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Welcome to this private oasis on 10 acres of timber. This cedar log home has 5 bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms. All of the interior walls are cedar as well! Each room has large windows

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Experienced builders are plenty familiar with when to use cement, concrete, and mortar. But in the popular parlance, things get

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Q: I’m about to undertake a complex project. I’ve got an older brick home that’s over 100 years old. There are places where the mortar needs attention. The bigger issue is a room addition we’ve got planned. Believe it or not, we l

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Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and local Finnish utility Vatajankoski have together built the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system that can be powered by solar and wind.

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A runner ties a shoe on the large sandbags next to boulders on the Fullerton Avenue span of the Lakefront Trail on May 24, 2022. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Giant concrete barriers separate a field of jagged rocks from a grassy playground at Rogers Park Beach on Lake Michigan. T

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Q: I live in one of the small brick houses built in South Arlington during the 1930s. There are several places on our westward-facing exterior wall where the plaster on the inside wall bubbles up. I've tried scraping, patching and repainting, but it always comes back. I think there may be wate

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A common casting medium, plaster is also a popular pick for making molds. Using this substance, which is manufactured in powder form, is ideal when you want a rigid structure to make casts as an alternative to using silicone or polyuret

Editor's Note: The following originally appeared in the 2022 Fall Home magazine, which was included as a free insert in the Oct. 1, 2022 issue of your local newspaper. Read the magazine in its entirety  HERE  online.

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