Home as Your Own Creation

Jacqueline deMontravel is the editor of “Romantic Homes” and knows her girly-girl glamour. In “Hers: Design With a Feminine Touch” , she shows how to create spaces, from home offices to bedrooms, that are chic and fresh but also comfortable and inviting. The vignettes and ideas showcased are pretty but never over-the-top froufrou. My personal favorites: two red-and-white striped chairs in front of creamy bookshelves with rose paint on the back paneling and a glass and iron chandelier decorated for a tea party with handmade, large white flowers made from French paper.

As everyone knows, the nature of education is changing. More and more, classrooms are incorporating different learning styles and methods, including those driven by improvements in technology. Companies that make furniture for the education market know that their offerings must adjust to these classroom changes. Steelcase is not one to hang onto the past: the company acknowledges that “the classroom is being reinvented to support new pedagogies that deeply involve students in the learning process.” Furniture must therefore adjust to fit the various modes of learning—lectures, group discussions, and team project work.

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Nothing makes a home stand out more than a beautiful outside area. However, many people spend a lot of time remodeling the inside of their home whilst spending very little time working on making improvements to the outside. This might be simply because they are not gardeners by nature. Not everyone has a green thumb, unfortunately. Are you the type of person who loves to spend time outside in your garden? Whether you are a fan of gardening or if you are the type who prefers to focus on beautifying the inside of your home, here are a few tips on ways you can take your garden to the next level and be the envy of the neighborhood. Read more…

I first heard about the idea of over wintered peppers from the Ottawa Gardener a few years ago but didn’t get around to trying it myself until just this year. The results were much better than I expected and the process was even easier than over wintering some of those popular tender perennial herbs.

The specimen that I chose was one of the Rat Turd peppers that I grew last summer. It had been raised in a container, which made things easier when the time came to move it indoors. But you could also lift a pepper plant from the garden in the fall to over winter. T

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If you are living in an antique house, you may find more difficult to find window replacement. This is because most antique houses use different types of materials, and have a much complex designs as compared to new window types. Old houses have very good architecture. Every design is detailed and manually constructed. However, if your windows are not providing good insulation and cannot protect your home interiors from extreme weather conditions, then you need a window replacement for your old home.

Wood windows are best for antique houses because wood is a very flexible material. Read more…