hearth and heart seems especially meaningful. So when I spied A.J. Rathbun's new book, "Luscious Liqueurs" (Harvard Common Press, $12.95) I knew I'd found the blueprint for my '08 holiday gifts.
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Six years ago, when Barbara Melera bought the venerable D. Landreth Seed Co., it had been decades since Landreths were at the helm, and the company no longer specialized in the vegetables and flowers that had built its fine reputation.
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Black walls aren't just for Goth kids and heavy metal fans anymore. They're popping up in upscale shelter magazines, hipster design blogs and just about everywhere in between. Witness the black dining room at the Benjamin Moore paints Web site, where "Black Satin" is one of the featured "Colors for Your Home, 2009."
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No matter where you live in the country, there is a season when snapdragons will absolutely steal the show in your landscape. In zones 7 and warmer, many gardeners plant them in the fall as pansy partners. They are planted in late winter to early spring in colder areas where they give riotous colors almost all summer.
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Q: Are some children more prone to get head lice than others? It seems to me that it's more of a problem with girls, but maybe it just seems that way because it's so much trouble dealing with long hair.
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This is one of my foolish annual exercises. I call it providing information on shoveling snow, from buying shovels to rearranging your snowfall without breaking your back or giving you a heart attack.
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A GUIDE TO HOME ENERGY SAVING STRATEGIES (Part 3 of 3)
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WHAT'S NEW: TOOTHBRUSH IS SELF-CLEANING
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Clint and Lacey Loumaster of Lenexa, Kan., met in an advanced calculus class. But the husband and wife share more in common than a prowess for complicated math.
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