Raising Children is a Big Job: How Parents Can Get Support Do you know anyone who would buy a new car, drive it day in and day out and never bother to fill the gas tank, change the oil, or rotate the tires? And when it broke down, leave it by the side of the road to go off and look for another vehicle?
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Updating Your Cottage State of Mind In 1848, architect Andrew Jackson Downing bid readers of The Horticulturist to practice “beautiful and appropriate architecture. Do not build your dwelling places like temples, churches or cathedrals,” he implored. “Let them be, characteristically, dwelling-houses . . . let the cottage be a cottage.”
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Mix and Match: Finding the Right Design Combination for a Bathroom Good design is about mixing and matching. We want our homes to reflect our individual tastes and interests. It should be practical and personal. We shy away from cookie-cutter rooms filled with furnishings all in the same scale and style. And, what “goes together” doesn’t always need to match.
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Using Technology to Keep Families Connected When time, geography or financial constraints keep you from being with family, a little old-fashioned imagination combined with some of today’s technological conveniences can keep you connected and make you feel... almost as if you’re there.
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New IRS Ruling Offers Tax Free Benefits to Real Estate Owners Thanks to a recent ruling by the IRS, you can replace your management intensive or non-income producing real estate -- such as apartments or farm land -- into interests in blue-chip, trophy commercial properties and sleep better at night.
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