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SPECIAL SECTION: Spring home & garden 2010

Get into the swing of spring with our comprehensive seasonal home and garden section, which is filled with stories and photos covering the latest trends in flowers, plants, furniture, home organization ideas and more.

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ILLUSTRATION: Front yard garden

300 dpi Fred Matamoros color illustration of vegetables growing in a front yard.

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HOME

The DYI Network's "Indoors Out" team created an outdoor living space by opening up the back porch and adding a large new deck to this Orlando, Florida home.

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HOME

A cameraman videotapes the remodeled porch at a lakefront Orlando, Florida home for DIY Network's "Indoors Out" show.

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Orlando, Florida homeowner Tal Charmon, second from left, is interviewed in front of his remodeled porch for DIY Network's "Indoors Out" show.

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Porch becomes outdoor family room

ORLANDO, Fla.

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How to: Exchange, sell and recycle items you no longer want

You know what spring cleaning gets you? Stuff. Sure, you can take the usual routes _ hold a garage sale, cart it off to Goodwill, take out a classified ad. We've cooked up a few fun ideas for lightening your load. HOST A SWAP PARTY.

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GARDENING

Mona Lavender produces tall spikes of iridescent lavender blue flowers from spring through fall.

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Mona Lavender: Simply dazzling in the shade garden

As I got out of the car for the garden tour there it was, Mona Lavender, I could recognize that electrifying lavender blue anywhere.

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HOME-SOFAGUIDE

Room and Board's Wells sofa.

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HOME-SOFAGUIDE

Ikea Karlstad sofa.

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HOME-SOFAGUIDE

Crate & Barrel Trace sleeper sofa.

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Your perfect sofa: Use our guide to bring home a sofa that's your living room's Mr. Right

Buying a new sofa _ one of the largest and most-used pieces of furniture in your home, the scene of much reading, TV-watching, snoozing and everything else-ing _ is not a task to take on lightly.

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HOMEMADE-HOUSE

Jim, right, and Sharon May, pictured March 1, 2010, stand in the doorway of the master bedroom in the saltbox house that May, a retired electrical engineer, built by himself with the help of his two sons, Kyle and Ryan in Sharon Twp., Ohio.

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HOMEMADE-HOUSE

A section of the library area at the saltbox home of Sharon and Jim May, seen in background March 1, 2010, that Jim, a retired electrical engineer, built by himself with the help of his two sons, Kyle and Ryan in Sharon Twp., Ohio.

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HOMEMADE-HOUSE

The acorn-shaped top of one several stairway posts in the main entrance at the saltbox home of Jim and Sharon May that Jim, a retired electrical engineer, built by himself with the help of his two sons, Kyle and Ryan in Sharon Twp., Ohio.

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HOMEMADE-HOUSE

The exterior view of the saltbox style home of Jim and Sharon May that Jim, a retired electrical engineer, built by himself with the help of his two sons, Kyle and Ryan, can be seen March 1, 2010, in Sharon Twp., Ohio.

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HOMEMADE-HOUSE

Vermont slate, left, in the main entrance and oak flooring in the dining room create a geometric pattern in the saltbox home of Jim and Sharon May in Sharon Twp., Ohio.

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From pavers to shingles, man builds his own house

SHARON TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ To say Jim May built his own house doesn't quite do the project justice.

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Capturing birds: Avian photographers look to own back yards for best shots

CHICAGO _ Claire Dassy is serious about getting close to her birds.

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Garden wisdom that never grows old

"The Wild Garden: Expanded Edition" ___ What it is: If there was but one book on our garden library shelf, William Robinson's "The Wild Garden" would be the single tome, at once revolutionary and oozing charm.

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Explaining the miracle of mulch

Think of mulch as a cozy blanket for your soil. Some commercial farmers use plastic. Of course, the most organic form of mulch you could choose is a mix of ground up and decomposed forest products or your own homemade compost.

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Step up the look of your stairs

Your home should rise up to greet you, lifestyle experts are forever preaching. "Stairs are architectural details that should be played up," said Karol Nickell, editor in chief of Fresh Home magazine.

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interior design

Step up the look of your stairs with mosaic tiled steps like the ones created by Casey Simmons in her Kansas City home.

