Ideas for reviving kitchen, bathroom surfaces
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Ideas for reviving kitchen, bathroom surfaces
Abby: 2 Comics: 4-5 Television: 6 Debbie Lord/Living Editor FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2005 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 219-5705 Photo by Earl Carter Typically available in silk, linen or cotton, sheer curtains come in a variety of colors and lengths at virtually any home store. Dressed up with a few accessories, they can enliven an entire room. Tips to dress up sheer curtains By BRENNAN KEARNEY Martha Stewart Living Magazine Once you hang up a pair of sheer curtains, it’s easy to forget them. After all, their greatest virtue — they’re nearly transparent and allow plenty of light in — renders them practically invisible. But dress them up a bit and they can enliven an entire room. Inexpensive and easy to find, store-bought sheers will save you precious time and money by serving as the canvas for your creative additions. And what a relief: Starting with ready-made curtains means you don’t have to be a whiz with a sewing machine. Typically available in silk, linen or cotton, sheer curtains come in a variety of colors and lengths at virtually any home store. For these projects, you’ll need sheers with hemmed channels instead of tab tops. Select some you like without a pattern (to let your decorations stand out), then browse through the notions aisle of a crafts or sewing store for inspiration. Pom-pom fringe, ribbon and more can be used to quickly transform the sheers you’ve selected. Look for colors and textures that complement or offset the furniture and artwork in a room. Also consider using sheers in unexpected ways: to divide a room, say, or to add color behind a French door. Wherever you decide to give them a try, they will be beautiful — and memorable. Please see Dress Page 3D ៑ People in the news LEAH NASH/South Florida Sun-Sentinel Smart accessorizing on the coffee table means arrangements with a unifying color (here, it’s orange) and decorations that don’t overwhelm the space. Table By CHARLYNE VARKONYI SCHAUB South Florida Sun-Sentinel Ready to set your coffee table for minimal clutter and maximum impact? Try these designer tips. JANE MINGAY/Associated Press A tribute to the memory of Britain’s Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash in Paris 8 years ago, is posted at the gates of Kensington Palace Wednesday. Mourners remember Diana What’s on your coffee table? A. All of your accessories look about the same size. B. You use it to store one or more piles of magazines. C. It’s the place to show how eclectic your tastes are — from Grandma’s cut-glass vase to the folk art statues you brought home from Mexico. D. Guests have to move your “display” to put down their coffee cup or wine glass. E. You can’t wait to add to your pile of coffee-table books. scapes Advice from the pros on the most effective coffee table arrangements If any of these fit you, it’s no wonder your coffee table doesn’t look like those you see in magazines and show houses. So what’s the secret to a great-looking tablescape? Joyce Weakley Shore, former president of the American Society of Interior Designers, Florida South Chapter, took us to a home on the Las Olas Isles in Fort Lauderdale to let us in on the “Trade Secrets.” sories, look for unity. The key is repetition — of color, texture or material. “You are looking for things that add more interest to the eye,” she says. “We no longer look at things like we used to. We are bombarded by images on TV and the Internet. Using the same color with different objects makes you stop and think.” Place it like the pros The table should be spaced about 18 inches from the sofa or chairs. Put it close enough to make it easy for a guest to put down a drink but far enough away to prevent banging a leg when the guest gets up. If the tabletop is small, the accessories should also be smaller scale so they don’t overwhelm the space. The idea is to have enough room on the table so someone doesn’t have to move anything to put down a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Items can be bulkier on a larger table. Get it together Getting high When you’re shopping for acces- Scale it right Many designers think the visitor’s eye should be brought up from the low coffee table with a tall item. If you use a tall item, be sure it isn’t in the way of seeing another person in the conversation area. Find a focal point Most coffee-table arrangements have a focal point — the item that attracts your attention because of its size, interesting color or shape. Off with the books Shore suggests finding another spot for your magazines, and she doesn’t like using coffee-table books as an accessory. “I don’t like to have them there,” she says. “It’s too predictable. And we are looking for what isn’t predictable.” Wire reports Princess Diana’s most loyal fans gathered outside her former home Wednesday to mark the eighth anniversary of her death and to revile the woman who succeeded her as the wife of Prince Charles. Outside Kensington Palace, Diana’s home after her divorce from Charles, bouquets of roses, carnations and lilies were placed on the fence by her fans. There were messages from Australia, Argentina and the United States, and pictures of Diana from every stage of her life. Diana died in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997, along with boyfriend Dodi Fayed and chauffeur Henri Paul. The only survivor was Diana’s bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was badly hurt. Read more about people in the news on Page 2D. Ideas for reviving kitchen, bathroom surfaces By STACY DOWNS Knight Ridder Newspapers The bathroom is supposed to be a spa retreat, right? But chips on the tub, stains in the sink and ugly tile are less than luxurious. So it comes down to a choice: refinish or replace. If it were easy, the best option would be to reglaze