From House to Home 5/14/07

This week's tips:

• Host a Memorial Day party complete with flags, red, white, and blue paperware. Invite families for a multi-generational gathering.
• With wasps out and building nests, double check your screens for holes. Hire a pest inspector to remove any new nests as well.
• Weathervanes are chic once again. Now homeowners may choose from a menagerie of roosters, cows, pigs, quails, horses in classic, antique reproduction and modern designs. Even solid copper weathervanes are relatively affordable.
• To spice up a room, add your own hand-painted pottery. Consider decorating it yourself or throw a pottery party for your friends. For those who are not as artistically inclined, purchase design templates so everyone's pottery can look professionally glazed.
• Punch up your master bath by purchasing a new upscale fashionable bathroom scale. These scales offer both accuracy and design. Some even fold up like a laptop computer to be stored horizontally.