Cool shade of blue hot colour of the year

SINCE paint colour is as personal as it is powerful, Beauti-Tone recently asked Canadians to choose the brand’s 2016 colour of the year.The winner, French Charming, is a cool blue reminiscent of a well-worn, comfortable pair of jeans. "French Charming . . .

Posted: 2016-02-20

How to have hummingbirds eating out of your hand

QUESTION: I would like to make my own food for hummingbirds, but I have run out of red food colouring. Is there something that I can substitute in place of food coloring to attract hummingbirds to my yard? Thanks, Vince, . . .

Posted: 2016-02-20

Municipal infrastructure is everyone’s business

IT appears as though the recent Big City Mayors’ Caucus of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting produced positive results as it relates to infrastructure funding. We already knew of the federal government’s commitment of an additional $60 billion over . . .

Posted: 2016-02-20

Basement telepost adjustment best left for the pros

QUESTION: I came across an article you wrote for the Winnipeg Free Press about tightening teleposts, so I thought that I would send you a question. I have two types of teleposts in my basement. One type has no visible . . .

Posted: 2016-02-20

Good as gold

Award-winning Odessy Homes design blends function, fashion

AT first glance, it’s a number that appears to be inconsequential. After all, the difference in square footage between a pair of Odessy Homes designs — the Vintage, and its successor, the Vintage Max — is just 138. In real . . .

Posted: 2016-02-20

Modern love

Updated four-level split classy and contemporary

YOU’VE been looking for your dream home for weeks, or even months, when it finally looks like you’ve found the perfect candidate on the MLS website. Full of anticipation, you click from the perfect exterior photo to shots of the . . .

Posted: 2016-02-20

Garden mosaic perfectly framed with stone, wood and concrete

When Alan and Roma Thorlakson purchased their West St. Paul home eight years ago, their landscape overlooking the Red River was a blank slate of gumbo covered with only a thin layer of black soil. From the two-tiered deck of . . .

Posted: 2016-02-13

Next generation ready to join the workforce

A few weeks ago, we looked at the pending skilled labour shortfall in the construction industry. The Construction Looking Forward report projected the need for 3, 900 new entrants into the residential construction industry in a wide variety of positions.Manitoba . . .

Posted: 2016-02-13

Warm up your decor with wood

Adding wood to your decor can really warm up a space. Wood, in all its various applications, can add texture, pattern and colour to a room.In this column I'm not referring to fine wooden furniture necessarily but rather rough hewn . . .

Posted: 2016-02-13

Insulating exterior walls minimizes condensation and mould growth

Question: I enjoyed reading your previous article about basement mould, as it was a very timely read. I am in the process of finishing my basement. It is a newer home that I am building an hour south of Winnipeg . . .

Posted: 2016-02-13