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Home & Garden
December 20, 2019
A kitchen with a blue island, designed by Locus Architecture.

Designer tips on using the coolest color of the year in home decor

A designer offers tips on incorporating the color of the moment into your decor.
Home & Garden
December 20, 2019
A male cardinal watches the feeders.

Birds in winter

Birds need strong coping skills to survive winter.
Home & Garden
December 20, 2019
Tired of traditional art? Try using antique plates and platters as a wall display that adds texture and depth.

Tips for decorating awkward spaces

Odd nooks and crannies can still make a strong style statement.
Home & Garden
December 20, 2019
Tired of traditional art? Try using antique plates and platters as a wall display that adds texture and depth.

Tips for awkward spaces

How to make the most of nooks and crannies.
Home & Garden
December 20, 2019
Home plan: Open and practical

Home plan: Farmhouse is open and practical

Home & Garden
December 20, 2019
Bins, baskets and boxes help to hid small items. (Design Recipes/TNS)

10 tips to get your home organized

Home & Garden
December 17, 2019
A male cardinal watches the feeders.

How birds survive Minnesota winters

Each day is a life-or-death struggle, with a greater need for calories but shorter days in which to search for food.
Home & Garden
December 17, 2019
A cardinal, watched by a pine siskin, flutters to a feeder.

How to help birds survive winter

Home & Garden
December 17, 2019
This is a wonderful rarity with significant value. (Handout/TNS)

Moorcraft vase is a valuable rarity

Home & Garden
December 17, 2019
Video: burning dryer ducts

Video: burning dryer ducts

I bought a 200 CFM fan, filled a bunch of dryer transition ducts with shredded paper, then started them on fire. Check out the video below to see the results.
Home & Garden
December 15, 2019
Designer Tasha Schultz combined a vintage dining set with on-trend navy blue paint in her Falcon Heights dining room.

Hate old 'brown furniture'? Young Twin Cities designer proves it can look fresh

Her fondness for vintage began with trying to decorate with limited funds, as well as a desire not to have a cookie-cutter space.
Home & Garden
December 14, 2019
This condo in Bookmen Lofts in the North Loop recently got a new kitchen.

Restaurant designers give their North Loop loft 'fresh, clean update'

State-of-the-art kitchen and bath remodel helps couple entertain with style in their formerly "dated" space.
Home & Garden
December 13, 2019
Buffalo

Home listings: What $465,000 buys in the Twin Cities area

What you get for the money in Buffalo, Eden Prairie and Woodbury.
Home & Garden
December 13, 2019
Tasha Schultz in her living room at her home in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Wednesday, November 27, 2019. ] RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER • renee.jones@s

Designer tips for finding and decorating with vintage furniture

Home & Garden
December 13, 2019
Home plan 1073-8

Home plan: Modern style home has indoor-outdoor areas

Walkout basement provides more bedroom space.
Home & Garden
December 13, 2019

Tenant charged for keys that were returned

Tenant wrongly accused of smoking.
Home & Garden
December 13, 2019
Even small energy-efficient updates in your home can save you hundreds of dollars each year. (Dreamstime/TNS)

How to save money with energy-efficient home upgrades

Home & Garden
December 10, 2019
Three-toed woodpeckers pry off flakes of tree bark to find insects. credit: Jim Williams

Woodpeckers enjoy varied diets

They don't find all their food underneath bark.
Home & Garden
December 10, 2019
The majority of three-face pieces we see are reproductions, and collectors sometimes have trouble telling the new from the old — and that circu

It's hard to tell if face glass pieces are fake

Home & Garden
December 10, 2019
Foil dryer ducts: code-approved?

Foil dryer ducts: code-approved?

Foil dryer transition ducts are allowed by code and by some clothes dryer manufacturers.
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