Home experts agree that the No. 1 “bang for your buck” home improvement project is painting.
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Readers of a certain age will remember the name Euell Gibbons — a celebrity-writer from the ‘60s and ‘70s who hunted down nutritious foods available in the wild and produced cookbooks explaining how to use them.
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What’s your favorite place in Scott County?
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It’s the tallest building in Rock Island, and its location on perhaps the highest bluff in the city affords absolutely unparalleled views from the large windows.
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He may not fully appreciate it yet, but young Brayden Schaeffer has an amazing mural on his bedroom walls. His dad, Dave, an art teacher at Davenport North High School, not only painted every square inch in a brilliant rainforest theme, but he also built several three-dimensional, tactile…
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You may have read or heard reports beginning in 2004 about drywall imported from China that has caused problems in some homes nationwide — primarily the Southeast — because it can emit sulfur fumes that produce a “rotten eggs” odor and cause metals, such as air conditioning coils,…
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Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz spend their days criss-crossing the backroads of the United States, searching for homes with unmowed lawns, in need of a coat of paint and surrounded by large storage sheds and barns that just might contain a long-forgotten treasure.
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Wendy Kraft has heard it more than once. She’ll invite guests to her Davenport home and — knowing that she recently had a new front porch built — they will ask her what part of it is new.
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If color is any guide, we’ll be moving into vacation mode during 2010 with the world awash in tropical turquoise, forecasters say.
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Welcome to another year of Home & Garden, a spot in the paper where we can share ideas and thoughts about places close at hand — our homes and gardens, of course — as well as the world at large, the bigger garden as it were:
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