porcelain-enameled fixtures by re-firing them in an oven. But such a large-scale operation would be too expensive for individual tubs and sinks. A quick fix exists. Professionals can recoat fixtures using a two-part urethane finish, consisting of a resin and catalyst. “The (urethane) coatings are glossy,” says Robert Jones, owner of DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen, a refinisher in Roeland Park, Kan. “But they reflect light differently than owner of Allen’s Specialty Coatings in Kansas City. Before, professionals and do-it-yourselfers used more epoxy-based products, which yellowed and stained easily. “New coatings work like the anti-graffiti coatings on buses,” he says. However, it often costs less to replace fixtures than it does to refinish them. Here’s what to consider: Sinks cost $100 to refinish, RICH LIPSKI/The Washington Post Refinishing is not an option for kitchen sinks, about the same price as a new one. Unless you have a retro as pots and pans would quickly ruin the new sink you can’t part with, it’s surface. best to replace it. You definitely want to replace a kitchen porcelain. The (urethane) coating alsink because pots and pans would most has a wet look.” quickly ruin a refinished surface. Refinishing paints have improved Tubs cost up to $300 to refinish in the last 15 years, says Dan Allen, inside and out. Mary Hall of Mission, PROCEED WITH CAUTION If you have a refinished surface, don’t use: Abrasive or citrus cleaners. Rubber bath mats inside the tub (ask professionals about installing an anti-slip surface) Hair dyes Bath salts or skin exfoliates Kan., recently updated her bathroom, installing new tile on the walls along with a new sink and mirror. Although it would cost about the same to replace her tub, Hall decided to refinish it. That way she didn’t have to deal with gaps in the flooring Please see Refinishing Page 3D ៑ 2D MOBILE REGISTER People in the News Indecorous invitation sends wrong message to recipients special gifts for himself, his adult children and me. ceived the following invitation in the mail toShould I tell Eli I know he’s paying an unday: godly amount of interest and can’t “We Are Having an Anniversary pay off his credit cards, or let him Dear Abby Dinner for continue to drown in debt? I’m finan‘BYRON AND EDITH’ cially able to help him, but I don’t “(Sorry, you’re not invited!) know how to offer, because Eli won’t “Instead, we would like you to share his need for it. Even if I did, I send an anniversary card postwouldn’t know what to expect in remarked by Sept. 3. The card will be turn if I made the offer. Please tell me given to Byron and Edith at the dinwhat to do. — CONCERNED FOR ELI ner to add to the surprise.” IN KANSAS Abby, we weren’t the only ones who got A: Eli’s irritability and lethargy could an “invitation” like this. Have you ever heard of anything like this? Is this something new? I be depression related to his credit worries. Or it could be something else. Try to coax think the people who got these invitations him to talk about what “might” be causing it, were even more surprised than Byron and and suggest the two of you consult his docEdith will be. — NOW I’VE SEEN EVERYtor to be sure there’s nothing physically THING IN OHIO A: No, this is not something new. Social wrong. blunders have been happening for years, and If you can’t get him to open up, you may this is one of them. How much more diplohave to admit you know about his money matic it would have been had the request problem. However, do not offer to bail him been phrased something like this: out. Instead, urge him to solve his problem “Dear Mr. and Mrs. ‘Seen’: In honor of Byby making an appointment with a credit ron and Edith’s anniversary, we ‘kids’ are counselor. planning an intimate family gathering. Because you have been treasured friends for so You can help him to find a reputable credlong, we wonder if you would contribute to a it counseling firm by checking with the Better ‘memory book’ we are assembling for them Business Bureau for the debt management as an added surprise. It need not be long or companies he’s considering. Also, be sure to elaborate — just an experience you have shared with Byron and Edith that was signifi- ask if the company is a member of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling or cant. Please send it before Sept. 3. Thanks in the Association of Independent Consumer advance. — Daughter ‘Julie’ ” Counseling Agencies. Both of these Q: I’m not some young “chiquita.” I’m a Credit groups impose “best practices” standards on mature woman in my 50s. My live-in, “Eli,” their members. This will prevent your partand I have been together for six years. We were happy, but over the last few months my ner from being exploited. man has become irritable and lethargic. (Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, I did some snooping and discovered that also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was foundEli is up to his neck in credit card debt. His job isn’t paying well now, but he continues to ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear live as if his income hasn’t dried up. He can’t Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box seem to accept that he can no longer afford 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2005 Q: I’m confused. My husband and I re- We’ll be reunited with loved ones in heaven are given new bodies) people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (Matthew 22:30). someday we’ll be reunited in heavBut this verse has nothing to do en. But the other day, some people with the question of being reunited Reverend told me that the Bible says we Billy Graham in heaven with our loved ones. After won’t be married in heaven, and King David’s infant son died, David therefore I’ll never see him again. Is knew that after his own death they this true? I hope not, because it’s would be reunited: “Now that he is really sent me into a tailspin. dead, why