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Homes & Gardens: Back to School for Boomers
Thinking about your next summer project? If you have a teen moving out and off to university or college, why not start planning what you are going to do with your reclaimed rooms. We have tips on how to still be proud parents by celebrating your child's accomplishments.

Homes & Gardens: Energy Conservation Summer Tips
Make every kilowatt count. Look below for useful tips and helpful links to control your household energy and water costs. Make an impact on the environment that will make your life easier and better all summer long.

Homes & Gardens: Comparing Neighbourhoods for Sustainable Features
Want to ensure your new home is in an area that will be fun and fit in with your life style? Why not add areas of interest and daily destinations to your search?

Homes & Gardens: Make Your Home Your Favourite Destination
Add a splash of style this spring. Bring your home into the new season with panache and elegance.

Homes & Gardens: Top Decorating Trends
Spring spruce ups. Helpful hints to get your home sunshine ready.

Homes & Gardens: Put the 'Eco' in Decorating
Create an eco-friendly and fabulously fashionable home, have lower bills and a healthier house.

Homes & Gardens: Red Hot Home Redo's, Touchups and Makeovers
Guarantee rest and relaxation in your home. Here are easy makeover ideas to help you turn up the heat with style.

Homes & Gardens: Opportunities Abound for "Move Up" Home Buyers
When you bought your first starter home did you think that this home would be your final home or just a temporary one?

Homes & Gardens: House Dressing for the Holidays
As the holidays approach, you'll want to bring festive flair to your home decor.

Homes & Gardens: The Basics of Moving
Make your move a painless and positive experience from start to finish.

Homes & Gardens: Inexpensive Summer Home Improvement Projects
Ahhh, the season of sunshine and warm weather is upon us. With it comes the urge to spruce up our surroundings. Here are some great budget conscious D.I.Y. ideas.

Homes & Gardens: Water Conservation Canadian Style
We live in a country that is rich in fresh water flowing freely. In most Canadian homes, water is as close as kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms.

Homes & Gardens: Why Should a Home Be Staged?
Keep your eye on the goal of selling your house for top dollar. Your treasures will have a place of honour in your new home for everyone to see and enjoy.

Homes & Gardens: Get Motivated for Spring Cleaning
April means that spring has arrived and it's time for Spring Cleaning. It's time to dust off our dusters and clean out our closets. Here are 10 ways to...

Homes & Gardens: Eco-Friendly Ideas for Your Home Renovations
Go reno-green and get a healthy home. Making environmentally friendly choices has never been easier.

Homes & Gardens: Stage the Mood...Set the Price!
For the love of your home and the wish to create its surroundings as a warm and inviting space.

Homes & Gardens: 10 Tips to an Organized Home
This year keep your New Year's resolution to get organized in your home. The ultimate result will be time and tranquility.

Homes & Gardens: Gift Giving for the Gardener on Your List
Not sure what to get the gardening enthusiast on your holiday wish list? Give the gifts of being able to dream about spring and plan the new growing season.

Homes & Gardens: Simply Stunning Holiday Décor and Gift Ideas to Start Now
With a little planning now, you can be well ahead of the game when it comes time to deck the halls this year.

Homes & Gardens: Fill Your Home with Fall Flair
You can decorate your home for the fall season like a pro; all you need is a little creative flair, some simple inexpensive decorations and a touch of nature...

Homes & Gardens: Getting Your Yard Ready for Fall
The arrival of autumn colors signals the time to get the outside garden and landscape chores wrapped up to ensure a luscious beautiful garden next spring. Avoid getting caught unprepared due to the early onset of fall changes by starting right away.

Homes & Gardens: Home Remodeling Trends Using Environmentally Friendly Materials
Home remodeling is at an all time high and our natural resources are in more danger than ever. How can these two factors reconcile themselves? Newer, friendlier "green" products make it easier to shop smart.

