Month: September 2019
12 Effective Strategies to Help You Sleep
September 28, 2019
Having difficulty getting a full, restful night’s sleep? Join us as we tackle every feature of the night routine, by preparing your distance to the final lights-out, which means that you can sail into dreamland — and also learn how to get back to sleep even if you pop up. Take charge of your sleep […]
Southwest Gardener's August Checklist
September 26, 2019
From the time August arrives, it sometimes seems that summer will last forever. However, the days are gradually becoming shorter, and collapse will be here soon. In the meantime, summer rains and increased humidity are reducing our sexy temperatures for short periods and also helping to water our plants. If you are lucky enough to […]
Plantation Grandeur Rises at a Home's Back Addition
September 22, 2019
“Often farm homes needed to look striking from the front, and then whatever occurred on the back just occurred,” says architect Cameron Scott. The hodgepodge he struck along the back of his customers’ house in Jackson was no exception. When the house was constructed in 1904, another smokehouse had served as the place where servants […]
Get Spring-Like Hyacinth Blooms All Winter Long
September 19, 2019
Sure, hyacinths blossom naturally outdoors during springtime, but you can also fool them into flowering indoors in the dead of winter. Forcing bulbs isn’t reserved for growers. The indoor gardener can have a steady supply of stunning and fragrant blooming hyacinths from late December through April with only a little work. Here’s how. Kaylovesvintage Clusters […]
Great Escape: A Tiny Hideout in the California Woods
September 16, 2019
Looking down from the top of the hill, you won’t find this tiny house at first glance. The 90-square-foot construction is tucked on a tiny ledge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, coated with redwood bark along with a dwelling roof to blend in with all the coastal California hillside. The clients’ most important house is higher […]
Get the Hang of Hanging Flower Baskets
September 13, 2019
Who does not love a hanging basket filled with a profusion of foliage or blossoms? This sort of container gardening is a magical addition to your deck, patio, arbor or deck and it’s simple, as long as you know a few tricks of the trade. Below are some ideas on planting your hanging baskets and […]
6 Driveway Appears Take Landscapes Along for the Ride
September 11, 2019
Driveways are often the most overlooked part of garden layout, considered more utilitarian than something worthy of our attention; nevertheless we usually travel together them at least two times per day, and they’re frequently both the first and last thing people see. What impression does your driveway give? Certainly designing homes that flank a driveway […]
Hang Your American Flag With Style and Etiquette
September 8, 2019
The afternoon before my house burned down, I was thinking about flags. It was the end of June, and we had been in the middle of painting our house’s exterior. The front and back and one side have been completed, and that I was closing in about the fourth. It seemed so fresh and bright, […]
8 Inventive Kitchen Floor Treatments
September 5, 2019
These kitchen floors look far beyond the standard hardwood that we’ve all gotten used to. These fun floor ideas, from ‘s Kitchen of the Week series, choose sensible flooring to the next level with paint, fresh ways with old fashioned substances, ecofriendly options and much more. Gaspar’s Construction 1. Striped marmoleum in Seattle. Whilst marmoleum […]
Food and Community Thrive at a U.K. Allotment Garden
September 3, 2019
When landscape designer Laara Copley-Smith spends a Sunday afternoon in her vegetable garden, she does not step in the backyard. Instead she tucks into her plot of community garden — known as an allotment in the U.K. — five minutes out of her Surrey, England, home. Copley-Smith rents this 255-square-meter (2,700-square-foot) bit of land from […]