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Condo Smarts: Happy Stratas

Dear Tony: I want to thank you for your many years of columns, and hope that you would consider a column about the really good side of living in a condo.
House Beautiful: Penthouse style

House Beautiful: Penthouse style

Like a bespoke suit that鈥檚 perfectly measured, cut and tailored, this elegant penthouse, recently purchased by a Calgary couple, has a refined and chic ambience.
Debbie Travis: Glorious grey

Debbie Travis: Glorious grey

Dear Debbie: We have decided to rip up our carpets and put down hardwood floors. It鈥檚 a big investment and we want them to last a long time. There are so many choices of colours and even the size of the planks.
Reena Nerbas: Kitchen quandry

Reena Nerbas: Kitchen quandry

Dear Reena: My mother always told me that lettuce should be hand torn and never cut with a knife. Is this true or is it a myth? Aim茅e Dear Aim茅e: Many cooks believe that lettuce that touches metal will prematurely turn brown.

Helen Chesnut: Delicious dinner leads to rutabaga regret

New Year鈥檚 Day dinner was memorable this year. A friend and her son had put together a spectacular beef Wellington, accompanied by roasted yams, green and white asparagus, and mashed rutabaga.
Helen Chesnut: Worms, hairs and other hazards in the garden

Helen Chesnut: Worms, hairs and other hazards in the garden

Dear Helen: I marvelled at your account of a Red Lion amaryllis blooming several years in a row. Here鈥檚 my story: In the spring, I moved a planter holding six Red Lion amaryllis bulbs outdoors.
Condo Smarts: Manager has it wrong

Condo Smarts: Manager has it wrong

Dear Tony: We had our AGM on Saturday, and our property manager ended up chairing our meeting. The manager also did registration, certified proxies and took the minutes.
Writing the book on decor

Writing the book on decor

NEW YORK 鈥 Some people love the look of a bookshelf stuffed with books, and what that represents. Others see books as clutter and wonder why anyone owns them in the digital era.
House Beautiful: Home designed to suit three generations

House Beautiful: Home designed to suit three generations

Linda is a passionate gardener, enthusiastic recycler and reuser.
Helen Chesnut: Nature's lessons

Helen Chesnut: Nature's lessons

A week with my son at聽Christmas has re-activated a desire to host more visitors to the garden 鈥 not because it鈥檚 in any way a 鈥渟how鈥 garden, but that its broad variety of plants makes it聽a聽promising teaching garden.