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Letter to the editor

Around the house

By Judy Stark, Homes and Garden Editor
Published June 30, 2007

You won't tire of this basin

The ultimate in recycling, the Kobe Basin: A used tire is set with a copper basin and galvanized-steel mounting hardware. The matching mirror is adorned with wing nuts. There's also a double-tire basin and a stacked four-tire pedestal. The single sink is $2, 780, by Bristol and Bath (www.bristolbath.com), available through the Grape Group in Tampa and Spotlight Kitchen & Bath in Safety Harbor.

The dying living room

"The living room as we know it from post-World War II is pretty close to dead. . . . Home builders since the 1990s saw the slow demise of the importance of the living room in new-construction homes. . . . Around the millennium, new-construction buyers finally said, 'Enough, why pay $300 a square foot for a room we'll never use?' And so the living room funeral march started, with not much grieving from resale buyers of these living room-less homes."

Mark Nash, Chicago realty agent and author

Full of charm and cottages

The top 10 cottage communities in the United States, according to Cottage Living magazine's July/August issue:

- Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, N.Y.

- Ohio City, Cleveland

- Daybreak, Salt Lake City

- Fields of St. Croix, Lake Elmo, Minn.

- The Bungalow Belt, Chicago

- Edenton Mill Village, Edenton, N.C.

- High Point, Seattle

- Poplar Community, Boulder, Colo.

- Armory Park del Sol, Tucson

- Cottage Square, Ocean Springs, Miss.

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