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Formosan termites are swarming New Orleans again. Here are tips to keep your home safe.
4+ hour, 5+ min ago (589+ words) Summer is approaching, and along with the heat comes one of New Orleans most pesky critters " swarming termites. The termites have been spotted by social media users around the city, even crashing Times-Picayune writer Doug Mc Cash's softball game on…...
Landscaping with native plants can offer stormwater solutions, plus it's attractive and tough
3+ week, 3+ day ago (618+ words) The teaching landscape at the new Burden Museum & Gardens welcome center is made up entirely of native plants. It's designed to manage stormwater on the property while showing off beautiful, functional native plants. At the LSU Ag Center Botanic Gardens…...
Need a weekend project? Here are five quick fixes for a visual lift to your living space.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (253+ words) Change the color of the front door or porch ceiling. Go bold and stripe the porch floor in tone-on-tone or contrasting colors. Paint that sad back bedroom; add a contrast color to the back of a bookcase; paint a bedroom…...
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1+ mon, 1+ day ago (34+ words) NOLA. com Bertrand Bailey owner of Down Home Creole Cooking, a Baton Rouge-based catering company and food truck that has been a vendor at Jazz Fest going on 27 years....
Her Uptown kitchen shop expands into new space as business grows " inside her own NOLA home
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (591+ words) A lot of people started working from home in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for Betsy Lindell, that was always the plan. It's just that she had to move an entire kitchen supply store into her house to…...
Looking for New Orleans home and garden events? Check out these options.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (565+ words) The fourth annual Spring Garden and Pet Show will attract more than 75 vendors to Destrehan Plantation with seminars, experts, supplies, plants and more March 21-22. Presented by the River Road Historical Society and the LSU Ag Center, the show will include…...
If you want a home remodel to go quickly, know what you want to do and prepare early
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (568+ words) The finished project, 40 days after the remodel began. Since selling The Happier Yellow House and moving out, my husband, DC, and I had one goal: Move into our new house, The Happiest Yellow House, as soon as possible. But first…...
Guest column: Saving historic buildings is a first line of defense against storms
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (274+ words) In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the people who live here have been described as resilient so often that some now cringe at the term. Extreme weather has become ordinary, and the expectation that people should repeatedly…...
"We were after easy living": Remodel raises an 1890s Mandeville cottage 11 feet and doubles size
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (1173+ words) The home's spacious living room is part of a 1, 700-square-foot addition. The slipcovered sofa and chairs are from Villa Vicci. The console is from St. Romaine in Covington. The chair under the window is a Swedish antique. The home's entry foyer…...
Editorial: Expanding fortified roofs is the one insurance strategy we can all agree on
8+ mon, 1+ day ago (498+ words) Sadly, there's no silver bullet that can quickly end the property insurance crisis that is plaguing south Louisiana, vastly limiting the availability of homeowners insurance and driving costs so high that many residents are struggling to afford to live here....