Saturday, November 29, 2008

Martha’s Holiday magazine provides tasteful how-tos

If you enjoy making seasonal decorations for your home, Martha Stewart Holiday is the gold standard for tasteful ideas and thoroughly vetted instructions.

Welcome to the embellished world of a flea-market maven

RICHMOND, Ill. — You drive and drive. Past pumpkin farms and silos. And then, at last, when the country road bumps into, yes, a street plainly called Main — where an old-fashioned barber pole still twirls and the steeple of an old white country church is the tallest point around — you turn, hard left as you can. Keep coming south across the bridge to downtown, then look for the black-and-white striped awning on Broadway that will tell you you’ve arrived.

Aluminum flashings on a deck are a no-no YOUR PLACE ALAN J. HEAVENS

Q: We have a house at the shore, with a second-story deck supported by pressure-treated wood. It was built after they banned the old arsenic pressure-treated wood. We had the wood capped with aluminum.

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