8 Kitchen Cabinet Color Palettes
If you like the design of your current kitchen and your cabinets are in great shape, painting them may be a smart thing to do. Another budget-friendly route would be to buy and install new cabinet boxes (or “carcasses,” as…
Great Lakes Gardener's August Checklist
August has arrived, the last gasp of summer. It’s a fantastic time to initiate a job, admire the best of the late-summer garden and revel in the bounty of the harvest. It’s too soon for fall planting of perennials and…
Save Money on Home Staging and Still Sell Quicker
Getting resourceful and frugal does not merely apply to interior design. When staging a house to sell, be cautious about spending cash. A lot of people spend their cash in all the wrong places, when consulting with a fantastic Home…
Easy Green: Discover the Appeal of 'Ecovillages'
“Ecovillages” — communities specializing in green living — are springing up in rural, urban and suburban areas around the world. While these communities are really varied, all of them aim to produce sustainable practices an integrated part of daily life…
Renovated Dude Ranch in Wyoming
Quick Canyon Ranch, the Escape home of Clint and Becky Pickrel, is perched on the so-called “Border of Earth” in the Bottom of Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains. The calmness in their little bit of heaven is so palpable that the…
Contemporary Barcelona Home
Architect Yolanda Yuste’s customer wanted his apartment in the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, to represent a modern spirit — not the conventional architecture typical of the town’s oldest district. “My customer wanted to maintain some original areas of the home, such…
Dutch Gable Roof
A Dutch gable roof joins a hip roof, with four sloping sides, and tops it with a gable roof, also called a gablet. Hip roofs have comparatively small loft space but strong construction; gable roofs have more loft space but…
Small Decks Hold Loads of Potential
It is time to change our idea of how large a deck needs to be. Some have become grand and elaborate which if we can not envision a full outdoor kitchen and large parties on it, we can not imagine…
Little Steps to Organizing Success
Even though I’m not a teacher in the conventional sense, I love assigning customers homework — tasks I’m confident they can do without me present — during the organizing process. I do this for a couple reasons, but my primary…
Bowl Over Guests With a DIY Air Plant Terrarium
Not everyone is born with a green thumb, myself included, but I still love the presence of plant life in my house. Artificial plants are not my design, so I select for dwelling varieties that have simple requirements and low…