Author: By Marni Jameson
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At Home: Want more curb appeal? A lot hinges on your door
Shopping for a home is a lot like online dating. So much rides on that first photo. Whether you’re looking for a potential house or a potential partner, a prospect’s “curb appeal” often determines whether you cross the figurative threshold or swipe left. I mean, the guy could be the nicest fellow in North America,…
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At Home: Get your outdoor scene war-weather ready (part 2)
Aah, May. The jackets are coming off. The bugs are coming out. Memorial Day is coming up, and your friends are coming over … unless, that is, your outside is not the place to be. Then your friends are going somewhere else. If this is the year you finally are going to create an outdoor…
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At Home: Former Real Simple editor reflects on ideas of order
“Home is a box you keep your life in — people and pets and plants and history and dreams. A biosphere, a sanctuary, your place, your space. … Your private address in a crowded universe. The place you belong.” So opens the latest issue of Ideas of Order, a magazine I just discovered, that California…
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At Home: 10 tips to stage small spaces to sell
My youngest daughter has called Nashville home for five years. When Marissa moved there out of college to pursue grad school, my husband and I helped her by buying a small, one-bedroom condo near campus. Now she’s ready to move on. And you know what that means: Call the broker and spiff up the place.…
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At Home: Table décor tips to bring on the falderol this fall
As thankful as I am, as we all are, to be able to gather once again with friends and family this fall, and to not have to eat Thanksgiving dinner outside while sitting 6 feet apart wearing masks and passing the hand sanitizer, my fall dining table doesn’t reflect that sentiment. In fact, it falls…
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At Home: When weddings hit home
“Are you sure you want all these people in your house?” I asked the groom’s mom when she offered to host the wedding at her Jackson Hole, Wyo., home. My daughter and her son were engaged. Every wedding venue we looked at was booked. “Oh, they won’t be in the house,” she said. “We’ll keep…
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At Home: New smart system tells mosquitoes to eat elsewhere
I love every part of my home, but my favorite place is the covered patio. As soon as weather permits, I am the first one out and the last one in. I like the fresh air, the view, and knowing which neighbors are coming and going. I like hearing the birds in the morning, the…
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At Home: Tech-infused Airbnb shows seniors how to age in place in style
I don’t know about you, but as far as aging goes, I have a plan. Plan A is I will not age. Plan B is, if I must age, I will go down swinging. Thus, I was encouraged to learn that new technology and forward-minded designer promise to make aging at home a lot easier.…
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At Home: Where have all the photos gone?
Here I lecture you all the time about properly storing and organizing all that matters, so it’s safe and accessible, as if I had all that under control, as if I had all my photos right where I wanted them. Well, this week, the joke’s on me. My oldest daughter is about to get married.…
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At Home: A new way to save old things and cut clutter
Today’s story begins in a crowded marketplace in New Delhi, India, in the mid-1960s. Martha Ramsay of Bristow, Va., had just bought three, round, handcrafted brass trays and a basket of peaches. “I was walking through the market, carrying these heavy trays, along with the fruit when I heard a hiss in my ear,” she…