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DID YOU KNOW?

WHEN YOUR PLANS ARE READY, SO ARE WE!

Credit scores are important factors when lenders determine if individuals applying for credit or loans are worthy borrowers. Credit is used when purchasing a new home, buying a car, opening a business, or applying for new credit cards. A credit score is a three-digit number that corresponds to a certain range. The standards were established by FICO®, and the higher the score, the better (scores start at 300 and move upward to 850). Various things can impact credit score, and some weigh more heavily toward the final score than others. The following are the factors that influence credit score in order of their importance, according to Wells Fargo bank. · Payment history (making payments on time) · Current debts (carrying high balances) · Credit history · New credit application inquiries · Types of current credit (mixed forms of loans, credit cards, etc.)

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AP Photo

This photo shows a room design by designer Jessica Wachtel. If you're seeking to brighten up a room during the dark winter months, Wachtel suggests adding a patterned rug in light and bright colors, as she did in this Bethesda, Md., living room.

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Easy ways to brighten rooms in winter

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press

When home designer and builder Marnie Oursler talks with clients about building their dream homes along the Delaware coast, their No. 1 request is having bright spaces with lots of natural light.

But at this time of year, it can feel like that brightness and light is in short supply in most any home. The sparkly holiday decorations have been put away, and the daylight hours are still way too brief.

Fortunately, there are plenty of things you can “do in a single day to hedge against the winter doldrums,” says Washington, D.C.-based interior designer Josh Hildreth. We’ve asked Oursler, Hildreth and interior designer Jessica Wachtel of GTM Architects in Bethesda, Maryland, for advice on easy decor changes that will brighten up any room.

LIGHT FROM BELOW

Hildreth suggests taking a cue from the design style of Nordic countries, where winter days are short: Try painting wooden floors white or cream, or bleaching them to a light shade of brown.

“When you use sort of a wonderful cream color or white on a floor,” Hildreth says, “everything put against it pops.” Even heavy, dark wooden furniture will feel more contemporary and less formal.

Also, Hildreth says, if you have heavy rugs or layered rugs on the floor, consider removing some of them. Although we tend in winter to want to warm our floors, having more bare floor can help open up the space and make it feel fresher and brighter.

Oursler and Wachtel also suggest swapping out dark rugs for lighter See HOMES — Page 10

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and brighter ones. It’s an easy change with big impact.

MAXIMIZE YOUR LIGHT

We think of adding warmer, heavier curtains in winter, Wachtel says, but removing heavy draperies will let in more natural light.

Also, she says, consider using brighter light bulbs at this time of year, and perhaps even taking out a ceiling fixture that has just one bulb and replacing it with one that has several bulbs. You can use a dimmer to make sure the room doesn’t get too bright, but you’ll be able to brighten the space as needed.

Another practical trick: Add large mirrors to amplify natural light during the day and lamplight at night. Oursler made her office feel brighter by adding a large mirror trimmed to look like a window. It also gives a sense of connection to the outdoors.

covers in a light shade.

Hildreth says the same about covering a dark wood table: Since that dark table may dominate your dining room, he says, “a wonderful heavy, light-colored linen tablecloth is a beautiful idea.”

The thickness of the fabric can still bring a sense of warmth, but the light color will open up the space.

Along with light-colored solids, consider bright patterns. Hildreth says patterns like colorful chintz may be returning and are perfect for brightening a room at any time of year.

ADD OPENNESS AND LIFT

Also, she adds, make your space feel taller and more open by adding some wainscoting painted white about twothirds of the way up a wall, and decorate above it by adding grasscloth or paintings in that space just below the ceiling. “Anything you can do to elevate a space,” she says, ``will make a room feel brighter because it will feel bigger.”

CITRUS SCENTS AND CANDLES

Hildreth points out that scents can also brighten a room: Potted citrus trees in his sunroom add a crisp scent throughout the winter, but candles and diffusers can do the same. The designer Jo Malone has an orange blossom candle that he says is perfect for brightening a room with a fresh citrus scent.

And for a finishing touch, Hildreth suggests adding a few gorgeous coffeetable books filled with images of sunfilled spaces. A winter day will feel a lot brighter, he says, if you spend an hour getting lost in colorful images.

Rearranging furniture is an inexpensive way to give a room a different feel, Oursler says. “And you de-clutter at the same time. People don’t realize how easy it is for a space to get cluttered.

Once you de-clutter, the space will feel brighter and bigger,” she says.

