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8 Common Home Repairs That Shouldn’t Be Overlooked

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Boulder, Colorado, offers a beautiful setting and a wonderful place to live, but homeowners know that maintaining a home here comes with responsibilities. Routine repairs ensure homes stay safe, comfortable, and structurally sound. Neglecting certain repairs, even minor ones, can lead to bigger issues, costing more time and money to fix in the future.

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Short Guide to Buying the Best Door Signs

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Buying anything can turn into an interesting journey, especially if you have very specific criteria for the purchase. This is often the case with Door Signage — essential for proper space organization and used by humanity for centuries. But who said that standard plates with hackneyed designs from the mass market will satisfy the needs of everyone who’s looking for those signs? Considering this, we recommend you pay more attention to custom door signs.

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Eye On Design: Set of French Doors from Arthur Heun’s Sedgwick S. Brinsmaid House

brinsmaid house french doors photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

This set of French Doors was originally installed in the Sedgwick S. Brinsmaid House, one of the earliest examples of Prairie-school architecture in Iowa. The horizontally oriented building, with its stucco-and-wood surface, pierced details, and abundance of geometric leaded glass, relates closely to works by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Five Conversations By Lubaina Himid On The High Line

Five Conversations
All Photos By Gail

The High Line always seems to have new public art installed along its mile-plus length of green space, and Five Conversations by Tanzanian-born artist Lubaina Himid, although it has been up since April, was new to me as I walked south along the path on my way to the Whitney Museum one sweltering Sunday afternoon.
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Jim Morrison Mural, Venice Beach, California

Jim Morrison Mural
Photo By Gail

Painted by muralist Rip Cronk, this likeness of a microphone-holding, shirtless Jim Morrison can be seen on the side of a three-story building located at 1811 Speedway and 18th Place in Venice Beach, CA. Originally painted in 1991, Cronk touched up the painting in the Summer of 2012, creating a vibrant orange background over what had previously been both a darker blue color, and the building’s natural white brick. The mural is a must-see for Doors fans if you happen to be in the area.