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Multiply bulbs before planting to get more Rethinking the holiday dining room spring flowers Wait! Before you put those tulip, daffodil, crocus and hyacinth bulbs in the ground, do you want to multiply them? Sure, they'll multiply by themselves, but you can speed up the process. BULB OR CORM? Before you can multiply a bulb, you have to know if what you have in hand really is a bulb. Some so-called bulbs, such as crocus and gladiolus, are in fact corms, which are just thickened hunks of stem. If you want crocuses to multiply prolifically, make cuttings, as you would with any stem. Each cutting needs at least one bud, or eye, best seen on a corm by removing the papery covering. Because of all this LEE REICH wounding and the difficulty of seeing the eyes at this time of year, perhaps you should wait until early spring to cut up crocus corms. Wounds heal most quickly then, and eyes are plumping up. Corms can also be propagated another way, with cormels. These are baby corms, produced around the base of a corm. Plant your crocus shallower than recommended and you'll get more cormels. TRUE BULBS Most other common spring bulbs are true bulbs, consisting of a foreshortened piece of stem with the bulk of the bulb made up of layers of leaves, scales or both. As with your forsythia or rose bush, buds grow wherever leaves meet a stem. In bulbs, these buds become bulblets, which See Garden p. 2D
By MELISSA RAYWORTH, Associated Press There's a lot of home decorating advice out there on how to create the perfect kitchen. But what goes into designing a truly great dining room? As the holiday entertaining season approaches, it's worth re-examining the dining area. In homes that have formal dining rooms, they often serve double-duty as homework headquarters, libraries or home offices. These rooms are a decorating challenge, especially if they're directly in view of the front door. Here, three interior design experts offer ideas on designing dining rooms that mix serious style with smooth function, and encourage holiday guests to linger over a memorable meal. IT'S ABOUT THE CHAIRS We notice dramatic dining tables and beautiful tableware. But if the goal is to have long, lovely meals, comfortable chairs are vital. High-end custom dining
This undated photo provided by designer Abbe Fenimore shows a dining room designed Fenimore. It's become common for dining spaces to have multiple uses, as shown in this photo of a dining room designed by Fenimore, founder of the Dallas-based design firm Studio Ten 25, which includes space for a home office. (AP photo) chairs can be expensive, says Los Angeles interior designer Betsy Burnham. Prices can easily climb above $800 per chair even before you choose upholstery fabric. But they are
made for comfort and meant to last a lifetime. Some homeowners opt for less expensive chairs from online sites like Overstock.com, and customize them with better fabrics.
This can achieve a great look. But for comfort, Burnham recommends trying out dining chairs in person. Visit stores and showrooms, she says, and See Designer p. 2D
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ask yourself: Is someone going to want to sit here for three or four hours and enjoy a great meal in my home? "You want them to want to linger," she says. Comfort means different things to different people, of course. "My least favorite thing is sitting down in a metal dining chair," says interior designer Jaclyn Joslin, founder of the retail store Coveted Home in Kansas City. "It's always cold and hard." You can also get creative with seating. Joslin has an upholstered loveseat along one side of her dining table, and she says that's perfect at the holidays: "You can pile the kids on there." And consider adding seating for other purposes, like reading, if the room is large enough. In the Midwest, Joslin says, many homes have a large dining room and also plenty of dining space in the kitchen. So she encourages clients to add a few larger, upholstered chairs to give the dining room a second identity. CREATIVE RISKS Dining rooms that aren't used every day can be the perfect spot to take decorating risks. "Frequently, clients will say OK to wallpaper in dining rooms, and that's a bit of a departure," Burnham says. "They're afraid to wallpaper a space they're in all the time because what if they get tired of it? What if it's overwhelming?" It's also a great room for incorporating family heirlooms, perhaps with a style update, says interior designer Abbe Fenimore, founder of Studio Ten 25 in Dallas. If you have a sideboard or hutch that belonged to a family member, what better place to display it than where you'll have relatives over for family dinners? These pieces are also great for displaying inherited serving dishes or other keepsakes. Creative storage can
