David Wiesand’s design odyssey in Mt. Vernon
Baltimore craftsman David Wiesand spent three years renovating his 1855 home and, going room by room and doing most of the work himself. This weekend the Baltimore furniture craftsman opens his home to visitors as part of the Maryland Home and Garden Pilgrimage.

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Haiku Designs Introduces New ModRest Platform Beds from Award-Winning Furniture Designer Normand Couture
Haiku Designs, a leading online retailer of Asian furniture and platform beds, is thrilled to introduce their all new ModRest leather platform bed, a highly-versatile bed that combines form and function for a smart-looking piece of bedroom furniture that will make your bedroom not just a room with a bed in it, but a complete living space.

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Exclusive quality living room furniture- Interior Trade Furniture
Chicago – Living room furniture can be used for different perspectives. One can use them as a symbol of decoration and elegance whereas one can also use them for marginal utility purposes. There are numbers of benefits which can be obtained with the help of living room furniture.

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Place living room furniture in accordance to conversation areas and lighting fixtures within a room. Have fun and experiment with new ideas in order to create the perfect living room space withtips from a professional decorator in this free video on home decorating. Expert: Ann Myrick Bio: Since 1997, Ann Myrick has been a professional decorator, house cleaner, home organizer and planner, and she is now the owner and operator of Anntics Home Decorating Company. Filmmaker: Tim Brown

House, furniture become one
When Joanne and George Baltaeff were getting married three years ago, they decided that celebrating their new life together called for moving out of old homes and making a new one.

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Mid-century nautical: Moorpark man’s land-locked love affair with the high seas
Peter Knego relishes any chance to reminisce about mid-century cruise ships. For more than half his life, the 50-year-old ship historian and cruise journalist has documented their stunning interiors, craftsmanship and fittings in volumes of photographs.

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911 call in Hernando child neglect case shows mom unable to direct rescuers
By John Woodrow Cox, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 22, 2011 RIDGE MANOR — Lori Michelle Puentes, clearly overwhelmed by drugs or alcohol, struggled to tell a 911 operator where she lived as her 12-year-old son approached death. The boy, authorities would later learn, had found a bottle of his mom’s prescription pills in a clothes pile the night before. As Puentes and her son’s teenage friend …

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