http://www.post-gazette.com/homes Home and garden news and features, garden columns by Susan Banks, Doug Oster en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:02:15 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042016-47.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml CRUISER made four house calls on a recent rain-soaked Tuesday. There were two happy endings and two unhappy ones, a fairly typical outcome for a typical day in the life of a bedbug-sniffing puggle. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042017-47.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml MITCH KAPOR, the software mogul and philanthropist, has given millions of dollars to environmental groups. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042018-47.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml THERE are certain timeless truths about people who don't own a television, chief among them that they love to tell you they don't own a television. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042019-47.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, a sturdy survivor in the embattled world of shelter magazines, enacted its own stimulus program last week, with the kind of feel-good giveaway associated with the glory days of television. Over three days, a team from the magazine's marketing department deposited 40 blue chairs around New York City, in a promotional tie-in with its March issue, which is devoted to the color blue. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041569-30.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-AND-A-HALF-BATH HISTORIC HOUSE IN SURREY Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041570-30.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml HEBER CITY, UTAH Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041571-30.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml JOHANNESBURG -- Adam Levy was a teenager growing up in Melrose, a whites-only suburb in northern Johannesburg, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison 20 years ago. Today Mr. Levy -- much like the city itself -- has traded the racial restrictions of the apartheid era for a far more colorful (and cultural) urban existence. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041193-30.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml Buy a sofa, save a life. That's the premise behind the "Feel Good Twice" program going on all this month at Weisshouse furniture store at 324 S. Highland Ave. in Shadyside. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041197-30.stm?cmpid=homegarden.xml LAS VEGAS -- Glitz, glamour and no gilt! That statement could be as easily applied to Sin City (with a slight spelling change) as Jane Seymour's new collection of furniture, Hollywood Swank. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500