| Find the right fit for windows
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- Just as you dress your body to accentuate good points and conceal flaws, you can dress your home's windows to spotlight the good and disguise the less-than-perfect. Are your windows too tall, too narrow, too wide? Are they off-center, in need of some stature? Each of these situations may be remedied with a bit of know-how and ingenuity. The first thing you need to do is identify problem areas. Since there's no Atkins Diet equivalent for too-wide windows, a bit of clever sleight-of-hand needs to be employed. If the room has ample height, mount the window treatment at the ceiling, keeping any side drapery panels thin and tall. Voila, that formerly wide window has a new svelte figure. Where you're dealing with very narrow windows, width can be created by mounting the curtain rod at the top of the window and hanging the drapery panels so they extend onto the walls.
DIVINE DESIGN: Secrets of the YaYa basement space
Not only are they busy with their demanding careers and two young children, but the couple has just lived through a long, tiresome home renovation. They redesigned most of their two-story house, but ran out of steam and ideas when it came to finishing the basement -- one of the more important rooms in their home!You see, Marie has a very close relationship with her mother Sandra (affectionately known as "YaYa," which is Greek for grandmother), and since YaYa lives out of town, she needs a place to hang her hat when visiting the family. Marie wanted her mother to have a space to call her own that didn't make her feel like she was being banished to a cold, dark basement.The existing room was an empty, bright blue-colored space with a builder's kitchenette and not much else. Marie asked me to add some style, warmth and ambience for YaYa, making it a stylish suite where she could relax, have a little privacy and cook up batches of her famous mousaka and other traditional delicacies.I relied on the use of color, reflection and texture to turn this room from dim to inviting.
Federal board waived Cheema's deportation in 1997
Murder suspect Paul Cheema was given a second chance to stay in Canada despite a violent criminal history and a deportation order because of "substantial family and community support here in Canada," according to an Immigration and Refugee Board ruling in October 1997. Cheema, the only suspect in the July 5 slaying of his new wife Shemina Hirji, had been told he had to return to his native England after being convicted of forcible confinement, uttering threats and attempted kidnapping in two separate attacks on his former fiance. The young Winnipeg woman, Paramjit Singh, was attacked first in December 1994 and again in February 1995. In the second incident, Cheema also tried to shoot her mother, but the gun failed to discharge even though the trigger was pulled three times.
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