Home is where the heart is.
In the event that you're falling behind in your mortgage payments and you worry that you might lose your home to foreclosure, and you do have a choice: You may attempt to sell your home before your creditor begins foreclosure proceedings. Because you need to sell your home fast for this to happen, you might…
Home automation today is expensive and complex, and will be composed of proprietary alternatives which have to be set up by experts. Very quickly, however, that model is being replaced with something else entirely. A wide selection of low-cost, easy-to-install home-automation devices has arrived out there in the previous couple of years. These typically do…
Two of the more traditional joinery methods — mortise and tenon, and dowels — require a good deal of ability, expertise, time and tools. With pocket hole joinery, you just cut boards to size, drill a couple holes and put them together. Pocket hole joinery resembles toe nailing, which explains how wall studs are joined…
Intent on maintaining the original design of their 20th-century row house, this Washington, D.C, bunch forfeited a more modern kitchen design for convention’s sake. Rather than open the kitchen to the adjoining dining area, they maintained the galley-style kitchen and eat-in booth in the back of the house and replaced with the cabinetry, finishes and…
Though we might forget where we have left the car keys if our best friend’s birthday is our bodies have not forgotten the sorts of places our ancestors enjoyed in the beginning of our species’ existence on the savannah. All these place-based memories are readily available to us now as we look our homes. As…
Hanging baskets have been a characteristic of British gardens for generations. Usually planted with an array of summer-flowering annuals and half-hardy perennials, they set that additional something into even a small garden. Traditional hanging baskets were bowl shaped, but we now locate them in a variety shapes and materials, woven from such obscure materials as…
The trend: It’s an oldie but a goodie. Vintage boat wheels in addition to those created just for decorating purposes add nautical style to coastal and coastal-style houses. The problem: The style is very good for getting a nautical look, but as soon as you add a boat wheel, you might not know when to…
In the earliest times, humans have often chosen to reside in structures above the ground — whether ihigh above in trees, from cliff-face caves, in rock towers or on stilts above the water. Back then the decisions were made for practical reasons: convenience, economy, isolation and protection from floods, marauding armies or wild animals. As…
If you call it pops, coriander or Chinese parsley, cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) elicits a strong reaction. People love it. A sizable minority can not stand that, frequently calling the flavor “soapy,” which scientists now believe is a hereditary response. Either way, it is an essential herb for many favourite dishes, especially those from Asian and…
I have been looking at trends (such as classic typewriters and suitcases) that were sweeping design blogs once I began at many years before, calculating their tipping points and how designers’re freshening them up after their ubiquity. Globe collections also have hit their peak, but are they over? The fad: Collectors really like to group…