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November 25, 2016

New ABA guide to Minnesota birds belongs with the best

The author is Laura Erickson of Duluth
Variety
November 25, 2016
Home plan for 1127: A reinvented ranch.

Home plan: Reinvented ranch smartly downplays garage

Variety
November 25, 2016

Smart home products now come with shorter learning curve

Easily set up smart home products include security devices or energy savers.
Home & Garden
November 22, 2016

Sunny winter bird forecast

Look for some more unusual suspects at your feeders this winter.
Home & Garden
November 22, 2016
The Health Inspector: Fireplace hearth extension rules should not be boring topic

The Health Inspector: Fireplace hearth extension rules should not be boring topic

This blog post is about fireplace hearth extension rules, but first, a quick story to explain why I'm blogging about such a boring topic.
Variety
November 19, 2016
Craig Jansma installed two penny-laden floors in his Minnetonka house. "I had a hankering to do it somewhere," he says.

Minnetonka home features floors made out of 97,000 pennies

A Twin Cities builder's remodeled 1953 house in Minnetonka now glows with the copper sheen of wall-to-wall pennies — 51,000 of them laid tails-up in a guest bedroom, and 46,000 laid heads-up in the office.
Home & Garden
November 19, 2016
A corner of the guest bedroom shows a pillow Gibson made out of an old window treatment and a lampshade she had sewn from a cowhide she found at a fle

Five tips for updating flea-market finds

Home & Garden
November 19, 2016

Holiday wreaths, winter birding, 'Property Brothers' and Flea Market Style

Variety
November 19, 2016

Renting & the Law: 21 days and counting for security deposits

Business
November 19, 2016
A home plan with two master suites for multigenerational harmony.

Home plan: Two master suites for multigenerational harmony

Variety
November 19, 2016
E.J. and Lyndsie Adams, with son Archer, bought and remodeled a 1960s side-by-side duplex near Excelsior.

How an Excelsior family downsized to a designer duplex built in '60s

A young family finds that less is more — after buying and revitalizing a 1960s duplex near Excelsior that's half the size of their previous one.
Variety
November 19, 2016

How an Excelsior family downsized to a designer duplex built in '60s

A young family finds that less is more — after buying and revitalizing a 1960s duplex near Excelsior that's half the size of their previous one.
Variety
November 19, 2016
With the removal of a massive two-sided brick fireplace, the living room of this 1960s duplex near Excelsior now flows into the new black-and-white ki

How an Excelsior family downsized to a designer duplex

A young family finds that less is more — after buying and revitalizing a home half the size of their previous one.
Home & Garden
November 19, 2016
Fridley
Built in, this four-bedroom, three-bath house has 3,362 square feet and features three bedrooms on one level, a new roof, windows and siding,

Home listings: What $300,000 buys in the Twin Cities

Home & Garden
November 18, 2016

A guide to everything Arctic, animal or vegetable

New book from Princeton University Press
Home & Garden
November 16, 2016

Metro birding app -- what a great idea

Denver free app is already on cell phones -- text, photos, maps
Home & Garden
November 15, 2016
Tundra Swans have arrived, thousands more expected

Tundra Swans have arrived, thousands more expected

The birds are resting on Mississippi water near Brownsville
Home & Garden
November 15, 2016
Photo by Don Severson
A red-bellied woodpecker, a sunflower seed held firmly in its beak, heads away from a feeder to cache the food for later consump

Woodpecker hides food in all sorts of places

Home & Garden
November 15, 2016
The Home Inspector: How good is the $1,500 Corentium Pro radon monitor?

The Home Inspector: How good is the $1,500 Corentium Pro radon monitor?

The folks at Airthings recently sent me one of their new NRPP approved Corentium Pro radon monitors to review, which currently retails for $1,499.
Home & Garden
November 13, 2016
Green Jays, Black Oystercatcher, Brown Pelicans

Green Jays, Black Oystercatcher, Brown Pelicans

A good birding day from the comfort of my couch

Home and Garden

Coverage of the latest trends in beautiful Minnesota gardens and home decor.