should I fast (i.e. mourn)? ... I will go to him, but he will not reA: No, what they told you isn’t turn to me” (2 Samuel 12:23). true. Perhaps they meant well — but it was insensitive and thoughtThank God for his promises, and less of them to tell you this. Nowhere does the hope we have of heaven if we know the Bible say we won’t be reunited with our Christ. Thank God also that someday we will loved ones in heaven, and in fact it teaches be reunited with those who have entered the opposite. heaven before us. But most of all, thank God It is true that the institution of marriage that in heaven we will be with Christ forever. was ordained by God only for this life, and not for heaven. The reason is because in (Write to Graham in care of the Billy Graheaven we will never die, and therefore marham Evangelistic Association, P.O. Box 779, riage will no longer be necessary to carry on Minneapolis, MN 55440, call 1-877-2-GRAHAM the human race. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “At the resurrection (when we or visit his Web site at www.billygraham.org.) Q: The only thing that’s kept me going since my husband died is the thought that Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2005. There are 120 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II. On this date: In 1666, the Great Fire of London broke out, claiming thousands of homes, but only a few lives. In 1789, the United States Treasury Department was established. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta. In 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair. In 1930, the first non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the United States was completed in 37 hours as Capt. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte of France arrived in Valley Stream, N.Y, aboard The Question Mark. In 1935, a hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives. In 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic. In 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers. In 1969, North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died. In 1985, it was announced that a U.S.-French expedition had located the wreckage of the Titanic about 560 miles off Newfoundland. Ten years ago: At a military cemetery on a hill high above Honolulu, President Clinton marked the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, saying it taught Americans that “the blessings of freedom are never easy or free.” Five years ago: Hundreds of thousands of North Kore- ans welcomed home 63 former spies and guerrillas released by South Korea. One year ago: President Bush pledged “a safer world and a more hopeful America” as he accepted his party’s nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York. A jury at Fort Lewis, Wash., convicted a National Guardsman of trying to help al-Qaida; Spc. Ryan G. Anderson was sentenced to life in prison. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Meinhardt Raabe (the Munchkin coroner in “The Wizard of Oz”) is 90. Dancer- actress Marge Champion is 86. Jazz musician Horace Silver is 77. Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., is 74. Former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth is 68. Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) is 62. Singer Joe Simon is 62. Football Hall-ofFamer Terry Bradshaw is 57. Actor Mark Harmon is 54. Tennis player Jimmy Connors is 53. Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) is 47. Country musician Paul Deakin (The Mavericks) is 46. Actor Keanu Reeves is 41. Actress Salma Hayek is 39. Goren Bridge Both vulnerable. East deals. NORTH K J 10 Q83 854 J987 WEST ?864 52 963 10 5 2 EAST ?732 K4 KQJ7 Q643 SOUTH 95 A J 10 9 7 6 A 10 2 AK The bidding: EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH Pass Pass Pass 1 4 Pass Pass 2 Pass Opening lead: Nine of It might seem that, to fulfill his contract, South must guess the location of the spade honors. But is that really the case? North has a close decision between raising to two hearts or responding one no trump. With three-card support headed by an honor, we have a slight preference for the raise even though one no trump is so descriptive of his distribution. West led the nine of diamonds to the four, jack and ace. Declarer has two sure diamond losers and one spade, so he cannot afford to lose a trump trick into the bargain. That means that East must hold the king of hearts. At this point, if his reading is accurate, declarer can claim his contract! East passed in first seat and can already be placed with 6 points in diamonds and you have awarded him another 3 for the king of hearts. If he has the ace of spades as well, he would have a primish 13 points and would certainly have opened the bidding. The hand is an open book. At trick two lead a spade and, should West follow low, shoot up with the king of spades. That will hold the trick and provide you with an entry to take the heart finesse. Start by leading the eight of hearts and, when that wins, continue with the queen and claim your contract. Send e-mail to [email protected]. ©2005 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC. The Associated Press Michael Jackson flew to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last week and is staying in a private residence. Jackson relaxes in Dubai the lawsuit claims. The disputed songs include “Ho!!!” and “Stop Frontin’,” which West’s attorneys claim Miller offered to distributors using a fake contract with West’s fake signature. Miller, who owns Focus Music Group, did not immediately return messages left seeking comment. He began his career as a DJ in the early 1980s and is closely associated with the creation of “house music.” Wire reports DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — He ate Buffalo wings. He took a speedboat to a luxury villa on a manmade island. He buzzed around the Emirate with a race car driver and a prince. In contrast to the frail and somewhat withdrawn