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Home Front
By Compiled by JUDY STARK © St. Petersburg Times, published October 21, 2000 The kids are sitting prettyFor all those stylish kids out there, similarly stylish seating, featured in the November-December Metropolitan Home magazine. The happy-face chair is the Hey!Stacker, made of recycled plastic shampoo bottles and milk jugs. (It's $95 from Children's Furniture Co., (800) 697-3408.) The L chair by Kevin Walz is a scaled-down version of adult cork chairs ($345 at Dennis Miller, (212) 355-4550). The leather Rock Star Kid chair is $775-$995 at American Leather. (Visit its Web site at http://www.americanleather.com and click on "dealer locater" to find local retailers.) Impressions can hinge on a doorCompensate for your home's lack of a dramatic foyer by dressing up the doorway. Paint the door a dramatic color and add beautiful hardware, such as a brass kick plate, or decorate the porch or stoop with some interesting plantings, suggests James Pesce, a designer with Marvin Interiors in Akron, Ohio. He also recommends that a window with an unattractive view is a good candidate for an interesting window treatment, perhaps in an eye-catching pattern, to give you something pleasant to look at. If the view is beautiful, keep the window treatment minimal so as not to detract from what's outside. Toward more sensuous sudsScented candles, lotions, potpourri, soaps ... they're all supposed to provide soothing relaxation. They're certainly relaxing for the manufacturers, who are reaping the benefits of the $1.4-billion-a-year home fragrance market. So why not translate that soothe factor to one of the most workaday products we have: dishwasher detergent? Palmolive has added what the marketers call an "image-driven scent" to its detergent to create Spring Blossom scented gel for the dishwasher. Other dishwasher detergents smell like lemon or baking soda, which have the connotation of "clean and fresh" or "good for you" but not indulgence and de-stressing. The gel should be arriving in markets now. But, does anyone count sheep?Fifty-four percent of American adults sleep in pajamas or a nightgown, they told researchers for Serta, the mattress company. A quarter of the 1,000 people surveyed said they sleep in their underwear; 13 percent sleep in the nude and 4 percent in street clothes. Eighty percent of us sleep in the dark. Our favorite prebedtime rituals: watching TV, 75 percent; securing the house, 59 percent; reading the paper, 53 percent; setting the alarm clock, 50 percent; praying or meditating, 43 percent; checking on the kids, 33 percent; snacking, 32 percent; listening to the radio, 26 percent; exercising, 20 percent; surfing the Net, 19 percent; downing a nightcap, 13 percent. And to all a good night!
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