make your dining room more beautiful, and offer space for things like table linens and holiday serving pieces. Joslin recommends including pieces that offer a mix of glass-fronted display space and closed storage. And Fenimore suggests including a large-scale piece of art on one wall. LOVELIEST LIGHTING "Everybody wants to look good around a dining table, so you want the right amount of ambient light," Burnham says. Ideally, you can mix can lighting embedded in the ceiling with a hanging fixture above the table, and then sconces and perhaps a table lamp if there's room. "If there's the opportunity for a sideboard," she says, adding a mirror and two lamps will create beautiful, warm light in any dining room. All three designers agree: Use dimmers for flattering light at any time of day. "People like it dim," Burn-
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ham says, "but not so dim that they can't see their plate." TO RUG OR NOT TO RUG It's a subject of debate among designers: Some people see a dining room as unfinished if there's no rug under the table. Others see a dining-room rug as more of a challenge than a benefit — especially if the home has children. "If you have kids who are out of the house, it's a luxury. Get a gorgeous rug," says Burnham. But if you're focusing your decorating budget on other items, know that nicely polished floors can anchor a dining room on their own. Joslin sees this logic, yet she's found some homes where a rug is the perfect addition. If you use your dining room more for work or relaxing than for eating (and if you don't have little kids eating messy food at your dining table), then a rug carries little risk and lots of potential reward. A rug, she says, "definite-
This undated photo provided by designer Abbe Fenimore shows a dining room designed Fenimore. Comfort is just as important as beauty when choosing dining room seating, says Fenimore, founder of the design firm Studio Ten 25, who chose sleek but softly padded chairs for the dining room shown here. (AP photo)
Bremerton nonprofit helps old homes, new homeowners
By JOSH FARLEY Kitsap Sun BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Neighbor Louis Cobb gladly pitched in on a recent Saturday to help landscape a Highland Avenue property he once watched police officers refuse to enter because of its dilapidated state. "This is a nice neighborhood. We help each other," he said. "I'm looking to have another good neighbor in this house, too." The home is also a milestone for the nonprofit organization that brought it back from the brink. It's the 20th residence rehabbed by Community Frameworks, a Northwest nonprofit whose specialty is to flip distressed properties while keeping their sales prices affordable. Its "Built in Bremerton" program began in 2013 on the east side's Eagle Avenue, and it has spread to include properties, many of which are foreclosed homes, all over the city. Once flipped, the properties sell to "mortgage-ready" buyers whose income is at or below 80 percent of Kitsap County's median income, according to Heather Wegan, a manager with the organization. Participants have included a dental hygienist, a shipyard worker, a bank
clerk and others, who must also put in at least 50 hours of sweat equity in helping improve the home. Here's how it works: the nonprofit shops for homes on the cheap — sometimes free, as was the case on Highland, where the owner donated it. The organization then completes a top-to-bottom renovation with an emphasis on energy efficiency. The home then goes onto the market at $50 less than the appraised value. Through government grants, the buyer receives down-payment assistance worth 20 percent of the home — but it must eventu-
ally be paid back. It makes the home more affordable, Wegan said, but it also creates some revenue downstream for the organization to use on future homes. A lot has changed in Bremerton in the five years the nonprofit has been operating — namely, housing prices have greatly increased. But Wegan notes that there are still opportunities to help create affordable housing, all while improving the housing stock of a community. She added that the organization has added almost $2 million to the county's tax rolls through its renovations.
