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A painter grossing about $1,900 a week loses something near $8,200 in the five weeks a fractured pelvis keeps him off a suspended stage, and that is before the first therapy bill arrives. It is … Read more

Every member had the front door code. Every trainer had the front door code. By early spring, so did an unknown number of people who had never paid a dollar in dues, which is how … Read more

The courtyard at an inner southeast Portland event venue gets photographed a few hundred times on a Saturday in June. Guests stand right in the sightline of the beds while a photographer chases the last … Read more

Megan and Dylan closed on a 2008 build outside Griffin last October, and the sellers left behind a spare refrigerator, three cans of matched paint, and not one page of paperwork on the air conditioner. … Read more

What is actually sitting in that drawer, and what would it cost to make any of it wearable again? Most people who inherit a parent’s jewelry box never ask, so the box goes into a … Read more

Why does a condo sitting at a steady 74 degrees still feel like a damp towel? That question comes up every August on Siesta Key, and lately it comes most often from people who moved … Read more

The right metal roof for a new house on the Gulf coast is the one whose wind uplift rating is documented on a product approval, not the one with the best photo in the upgrade … Read more

The concrete bid is higher because concrete costs more to make, more to place, and more to build a base for, and most of that gap is material rather than labor. If you are a … Read more

Why does a backyard that photographed beautifully in April sit empty by the second week of July? In Sumner County the answer is almost never the furniture. It is a bare slab facing west, with … Read more

The tape measure says 16 by 20. A homeowner in Cumberland County types 320 square feet into an online deck calculator on a Tuesday night, gets a tidy number back, and starts planning the whole … Read more