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Step up the look of your stairs with carpet runner as shown recently installed in the home of Patricia Shackelford of Kansas City, Missouri.

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New lobelias sure to bring out the artist in you

If you love playing like you're Monet as you design mixed containers then you must learn the new component plants Techno Heat, Lucia and Waterfall.

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Make your yard a home for birds

Birdwatching is an addiction that can take over a large chunk of your life _ and your home.

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HUMMINGBIRD

To make your own hummingbird feeder, find a baby food jar, spray paint the lid red and punch small holes in it. Fashion a perch using copper wire and a twig. Fill the jar with a sugar-water mixture, screw on the lid and hang with string.

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HUMMINGBIRD

Hummingbird feeding on a flower.

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Avian Acrobats, Coming to a Windowsill Near You

One of the many joys of spring is the return of hummingbirds from their wintering grounds in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

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SOLAR

This pool attracts birds with a gentle water flow generated by a solar-powered pump.

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SOLAR

Position patio stone around the rim of the pool basin as shown, and use water-resistant construction adhesive to attach it.

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SOLAR

Using a tile drill bit, drill a hole in the patio stone just wide enough for the pump tubing. Run the tubing through hole -- enough to create the desired flow -- and trim excess.

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Here Comes the Sun ... and a Multitude of Interesting Ways to Harness It

To appreciate the power of the sun as an energy source, just look around your own backyard in late winter. In my own yard in Rhode Island, snowdrops are pushing up out of the ground.

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Home and garden news and notes

ASK MARY: HOW TO PREPARE SIDING FOR PAINT. Q: Our house is sided with aluminum and is in dire need of painting.

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TOOLS

Garden tools once came in a vast array of task-specific shapes and sizes. These tools can still be found at tag sales, antique malls and junk stores, and they're surprisingly easy to spruce up and use again.

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In Praise of Good, Old Garden Tools -- and a Few New Ones

After gardening for decades, I have learned that what separates efficient work from drudgery is having the right tools for the job. The problem with many tools today is that they weren't designed with specific tasks in mind.

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Celebrity horticulturist Jamie Durie makes gardening sexy

Jamie Durie's a globe-trotting, jet-setting, celebrity horticulturist. Maybe the only one.

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Baskets: My favorite storage solution

It seems as if no matter the size of our homes, we always need more closet or storage space. A BASKET IS A BLESSING.

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HOME-HOMEBASE

It's the mission of the Blessing Basket Project "to reduce poverty in developing countries by paying prosperity wages for artisan products."

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gardening

The dark almost black foliage of Purple Knight alternanthera not only serves as a backdrop but brings out the fiery red and yellow colors of the Torch Red Ember gaillardia.

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Brazilian Red Hot produces flaming iridescent pink, red and magenta foliage all summer making it one of the best buys for your gardening dollar.

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Purple Knight and Brazilian Red Hot sizzle in the hot summer garden

It seems today everyone is searching for those plants that perform from the minute they are planted until killing frost takes them out. Botanically speaking they are both Alternanthera dentata.

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Don't try this at home: When you should leave home-improvement projects to the experts

CHICAGO _ Eager to save money, homeowners are more willing to get their hands dirty with home-improvement projects these days.

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Compost care and maintenance

Composting not only reduces the waste stream and minimizes the production of greenhouse gasses, it produces nutrient-rich humus, a key ingredient to any sustainable agriculture, be it a single houseplant or next year's organic wheat crop.

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TIE-DYE

At Maya Romanoff, a surfacing materials company in Skokie, Illinois, production managers Gina Panijan, left, and Na Bopha ly Om, right, consult with Maya Romanoff, company chairman and chief creative officer, as the women unroll freshly tie-dyed w...

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TIE-DYE

Heng Bou, center, grabs bundles of wallpaper covering, January 27, 2010, to be tie-dyed at Maya Romanoff, a surfacing materials company in Skokie, Illinois, celebrating its 40th year.

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Design revolutionary: What Maya Romanoff puts on walls has long turned heads

CHICAGO _ Even though his words now come in fits and starts barely louder. than a breath, Maya Romanoff still does what he has long done best: raise eyebrows. Since long before he tie-dyed his first T-shirt, he has been a revolutionary, all right.

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