Subject: A Sun-Drenched White Christmas | What Landscape Architects Want You to Know | Kitchen of the Week
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:23:16 -0000

Houzz Tour: Eclectic Down-Home Style in Texas

Just because a family home is relaxed and comfortable doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t be chic and stylish. This Texas family wanted to make sure their new home had a fresh and eclectic feel and represented their personalities,...

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What a Landscape Architect Wants You to Know About What They Do

Landscape architects do many things. We design parks, plazas, green roofs, gardens, public art, fountains &#8230; and the list goes on. 
It is a broad and flexible field with professionals working across many sectors. Yet there...

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Kitchen of the Week: New Function, Flow &#8212; and Love &#8212; in Milwaukee

Katy Nast and son Andrew didn&#8217;t like being in their kitchen. The closed-off room cut them off from guests in the dining room, and Katy felt distanced from her son when he was doing his homework in another room. Plus, the...

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Have a Festive, Sun-Drenched White Christmas

Do you dream of having a white Christmas but live in a climate that&#8217;s too warm for snow? There&#8217;s no reason you can&#8217;t embrace your own style. The traditional red and green combination can look out of place when it&#8217;s...

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11 Ways to Have More Fun at Home

Building or renovating a house is serious business &#8212; as it should be. But once the important stuff is done, the bills are paid and the dust has settled, you can let the fun begin. It&#8217;s clear from Houzzers&#8217; comments...

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Houzz Call: How Do You Put Your Garage to Work for Your Home?

The garage is one of those vital supporting acts in a home. Its basic and original function is to protect your vehicle or vehicles from the weather. But the rise of attached garages in the mid-1950s meant that with a shorter,...

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A Fresh and Fun Hanukkah Dessert Table and Wrapping Station

Beginning December 16, friends and family will come together for eight days to celebrate Hanukkah. How about giving your celebrations a fresh spin this year with a dressed-up dessert table and gift wrapping table? Each table...

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Room of the Day: New Life for Historic Wallpaper Landscapes

Ann Clark had one reaction after seeing the walls in two rooms of the 200-year-old Providence, Rhode Island, mansion she had been hired to restore: &#8220;What are you going to do with that?&#8221; The wallpaper was a little overwhelming,...

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Houzz Tour: A Vintage Home Wrapped Up in a Box

Chris Maher and Charlotte Kennedy run their architecture and interior design practice, Studio 53, from home and, with three children all heading into their teens, decided to extend and renovate their newly purchased but run-down...

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Houzz Call: Share Your Personal Holiday Traditions

To some, the holiday season means decorated trees, twinkly lights and parties. For others, the holidays are a time for candles, contemplation and family meals. Whatever holidays you celebrate, chances are you have loads of...

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A Short History of the Sunburst Mirror

You can hardly flip a page in a design magazine without coming across one of these gilded creations &#8212; but today&#8217;s passion for sunburst mirrors is hardly new. With design roots in the Middle Ages and Versailles, the sunburst...

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Have a Blooming Winter: How to Force Amaryllis Bulbs Indoors

The art of tricking a bulb into flowering indoors is called forcing, though with the amaryllis bulb, "coaxing" may be a more fitting term.

Generally with most bulbs, once you force them to flower inside, their energy is...

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Simple Pleasures: Decorating Is Fun

Just like the title of famed decorator Dorothy Draper&#8217;s book, decorating is fun! Or at least, it can be, once you get beyond the practical matters (like covering those windows) and give yourself permission to follow your...

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6 Holiday Gifts From the Garden

If I won the lottery, I&#8217;d give all of my friends new sports cars for the holidays, but I&#8217;m not sure that would mean as much as making something from my garden with my own hands. It&#8217;s amazing what the garden can give...

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How to Prepare for and Live With a Power Outage

You probably know the ominous feeling: As a storm or hurricane sweeps through your community, you&#8217;re huddled safe at home or in a nearby shelter &#8230; and without warning, the lights all flicker and die. You&#8217;ve lost power,...

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Understand Your Site Plan for a Better Landscape Design

The site plan represents the overall design for a landscape and is the primary tool used by the landscape architect to lay out the space. Landscape architects are trained to create the design in plan view as one of the first...

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Houzz Tour: A French Ski Chalet&#8217;s Dark Sophistication

Sitting on the main street in Val d&#8217;Is&#232;re, France&#8217;s noted Alpine resort, this spacious chalet is an avid skier&#8217;s dream. But a well-situated location is not the only string in this home&#8217;s bow. Its elegant design uses...

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Great Design Plant: Cyrtomium Falcatum &#8216;Rochfordianum&#8217;

By late fall much of the woodland garden has gone to sleep until spring. Many ferns show only brown, lifeless remnants of their former seasonal glory, making the few evergreen fern species even more valuable this time of...

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You Said It: &#8216;Happy Is Such a Good Thing&#8217; and More Quotes of the Week

This week on Houzz, we continued our holiday preparations and looked toward some of the changes we&#8217;d like to make in the new year. Whether you&#8217;re planning an extensive renovation or a move, looking for a new wall color...

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Great Design Plant:  Low-Maintenance Calliandra Eriophylla

Pink fairy duster (Calliandra eriophylla) pairs the ability to thrive in the hot, dry deserts of the U.S. with delicate, puffy pink flowers. This medium-size shrub takes center stage in spring (and occasionally in fall),...

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Guest Picks: 25 Kids&#8217; Toys for $25 or Less

This time of year, those of us shopping for kids are surrounded by loud, garish, flimsy plastic and pricey toys. Luckily, there are alternatives that not only are clever, well made, creativity-inspiring and (mostly) educational,...

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