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Home plan: Yesterday's style translated for today
This home was designed to disguise a modern floor plan within a classic exterior.
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Beautiful Gardens: Shoreview couple's haven is 'our treasure to share'
A Shoreview couple welcome guests to their whimsical cottage garden, which beckons with waterfalls, a playhouse and flea-market finds.
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A Medford, Minn., garden so nice, they planted it twice
When a hands-on couple decided to build a new home on their Medford farmstead, they dug up their plants and rebuilt the garden, too. "Hundreds of plants … hostas … daylilies. Any perennial I had, I moved," Cyndi Maas said.
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This animated migration map illustrates exciting days to come
Map created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Pileated woodpeckers are architects of the forest
The pileated woodpecker's hole-drilling ways help many forest creatures.
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Kittiwake remains in Duluth
No mention of Ivory Gull
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Stained-glass artist transforms plain W. St. Paul condo into art installation
His all-white condo in a 1970s-era building didn't have much character or personality. So he began adding flavor — not merely "decorating," but using his plain-white surfaces as a blank canvas for creating art.
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Everyday Solutions: Savvy storage enhances a Golden Valley rambler
How could a Golden Valley couple solve storage problems within their limited square footage? Architect Carl Olson's solution was a 12-foot-long, two-sided "floating" cherry cabinet.
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Stained-glass artist transforms his plain West St. Paul condo into art installation
His all-white condo in a 1970s-era building didn't have much character or personality. So he began adding flavor — not merely "decorating," but using his plain-white surfaces as a blank canvas for creating art.
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Now's the time to shop for heirloom seeds
Now's the time to order heirloom seeds, catalogs for the growing season ahead.
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- California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods
- Agribusiness giant Cargill not doing enough to fight deforestation, protect human rights, group says
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- Sequoia National Park's giant trees at risk as fires grow
- $86M to California couple upheld in Monsanto pesticide case
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