Subject: The Latest on Remodeling Costs | Inspiring Backyard Retreats | Baths With Living Room Appeal
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 06:41:06 -0000

My Houzz: Handmade Coziness in a Potter&#8217;s New England Home and Studio

&#8220;It was a wreck,&#8221; says potter Lucy Fagella about the house she and partner Terri Kerner found 21 years ago. Despite its appearance, she knew it had potential. &#8220;I saw  through all the bad things to the bones of the house and...

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Houzz Survey: See the Latest Benchmarks on Remodeling Costs and More

If you&#8217;re about to embark on a remodel project, chances are you&#8217;ve already started asking yourself, How long will this take? And what should I spend my money on?

You&#8217;re not alone in considering a remodeling project. According...

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New This Week: 3 Bathrooms That Feel More Like Living Spaces

Sterile can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to bathrooms. Sure, you want the room to be sterile, but the last thing you want is its looking like a hospital lavatory. To ease the starkness that can come with tiled...

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We Can Dream: Nurturing Escapes for Penning a Poem

An occasional outdoorsy break is recommended for a healthy body and soul, and doesn&#8217;t have to mean braving hot or foul weather. Protected hideaways like these allow you to feeling connected to nature while remaining cozy...

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Shop Houzz: Celebrate Family With Your Home Decor

While it is love that truly makes a house a home, you can certainly decorate to cultivate and encourage a happy, healthy and peaceful abode.  Whether you display family photos, hang inspirational messages or introduce accents...

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Patio Details: Hamptons Patio Invites Visitors to Unwind

Architects Joseph Tanney and Robert Luntz of Resolution: 4 Architecture built this year-round retreat in Southampton, New York, for a couple and their four children as a playful and expansive contrast to life in New York...

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My Houzz: Peek Inside an Artist&#8217;s Updated Shotgun Home and Studio

This shotgun home in the Uptown section of New Orleans is the ultimate live-work-play environment. Artist Wayne Amedee and his late wife, Barbara, acquired their fixer-upper home in the &#8217;90s from Wayne&#8217;s brother, Kim Amedee,...

http://www.houzz.com/r/1/49426479/YjliNjU4/n1382/v1/nllc/g6/u/C8I6Ubh0vhveJKK5z4tfAg

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Bathroom Planning: Which Vanity Will Work for You?

It used to be that the bathtub &#8212; be it a Victorian roll-top or a fabulous plunge pool &#8212; was the star attraction of our bathrooms. But today the vanity, in all its different guises, is heading to the top of our wish lists...

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Hat Storage: Don&#8217;t Get Bent Out of Shape

A century ago, you wouldn&#8217;t have been caught in public without your hat. Whether it&#8217;s due to style or skin protection, hats seem to be making a comeback, and that brings up an age-old question: Where do you hang your hat?...

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Houzz Tour: Rustic and Modern Go Hand in Hand

Set amid rolling fields and green lanes, this new home on the site of an old telephone company building combines rustic craftsmanship with modern good looks. The owner, a writer for TV, asked architect Stephen Turvil for...

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Great Outdoor Living Ideas From the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show

There are many alluring garden destinations that comprise my horticultural bucket list. Last month I checked the Royal Horticultural Society&#8217;s Chelsea Flower Show off that list for the second time. (My husband sent me to...

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Kitchen of the Week: Good Flow for a Well-Detailed Chicago Kitchen

Newlyweds Chris and Amanda Dobrez were excited to create their first home together in a three-story Chicago gray stone located in the city&#8217;s Old Town neighborhood. Since the couple have a big extended family and love to entertain,...

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Room of the Day: Space and Stunning Views in a Luxe Scottish Bath

When your home contains more bedrooms than you need, it&#8217;s no hardship to sacrifice one for another purpose. That&#8217;s what happened in this imposing Victorian home in Perthshire, Scotland. &#8220;It&#8217;s a double-fronted house, and there...

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My Houzz: 1903 Victorian Displays Adventurous DIY Style

&#8220;I&#8217;m all about not going to the store and buying matching stuff,&#8221; says Jennifer Ryan, who uses a hunt-and-gather method to fill the Bellingham, Washington, Victorian she shares with husband Scott Hendrickson. Ryan, an interior...

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Yes, You Can Grow an Edible Garden on a Hot, Dry Site

Conventional wisdom about food gardens is to locate them in a sheltered position with deep, moist topsoil. But what if your only available gardening space is a windy, sun-baked hillside? There are still edible options for...

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Houzz Tour: An Elegant Studio Apartment Over the Garage

Once you see their daughter&#8217;s studio apartment, you might want this family to adopt you. To make the existing dark apartment over the garage suitable for the daughter to live in during her college years, interior designer...

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How to Decorate With Brown, Black &#8212; or Both

Brown and black are seemingly on two opposite sides of the neutral coin: Black can be considered bold or brash, while brown is sometimes seen as boring or beautiful, depending on who you ask. While you may never change your...

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Boxwood: Still Shape-Shifting After 350 Years

Boxwood, labeled the oldest garden ornamental by the American Boxwood Association, came to the U.S. in the mid-1600s, but it is hardly showing its age. The evergreen shrub has been called ubiquitous, traditional and formal...

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Houzz Tour: A Victorian Update Plays by the Rules

One of Melbourne&#8217;s oldest suburbs, East Melbourne, is rich in history, with many significant terrace houses, or row houses, from the Victorian period. This home is no exception, and this wonderful renovation brought some...

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Room of the Day: Family Memories Fill a Casually Elegant Parlor

This parlor room holds fond memories for its owner. I say &#8220;parlor room&#8221; because that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s been known as in this family for generations. It&#8217;s in the triple-decker house the owner&#8217;s grandmother lived in and where her...

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7 Ways to Use Drifts and Masses In Your Garden

Most gardeners, I think, want to bring a bit of the wilder natural world into their home landscapes. This doesn&#8217;t mean an unkempt look, but it does often mean imitating and interpreting the natural structure, form and layout...

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Shop Houzz: Decorating With America&#8217;s Top Dog

Year after year the golden retriever and the Labrador retriever have been voted the most popular dogs in America.  After all, who can resist their bright personalities and captivating charm? Bring their wagging tails into...

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How to Use Local Stone in Your Landscape Design

Local stone is a great material for creating a landscape design that&#8217;s timeless and durable. When thinking about landscape materials for garden design projects, consider local stone based on the shapes, sizes and colors available...

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A Fine Mess: How to Have a Clean-Enough Home Over Summer Break

I awoke at 1:00 the other morning to my niece Grace's soft voice informing me my daughter Eden was, as they say in the U.K., "being sick." And boy howdy, was she ever! 

My husband, Paul, and I have a team approach on these...

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Plant Your Hardscape for Unexpected Green

An exceptional garden employs the unexpected to tell its story. The ordinary is nowhere to be found.  The author of this kind of garden is attentive to every detail to create a one-of-a-kind experience.

By contrast, hardscape...

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