Planning Your Garden Flowers And Gardens
A reflective essay on garden planning stresses simplicity over overdesign, urges respecting nature as master designer, and advises selecting shade trees like ash and maple. It champions shrubs for year round color and food for birds, promoting planting new trees or shrubs while rehoming old stock. It also offers creative pool and bog garden ideas and ends with a reminder that no garden is perfect and enjoyment matters.
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Nature
Light Switch Placement Near Main Interior Door
Guidance on locating room light switches near the most used interior door. The text argues switches should be adjacent to the entrance most frequented after dark, typically the living room or dining area entry, to ensure safe, practical lighting when entering from outside.
Telephone Niche A Handy Home Convenience
A common feature is a telephone niche placed in a convenient location near stairs or closets. It includes a space for telephone books and perpendicular divisions for organization. A pad and pencil should be kept nearby for memoranda.
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Flasewives
Shelvadors
Shelvador
Varnish Quality Needed for Kitchen and Laundry Floors
If varnish is applied on kitchens or laundry floors over wood or linoleum it must be of the best quality to withstand the hard use these areas endure.
Decoration Do's and Don'ts for Radio and Woodwork
The article advises harmony between radio furniture and room, favoring mixed woods like mahogany and walnut. It suggests rug alignment, careful bird cage placement, modern crystal and chromium tables, and stylish display ideas. It weighs natural walnut versus painted woodwork, advocating walnut for larger rooms and detailing maintenance routines.
Clever Touches for Dining Rooms with Small Spaces
Often dining rooms gain distinction from small incidental pieces beyond a standard set. Mentioned items include two or three tiered dumb waiters, curate, flip top card table, ivy stand with tea set, fern-adorned plant stand, and an old silver chest. For windows narrow coves, extend curtain rods outward to reveal generous light and avoid heavy draperies.
Unconventional fireplace designs span an entire wall
A modern home features a fireplace at the room end with a mantel running the full length of the wall. Cupboards and open bookshelves fill the surrounding space to address a common space problem in home planning.
Shelves Between Rooms Practical
Shelves can be built between rooms to display dishes or books. If walls are thick enough there is space at each end of a double doorway from living to dining room. Consult your architect when building a home to plan such shelving.
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Westinghouse
Flower Boxes In Sill For All Year Gardening
Flower boxes may be built into the sill inside the window enabling year round gardening. Boxes can be lined with copper and drains extended through the wall to the ground outside.
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