Bloom Magazine
Category: Home/Family
Interior design inspiration, home improvement, gardening, parenting, and family life stories for Bloomington households.
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A ‘Home’ Museum In the Heart of B-town (Photo Gallery)
BY LYNAE SOWINSKI When Reverend Ambrose Moore built a mid-Victorian house at 529 N. College in 1869, it was on…
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Thinking About Redoing Your Bathroom?
BY DALE BURG If you’re planning a do-over of your bathroom to make it more attractive and functional, you can…
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How Lighting Can Transform Space—Inside and Out
BY DALE BURG If you’ve seen how transformative lighting can be—when you put in undercabinet fixtures, say, or installed recessed…
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A Story About a Man, a Motorcycle, And His Best Friend (Photo Gallery)
BY JEREMY SHERE When local mechanic and construction worker Mark Apple and his best friend, Buster, ride around town on…
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‘A Home of Her Own’ A New Book by Nancy Hiller
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Virginia Woolf famously wrote, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she…
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Advice for Growing Your Own Food
BY MOYA ANDREWS Many experienced and aspiring gardeners have dreamed of one day having a garden that could sustain them…
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The Origins of Our Vegetable Garden (See Gallery)
BY ROGER AND ELAINE BYERS When it came time to start winding down our involvement with the outside working world,…
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Storytellers Guild: Keeping Alive the Oral Tradition
BY JANET MANDELSTAM There’s a big difference between telling a story and reading a story from a book. A “told”…
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Girls, Inc. Message ‘Be Strong, Smart, Bold’
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS Back in the 1960s, Wonder bread claimed that it could “build strong bodies twelve ways.” Girls…
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Commercial Service: For 65 Years Keeping B-town Warm and Cool
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. HVAC. Four letters that spell comfort—and confusion. As the “guts” of a…
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