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Features

Worth Every Penny

In this real-estate market, can you even hope to recoup your remodeling investment? You can if you play it smart.

Lay of the Land

Nine wooded acres in Chaska is fertile ground for one family’s dream home

Color Your World

A guide to picking the perfect colors for your mood

Columns

Fearless Gardener: Beyond Bleak

Autumn is the time to transform your garden into a lively winter landscape

Editors Note: On the Cusp

Before you settle in for the season, look around.

From the Publisher: Reality check—giving thanks

The news is bad—but not all bad.

Departments

Design Lab: Cape Cod Cool

The power of symmetry

InRetrospect: Natural Hybrids

Four modern riffs on one historic design

InStore: Finishing Touches

Find the right touch of glam for your bath at The Brass Handle

InHabit: InTown

InHabit: Open House

The latest real estate news

InHabit: Make it Divine

Essentials for the well-dressed home

Savvy Host: Splendidly Served

At home with Lynne Rossetto Kasper

InSpiration: Día de los Muertos

Mexico’s captivating holiday inspires vibrant wares

InSpiration: Knock, Knock

Who’s there? Door knockers that show off your quirky side

InSpiration: High Stepping

Head to the English countryside for a raucous fox hunt or just get the look with this equestrian assemblage

InDepth: Creative Paradox

Molly Kinney searched the globe for a career that would satisfy her creative spirit and analytical tendencies. She found it in her basement.

Buyers Guide: November 2008 Buyer's Guide

Contact information for people, places, and things mentioned in this issue

mh blogs

Home Dish: Sale Alert!
Blog by Chris Lee & Editors
11.06.08

Kori's Korner: BATC's Big Winners
Blog by Kori Meewes & Sales Team
11.10.08

Our Upcoming Events


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Saturday & Sunday, November 22 & 23
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Save on popular holiday favorites, enjoy festive treats, and enter to win door prizes, including tickets to Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Musical, a 6-7’ Fraser Fir Tree, Department 56 Snow Village Museum of Art and more. Plus, see reindeer at all six metro locations, and Santa at the Lyndale Bachman's.

Midwest home 2008 Homebook

Lighting, windows, green living and so much more…

Midwest Home’s sixth annual HomeBook has all the home resources you can imagine, right in one place.

Events

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Nov 7, 2008 - Nov 30, 2008
Death and the Maiden
In a nameless country, a woman is tortured and raped by a band of unknown captors. The only sounds that accompany her screams are the voice of the...

Nov 13, 2008 - Nov 23, 2008
Two Cowards in Rep: Hay Fever and Present Laughter
The senior company of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program presents two eccentric comedies written by British...

Nov 14, 2008 - Nov 22, 2008
Same Difference
This powerful, provocative play tackles racism with razor sharp wit. Samuel G. Roberson, Jr. has written two complicated, funny, authentic...

Nov 15, 2008 - Jan 10, 2009
Baker Overstreet
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 6-8pmFAW will premiere a new series of paintings by the fast-rising New York artist Baker Overstreet....

Nov 19, 2008
Great Hall of Honor
An exhibition of 51 information banners highlighting University of Minnesota Horticultural Research Center plant and fruit introductions over its...

Nov 19, 2008
MN150
On May 11, 1858, the Minnesota Territory was admitted to the Union as the 32nd state. In anticipation of the sesquitennial anniversary of our...
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