Turn Your Home into a Vacation Retreat Who doesn’t yearn for that relaxed feeling that comes with the warmer climate, the casual lifestyles and the bright, open interiors of the islands? A growing trend in home design, from Maine to Michigan, is rooms inspired by these sunny spots in the hopes that it will make our homes breezy, colorful and restful and more vacation-like.
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Updating Your Cottage State of Mind In 1848, architect Andrew Jackson Downing bid readers of The Horticulturist to practice “beautiful and appropriate architecture. Do not build your dwelling places like temples, churches or cathedrals,” he implored. “Let them be, characteristically, dwelling-houses . . . let the cottage be a cottage.”
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High School Students Earn Diplomas at a Distance As students around the country head back to school this fall, some are traveling no farther than the desk in their bedroom or the computer in the family room to get the high school education that best meets their needs. In fact, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 1 million U.S. K-12 students attend private or independent schools and some 1.1 million U.S. students are homeschooled.
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New IRS Ruling Offers Tax Free Benefits to Real Estate Owners Thanks to a recent ruling by the IRS, you can replace your management intensive or non-income producing real estate -- such as apartments or farm land -- into interests in blue-chip, trophy commercial properties and sleep better at night.
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Raising Children is a Big Job: How Parents Can Get Support Do you know anyone who would buy a new car, drive it day in and day out and never bother to fill the gas tank, change the oil, or rotate the tires? And when it broke down, leave it by the side of the road to go off and look for another vehicle?
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