As you rearrange, consider whether any of your pieces could be replaced with something less dense and heavy. If you have a heavy coffee table or solid wooden end tables, Oursler says, conSLIPCOVERS AND sider switching to lighter pieces made of EDITOR’S NOTE - Melissa Rayworth TABLECLOTHS metal and glass. “You can find those rel- writes the Ask a Designer column If your dining table has dark chairs or atively inexpensively, but they do make monthly for The Associated Press. Follow her on Twitter at @mrayworth. your sofa is dark, Oursler suggests slip- a big difference,” she says.

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Startups see a market in renting couches by the month

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Zachariah Mohammed’s living room is filled with stuff he doesn’t own.

He pays $200 a month for the sofa, side table, bar cart, dining table and four chairs in his living room. It’s worth it, the 27-year-old New Yorker says. If he needs to move, which he’s done twice in the last 12 months, he won’t need to lug a sofa across the city or worry if it will fit in a new place.

The furniture-rental startup, Feather, will swap out items for something else.

“We don’t want to be stuck with a giant couch,” says Mohammed, a social media manager at a software company, who lives with his partner and their dog, Remy.

AP Photo

Zachariah Mohammed, left, Pete Mancilla, and their dog Remy pose for a picture in their apartment in New York.

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Feather, Fernish and other companies aim to rent furniture to millennials who don’t want to commit to big purchases or move heavy furniture and are willing to pay for the convenience. It’s part of a wave of rental culture that includes Rent the Runway, focused on women’s designer clothing, and even Netflix and Spotify, which let you stream from a huge catalog rather than buy individual TV show episodes, movies or songs.

“They’re moving a lot.

They’re changing jobs a lot,” says Thomas Robertson, a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, describing the types of people who would use the services.

“Why would you want to be saddled with furniture?”

The furniture-rental companies target high-income city dwellers who want a $1,100 orange love seat ($46 a month) or $980 leather bench ($41 a month) — but only temporarily. The furniture itself is a step up from Ikea.

“I’m 32 years old and have lived in 25 different places, five different countries, 12 different cities,” says Chan Park, who co-founded online furniture rental company Oliver Space last year. He constantly bought and discarded cheap furniture. Then he moved to a furnished rental apartment in Singapore.

“It was probably the first time my adult life that I felt like I was truly at home,” Park says.

These startups are in just a handful of coastal cities, with few users, but seek to grow.

They offer furniture from Crate & Barrel, West Elm and smaller brands.

Others are renting out home goods, too. Rent the Runway recently added West Elm pillows and quilts. Ikea is testing a rental service in several countries outside the U.S., including Switzerland and Belgium.

Renting may make sense for a generation that sees “life as transient,” says Hana BenShabat, the founder of Gen Z

Planet, a research and advisory firm that focuses on the generation born between the late 1990s and 2016.

Young people today get married and buy homes later than they used to, and young people move more than older people do. Still, millennials are moving less than previous generations did at their age, and Americans overall are moving less.

Moving her furniture from New York to Los Angeles would have cost Clarissa Wright $3,000. Instead, she gave away most of what she owned, traveled in Europe for two months and then rented a couch, bed, mattress, bar stools and other furniture in her new place, for $255 a month. Feather delivered and assembled everything in one day.

Wright, a 28-year-old marketing consulting for fashion and beauty brands, says she can switch out the furniture, add more stuff, move to a new apartment or city. But right now, she doesn’t know what the future holds.

“I don’t think too far ahead,” she says.

That comes at a price. Critics have called the furniturerental business exploitative in the past. Stores like Rent-ACenter target low-income shoppers who can’t afford to buy a fridge or couch outright and charge higher prices overall than competitors.

Some of the new batch of furniture renters charge for membership, and there are fees for late payments or for furniture that is badly damaged. Customers can keep furniture if their monthly payments add up to full price.

Prices are the same at West Elm and Crate & Barrel, but you could buy more cheaply directly from the store if there’s a sale.

“If people think this is the best way to buy a couch, they are wrong,” says Margot Saunders, the senior counsel at the National Consumer Law Center. “They should recognize that they are paying for the convenience of renting.”

