I am interested in selling these six prints, which were gifts from a friend. They were signed by Hans Otto Orlowski in pencil in the lower corner and measure approximately 14 by 10 inches each. What are they worth?
After a busy spring, I can't wait for the long, languid days of June and July, for lazy Sunday afternoons spent reading a good book on my screened porch, for Saturday evenings out on the patio, enjoying a great meal with dear friends.
Q: I was recently at a home show and saw a bathtub that seemed like it was actually playing music from the tub itself. The place was crowded and I had to leave. Can you give me information about these new-wave bathtubs? How do they work, and where is the music actually coming from? -- Bill, Illinois.
Spring seems to make us yearn for home improvements. One of those improvements might be changing the wallpaper, and that is great -- except taking the old paper off can be difficult. Let's take a look at what can be done.
Q: As a hobby I build furniture and do repair work around the house, but sometimes the projects don't work out. We decided to add a chair rail to highlight our family room's plain walls. Seems simple enough, but I ran into a hump on the longest wall between the house and the garage. The furnace and water heater are in the garage on the other side of this hump, so I need to try to fix it from the family room. How can I repair this without removing the drywall or studs?
As a home owner, you may be looking at upgrading for better energy efficiency, improving the look of your home, or simply having more fun stuff. While it is still a good philosophy to only purchase items you actually have the cash for today, credit and budgeting payments over a period of time is always an attractive option if your credit rating is good. If your credit rating is poor, you will often pay enormous interest rates. It’s hardly ever worth it to pay two to three times what the item is valued.
Tea comes from the Camellia sinensis shrub, which is native to China and India. Green, black, white and oolong tea all come from the same plant. The difference is in how much the leaves are processed.
Ever since the day when, more than 4,000 years ago — at least, as legend has it — some leaves from a tree blew into a Chinese emperor’s pot of boiling water, yielding a refreshing beverage, tea has been a mainstay of the human diet, as well as a builder of empires and one of the factors behind the American Revolution.
After a facial, you know your pores are clean and your skin glows with health. What few realize is that plants have pores, too. They can become clogged with city grime, dust and dirt and lose their bright coloring.
Stainless steel, chrome, acrylic and lots and lots of lacquer are the hallmarks of these reborn looks, which were everywhere at the Spring International Home Furnishings Market in North Carolina.
As the school year winds down, test-taking turns to celebrating and students who participated in everything from baseball to band, or chess club to the science fair, are attending banquets, award dinners and lunches.
A garden can be defined many ways: a plot of land used for the growing of flowers, vegetables, herbs and trees; an area of fertile, cultivated property; even as a verb "to lay out, develop or tend."
Scrapbooking. The idea of gorgeous volumes, one for each major family event (or year), standing spine-to-spine on a shelf in the living room for all to enjoy is wonderful to imagine. Too bad reality gets in the way of those memory-curating fantasies. Most people are months, if not years, behind where they think they should be when it comes to organizing pictures and mementos of good times with family and friends.
Use this handy reference guide to help choose the right bedding for you.
Vegetable gardening starts with seeds. But as anyone who's gotten sticker shock browsing at the nursery can attest, seeds can add up to a major expense.
Why are my apple tree branches dying and turning black?
Gardeners aren’t that different from most people. We want something others don’t have. We dream of plants not yet on the market. When they finally come around, we’re excited until everyone else has them. Then we lose interest.
For years, I’ve wrestled with chicken-fried steak, never getting close to the stuff I adored while living in the South. Unfortunately for me, my goal was high — equal to the world’s best at Piccadilly Cafeteria in Norfolk, Va.
People wanting to attract hummingbirds and orioles have to treat them differently. “Keep in mind that they are different from other birds because they do not eat seeds,” Kammin says.
Are you thinking about remodeling your drab kitchen? Be warned: Remodeling projects will not always fill your pockets with cash when your home sells. In fact, you might not recoup the entire cost of the project.
