Articles
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Selecting bedding involves weighing a host of factors: style, comfort, durability, cost and... oh, did I mention style? There are a dozen or more attributes to look at to get just the right sheets, blanket, comforter or bedspreads, and pillowcases. Not to mention the half dozen more attributes to cover if you want a good bedskirt. And who doesn't? But some are more important than others. And, unless you adhere to the Amish point of view (which is not bad - they're pretty stylish, too), plain is not the way to go.
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Luckily for those who love to decorate the bedroom, the job isn't finished when the bedding and furniture are picked out. There's an array of items that can form a secondary theme, or flesh out the first one.
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It's often reported that the average person spends about one third of his or her life sleeping. But add in other activities and we actually spend much more than that in the bedroom. Shouldn't it, then, be a stylish and comfortable place to be?
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Closet Organizers for Every Bedroom
Luckily for those with limited closet space, or who just like to keep everything in its place, there are 1,001 closet organizer units and styles.
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Keeping Your Bedroom Allergen-Free
There are several related areas to cover when trying to keep the level of bedroom allergens low. Few homes can hope to keep a completely allergen-free home, but it's possible to push it below the threshold of most sensitive persons.
Headlines
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New MPC member says recession may be over - Times Online
The worst of the recession and the housing slump is probably over but Britain is set for an âanaemicâ recovery with little chance of returning to buoyant growth, the newest member of the Bank of Englandâs rate-setting committee warned yesterday
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Crystal Lake: Small-town values, lakefront views - Chicago Tribune
When Patti and Paul Noble decided to build a custom house, they looked to a northwest suburb where they had fond memories -- Crystal Lake . "We had lived here years ago and knew we wanted to go back," said Patti. "We could have what we wanted here
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Will a top down solution ever deal with global warming? - San Francisco Examiner
On a beautiful summer evening at U.C. Berkeley I had a chance to listen to Roger Pielke Jr. talk about the kinds of policies we will need to successfully address climate change. Pielke, who I interviewed here a few days ago , made a variety of
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Appraisal rules under fire - Greenwich Time
It's by far the hottest controversy in real estate this summer, and it could directly affect the value of your house -- probably negatively -- by tens of thousands of dollars. The issue concerns low-balled valuations and the new rules guiding
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Job losses rise in June, ending 4 months of improvement - Kansas City Star
In a worse-than-expected showing, employers shed 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate ticked up another tenth of a percentage point to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Mainstream economic forecasts had