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Cozy Lone Rock exudes bungalow charm informal dining area is completely one level, a bedroom, bathroom open to the kitchen, and a sliding and spacious utility room are locatglass door opens onto the side deck ed in the finished half of the Lone Rock’s daylight basement. A conthatBedroom links with the front porch. venient pet door accesses the utiliA vaulted 13'6" x 14' owners’ suite with a full bathroom fills out the left side ty room there. The downstairs bedDn of the home along with the den. The room has a roomy walk-in closet and offers direct access to the side small powder room across the hallSun is Porch Covrd Porch patio.

As space needs expand, the convenient to the kitchen and family 9'4" x 5'8" owners might want to finish the room as well as the rear porches.

While most of the home is on basement’s Dn other half.

Associated Designs is the Den 13'2" x 9'8" original source for the Lone Rock Vaulted Bedroom 41-020. For more information Country 13'6" x 14' Kitchen or to view other designs, visit 12'10"Dn x 15' www.AssociatedDesigns.com Up or call 800-634-0123.

Bedroom

1000 SERIES straight ahead runs www.AssociatedDesigns.com past a storage closet Lone Rock and a coat closet before opening PLAN 41-020 onto a covered porch with a Main Floor 1160 sq.ft. cozy sun porch to the left. Basement Finished Bsmt 653 sq.ft. stairs are nearby.

Living Area 1813 sq.ft.

Counters and cupboards wrap Unfinished Bsmt 447 sq.ft. around three sides of the kitchen, which is richly windowed on two Dimensions 40' x 50' sides. Near the apex of the vault1000 SERIES ing, two transom windows crown www.AssociatedDesigns.com the four lower-level windows. The

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Sun Porch Covrd 9'4" x 5'8" Porch

Den 13'2" x 9'8"

Covered Porch Vaulted Owners’ Vaulted Suite Owners’ 12' x 15'8"

Suite 12' x 15'8"

Dn Deck

Mud Hall

Vaulted Dn Great Room Covrd DenSun 15'Porch x 16' 9'4" x 5'8" Porch 13'2" x 9'8" Entry Dn Mud Hall

Vaulted Owners’ Suite 12' x 15'8"

Mud Hall

Patio 6' x 14'8"

13'6" x 14'

Patio 6' x 14'8"

Shingles and stone provide eyecatching textural variety to the Utility Lone Rock, a bungalow designed 15'8" x 14'6" for construction on a lot that slopes down at the rear. Craftsman Up windows on all sides add their characteristic sparkle.

To enter, you climb a few wide steps. These lead Unfinished to a welcoming covered porch Basement with stone veneer bases 30'8" x 15'4" topped by tapered Utility Designs, Inc. 15'8" x 14'6" columns that© 2020 areAssociated linked by nostalgic wooden railings.

Utility 15'8" x 14'6" The entry opens directly into a vaultLone RockUp ed great room with PLAN 41-020 Unfinished a masonry fireBasement Main Floor 1160 sq.ft. place. Wide arched 30'8" x 15'4" Unfinished openings at the rear Finished Bsmt 653 sq.ft.

Basement lead to a vaulted Living Area 1813 sq.ft.

30'8" x 15'4" © 2020 Associated Designs, Inc. country kitchen that Unfinished Bsmt 447 sq.ft. © 2020 Associated Designs, Inc. expands out on the Dimensions 40' x 50' right. The mud hall

Patio 6' x 14'8"

By Associated Designs

Vaulted Country Kitchen 12'10" x 15'

Vaulted Great Room Vaulted 15' x 16'

Great Room 15' x 16'

Entry

Deck

Entry

Covered Porch

Covered Porch

Vaulted Country Kitchen 12'10" x 15

De

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Home Improvement

Hight Construction Manager at Risk renovating the 20,000 sq foot existing space and added 2,700 sq feet of new construction, for a cost of $1.8 Million.

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General Contracting Design Build Construction Manager at Risk

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What is a standby generator?

No one wants to imagine losing power in their homes. But homeowners and renters face such situations every day. For those who aren't prepared to confront power outages, doing so can be a nuisance in the best of situations, and potentially very dangerous, if not fatal, in the most dire instances.

Thankfully, no one has to go long without power. Standby generators are backup electrical systems that operate automatically. Once the generator senses a power loss, which can occur within seconds of a utility outage, its automatic transfer switch essentially gives the generator a wakeup call, commanding it to begin supplying power to the circuits in a home.

Some transfer switches may be automated, requiring no effort on the part of homeowners when the power goes out.

Others may need to be flipped on like one might flip a light switch. Seniors and/or people with mobility issues may benefit from standby generators with automated transfer switches, as they may find it difficult to manually turn the switches themselves. That's especially true if the power goes out overnight, when visibility inside a home with no power is compromised.

