Subject: Homes at the End of the Earth | A Bright and Sunny Playroom | Farmhouse Kitchen Touches
From: "Houzz Updates" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 07:41:05 -0000

To-Dos: Your November Home Checklist

The weather may be turning chillier and the leaves disappearing, but with Thanksgiving and the winter holidays approaching, you&#8217;re likely to have a bustle of activity indoors. Get ahead of things this November by checking...

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12 Farmhouse Touches That Bring Homeyness to a Kitchen

The overdone ruffles and plethora of hens in 1980s-style &#8220;kountry kitchens&#8221; may be out, but farmhouse details in the kitchen will always be in style. Even in the most contemporary kitchens, tiny details derived from the...

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Bright Idea: A Fun Shade of Red for a Sunny Playroom

Chris and Alana Chernecki knew they were going to transform a sunroom into a playroom for their three young girls when they moved into their big bungalow near Winnipeg, in the Canadian province of Manitoba, last May. Alana,...

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Shop Houzz: Scary Good Style

Owls, black cats and spiders are usually the stuff of superstition, but not when it comes to design. Fearless designers have taken these symbols that some consider scary and turned them into desirable motifs. The Houzz Marketplace...

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My Houzz: Living a Simpler Life in Ohio

With two sons and a daughter in college, many people might be tempted to trade in the family home for a smaller version. But John and Sherri Bryan loved their longtime home on the bank of a small lake. So after their last...

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Houzz Tour: Meet the Schoolhouse Saved By &#8216;The Birds&#8217;

The frightening movie scene is familiar to people around the world: After a string of strange and increasingly violent bird attacks, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) goes to the local school to fetch Cathy (Veronica Cartwright),...

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Simple Pleasures: Your Home Is Your Ch&#226;teau

Savoring a good life should start at home, but it&#8217;s easy to get stuck in the trap of thinking our homes are not grand enough, clean enough or beautiful enough to celebrate them as they are. In her recently published book,...

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Kitchen of the Week: Bold Green and User Friendly in Connecticut

Soon after David Behrends and Alejandra Holway bought their contemporary Stamford, Connecticut, home in 2010, Hurricane Irene battered through the area, sending water into their walls. A major renovation was in order, and...

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All the Possibilities: 4 Homes at the Edge of the Earth

When confronted with a design brief and an undeveloped site, architects often look to the edges of that site for inspiration and meaningful architectural solutions. These boundaries, both real and imagined, are exciting places...

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Size Up the Right Area Rug for Your Room

One of the main purposes of a rug is to help define a space. When choosing one, you&#8217;ll be considering the floor space you have, what furniture you want on and around it and the connection and balance between the two. Some...

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Room of the Day: Moroccan Tile Inspires a Guest Bathroom Design

&#8220;Just have fun with it.&#8221; That was the main instruction this bachelor gave interior designer Jennifer Prugh Visosky for the guest bathroom in his ski house. While his tastes tend much more toward traditional, this freedom...

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Room of the Day: Something for Everyone in a Seattle Family Room

Long commutes to Seattle were eating up time that the members of this family of four would have preferred to spend together. So they made a life-changing decision to trade home size for location, moving to a much smaller...

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The Latest Designer Pumpkins to Haunt Your Halloween

Come autumn, the days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, and on All Hallow&#8217;s Eve, the lowly squash transforms into a thing of eerie beauty: the jack-o&#8217;-lantern. A lone candle in a plain orange pumpkin not spooky enough...

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Your November Garden Checklist

The colors of late fall are inspired by the landscape: flaxen grasses, scarlet maples and sedum. Here in California I'm just starting to see the ginkgos go gold and native grapevines turn rust. Sidewalks are littered with...

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How to Dress Your Daybed

A daybed is a wonderfully versatile piece of furniture, working equally well as a bed, a sofa, a napping spot or an extra seat. A daybed can also prove to be a bit confusing to dress &#8212; do you make it like a bed, get a special...

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What&#8217;s the Right Way to Hang Roller Shades?

While hanging toilet paper over or under will always be a matter of personal preference, plenty of practical reasons contribute to the ways to hang roller shades. Is blocking light more important? Appearance? Here&#8217;s what...

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Add Gorgeous Sparkle With Rock Quartz Crystal

Though it&#8217;s the most common mineral found on Earth, there is something about crystal in its raw state that is so luxurious. Whether this semiprecious gem is hanging from a chandelier, decorating a mantel or taking a table...

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Survey Says: We&#8217;re Scared of Being Home Alone &#8212; and Spiders

Home sure is where the heart is &#8212; just not when people find themselves home alone. An empty house is where the spooky things are. That&#8217;s according to a recent Houzz survey, in which 77 percent of the 800 people who responded...

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The Beauty of Bare-Root Plants

Bare-root plants aren&#8217;t ever going to make the cover of a magazine. You won&#8217;t see glamorous models posing beside them, nor will they make headlines as the &#8220;next new thing.&#8221; But for gardeners in the know, these dormant...

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You Said It: &#8216;We Get the House a Present&#8217; and Other Quotes of the Week

Happy Halloween, everyone! I still haven&#8217;t picked up my treats yet, but I realized if I go with the whole Teal Pumpkin Project spirit, I would not only help kids with food allergies feel included, but I would eliminate...

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Decorate the Landscape With Versatile Agave

Agave have a long history of being used as an accent plant in the landscape, where they attract attention wherever they are planted.  With their succulent leaves reaching up toward the sky, agaves add a great spiky texture...

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Guest Picks: Dining Chairs in Every Color of the Rainbow

We&#8217;re coming up on the biggest dining time of the year &#8212; hey, Thanksgiving! &#8212; and as much as Chris and I are looking to spice up our stuffing recipes, our dining room setting could use some spice as well. Using colorful...

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Garden Myths to Debunk as You Dig This Fall and Rest Over Winter

So much garden advice has become folklore, tales of experiences that haven&#8217;t been thoroughly tested but are taken as truth. A lot of the time these myths involve us humans overthinking and overgardening; sometimes the simplest...

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