Lights, trees, natural ornaments: How to save on last-minute holiday decorating
Smart Spending: 4 tips for saving on holiday decor With its vacation vibe, color firm Pantone picks turquoise as top shade of 2010
Top color for 2010 is ‘transporting’ turquoise Home Depot to carry Martha Stewart paint, cleaning products as well as home items next year
Home Depot to launch Martha Stewart paint line White House celebrates Xmas with recycled ornaments, natural materials and gingerbread house
White House Xmas theme: ‘Reflect, rejoice, renew’ ‘Mad Men’ actor spends down time in New Orleans, where he runs a home decor and gift shop
Actor Bryan Batt at home in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS — The future is unclear for his character on the hit AMC show “Mad Men,” but actor Bryan Batt is taking advantage of the down time here in his hometown since the recent season finale. Holiday displays include tree made of feathers, Rock Center, Obamas’ first National Tree event
Tree-lightings, from Rock Center to The Grove Lose the loo: British gardeners encouraged to go green by relieving themselves outdoors
British gardeners told: go green, pee outdoors Lingering interest in bluesman Robert Johnson spawns project to restore home where he was born
Officials to restore birthplace of Robert Johnson Hard-hit Ohio community turns to gardens to help stretch food dollars
Hard-hit community learns to grow food WILMINGTON, Ohio — Many of the new gardeners didn’t know how to grow vegetables, and weren’t sure what to do with them once they did. From open doors to snowy driveways, security systems can alert travelers to trouble at home
Remote control: Travelers can keep an eye on home Metropolitan Home magazine to publish last issue in December
Metropolitan Home magazine to close NEW YORK — Metropolitan Home will cease publication with its December issue, the latest home decor magazine to succumb to the industry’s advertising slump. Debate under way on historic health overhaul legislation in House of RepresentativesHouse majority leader predicts House passage Saturday of historic health overhaul billmore images Michelle Obama, DC public schoolchildren help with 2nd major harvest of White House garden
White House Garden goes through 2nd major harvest Explore one of America’s first planned cities: Savannah, with historic squares and homes
Explore Savannah’s historic squares, parks, homes Fla. insurer flip-flops, to renew homeowners policy for house built with bad Chinese drywallWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida’s public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple’s Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling the homeowners their policy wouldn’t be renewed because of the home’s tainted Chinese drywall. Amid housing crunch, Cuba cracks downs on illegal home remodels, streamlines building permitsHAVANA — Cuba has quietly made it easier to obtain state permission to build or remodel homes even as it pledges to crack down like never before on unlicensed residential construction, including routine do-it-yourself projects. Britain’s lawmakers face demands to repay disputed expense claims amid fresh finance rowLONDON — First it cost their reputations. Now it’ll cost them cash. British climate-change protesters stage rooftop Parliament protestLONDON — Several dozen environmental activists scaled Britain’s Parliament building Sunday to draw attention to climate change. House that could float on New Orleans’ floods brought to site of Brad Pitt’s rebuilding effortNEW ORLEANS — A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut Tuesday in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Just call him Rudolph: Mule deer wanders Montana with Christmas lights dangling from antlersHELENA, Mont. — Call it a case of Christmas creep. A young mule deer in Montana is ushering in the holiday season early. Chef Spike’s Michelle Melt: new DC burger has first lady’s name on it and turkey in the bunWASHINGTON — There’s a new burger in town, and it’s got Michelle Obama’s name on it. US diplomat criticizes 9/11 policy of building ‘fortress-like’ embassiesWARSAW, Poland — The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Poland criticized the “fortress-like” feel of American embassies built since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, saying Thursday that some are excessively expensive and send an unfriendly message to non-Americans. Farmers plant tillage radishes to nourish, soften up fields; chance to cut fertilizer useANNA, Ohio — White radishes are taking root on Tony Luthman’s farm, the start of what he hopes will create a welcome mat for the corn he plants in the spring. Urban farmers, gardeners in northern US use hoop houses to extend growing seasonFLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a hoop house. Vegas luxury suites: From a basketball court in your room to TV in the mirrorsLAS VEGAS — A 10,000-square-foot suite that includes a basketball halfcourt rents for $25,000 a night at Palms Casino Resort. At MGM Grand’s Skylofts, you’ll find a bathtub that fizzes with tiny champagne-like massage bubbles, TVs in the mirrors and airport pickup in a $400,000 car. Thousands living in flooded homes in West Africa after torrential rainsFASS MBAO, Senegal — The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fat Dione’s house is her bed. It’s propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the water lapping at the walls of her bedroom. Neighbors: Wells Fargo exec. moved into beach home surrendered to bank by Madoff-duped coupleMALIBU, Calif. — A Wells Fargo & Co. executive who oversees foreclosed properties hosted parties and spent long summer weekends in a $12 million Malibu beach house, moving into the home just after it had been surrendered to Wells Fargo to satisfy debts, neighbors said. Indian farmers discrimination lawsuit still unsettled after a decadeBISMARCK, N.D. — Fort Berthold Reservation rancher Pete Fredericks says he still hasn’t recovered from a brutal winter nearly 30 years ago that wiped out half his black Angus herd. White ranchers in the region fared better because they got financial help from the federal government, he says. Beverly Hills home designed for comedian Groucho Marx on market for nearly $13 millionBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A Beverly Hills house owned for two decades by Groucho Marx is on the market for $12.9 million. |