Home isn’t a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.
When my indoor or outside area needs a quick facelift, I like to make inexpensive, simple and resourceful furnishings. An empty (and free) electrical spool is just one of my preferred base pieces to start with. I’ve been producing upholstered Read More
Do you have a rusty old grill pitched somewhere out of sight — say, under the deck or behind the garage? I know I did for many years, and thus did user Beverly Gardner. Her grill was failed and rusty, Read More
This homeowner called interior designer Lisa Konjicek-Segundo of Olive Juice Designs at the last moment, or instead, the last trimester, to change a junk room into a nursery school. They did not have time for custom or back orders, so Read More
Ranch houses come in many sizes and shapes, from the tiny ancient ranch houses of the 1940s into the atomic-age ranches with their high-rise ceilings, sliding glass doors and doors, to the sprawling ranch houses of the ’70s. If you Read More
Most of us have never heard of this deciduous holly called winterberry — evergreen hollies are far better understood and much more commonly seen in residential arenas. However, for gardeners in cold climates, winterberry provides a lot. It’s easy to Read More
Pinyon pines, also referred to as pinion or piñon are a set of small evergreens native to the dry, upland plains and foothills of the American Southwest, the intermountain regions of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and northern Mexico. Pinyons are Read More
Isle alumroot (Heuchera maxima), a native of California’s Channel Islands and a shade-loving member of the Heuchera genus, is an appealing yet hardy underplanting companion for California’s native oaks and other big canopy trees. Majestic oaks are icons of the Read More
I have always adored settees. They are just like the Goldilocks of seating: not too big, not too small — just perfect. And among my favorite areas to see them will be in entryways. More so than a chair or Read More
With the prevalence of lingering in the kitchen, it is time to step our game up with counter and bar stool styles. Kitchen island seats is certainly a place where you are able to bend the rules a bit — Read More
In 2011 it was Hurricane Irene; in 2012 it was Sandy and now Hurricane Patricia is expected to be one of the strongest hurricanes — if not the strongest — recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Even though there isn’t agreement Read More