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  Can Land Planning Create a Sense of Community?  
 

Can a sense of community, that elusive quality that home buyers everywhere say they want, be created by the way a housing development is laid out?

Architects and land planners say yes.....

 
 

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Laundry Lowdown: Front-Loading Washers, Avoiding Oh-Oh Odors

 
 

If your budget for building or remodeling your home is so tight that you can afford to splurge on only one appliance, make it an upscale, high-efficiency, front-loading washing machine.....

 
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Shining Light on Color Options in CFL Bulbs

 
 

Every green-building expert says the easiest way to make your house more environmentally sensitive is to change all the light bulbs, replacing your incandescent ones with compact fluorescent light bulbs. They produce the same amount of light with about 75 percent less energy.....

 
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Home Stretch: Katherine Remodels Her Back Porch

 
 

You might think that earning an architecture degree, working as a designer in architects' offices and reporting for years on home building would be adequate preparation for my own major remodeling project.

You would be wrong.....

 
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