Gaithersburg: Bright colonial features theater
A wall of Palladian windows adds a distinctive touch to the kitchen and breakfast area.
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Can a Crowdsourced Apartment Design Save the Planet?
What do you get when you take one 420-square-foot New York apartment, one green living advocate, ,000 in prizes and a crowdsourced audience of forward-thinking designers? Hopefully an apartment design competition that can help reduce a country’s environmental footprint. The…
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Making your own kitchen staples is easier than you think
Jeannie Murphy, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been making her own butter for about a year. For some cooks, a similar D-I-Y enthusiasm surrounds peanut butter, mustard, granola, even the British tea time treat, clotted cream.
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Gaithersburg: Upgrades, details grace home
This colonial home is in the Mission Hills community in Gaithersburg. Lovely landscaping, a welcoming front porch and upgrades throughout grace this 1991 D.R. Horton home in Gaithersburg’s Mission Hills community, located near Muddy Branch Road and Great Seneca Highway.
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Olney: Colonial shines with custom upgrades
A bay window brings light and space to the dining room.
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Deep fried, Southern style . . .
A friend of mine returned a call of mine one day while he was sitting in the Dallas airport, waiting for a flight out. He explained that he had just spent two days at the Texas State Fair and it was, he said, quite a sight to behold. “You wouldn’t believe it. You need to put it on your list of things to do,” he said. “You have never seen so much food in your life. And, get this: they fry …
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