Homes & Gardens: Cottage Etiquette: Guest Do's and Don'ts
If you plan to visit family or friends at their cottage this year, be sure to read the tips below on how to be a good guest. This find is thanks to Sandi Gerrard with Feel at Home Interior Redesign’s Newsletter.

Homes & Gardens: Water Saving Tips for Your Lawn and Garden
Help beat the heat with a family water fight on the front lawn - great fun for everyone. Just picture yourself hosing down your daughter with the hose or dumping a bucket on your son or perhaps filling water balloons and throwing them into a net or hoop. You'll inspire some lasting memories as well as give the lawn a drink, doubling the use of your water.

Homes & Gardens: Getting your home Spring-Ready inside and out!
As the mercury begins to rise and the long awaited sunshine joins us; it’s time to start thinking about how you want to spend the summer

Homes & Gardens: Lighten-Up - Spring Cleaning with Attitude!
After a long, cold Canadian winter, it’s time for the incredible lightness of spring. Simplify, organize, lighten-up, downsize -- whatever you call it, spring is a great time to begin.

Homes & Gardens: Look no further than what de Moore Re-Creations can do for you.
Get a jump on spring and take a look at how you can recycle your favourite fabrics.

Homes & Gardens: Rose Colours Decoded
Your bouquet could be offering a hidden meaning

Homes & Gardens: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Tips on how to enjoy your home more

Homes & Gardens: Feel at Home Redesign
"Presents" Holiday Decorating Ideas

Homes & Gardens: Gearing Your Garden to Winter
A Few Tips on What to Do

Homes & Gardens: Carbon Monoxide Safety
Simple Tips to Prevent Excess CO2

Homes & Gardens: The Art of Hanging Art
They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

Homes & Gardens: Inside and Out Seminar Leaders
Information on the Inside & Out Seminar Leaders...

Homes & Gardens: Buy now, pay later?
The article below will help to put spending into perspective...

Homes & Gardens: Tips for a Great Outdoor Party
It is always so much fun to come up with a creative theme...

Homes & Gardens: Rebecca’s Gardening Tips for Seniors
With assistance and creativity, seniors can continue to enjoy gardening...

Homes & Gardens: Redesign Your Rooms for that Special Occasion
A lot of people avoid entertaining at home because they feel their space is lacking...

Homes & Gardens: Spring Cleaning Tips from Wilful Units
Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, do you know where everything is...?

Homes & Gardens: Bedroom Retreats
Ten steps to creating a relaxing atmosphere...

Homes & Gardens: A New Cart on the Block
Halton welcomes the GreenCart to its waste management team...

Homes & Gardens: Rod Adam Captures the Vibrancy of the Sea
Rod Adam understands the importance of community and neighbourhoods...

Homes & Gardens: Holiday Shopping Tips to Ease Your Holiday Stress
In a perfect world, everyone would love the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and all that it entails ...

Homes & Gardens: Notice of Pesticide Use!
The Halton Region Health Department will begin larviciding catch basins on public lands ...

Homes & Gardens: Living Rooms -- Use the Living Room to Create Great First Impressions
Your living room -- no matter what the size -- sets the tone for the entire house ...

Homes & Gardens: What Are You Thankful For?
Fall is a time of reflection ...

Homes & Gardens: How seniors can benefit from good design in their homes
Attractiveness is only one aspect of good design ...

Homes & Gardens: Fall Inspections Make for Warmer Winters
Now that most of the country is about to enter the heating season ...

Homes & Gardens: What grows where in Halton?
What plants do well in the heat of a typical Halton summer?

Homes & Gardens: Downsizing?
Is the Thought of Downsizing Getting You Down?

Homes & Gardens: Feel at Home Redesign "Presents" Holiday Decorating Ideas
For great visual impact when decorating your tree, use a theme ...

Homes & Gardens: Beat the Winter Blahs
It’s the same story every year -- you pack away your festive decorations in January, look around your house, and think, ok now what?