Subject: A Cottage's Space-Saving Tricks | Make Your Home Party-Ready | Mediterranean Home Goes Country
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:42:36 -0000

Houzz Tour: A New Mediterranean Home Goes Country

Most renovation stories start with a dreary assessment of the house before the remodel. In this case there were no leaky ceilings, dark rooms or cramped spaces to describe. When Jim and Stephanie Stafford purchased this home...

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Room of the Day: Cherished Objects Personalize a Living Room

&#8220;I&#8217;m from Louisiana, so I love to tell stories,&#8221; says interior designer Lynne Parker. Her life has taken her to many places far from the bayou, including Amsterdam, where she and her family lived for 13 years. They...

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10 Reasons to Love Big, Comfy Sectionals

They&#8217;re big, comfy and totally napworthy. If something&#8217;s been holding you back from indulging in the pure comfort of a sectional, here are 10 reasons to just go for it. Whether your space is large or small, family friendly...

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Shop Houzz: Celebrate Day of the Dead With Chef Isabel Cruz

 Chef Isabel Cruz loves autumn, because it means Dia de los Muertos isn&#8217;t too far away. Traditionally observed on November 1, Day of the Dead is when people remember their dead ancestors in a really fun way, with special...

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Houzz Tour: Snug London Cottage Has a Spacious Feel

As three-bedroom, three-bathroom houses go, this light, bright, 19th-century cottage is on the small side. In a 1,000-square-foot property, you might not expect to have the space for a separate dining area or find an en suite...

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Houzz Call: Show Us Your Fall Color!

We want to see a photo of the best fall color where you are. Before winter forces many of us indoors for the season, let&#8217;s celebrate this beautiful time of year by getting outside and looking around. 

Calling all Houzzers:...

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A Punch List for Party Decorating

When planning a party at home, decorating can easily slide down the to-do list as more essential tasks (like menu planning, shopping and cleaning) take priority. But isn&#8217;t much of the fun of a party the feeling that things...

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10 Ways to Bring Charm to Your Home&#8217;s Exterior

Whether you have a cottage that needs a little TLC or a nondescript colonial you&#8217;d love to inject with a bit more personality, deciding on changes to the exterior can be tricky. It&#8217;s important not to force a completely...

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Unify Your Garden With a Common Thread

As humans we seek to understand ourselves, our environment and our world. Designers, writers, artists and philosophers, past and present, realize that we frequently need help to process our world in an attempt to understand...

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How to Wow Your Guests With a Dramatic Dining Room

There&#8217;s no better room in which to indulge your dramatic decorating fantasies than the dining room, where you can create a space that&#8217;s great for entertaining. Whether your dining area is open-plan style and includes...

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Houzz Tour: A Shape-Shifting Space, Cloaked in History

 When you have only 140 square feet (13 square meters) with which to create a bedroom, a dining room, an office and a media room, you want to make the most of it. Architect Michael Roper had been living in a complex in Fitzroy,...

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A Peek at 2 Prettily Dressed Fall Porches

Good friends Charlene Miller and Merry Munk enjoy sharing and showing off their salvage style on their central Ohio porches. These two can often be found scouring flea markets, auctions and garage sales in search of their...

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Shop Houzz: Refresh Your Foyer for Fall

The front door and foyer are where you greet guests, and those two areas set the tone for your entire home. So what does your entryway say? From wreaths and doormats to elegant entryway furnishings, find all you need to make...

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Room of the Day: Addressing the Green Piano in the Room

We&#8217;ve all heard of the pink elephant in the room, but interior designer Charmean Neithart thought she&#8217;d heard her clients wrong when they informed her she&#8217;d have to design around the green piano in the room. &#8220;When...

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Great Design Plant: Low-Maintenance Allium Cernuum

When the weather cools in fall, it&#8217;s time to plant spring-blooming bulbs.  Most of the familiar ones are from faraway places: tulips have their origins in the Mediterranean region and Asia Minor (Turkey), and daffodils...

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Falling for Color: 9 Ways With Pumpkin Orange

With Halloween right around the corner I just had to grab the opportunity to give some love to one of my favorite hues: pumpkin orange. The key to working with this intense color is to use it for those items or areas in your...

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Great Design Plant: Parkinsonia Flor Paints the Desert Green and Yellow

Perhaps the most iconic tree of the desert Southwest is the palo verde (Parkinsonia florida), with its characteristic green trunk and branches. This native desert tree comes with a Spanish name that literally translates to...

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Guest Picks: Add Pizzazz With Black and White

Black and white is one of the most classic color combinations. This bold, graphic and timeless pair adds punch to any space. In everything from elegant bedding to abstract art, black and white has the power to transform a...

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Great Design Plant: Encelia Californica

California brittlebush (Encelia californica) is a must for low-water habitat gardens. This vigorous and dependable subshrub shows off its exuberant mass of large daisy-like flowers in spring and fall. Its long, bountiful...

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