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Renovations & Repair

Make Careful Choices When Contracting Out For New Roof

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Home Improvement
Written by Kathy Van Mullekom, Baltimore Sun
Putting a new roof on your house is a job you want to contract out. It's specialty work that can also be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
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Homework: You, too, can fix things (and save cash)

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Written by Gary Dymski, Newsday
Several weeks ago, a reader - let's call him "Bob" - sent me an e-mail, complaining about the cost of re-pairing a bathroom faucet. It seems he used a plumbing contractor I'd written about, and he was amazed his final expense was $230.
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Remodeled; Out with the '80s

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Remodeling
Written by Janet Eastman, Los Angles Times
It took a clean break to erase the era's imprint on a Playa del Rey house. When Ron and Deborah Rader first saw the pink stucco house with the glass-block walls, they were hit by an '80s flashback. Rounded walls, whitewashed oak cabinets, blue neon illuminating the pueblo-style fire-place -- might as well pop a Cyndi Lauper cassette in the Walkman and go for a jog.
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Cabinets: Think redo, not new

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Written by Nancy Yoshihara, Los Angeles Times
Kitchen dress-up changes the room at a fraction of the cost of full replacement. Dreaming of redoing your kitchen but waking up with a budget that seems too small? Think Botox instead of a total face-lift. Kitchen cabinets can be spiffed up for a third to a half of the cost of replacing them while still refreshing the room dramatically.
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Cool New Kitchen -- Now How Do I Use It?

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Written by Janet Eastman, Los Angeles Times
Judy and Dan Amsler have a new kitchen and a million questions. Some are simple: Where's the cold-est place to store sea bass in a Sub-Zero? Others are as perplexing as a calculus quiz: How fast does heat dissipate from a three-ply pan on a 15,000-BTU gas range? "I haven't had time to read the manuals," Judy confesses a week after her kitchen remodel was completed and the day she and Dan are to host their book group for a four-course dinner in their Hancock Park home.
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