Home as Your Own Creation

The favorite part of my garden this year is my patio salad garden. I bought a collection of wooden crates at an estate sale earlier this spring and turned them into planter boxes. I planted two up with lettuce seedlings, I direct sowed an Asian baby green mix in the third, and sowed peas to harvest for their shoots in another. I have two more crates that I’m planning on filling up with basil next week. Over on Re-Nest I wrote about how I turned the crates into planters.

The romaine lettuce variety ‘Breen’ is an absolute stunner in a container. Uprig

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This beautiful house is located in Stockholm,. The house is designed by the owner herself, Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer, for her and her husband. Some of Scandinavian features such as big windows and white color domination, taste very strong in the house. Outside, with so many natural woods and a garden, natural green color filled almost the entire area. The combination between white color inside the house and natural green color outside the house brings a different kind atmosphere that not only make the house felt very calm and chic but also can refresh everyone who lives in the house.

The house is not very big, which make some space saving solution should be done.

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• Next to brassica blossoms nasturtiums are my fave edible flower. What’s yours? http://instagr.am/p/GMbWd/ #
• 52 and rainy. Boy, I love summer in Seattle. #
• Edible Garden Tour in Ballard this weekend. Tix are $10 & available at Ballard Community Center at 24th NW and NW 62nd. #
• Spotted a big ole bumblebee on some rock rose in the supermarket parking lot. http://instagr.am/p/GQGAy/ #
• I am sitting on my aunt & uncle’s deck reading the proof of my book! It looks so great thanks to @sagekitchen. Super proud! #
• @finchandthistle I’ll be in west Seattle tonight. I could stop by your place around 8:00??

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Architect Poul Fræhr have designed the summer holiday home on the hilly areas of Denmark. The houses were located in a variety of fall best into the landscape and they are built with simple forms. The residences was offers the unobstructed view of the dunes and the North Sea through the large corner windows. The lounge area was features a distinctive pouf called Koishi in White, is designed by Naoto Fukasawa and the fireplace was self designed by Poul Fræhr. T

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You may remember that I was debating a possible update to my home renovation.

I initially wanted to add mirror to the ceiling of my living room, but unfortunately that idea didn’t pan out. The mirror would have reflected the gap created by the cove ceiling — not a pretty sight.

Also, after getting some installation estimates, it was a little more than I had budgeted for the project.

Instead, I’ve been exploring other options to add more light without using mirrors.

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