You know what you like. Theres no doubt. You watch a designer transform a room on one of the many home-decorating shows on TV. You tear a page out of a magazine and keep it for your next shopping trip.

All spring, the residents of Avondale Estates have been pulling weeds, mulching flowerbeds, and planting new flowers and shrubs for the annual Avondale in Bloom Garden Walk. For two neighboring gardeners, the June 19th event is a chance to open

The colors in your home should express your personality and how you live. Think about how you want your home to feel. Do you need tranquility? Brightness? Simplicity? FIND YOUR INSPIRATION Favorite colors are the best to usemainly the ones

Most homeowners know the common uses for copper throughout a house: copper plumbing pipes, as well as copper wiring in the electrical and telephone systems. Normally hidden behind walls and under floors, copper now is popping up in a variety

In my role as a Master Gardener, one of my volunteer responsibilities is to answer landscape and gardening questions from Atlanta-area residents. Questions such as, Whats eating my peppers and tomatoes? and, Why wont my hydrangea bloom? are fairly easy

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Ten years ago, Clark Howard never dreamed hed be doing what hes doing now. Its not the success of his consumer-advice radio show, books and TV appearances that surprises himits the recent construction of two houses. From March 5 to

Are you one of those people who fills the flowerpots by your front door with bright red geraniums once springtimes warm weather arrives? Is Labor Day the designated planting date for fall chrysanthemums decorating the front stoop? Once those blossoms

When Thomas Edison produced light from electricity in 1879, surely no one could have imagined all the applications it would create for the home. Certainly, lighting plants and other outdoor features wasnt even on the list. Well, residential outdoor lighting

Evora Ritchie thought she had made a good choice of contractors when she hired the husband of a longtime friend to build an addition to her Stone Mountain home. Now, after months of incomplete and shoddy work and the expense