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Recent property transactions in Delta County BARK RIVER TOWNSHIP Quit claim deed: grantor - James A. Hall, Sr., grantee - James A. Hall, Sr., Debra R. Hall, Bark River Township. Quit claim deed: grantor - James A. Hall, Sr., grantee - James A. Hall, Sr., Debra R. Hall, Lot 1, Block 2, Village of Bark River, Bark River Township. Quit claim deed: grantor - James A. Hall, Sr., grantee - James A. Hall, Sr., Debra R. Hall, Lot 12, Block 4 (part of), Bark River supervisor’s no. 1, Bark River Township. Quit claim deed: grantor - James A. Hall, Sr., Debra R. Hall, grantee - James ...

How couples can decorate together

Sharing a home with someone you love can be wonderful. But decorating together isn't always easy, especially when your tastes aren't the same. If one partner loves filling every space with mementos and the other is clutter-averse, who gets their way? It can be hard to find good compromises when one loves bold colors and patterns, while the other favors calming shades of gray. Interior designer Penny Drue Baird draws as much on her doctorate in psychology as on her design training when she works with couples decorating a home. "I'm there as the mediator, like a marital ...

Property Transactions

Recent property transactions in Delta County. ESCANABA TOWNSHIP Quit claim deed: grantor — Clyde H Lancour, grantee — Clyde H Lancour Trust, Clyde H Lancour, trustee. Escanaba Township. Warranty deed: grantor — Jerry Norman II, Melinda Norman, grantee — Martin Ringelstetter, Angela Ringelstetter. Escanaba Township. BRAMPTON TOWNSHIP Quit claim deed: grantor — Daniel W Soderman, Gayle H Sigan, David J Soderman, Karyn J Coleman, grantee — Daniel W Soderman, Amy Jean Soderman. Multiple parcels including part of Kipling Supervisor's No 2. Brampton Township. Quit ...

Cancellations of home purchase agreements increase

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest sign of trouble in the U.S. housing market: A pickup in home purchase agreements falling through before they're finalized. Some 6% of pending contracts to buy a home were canceled in May, down from 7% in April, but up from 5% in May last year, according to data from National Association of Realtors. May is the third consecutive month with an annual increase in pending home sales cancelations. A separate analysis of housing data by Redfin found that 14.6% of all pending sales in May fell out of contract, up from 14% in May last year, and the highest ...

Bath hardware makes a stylish splash

Step in the bathroom, turn on the tap. Step in the shower, turn on the faucet. Just mundane parts of the daily routine, right? Yet for bathware designers, they're anything but. These creative minds dive deep into what they call "the water delivery experience," and once you've experimented ...

Designers look to nature, landfills for new decor materials

At first glance, Nina Edwards Anker's sconces and chandeliers look like ancient scrolls of parchment, or sheets of buttery toffee, wrapped around LED bulbs. Come closer — or just ask the New York-based designer/architect — and you'll find they're actually made of algae. She came up with the idea while working on a doctoral research project on materials and lighting at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and has now created a collection of sconces, lamps and even a chandelier named "Chlorophyta." Anker chose not to disguise the dried algae — her shades have all the ...