Michael Jackson cleared of child abuse charges in June, the king of pop appeared at ease during his visit to this Persian Gulf sheikdom, said Mohammed Bin Sulayem, the Emirates champion rally driver who escorted Jackson on sightseeing tours. The pair was joined by a mutual friend, Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the son of Bahrain’s king. According to local newspaper accounts and pictures, the 47-year-old performer was even spotted looking over some of the world’s priciest real estate developments in Dubai, a booming luxury resort and one of the world’s fastest-growing cities. “He wants to see more of this area. He likes it here,” said Bin Sulayem. Before his visit to Dubai, Jackson had been staying as Sheik Abdulla’s guest in Bahrain, where he took refuge after his 19-month trial and June 13 acquittal on child molestation charges. But unlike his reclusive stay in that oil-rich island kingdom the size of Rhode Island, Jackson’s visit to Dubai has included several surprise public appearances. The singer visited a pair of Dubai’s $14 billion manmade island developments, touring The Palm Jumeirah, one of three palm tree-shaped archipelagoes under construction. Theron on ‘Arrested Development’ Charlize Theron is giving the critically acclaimed but ratingsstarved “Arrested Development” a boost of star power. The Oscar-winning actress will guest star on the Fox show for a five episode arc, the network announced Tuesday. She will portray Rita, a British woman whom Michael (Jason Bateman) dates. Theron, 30, is to begin shooting this week. Her first episode is scheduled to air Sept. 26, one week after the series’ third season premieres on Sept. 19 at the same time. Man breaks into Aniston’s home A 48-year-old homeless man who allegedly broke into Jennifer Aniston’s Malibu home pleaded not guilty Monday to a burglary charge, officials said. David Hesterbey faces firstdegree burglary and petty theft charges, officials with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said in a statement. He is being held on $70,000 bail. Hesterbey allegedly vaulted a 9-foot fence last week and entered the actress’ rented house on the Pacific Coast Highway, prosecutors said. When an employee confronted Hesterbey, he became startled and fled the house, jumping a fence and running toward the beach, sheriff’s officials said. He was arrested later that day by sheriff’s deputies who found him walking along the beach near Aniston’s home. The actress was not at home at the time. Keys ‘Unplugged’ Alicia Keys has resurrected “MTV Unplugged.” The singer and pianist has performed an acoustic set for the dormant MTV series, to air Sept. 23. MTV also announced Tuesday that the show will first Human cannonball vaults border The Associated Press Alicia Keys has filmed an “Unplugged” concert for MTV. premiere on Overdrive, MTV’s broadband network. “I’ve always been a very big fan of the show and when they stopped doing it, I was like, what happened to ‘MTV Unplugged?’ I specifically went in there and said we have to do an ‘Unplugged,’ ” Keys told AP Radio. Keys’ performance, filmed July 14 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is a group effort. Mos Def, Common and Damian Marley are her guests, as well as Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. Previous bare-bones performances on “Unplugged,” which debuted in 1989, include those by Eric Clapton, Nirvana and Jay-Z. Dashboard Confessional and Shakira were two of the most recent acts on the series back in 2002. Garfunkel faces drug charges again Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate New York, was charged again after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in the ashtray of his car, state police said. The 63-year-old Garfunkel, who lives in Manhattan, was charged after being pulled over for failing to stop his vehicle at a stop Garfunkel sign, The Daily Freeman of Kingston reported Tuesday. Upon approaching Garfunkel’s car, a trooper noticed a strong odor of marijuana and a subsequent search turned up a joint in the ashtray, the newspaper reported. In January 2004, Garfunkel was charged with marijuana possession after state police stopped his limousine for speeding in the Ulster County town of Hurley, which is near Woodstock some 55 miles southwest of Albany. Kanye West files suit over recordings Hip-hop star Kanye West has filed a lawsuit accusing a Chicago DJ of possessing 10 unreleased songs that West produced before he was 18. The 20-page lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Chicago alleges that Eric “E-Smoove” Miller impropWest erly tried to distribute some of those master recordings earlier this year. Miller, who helped record the songs before Chicago native West became famous, falsely claimed he had a contract to distribute the music, David Smith Sr., who already holds a world record for the longest distance traveled by a human fired from a cannon, now has another feat on his record. Smith was shot across the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, soaring about 150 feet and landing uninjured in a net in San Diego with U.S. Border Patrol agents and an ambulance waiting nearby. Although it is against the law for anyone, including U.S. citizens, to enter the country outside an official port of entry, Smith Sr. wasn’t crossing illegally. U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar made an exception for him, said Border Patrol spokesman Kurstan Rosberg. And Smith flashed his U.S. passport as he climbed into the barrel. Agassi-Graf stick with Genworth Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are continuing their doubles play with a financial services company that is promising to support their charitable works. Genworth Financial said it will debut a third print and television advertisement Monday featuring the husband-andwife duo, and will announce an extension of the sponsorship agreement through 2007. The company said it will