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US home sales post seven straight monthly drop; house price growth slow

Posted on 21/09/2022 by

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US existing home sales dropped for the seventh straight month in August as affordability deteriorated further amid surging mortgage rates and stubbornly high house prices, though the pace of decline moderated from prior months.

The report from the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday followed news this week that confidence among single-family homebuilders eroded for the ninth consecutive month in September, while permits for future homebuilding tumbled to the lowest level since June 2020 in August.

The Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policy tightening, marked by oversized interest rate increases, has weakened the housing market

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‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 5 recap: ‘We Light the Way’ closes a chapter, but not before touching on a painful trope (SPOILERS)

Posted on 19/09/2022 by

Yet the hour could generate as much buzz for a brutal death that occurred, inviting discussion of old concerns and wounds about the way that LGBTQ characters are treated — and more to the point, killed off — in TV dramas.

The strides made in terms of greater inclusion have coincided with debate about how those characters are portrayed and the fates that they meet, giving rise to a much-discussed trope known as “Bury Your Gays.” The phrase refers to a history in which gay characters have disproportionately died as a plot device, creating the impression they are more expendable

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14 Best Style On-line Outlets In Indonesia

Posted on 18/09/202229/08/2022 by como

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This Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Mount Pleasant is on the market for the first time | Local News

Posted on 17/09/2022 by

MOUNT PLEASANT — The Boyd Home (formerly known as the Keland House), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is on the market for the first time ever.

Commissioned in 1954, 1425 Valley View Drive, Mount Pleasant, has been the largest Wright-designed Usonian house.

Keland House/Boyd Home — The living room of Boyd Home is cantilevered over the top of the ravine. It’s a home that embodies Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture, built into the top of a ravine above the Root River and Colonial Park.

MARK HERTZBERG, Journal Times file photo

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4 Lighting Ideas to Make Your Home the Most Attractive on the Block

Posted on 16/09/202220/09/2022 by como

Most homeowners want a warm and welcoming home. We work hard to ensure that curb appeal impresses guests and neighbors, as well as the exterior design. Unfortunately, curb appeal can suffer at night when all of these wonderful elements aren’t visible. Outdoor lighting can be a simple, effective way to maintain a warm, inviting atmosphere in your home at night.

These are four great ways to make your home the most inviting on the block with landscape lighting.

Walkways

Landscape lighting is a great way to make your home more inviting. The walkways can be lit up to make it …

Rest room Adorning One Hundred And One

Posted on 15/09/202229/08/2022 by como

A modern bathtub tray displayed throughout your bathtub has a great deal of prospects. Ever heard the expression, “A spot for each factor, and each factor as a substitute?” Placement is one issue that good designers are always profitable at. A rest room can merely look messy if there’s muddle or no place to carry your towels and robes .

Bathroom Decoration

Proceed scrolling for 60 ingenious methods to maximise even the smallest of loo areas—all with out sacrificing an inch of favor. Inside designer, Orlando Soria created 4 totally different seems for the cheery toilet proven above. A cool actuality is …

The #1 Paint Trick We Learned From Pro Designers

Posted on 13/09/2022 by

Less paint, bigger impact.

For the 2022 Real Simple Home, we collaborated with design pros to make over a three-story beach house in the Rosemary Beach community in Walton County, Fla. Throughout the revamped house (take the full tour here), paint plays a major role, lending personality and style to almost every single room. Besides serving as a treasure trove of paint color inspo, the house holds the key to a brilliant paint job: high-contrast trim. Several of the designers put this paint trick to use in their spaces, drawing the

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On literacy, Ryan Walters, tweets from the White House

Posted on 11/09/2022 by

Investing in libraries is key for literacy growth

The way to achieve Drew Dugan’s goal of making up for lost time in literacy growth and even help students get ahead is straight-forward: Invest more time and (a few) more dollars in school libraries, in book collections, and in staffing. Fill the school libraries with books that students really want to read, and hire credentialed school libraries to help match children with books that are right for them.

We know from the last two decades of research that reading, especially reading books that readers select themselves, leads to better language and

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