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Worthwhile Home Renovations Renovations around the house are a great way to expand and increase its value. However, not all renovations are beneficial in the long run.   |
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Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
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Landscaping 101 We wish we could tell you that creating a landscape was a sure-fire proposition, as easy as "one-two-three." The truth is that home landscaping that really works and pleases its owners is the product of a fair amount of time and attention. |
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A Private Matter Turn your yard into a secluded haven without giving your neighbors the cold shoulder... |
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Can't a Fella Get a Little Peace and Quiet? How to block or diffuse the sound of cars and mowers penetrating your property. |
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Finding the Right Design for Your Backyard Working on a deck? Plan ahead to avoid zoning, aesthetic, and budget problems. |
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Dream Landscape A landscape designer drafts a master plan for the Silvas' yard. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
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Green Grounds Sustainable landscaping can save commercial properties money and help the environment. |
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Why Barns are Red and More Paint Color Cues The stories behind certain hues associated with the American landscape. |
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Backyard from Scratch 7 features that will transform a plain stretch of lawn into a lush landscape you'll really use and enjoy |
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October 11, 2000
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Improving the View From the Curb An attractive front yard improves the look of your home and makes visitors feel welcome... |
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6 Questions for Roger Cook This Old House landscape contractor since 1982, Roger Cook talks landscaping trends, project challenges, his favorite plants, and more. |
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Money Does Grow on Trees Ever wonder what your trees, shrubs, and landscape features are really worth if you had to replace them? The Horticultural Asset Management Company can help you put a dollar figure on your landscaping. |
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7 Rules for Winning Exteriors Bump up your curb appeal with these surefire tips. |
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Packing It All Into the Landscape Plan The challenge: creating a landscape plan that visually separates two dwellings while keeping the overall property integrated. |
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Garden Design 101 You've looked at your home, apartment, or condominium a thousand times, but have you looked at it through a gardener's eyes? Have you considered what's possible? |
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The Garden Room A landscape architect explains the subtleties of designing outdoor space and offers a few tips on how to make a garden "room" take bloom... |
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Yard Work The landscape plan takes shape at the Concord TV project house. |
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Backyard Ideas When you start thinking about your yard as place to live in, not just to garden in, a shift in priorities occurs. Where you once saw places for flower beds, shrub borders, and a vegetable garden, you now see the need for places where human activities can take place comfortably. |
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Yard Work The author, who's a landscape designer, picks the proper plants for Billerica's tough New England climate. |
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Need to Justify Those New Plants? It's well known that attractive landscaping can increase the selling price of a house, but before you bank on a return on any big landscaping projects, here are some data to consider. |
Popular Mechanics
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Going For The Green How to replace your old lawn with luscious sod. |
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Yard Work Before the flower beds and shrubs can be planted at the TV project house, some landscape trouble spots need attention. |
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Professional Tree Removal Crashing through your roof is not the only hazard dead and diseased trees pose to your home -- they also steal water and light from the rest of your yard. |
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Back to Nature The greenest approach to landscaping returns a yard to its roots. |
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Joseph Truini |
Fencing Lessons If you're thinking about putting up a fence this summer, the first challenge is finding one that appeals to you. Although it's easy to fall into a rut and put up the same stodgy stockade or plain picket your neighbors have, there's no reason to compromise. |
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Marion Lyons |
A Lawn in a Day It's lawn-planting time. Should you lay sod or sow seed? Sod has the edge |
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Building a Water Garden Here are instructions for planning, building and planting a water garden. |
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Hendley Badcock |
Why Document Your Renovation? 5 experts explain why you should record every step of your renovation. |
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3 Tips for Tackling a Fixer-Upper House Intimidated by the thought of an exterior renovation? These three tips will make the project more manageable. |
AskMen.com
August 27, 2002
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Top 10 Gardening Tools For Men Whether you're moving in to your first new home, or like to signal to all the women in your neighborhood that your grass is always greener, here are the Top Ten Must-Have Garden Tools. |
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Lawns 101 Much has been said about whether or not Americans should rethink their passion for the home lawn. If you determine that a grass lawn makes sense for your yard, planting the right variety of grass at the right time of year will go a long way in making yours a healthy, easy-care lawn. |
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How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
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January 2003
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Location, Location, Location An architect's advice for where to put the addition. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2000
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Install a new lawn If your lawn suffers from acute soil compaction, rampant weed problems, heavy thatch or organic matter deficiencies, you may want to remove the existing weeds and grass and start anew. |
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Grass to Go Want a fantastic lawn? Sod it. Here's what you need to know to get the job done right. |
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Animal Fencing Fencing is the most reliable defense against garden-raiding animals. |
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Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard |
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Deck Safety Checklist 7 signs that it's time to repair or replace your deck |
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Robert Sparkes |
Gone to (hydro) Seed The author gives you the low down on the newest way to grow grass. |