This Oct. 6 photo provided by Katie Workman shows Thanksgiving craft table supplies in New York. (AP photo)
Keep kids busy at Thanksgiving gatherings with a craft table By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press In many homes, the Thanksgiving gathering stretches for hours. It's not an eat-and-run kind of day — you're all in it for the long haul. And while adults have an acquired ability to make their own entertainment (catching up with Uncle Ivan, tossing around a football, helping in the kitchen), kids sometimes need a little more direction to fill those hours before the turkey hits the table. In our house, that's where the craft table comes into play. About 10 years ago, my mother, Carolan Workman, set up a table where the kids could pull up a chair and draw, color, cut, stamp and paste. "The nicest thing about it was its one-size-fits-all universality: boys and girls, old and young, either artistically adept or ... not," she says. "And there was something wonderful in seeing a high school linebacker cousin gluing sparkles or cutting felt squares next to a toddler." It's not all about the kids, of course. Sighs of happiness can usually be heard from the parents, freed up to
enjoy that glass of wine and bit of quiet conversation. For starters, you'll need a large folding table that you don't care about. Or do as Cate Geiger Kalus, visual styling director for Good Housekeeping magazine, suggests: "Roll out some craft paper for a kid-friendly tablecloth." (www.goodhousekeeping.com ) You'll also need chairs — ones without dry-clean-only cushions. Craft supplies can include any of the following: — Glue sticks (avoid liquid glue if you can) — Construction paper in all sizes and colors (particularly autumnal colors) — Felt or foam for cutting into shapes — Thanksgiving-themed stamps with washable ink stamp pads — Washable markers, crayons, colored pencils, paint (avoid chalk) — Popsicle sticks — Printed or colored tape, such as washi tape — Googly eyes (optional but recommended) — Childproof (or safety) scissors. These also come in packages with cool edges so you can cut patterns into the paper. — Thanksgiving-themed
stickers, cut-outs and foam shapes Online, you can fine all kinds of cute and inexpensive holiday craft projects, like kits for making pilgrim hats, Thanksgiving wreaths, woven placemat kits, etc. The mail-order company Oriental Trading provides make-your-own foam turkey kits, and has a ton of well-priced DIY craft projects ready to go. (www.orientaltrading.com ) And of course there's now Pinterest, where many clever people have come up with cute DIY projects for Thanksgiving, most using items easily purchased at a craft store or online. Geiger Kalus recommends searching for printable coloring pages online, and points to Etsy.com for more cute Thanksgiving-themed options. Now that the kids at our holiday gathering are all getting older, my Mom, like me, waxes a bit nostalgic: "The craft table was no less important than the turkey at our Thanksgivings," she says. Final tip: no glitter. If you don't know why already, just trust me; you do not need to learn the hard way.
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tions, each with a piece of the base (the "stem"). Yet another way to increase the number of bulblets — especially useful with hyacinths, which are naturally shy multipliers — is with "cuttage." Turn the bulb upside down and score it through its center, dividing the base into 6 pie-shaped sections. Alternatively, scoop out the base with a knife. Either way, you will have nipped out the growing point within, letting side "shoots," i.e. bulblets, grow, just like when you make any stem more bushy by nipping out its top bud. Plant either the bulb sections, the scored bulb, or the scooped bulb in a large, shallow flowerpot or seed flat and keep the potting soil moist. After a couple of months at room temperature, bulblets can be harvested and replanted.
Lily is a bulb that lacks the papery covering of these other bulbs; a few of a lily's outer scales can be flicked off the mother bulb for rooting. Just take a few so that enough scales are left to nourish the mother bulb when you replant it. Toss the scales into a bag with some moist perlite and keep the bag at room temperature. After 6 to 12 weeks, move the bag into the refrigerator until early spring, when you're ready to plant. Expect three to five bulblets to form at the base of each scale.
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grow up to become first offsets and then bona fide bulbs themselves. One way to multiply bulbs is to just dig them up sometime between early summer and now, and then snap off and plant out the offsets. Not having to elbow around in the dirt with their mother bulb, bulblets or other offsets lets these separated offsets grow quickly to flowering size, and make more of their own bulblets and offsets. OTHER WAYS WITH BULBS For greater increase, make bulb cuttings of such beauties as daffodils and squill. Bulbs that you just bought or ones that you just dug up are suitable candidates. Perform this operation by slicing a bulb from top to bottom into 8 or so vertical sec-
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