Standby generators are typically connected to the circuits throughout a home, which means they can kick in and run HVAC systems, refrigerators and security systems, among other devices. That helps people stay comfortable and sleep well during power outages, while also ensuring they won't have to throw away any groceries or spend times in their homes without functioning security systems.

Standby generators can help people prepare for and overcome storms and natural disasters, making them an invaluable addition to any home.

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Open to Family Below

Kendrick designed for modern family life Bedroom guest room, study, or home office.

13' x 15'8''

By Associated Designs

Sliders in the dining room and Straight ahead is an even brighter kitchen provide double access to a and more spacious two-story family deck that wraps around the side and The Kendrick is a contemporary Open to Deck Dn area. The rustic stone fire- rear. The covered and vaulted side living family home with an evocative Familyfront Below place serves as Loft/Library a warm and colorful deck makes a delightful setting for facade. Stone veneer wainscoting 16'6'' x 26'6'' skies are dark or outdoor dining. and post supports add rustic charm, focal point when Bedroom Luxury Sitting features in Vaulted the as13'dox 15'8'' shake shingles nestled under gray, and a home entertainment 11'4'' x Owners’ Kendrick’s owners’ suite include: the three front facing gables. Each center fills the cabinetry next to it.

Family 14'10'' Suite 17' x 23'6'' This large roomVaulted is Deck open to the 15'4'' a bayed huge walk-in of the home’s three other sides x 15'sitting area, Deck Dn Vaulted 1 kitchen as well.

Working at the closet, and spa tub.

Two more bedboasts similarly accentedLoft/Library gables.

Open to Library Bedroom range, you can serve up snacks or rooms are upstairs along with an Entry Leaving the vaulted front porch 16'6'' 12'10'' x 26'6''x 11' raised eating expansive loft/library with a parbehind, you step into a bright and quick meals at the Sitting Vaulted x with tially Owners’ keeping in11'4'' touch vaulted Vaulted ceiling. lofty two-story entry. Natural light bar, while Family Suite family 14'10'' room activi- 17'Associated Designs is the origispills in through sideDining 23'6'' 15'4'' xties.

15' Storage and nal xsource Vaulted for the Kendrick 30lights and an arched, mul- Vaulted 10'6'' x 19' Open to Kendrick Library Bedroom workspace are abun236.

For more information or to tipaned window at the Entry PLAN 12'10'' xstory 11' level.

PLAN 30-236 30-236 dant, including a view other designs, visit second 2455 First Floor Floor 2455 sq.ft. sq.ft. large work Garage island www.AssociatedDesigns.com or On the right, decora- First x 23' call 800-634-0123.

Kitchen and a walk-in35'6'' pantry. tive columns flank a wide Second Floor 1113 sq.ft. arched opening that leads Living Area 3568 sq.ft.

Guest/ Kendrick into a roomy parlor with Garage Up 2-Story Study 855 sq.ft. © 2020 Associated Designs, Inc. PLAN 30-236 Entry tall windows on two sides.

13' x 11' 86'x 58' Deck First Floor sq.ft.doors Dimensions Garage On the left,2455 double Deck Vaulted 3000 SERIES Secondinto Floorwhat 1113could sq.ft. be a 35'6'' x 23' open Covered www.AssociatedDesigns.com Living Area 3568 sq.ft.

Porch Sitting Guest/ Vaulted Parlor 11'4'' x Up 2-Story Owners’Study 14' x 14' Garage 855 sq.ft.

Vaulted Family © 2020 Associated Designs, Inc. Entry 14'10'' Suite Dining 13' x 11' 17' x 23'6'' 15'4'' x 15' Dimensions 86'x 58' 10'6'' x 19' Vaulted Covered Porch

3000 SERIES

Open to Family www.AssociatedDesigns.com Below

Kitchen

Dn

Utility

Bedroom 13' x 15'8''

Loft/Library 16'6'' x 26'6''

Garage 35'6'' x 23' © 2020 Associated Designs, Inc.

Vaulted Bedroom 12'10'' x 11'

Open to Entry

Vaulted Library

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Guest/ Study 13' x 11'

Up 2-Story Entry Vaulted Covered Porch

Parlor 14' x 14'

Vaulted Covered Deck

Utility

Vaulted Covered Deck

Utility

Kendrick

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