help sponsor the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation’s annual Grand Slam for Children benefit concert in Las Vegas, and will make a contribution to Graf’s Children for Tomorrow Foundation, which supports children traumatized by war or violence. Agassi, a winner of 59 singles titles on the ATP circuit, quit Nike last month and joined Graf as an Adidas endorser. Graf has 107 WTA singles titles. The couple married in October 2001. They have two children. Country singer back in jail Country music singer Mindy McCready is accused of violating her probation on a drug conviction, authorities said. A spokeswoman for the Pinellas County sheriff’s department in Nashville, Tenn., said McCready was jailed Friday on an arrest warrant issued earlier this month. According to the warrant, McCready left Tennessee without getting permission from her probation officer and didn’t report to the officer during July. Authorities said it is McCready’s second probation violation, which means she cannot post bail this time and likely will have to serve time in jail. The probation violations stem from charges brought against the singer last year, when she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin. She was fined $4,000, sentenced to three years of supervised probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. Living rooms grow up again Refinishing options for sinks, tubs ៑ Continued By DAVID KEEPS Los Angeles Times The living room rarely lives up to its name. Unless one resides in a studio apartment, it is a room not so much for dayto-day living as it is a backdrop, the place we gather to take pre-prom and holiday greeting card snapshots. Usurped as an activity center by the den, the family, recreation and rumpus rooms, the ubiquitous great room (the kitchen-dining-TV and babywatching space) and, of course, the 21st century home theater, the living room had become something of a dead zone. But reports of the living room’s outright demise have been greatly exaggerated. With interest in home decorating now exceeding the boom experienced in the 1950s — the last heyday of the living room — it is conspicuously poised for a creative rebirth. Other utilitarian public areas of the home have seen upgrades. Kitchens have morphed into gourmet laboratories; lavatories into small-scale spas; patios have been rechristened outdoor living rooms. Now, like a neglected child, the living room is calling out for attention: Dress me up, it seems to be saying, and show me off; I’ll make you so proud. Get ready for the new living room — perhaps it should be called the lifestyle room — a space, positioned within eyeshot of our front door, that will not only reflect our increasingly sophisticated tastes in design but also our ability to express ourselves better than the Joneses. The shift will be more than merely cosmetic. In addition to CARLOS CHAVEZ/Los Angeles Times Living rooms like this one in the Los Angeles home of Carmen Lopez are adult areas that are kidfriendly casual. Whether furnished for fashion or function, these spaces continue to evolve. reconsidering the living room as a design centerpiece of the home, there appears to be a more subtle, emotional repositioning. The living room has spent the past generation either ignored as a museum piece or surrendered, both geographically and aesthetically, to the kids as another playroom. Parenting homeowners are now beginning to understand what single people and empty-nesters enjoy about the living room, that it is a designated grown-ups’ domain, the place for adult pursuits such as entertaining and conversation. “In the time-honored sense, the living room is a room that is off-limits, a place for entertaining guests or showing off to neighbors,” says Mark McMenamin, senior editor of the industry publication InFurniture. “The casual design approach of the ’90s, which led to the great room, meant fewer clearly defined formal spaces, but in the past few years, as homes have become larger, the idea of a showplace living room has come back into vogue.” Showplace, not showroom. The new living room is not envisioned as a finely furnished no-kids-land, but a comfort zone between the sometimes disparate needs of adult formality and kid-friendly casual. As such, it is likely to incorporate design ideas that stress comfort and durability as well as refinement and glamour. “Minimalism has been brought to the masses and although it is easy to care for when you have children, people are returning to more grown-up luxury,” says Los Angeles interior designer A.J. Bernard. “The overriding term you hear these days is that people want stuff that looks homey. That can translate into anything from shawls over couches to ball-and-claw-foot furniture, but it is usually something that hearkens back to a more romantic memory, such as the house they grew up in or the grandmother’s house they visited.” McMenamin sees this return to older, more delicate styles as a natural evolution. “The resurgence of classical design could very well be a reaction to all the chrome and white leather we’ve seen, which leaves a lot of people cold,” he adds. “It’s a lot easier to create a showplace with traditional style, which lends itself to excess, than with modern, which tends to be lean and uncluttered.” This is nothing new for some folks. My folks, for instance. Raising three kids in the postwar Midwest, they have always maintained a church-and-state separation between the living room and den, where there is a television and a sofa suitable for napping. Though their nest has long been empty, its classically organized layout remains the same. My parents are members of the generation that knows the word “parlor” without an antecedent such as “beauty” or “ice cream.” For them it was already an old-fashioned domestic term for the room decorated with the family’s finest furniture and reserved for entertaining callers. Whether the new living room is furnished for fashion or