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About Your Pool
By Dennis Hockman Dennis Hockman is a frequent contributor to Chesapeake Home Perfect! Pools What You Need To Know About Your Pool While swimming pools can provide hours of enjoyment, they also generate hours of care and maintenance. Restoration: So you already have a pool, but you are considering replacing it because it is old and needs repair. Don’t fret, many pool builders also specialize in the restoration of existing pools. In fact, all of the builders we spoke with are willing to tac
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Pool Care and Maintenance
By Dennis Hockman Dennis Hockman is a frequent contributor to Chesapeake Home Perfect! Pools The Tool Shed: Care and Maintenance While swimming pools can provide hours of enjoyment, they also generate hours of care and maintenance. According to Mike Noske of Blue Waters Service Pool and Spa, “Virtually everything about a swimming pool, about maintaining a crystal clear sparkling, pristine body of water,” requires a constant battle against, “the forces of nature. And in order to
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Swimming Pool Finishing Touches
By Dennis Hockman Dennis Hockman is a frequent contributor to Chesapeake Home Perfect! Pools Off the Deep End: Finishing Touches Once you have waded through all the options and decided upon the size, shape, color, construction and setting of your pool, you might still be wondering how to put the finishing touches on your new addition. Depending on the level of specialization and personalized service, different pool builders will go to various lengths in adapting the environment around the pool.
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Swimming Pools
By Dennis Hockman Dennis Hockman is a frequent contributor to Chesapeake Home Perfect! Pools Swimming Pools If cool water fun is more your style, the first phase in narrowing the options remains the same – what is your primary purpose for owning a pool and how much do you want to spend? Swimming Pools Inground pool projects range from an average base of $20,000 to the hundreds of thousands. One elaborate swimming pool project described to me cost $250,000 —consequently, I stopped ask
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Hot Tubs
By Dennis Hockman Dennis Hockman is a frequent contributor to Chesapeake Home Perfect! Pools Hot Tubs By Dennis Hockman Photo Courtesy of Regina Pools When considering a hot tub, how you will use it affects its placement, size, type and the options you choose. Hot Tubs When considering a hot tub, how you will use it affects its placement, size, type and the options you choose. If, as Sullivan suggests, a hot tub will meet a therapeutic need, you may want to locate it somewhere more convenient th
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Deer Resistant Plants Chart
This list is from a more comprehensive Maryland Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet #655 Trees, Shrubs and Climbers Rarely Damaged by Deer Bottlebrush buckeye — Aesculus parviflora Downy serviceberry — Amelanchier arborea Japanese false cypress — Chamaecyparis pisifera Japanese cedar Cryptomeria — japonica Colorado blue spruce — Picea pungens glauca Scotch pine — Pinus sylvestris Douglas fir — Pseudotsuga menziesii Bearberry — Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Barberry — Berberis spp. Boxwood — Bux
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What’s Hot In Kitchens
Photo Courtesy of Kitchen Encounters What’s Hot In Kitchens More client involvement in design development and details Multiple levels of countertops and a variety of work surface materials—granite, wood, concrete, tile, solid surface, etc. Stainless steel appliances, especially cooking equipment Warming drawers and wine coolers Dish storage in drawers Different cabinet styles and finishes in the same room, warm wood tones More than one sink and pot filler faucets Decorative tile work
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The Well Heeled Kitchen
Designed by Lynne M. Abrams, Details Inc. Photography by Anne Gummerson. By, Patti Harman Patti Harman is the former editor of Chesapeake Home THE WELL HEELED KITCHEN “One of the major functions of a kitchen is to serve as a workplace- and not just for food preparation. It is quickly becoming the hub of activity, serving as an informal home office, or at the very least, the place where one finds the computer for managing the household…” Designed by Lynne M. Abrams, Details Inc. Photographer: A
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Spas
All skin types and individual conditions benefit from rejuvenating facial treatments that involve cleansing, toning, exfoliation, and customized masks. PHOTO COURTESY OF ELIZABETH ARDEN By, John Francisco Andreu John Francisco Andreu is an art historian, furniture designer, and freelance writer focusing on interior design and the decorative arts. John is a member of the ChesapeakeHome Editorial Advisory Board. SPAS Emphasis on Balance of Mind, Body, and Spirit Enter the world of spas—for t
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Powder Rooms Old Name, New Look
Photo by Anne Gummerson. By, Lesley Howson Lesley Howson is a frequent contributor to ChesapeakeHome. Powder Rooms Old Name, New Look: The Powder Room Gets a Make-Over by Lesley E. Howson You wouldn’t believe what’s happening inside the powder room these days. Tucked away somewhere on the first floor of the house, this little enclave has quietly remained under the decorative radar for ages. Now, the powder room is finally getting the same respect and attention as the higher profile
