Before reaching for a rolled-up paper the next time an eight-legged visitor is crawling on the wall of your home, take a closer look. That little bugger has beauty well beyond its capabilities to creep.
Home and Garden
Dear Gail: I’ve been looking for new lamps for my living room, and I like that the stores now have mix-and-match lamps and shades. But how do I go about selecting the right shade for a lamp? Nicole
Sept. 24
Q: About 1/3 of my fruit trees are dying. Some of the branches on a sick tree look healthy; some of the branches on the same tree look dead. There is sap coming from some of the trees. I fear it is a borer infestation. I am scraping the bark and spraying with Neem oil. What do you think?
Q: Before going on vacation, I turned off my gas water heater. When I returned to no hot water, it dawned on me that I didn’t know how to light the pilot. I really do like hot showers. What should I do?
Once upon a time, bathrooms burst with color.
Several days ago I had the opportunity to visit with some new homeowners, and amid lots of questions about a multitude of areas, one of the questions that kept coming up was about art.
In our present election environment, dominated by “red”-talk and “blue”-talk, it is sometimes difficult to discuss green living.
Q: I have a young, fruiting mulberry and realized too late that it’s planted too close to a wall. When would you recommend is the best time to dig it up and transplant?
When you cook a meal, even if all the ingredients are perfectly measured and the course is crafted with perfection, sometimes the satisfaction still comes down to the quality of the presentation.
We love rooms that break rules. One of our favorite emerging trends in the world of decor is the aesthetic that seamlessly blends masculine and feminine points of design.
QSeveral months ago, I paid to have a hole patched in my wall that the doorknob had punched through the drywall. Well, the hole is back again and I realized that there is no doorstop to prevent the door from hitting the wall. What type do you recommend?
For many homeowners, it is not unusual for spare bedrooms to be used as home offices. In fact, with so many working from home, the influx of virtual meetings and telecommuting, home offices are no longer considered to be an extravagance but a necessity.
Q: We have lost a tremendous section of our garden. In researching, it appears fire blight disease is the problem. Our red-tip photinia was the first and, in a very short time, it looked as if someone had taken a flame thrower to the plants. Euonymus hedges, flowering pink hawthorn and some rose bushes are starting to show the same problem.
