Hedgewood House Delivers Uncrowded Space for Active Family
A Hedgewood two story ranch design offers separate family rooms with wood burning fires, extensive storage and laundry areas, a lower level rock terrace, and a brick frame exterior with a dominant brick chimney. The layout uses a sloped lot to create distinct living zones, providing quiet sleeping areas and lively entertaining spaces.
Designing a Pool Setting and Surroundings
A backyard pool becomes more than water. it centers on people and spaces. The piece analyzes creating a pool setting with deck choices, landscaping windbreaks, and optional features like a dressing house or sauna. It also asks about distinct patio areas and how to integrate lounging spaces for swimmers and onlookers.
Decking and coping ideas for poolside aesthetics
The article discusses pool decking as a key finish, emphasizing non skid materials and cohesive design with the house and landscaping. It outlines coping options including wood bricks flagstones cast stone and poured concrete, and notes vinyl liner pools use Cas-Lock coping. It suggests coordinating deck and pool with house, using redwood, flagstone, slate, or decorative stone and pebbles to shape the overall look.
Vi's Fabric promotes sewing class gift certificates for Mother's Day
Vi Lakatos, owner of Vi's Fabric Shop in Sheffield Shopping Center, recommends gift certificates for the Simple Six knit sewing class series starting the week of May 12. The program helps busy mothers learn to sew cost effectively, with six two hour lessons offered in morning, afternoon, and evening sessions.
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Vi Lakatos
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Digital watch price shakeout sparks industry debate
Digital watches first appeared in 1972 at about 1300 dollars and may fall to 30 to 40 dollars as industry forecasters predict. Wall Street seminars by Burgess & Leith and Coleman & Co. note solid state digitals will grow in importance, with GE Zenith and TI backing new models. Despite discounting, jewelers and mass merchandisers expect battery powered quartz designs to dominate, while digitals gain headway and price cuts continue. Bloomingdale's reports returns on electronic watches rising in the past two years.
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Creative space gains from attic to porch in family home plan
A home owner weighs upgrading headroom versus a new addition and finds value in converting attic space, a hall closet, a full basement, or a porch. The piece emphasizes planning on paper, avoiding drastic changes, and balancing family needs with cost. It notes skylights, dormers, proper insulation, and light as key considerations.
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