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The Great Baseboard-Grouted-Into-Tile Conspiracy

How to Make a Simple, Big Baseboard With Materials From Lowes Home Improvement   Lee From Green Valley, Arizona Asks: Q Dear Ken: I have removed the ho-hum deteriorated baseboards in my great room and ran into an issue with…

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Choosing Your Wall Colors II: Editing Your Good and Bad Ideas

By Jennifer If you’re at all given to speculative thought, you’ve probably mused on the sad fact that many — perhaps most — brilliant notions wither in the blighting light of reality.  I’ve whiled away many a commuting hour reflecting…

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About Jennifer’s Nest

Update to Jennifer’s Nest:  Jennifer decided she’d rather nest with someone else, so there won’t be anymore posts in this series.  But her articles are still worth reading. — Ken After a lifetime of sacrificing domestic life on the altar…

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Choosing Your Wall Colors I: Pleasure and Pain

By Jennifer If you bring a good deal of confidence and experience to the task of choosing colors, it’s the most enjoyable part of decorating.  If you tend to agonize and worry about others’ opinions, you’ll find it painful.  And…

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Living Room: The Answer is "Sea Serpent"

By Jennifer Emboldened by the excellence of our bedroom results, I turned my attention to the entryway and living room, both of which presented design features that my company’s Risk Review Board would name “challenges” or “opportunities,” which mortals like…

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Master Bedroom: Paint for the Proletariat

By Jennifer Painting wasn’t actually my idea.  True, my condo was proving mysteriously hard to decorate.  I kept the place tidy and uncluttered, bought books on feng shui, and arranged objects in patterns that pleased me, but it still felt…

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Underwater in the Desert

By Jennifer I thought clever people like me didn’t end up underwater in a mortgage. It seems downright unjust.  Far from buying at the top of the market, I bought more than a year after the crash.  At the time,…