function, the rules of propriety for those who use it are now as relaxed as a down-cushioned easy chair. Though the living room still exerts a certain authority as the place where nesters put their best design foot forward, the “no kids, no pets, no climbing, no eating, no watching TV in here” dictates that once defined the space are no longer gospel. New ‘Z’ mowers are a lawn owner’s dream By ART CAREY Knight Ridder Newspapers The ultimate Sisyphean household chore may well be mowing the grass. Yet Americans remain obsessed with the perfect lawn. Marry that quest with our fascination with clever gadgets and ingenious technology, and the appeal of something called the zero-turn-radius mower becomes clear: Work seems to turn into play, exertion into recreation. If time has supplanted money as the currency of the day, this is one mower zipping along with the Zeitgeist. With his old Honda lawn tractor, it used to take Dave LaRocque three hours to cut his half-acre of grass in Penllyn, Pa. And it took an additional hour for the trim work around the trees and flower beds with a walk-behind mower. These days, he does the job in half the time with his zeroturn-radius mower, also known as a ZTR or simply a “Z.” “You can go down a strip, turn around, and go right back. And you can get a lot closer to shrubs and beds,” says LaRocque, 72, a retired insurance-underwriting manager. “I actually look forward to getting out and cutting the grass.” Once used exclusively by commercial gardeners and landscapers, ZTRs now are all the rage among weekend yard jockeys. An array of manufacturers are making gasolinepowered models designed for consumers, and as prices have tumbled — $2,500 will buy a basic machine, $5,000 can get you a top-of-the-line residential model — sales have soared. “It’s the fastest-growing segment in our industry,” says Greg Weekes, group marketing manager for John Deere riding lawn equipment. According to the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, consumer ZTR mower shipments are up over 75 percent as of May 2005 versus the same period in 2004. James McNew, vice president of technical and marketing services, declined to specify how many mowers that represents. ZTRs are not new, exactly. Meetings AL-ANON, 7 p.m. Fridays, St. Pius X Catholic Church, room 8, 217 S. Sage Ave. Call 479-9994. Meetings for families and friends of alcoholics, 12:30 p.m. Fridays, Westminster Presbyterian Church, back building, 2921 Airport Blvd. Call 639-5858. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Friday meetings: 6:30, 8:30 and 11 a.m., Alano Club, 908 McRae Ave.; 8 p.m., 1005 Old Shell Road, and Oakmont Christian Church, 424 Oakmont Road, Saraland; and 10 p.m. Alano Club, 908 McRae Ave. For information on all AA meeting places and times in the Mobile area, call 479-9994. ASIA RELIEF PROJECT C.Q.I. MISSIONS, Asia Tsunami Relief volunteers meet 6 p.m. daily at 1113 Garland Street. E-mail at [email protected] or call 342-0807. Web site: www.cqimissions.org. COCAINE ANONYMOUS, 7 p.m. Fridays, 3100 Cottage Hill Road. Call Eric O. 786-0293. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS, noon Fridays, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 3900 Airport Blvd. Call 928-9084. FEMALE ADDICTS IN RECOVERY, 6 p.m. Fridays, Pleasant Valley Clubhouse, 3331 Pleasant Valley Road. Call 639-4156. GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH Millennium Band, 7-10 p.m. Fridays, 5851 Plantation Road. Cost: $3. Call 633-8579. MAGNIFICENT MAGNOLIA, arts facility and writer/artist retreat, interviews local talent, 4 p.m. each Friday until further notice. Call 423-9690 or visit www.magmagnolia.com. THE MOMS CLUB OF MOBILE-WEST, an international support group for at-home mothers, has an open play date for moms and kids 10 a.m.-noon ev- from Page 1D — new tubs can be a few inches thinner than tubs of a few decades ago. “The finish was just worn off,” she says. “It came from years of cleaning it.” Another option for tubs involves covering them with quarter-inch-thick acrylic, which can cost about $1,000. Tile costs about $400 to refinish because it includes the tub — otherwise, the acid used to strip the tile would ruin a perfectly good bathtub. It could cost less to replace, depending on the price of tile. Coating tile also has a big downside: Because it’s sprayed on, the color fills in the grout lines. So unless you use white or ivory coatings, the tile could look odd. Brian Bradley of Leawood, Kan., who owns singlefamily rental homes, had fixtures refinished in several properties, including his own home. “I’ve had pink tile painted white,” he says. “It worked well.” Laminate countertops cost about $500 to refinish on average; replacements start at $1,000. Professionals often use a speckled paint to give bathroom and kitchen countertops a look of a solid surface or granite. But the coating lacks the depth of those finishes and won’t last as long. Most coatings have a life span of eight to 10 years. To refinish fixtures, professionals prep surfaces using a razor blade, solvent and a chemical stripper to loosen RON TARVER/Knight Ridder Tribune The zero-turn radius mower has become all the rage among weekend lawn jockeys. Here, Dave LaRocque of Penllyn, Penn., uses his Toro zero-turn mower at his home. The first commercial models, distinguished by twin-lever steering and an out-front mowing deck, were developed in the mid-1960s. They are so named because they can pivot in place and spin on a dime, thanks to separate hydraulic motors or transmissions on the rear wheels that enable the wheels to move forward or backward independently. “They’re highly maneuverable and efficient,” says Toro spokesman Mike Ferrara. “You just whip around trees. You don’t have to make multiple passes or use a weed whacker. It’s safer because you have great visibility, and it’s fun.” No doubt about that. Piloting a Z is like riding a Tilt-a-Whirl and mowing the lawn at the same time. ery Friday at Ugly Mugs, 5817 Grelot Road. Call Tonya at 607-9712. