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  • Bleach can help halt decay in rotting sill
    Q: I have an 1870 double Cape with balloon framing (where the studs go from basement to roofline). I removed the fascia boards covering the sill on the outside of the north side, and found that I could shove a screwdriver 2 inches into the sill plate, which is a 10-by-10 inch beam, which means the outer 2 inches of ...

  • With great walls of glass, lines between indoors, nature blur
    From a distance, this home in the Algonquin Estates neighborhood is just another boring rectangle of a ranch house. But then you walk inside - and the pine trees that surround the home come along.

  • Milford
    Here, they pick up the trash and the yard waste at curbside. "No stickers. No gimmicks" said town administrator Louis Celozzi. "You put your trash out, we pick it up."

  • Reporter's realty check
    My girlfriend and I had one weekend to find a home in Boston. We found the right place on Sunday afternoon: The third floor of a painted Victorian in Jamaica Plain. It had 1,200 square feet of wood floors, sun-drenched rooms, and variously slanted ceilings. It felt like home.