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	<title>Heading for a Home: You can go solo on the biggest purchase of your life &#150; but having an agent on your side is a savvy play</title>
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Environs:Can people make it through the entire process of buying or selling a home without real estate agents assisting them&#63; Maybe&#46;Whether they should try is another question&#46;&#39;&#39;It&#39;s not that a home buyer or seller couldn&#39;t do it themselves&#44;&#34; says Matthew Roberts&#44; an agent with Long &#38; Foster Real Estate in D&#46;C&#46; &#34;But just because they can doesn&#39;t mean they should&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Sofa&#44; So Good&#33;: Hardly a home is complete without this soft seat</title>
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Environs:Some would argue that languages say so much about the cultures that create them&#46; For example&#44; the lore that the indigenous people of the northern polar region have a varying number of words for &#34;snow&#44;&#34; depending upon the source to which one turns&#46; The implication is that Eskimos see a helluva lot of snow and therefore have several words to describe it&#46;Whether or not that&#39;s the case&#44; it may say something about English&#45;speaking North America that we have several terms for that large piece of furniture sitting in our living rooms&#44; the contemporary nest from which to enjoy the modern hearth of television&#46; What is a chesterfield in Ontario may be a couch in California&#46; Or is it a sofa&#63; Divan&#63; Settee&#63; Davenport&#63;&#34;I think &#39;sofa&#39; is more formal&#44;&#34; says David Dennis&#44; owner of U Street&#39;s RCKNDY &#40;pronounced Rock Candy&#41;&#46; &#34;I don&#39;t like the word &#39;couch&#46;&#39;&#34; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Antiques Extravaganza: Baltimore prepares for the nation&#39;s largest antiques show&#44; where bargains abound</title>
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Environs:Gus Davis and his partner will look for paintings and silver to furnish their home&#46; Kris Charamonde is in the market for an art deco desk for his den&#46; Judy Oppel will seek out a tchotchke&#44; maybe a bracelet or a paperweight&#46;And all of them will find what they&#39;re looking for in Baltimore&#46;&#39;&#39;It would take a lifetime of travel to experience all that the Baltimore show has to offer&#44;&#39;&#39; says Judy Oppel&#44; an organizer of the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show&#44; the largest indoor antiques show in the U&#46;S&#46; and among the biggest in the world&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Rooftop Respite: To be above it all&#44; head to one of these aerial escapes</title>
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Environs:When it comes to summarizing the attraction of a rooftop&#44; no one surpasses the lyrics written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King&#44; sung beautifully by The Drifters in 1962&#46;When I come home feelin&#39; tired and beatI go up where the air is fresh and sweetUp on the roofI get away from the hustling crowdAnd all that rat race noise down in the street Martini Sky Bar at the Beacon HotelThat&#39;s only a tiny part of &#34;Up on the Roof&#44;&#34; a musical tribute that taps into the primal joy of finding refuge above the action&#46; As children&#44; that joy drives us to climb out of bedroom windows&#44; risking life and limb by sitting on slanted roofs&#44; or to scale trunks into beloved tree houses&#46; As adults&#44; the options improve mightily&#46; And in D&#46;C&#46;&#44; it seems those options are improving at a steady and stylish pace&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Arbiter of Taste: Designer Brad Weesner draws on experience and expertise</title>
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Environs: How do you revamp one of gay District&#39;s most iconic landmarks without losing its personality&#63; That&#39;s the challenge Brad Weesner was given when he was asked to give Annie&#39;s Paramount Steak House a facelift last year&#46;&#39;&#39;I was so honored&#44; flattered and proud&#44;&#39;&#39; Weesner&#44; 52&#44; says of that assignment at 1609 17th St&#46; NW&#46; Brad Weesner&#39;&#39;We wanted it to be more sophisticated&#44; more upscale&#46; What really mattered was the owner said&#44; &#39;&#39;I want to give back to the community that got us here&#46;&#39;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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