When I was growing up and my dad, a museum administrator, had to go out of town for meetings, my mom had two rituals: make breakfast for dinner, including waffles with strawberries and ice cream, and redecorate the house. She took advantage of her temporary insomnia by painting and wallpapering […]
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How to insulate your basement’s concrete walls
Q: I just bought my first house and am about to remodel my basement. The previous owners of the house glued 2-inch-thick foam insulation to the poured concrete walls. It’s got an aluminum foil face on it. Then they covered that with an open-cell foam board that’s 3/4-inch thick. It […]
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The best Colorado art of 2020, from Babe Walls to pandemic portraits
A detail of the “Pandemic Self-Portraits” series from an exhibition of photos recently on display at Denver’s Next Gallery. (Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post) The year 2020 was as much about art-making as it was about art-enabling. Despite an endless pandemic and social unrest, artists did manage […]