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Original Character: Finding Your Home’s Style and Working With It
RECIPES: The Soup Pot Returns Butternut Squash Soup • Beef and Barley Stew • Roasted Tomato and Basil Soup • Roasted
C raftsman, midcentury ranch, Colonial Revival, and Spanish Revival houses each carry a short list of details that make them what they are, and those are usually the first things an update paints over or takes down. Learn to recognize yours, then work through the upgrades that recover it: the front door, the lighting beside it, the house numbers, the garage door.
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The Best Halloween on the Block
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Ready for Rough Weather: Protecting
Ten things to do at your own house on and around Halloween, from a porch trick- or-treaters can find to a pumpkin-carving night, a driveway movie, old-fashioned yard games, and a late supper for whoever is still around when the porch light goes off. Several of them double as the easiest introduction you will get to neighbors you have never met.
Your Home Investment
Everything worth checking before storm season, in the order a contractor would check it: roof, windows, shutters, storm doors, grading and drainage, siding, and decks. This article closes with the backup power and supplies worth having in place ahead of an outage, whether the risk where you live runs to wind, water, ice, or heat.
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