If you had the opportunity to purchase a beautiful, fashionable sofa that perfectly suited your décor and also helped the environment, wouldn’t you?
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Green, sustainable, eco-friendly and now Regreen. These words describe an industry that is growing while much of the design/build industry is slowing down.
At most American weddings, you can expect to see a wedding cake, usually covered in white frosting and often topped by bride and groom figures made of china, plastic, composition or even molded sugar. When dinner ends, the cake is cut and the bride and groom feed a slice to each other. A 2009 wedding might have a pile of cupcakes instead of a cake — the start of a new tradition.
DEAR DEBBIE: We have just moved, and our 14-year-old daughter has asked if she can decorate her room sort of theatrical and sophisticated. Our budget is limited, and we’d love to be able to make some choices that would last. How would you proceed? Thanks. — Penny
Cindy and John have a “room with a view.” In fact, the wooded ravine in the backyard is the reason they originally fell in love with their home. Inside the house, though, the view was less than spectacular.
: I am selling my house and need to repair a small hole in my hallway carpet. The hole is about 2 inches square. Can it be repaired or do I need to recarpet the entire hallway?
DEAR HELOISE: This is a hint for those couples whose sleeping needs and styles are so incompatible that they either sleep poorly every night in the same bed or have to resort to separate beds or even separate bedrooms. I sleep like a rock and prefer the covers tightly tucked around me. My husband, due to insomnia and restless leg syndrome, tosses, turns, kicks, steals the covers in his sleep and is generally impossible to sleep in the same bed with.
“The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.” Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English biologist
As you clean up the remnants of the Memorial Day weekend and prepare for a full schedule of summer activities, you might be considering making a few improvements to your yard. A covered patio, perhaps. Maybe a swimming pool. An outdoor kitchen would be nice.