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS, Friday meetings: 1 p.m., Michael Figures Community Center, 666 Donald St., and New Beginnings Church, 12050 Homestead Ave., Grand Bay; 6:30 p.m. (women’s meeting) and 8 p.m., Clubhouse, 3331 Pleasant Valley Road; and 10 p.m., Philadelphia Baptist Church, 1304 W. Wilson Ave., Prichard. Call 639-4156. TOPS, AL 354, 9 a.m. Fridays, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 439 Azalea Road. Call 633-8304. ៑ Continued from Page 1D Linen trim Create tone-on-tone sophistication by trimming silk-organza sheers with linen in a slightly deeper shade. You’ll need sheers that measure the height of your windows, plus an extra 14 inches or more for the flounce. A band of linen at the bottom will extend your curtains to the floor. Special Events ADULT CENTER two ElderLaw workshops 10 a.m. Tuesday at 1301 Azalea Road or 2 p.m. at Robertsdale Senior Center, East Chicago Street. Free living will. Call 650-2260. MIDTOWN OPTIMIST CLUB OF MOBILE luncheon meeting noon Tuesday at Knights of Columbus Hall, 3051 Pleasant Valley Road. 1. Start by adding the top linen trim: Cut a strip of linen equal to the width of the curtains plus 1 inch, and double the height of the top hemmed channel plus 1 inch. Fold in all edges 1 ⁄ 2 inch; iron. Fold in half lengthwise; iron. Sandwich the strip over the curtain’s channel; pin in place, and stitch. 2. To create a flounce, fold down the top edge of the curtain about 14 inches; iron. Sew hook rings across the fold, about 6 inches apart. 3. Add the bottom linen panel: Cut linen to the width of the sheer plus 2 inches, and the height from the windowsill to the floor plus 4 inches. Fold 1 ⁄ 2 inch along top edge; iron. Pin the folded edge to the sheer, centering the linen panel to leave 1 inch on each side; stitch in place. Fold side edges in 1 ⁄ 2 inch, then 1 ⁄ 2 inch again; iron, and stitch in place. Fold bottom edge up 1 ⁄ 2 inch, then 3 inches; iron, pin and stitch in place. Pom-pom fringe Guest speaker John Van Valkenburg, presents “Talk with Mark Twain.” Call Ernie Rogers at 604-5368. SUMI-E SOCIETY OF AMERICA Shibui Chapter meets 10 a.m. Sept. 7 at Mobile Museum of Art. Fee: $5. Call 649-8586. Mail Bay Watch notices to The Mobile Register, c/o Bay Watch, P.O. Box 2488, Mobile, AL 36652; fax 219-5799, c/o Bay Watch; or e-mail to [email protected]. Include your name and telephone number. Notices must be received at least seven days before they are to appear, and must include the street address of the meeting place. Notices of meetings will appear the day before and day of the meeting. Meeting notices should be sent in weekly if the organization meets every week. Notices of special events will appear for one week before the event, and individual events must be submitted separately. Notices containing incomplete information will not be published. rust and old paint. They put masking tape on faucets and other areas in the bathroom so they don’t get resurfaced, too. Then they pour hydrofluoric acids on top to make surfaces porous so new paint will adhere to them. Professionals first spray on an epoxy-based primer, then two coats of an acrylic urethane. To minimize fumes, they use fans and open windows to ventilate. The refinished fixtures should be ready to use in less than 48 hours. Allen gives customers a choice for follow-up work: He can give them a kit of supplies and instructions or they can pay $50 to have the last steps of work professionally done. The work entails removing the tape with a razor blade two days after the coating is applied. Using 1500-grit sandpaper on a wet surface, rough areas should be buffed out. A conditioner is added. The complete curing time for a recoated surface is 30 days, meaning it should not be cleaned until then. Allen suggests using a high-quality car wax once after the curing period because it aids future cleaning. Professional refinishers offer more than 100 colors, but people commonly choose white or ivory. Most professionals guarantee coatings for five years. In the last decade, Bradley says most coatings in his houses have endured. However, one tub peeled after shampoo pooled on top of it for months. Dress up sheer curtains Tools and materials: Silk-organza sheers Linen Measuring tape Scissors Iron Straight pins Needle and thread Hook rings Bay Watch Editor’s note: Some meetings and events in this listing may have been canceled or postponed because of Hurricane Katrina. Call the numbers below for details. 3D MOBILE REGISTER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2005 Use this trim down the long edge of linen curtains to add a touch of whimsy. Tools and materials: Measuring tape Linen sheers Scissors Pom-pom fringe Straight pins Needle and thread (or fabric glue) 1. Measure the length of a curtain. Cut two strips of pompom fringe (one for each edge) to the same length. 2. Pin fringe to the back of each edge of the curtain. 3. Stitch the fringe to the curtain edges by sewing along the outer edge of the trim and then along the inner edge. Alternatively, affix the trim using fabric glue. Ribbon stripes Turn organza ribbon into soft stripes on cotton-voile sheers. The ribbon is cut longer than the curtains, so the overhang can be looped at the top to form tabs to hang your curtains. Tools and materials Cotton-voile sheers Iron Measuring tape Organza ribbon Scissors Straight pins Needle and thread 1. Fold curtain lengthwise in accordion pleats of equal widths (aim for about 8 inches); iron creases. 2. Measure the length of the curtain, and cut ribbon to the same length plus 10 inches. 