COOLER temperatures often drive people indoors, but not everyone is disappointed by the change of seasons. Douglas Wright, an architect with Hart Howerton, a firm based in New York and San Francisco, said many of his male clients look forward to hibernating in "man caves" -- cozy, masculine dens where they can pursue interests like spectator sports, woodworking or billiards. (Yesterday)
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Ruth and James Weir stand in front of the Greek Revival farmhouse where they reared five children while Mr. Weir worked as the caretaker for Greenwood Cemetery in O'Hara.
In the 1960s, Ruth Weir promised her husband she would quit smoking if she could decorate the living room of the pre-Civil War farmhouse on the grounds of Greenwood Cemetery in O'Hara. (10/31/2009)
Small cobalt blue acrylic table by Four Hands
HIGH POINT, N.C. -- It's the little things that count in life. (10/31/2009)
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Construction of the Hokes' quad in Adams Crossing took about a year and cost $425,000.
Jim and Clare Hoke spent most of their adult lives in a 1920s Victorian-style house in Shaler. (10/31/2009)
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Experts believe the mystery plant at Gladys Chappel's Upper St. Clair home is desmodium.
Gladys Chappel has waited for more than 50 years for the answer to one question: What is that plant growing outside her back door? (10/31/2009)