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The new ecoEnergy home audit is based on the very successful EnerGuide for Houses program. The re-branded ecoEnergy program is slated to start on April 1, 2007, when Natural Resources Canada will once again hand out cash rewards to Canadians who upgrade their home’s energy efficiency. (more…)

“Either I go or the wallpaper does,” Oscar Wilde is reputed to have uttered on his deathbed in 1900, in a well-papered room in the four-star l’Hotel in Paris. If only his dying words had been about the drapes, or the carpet. Perhaps then there would not be such a dread of wallpaper. (more…)

In ancient times, when the dark winter season began, people believed that the sun would return only if entreated to do so by humans making merry and creating light with fires and candles. While we now understand the science of seasonal change, we haven’t lost the instinct to huddle round the fire and illuminate our homes when the nights are long. (more…)

Have you ever gone to take a shower or decided to hop into the tub for a long, hot soak only to discover that someone has beaten you to it and left you with nothing but ice cold water—and a two–hour wait for hot water? (more…)

Double-income families, fast foods, and increasingly hectic lifestyles; all have threatened the kitchen’s central role in the home. But you can’t, it appears, keep the family out of the kitchen for long, especially one that includes a convection oven, built-in wok, fridge with ice maker and wine-cellar, appliances that are becoming more common kitchen features. (more…)