3. Center ribbon over creases; pin, leaving 7 inches at the top for curtain tabs and 3 inches at the bottom for hem. 4. Fold 3 inches of ribbon over at bottom of curtain; iron. Fold 4 inches of ribbon over at top to create tabs; iron. 5. Stitch curtains along bottom and top to secure hem and tabs. Stitch along both sides of ribbon lengthwise. (Questions should be addressed to Living, care of The New York Times Syndication Sales Corp., 609 Greenwich St., 6th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10014-3610. Please include your name and daytime telephone number. Questions can also be sent via e-mail to: [email protected].) Homeowners with money worries may qualify for low-interest loans If you are a homeowner with sufficient equity, LOANS: Direct lender loosens its requirements there’s an excellent chance you will qualify for a for homeowners who need money now. Have you been turned down for a loan? Do loan - usually within 24 hours. You can find out over the phone - and free of you need more than $10,000 for any reason? Are you paying more than 8% interest on any other charge - if you qualify. loans or credit cards? If you are a homeowner and answered “yes” to any of these questions, they can tell you over the 626-9660 • Daphne phone and without obligation if you qualify. High credit card debt? Less-than-perfect 478-7778 • Mobile credit? Self-employed? Late house payments? 342-0188 • Mobile Financial problems? Medical bills? IRS liens? 661-1340 • Theodore It doesn’t matter! AEZM SoundOff PAGE 2A EVERY DAY 4D Dennis the Menace MOBILE REGISTER Close to Home FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2005 For Better or for Worse Curtis Pluggers Ziggy B.C. Funky Winkerbean Peanuts Crankshaft The Wizard of Id Grizzwells Jumpstart Garfield Get Fuzzy Family Circus Marmaduke Beetle Bailey Horoscope ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll see what you look for. So look for fairies, angels and gnomes conspiring to fill your life with mischief and magic. OK, maybe you won’t see winged or tiny beings, but the stars do promise some kind of mystic happening. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Relationships bring both joy and sorrow, but you benefit so much from them that you’re even happy for the sorrow. Friends don’t want to do anything without you. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are skeptical of those people who claim to know themselves. How can anyone know themselves when tastes, values and priorities evolve every day? You’re content to have an open mind about who you are. CANCER (June 22-July 22). The promises you make have to do with your hopes for a relationship, and you act out to cover up your fears about it. Take heart. You don’t have to perform or give guarantees to get the love you deserve, which is unconditional. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Delay is so retro! In a world where convenience is the normal state of things, having to wait for anything is annoying, maddening and exasperating! Yet wait you will — because the person you are waiting for is so worth it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The study of art, design and general aesthetics is anything but frivolous. Your eye trains your mind, and your mind trains your eye. There’s not an area of your life that isn’t improved by learning to see beauty. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You really need two weeks of vacation a year. Cranky and uninspired choices have to do with needing a change of scenery. Make it happen, even if you must sacrifice a bit of what you think is “security” to do so. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Help is all around you, but you’re not taking any of it. You’re interested in the satisfaction of knowing you did it by yourself, for yourself. There’s hardly a thing worth doing though that isn’t worth doing with other people. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). As a fire sign, you understand the nature of passion. Like a fire, it needs to be constantly fanned and fueled to burn. That’s why your investment in the thing that inspires you is not optional — it’s crucial! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re eloquent, not so much for the words you choose, but for the fact that you say all that needs to be said and no more than that. Knowing when to stop is your key to success in all things today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’re being considered for all kinds of things, including a romantic commitment and a raise. Instead of proving you’re right for a position, prove you can ace the one you’re already appointed to. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Highly compassionate and artistic people often have a tendency to be fanatical or obsessive. Instead of trying to control your nonsensical whims, concentrate on loving yourself — quirks and all. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME by Henri Arnold and Mike Argirion Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. PUGOR ©2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved. HAWSS CLAICO www.jumble.com KUNFLY Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. 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Brenda’s brilliant and focused even when she’s faced with career problems, which reach a climax in the season finale. The 70-minute episode begins at 8 p.m. Sedgwick is amazing as she makes Brenda someone we must root for, because of her strengths and despite — or maybe because of — her faults. She makes you feel every tug of Brenda’s emotions in Monday’s strong story. After someone files a complaint against her, the usually blunt Brenda must decide whether to practice honesty or diplomacy. Her decision could shape her career — provided she still has one. It’s easy to relate with Brenda and to admire her. Sedgwick has developed a character determined to discover the truth, and Brenda has some nice personality quirks, such as her unusual sense of humor and her passion for chocolate and sweets. Sedgwick is surrounded by an experienced, talented cast, including police show veteran J.K. Simmons ( “Law & Order” and “Oz”) as Assistant Police Chief Will Pope, Brenda’s boss. 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