New Garage in your future? Customised Steel Garages – All you Need to Know

customizing garage
If you are thinking of investing in a new garage, this article was written with you in mind. The main use for a domestic garage might be a safe and secure place to store the car(s), but there’s so much more you can use a steel structure for. It could, for example, be used as a workshop, or even...

The Best Ornamental Plants for Your Texas Garden

Gardening for hot climates
If you have free space in front of your house, you may want to consider converting it to a garden. That way, your home gets to appear well decorated and well taken care of. The garden also helps in making you feel better, as plants and all other elements of nature tend to have this unique capacity to help...

Valentine gifts for your sweetheart that will also make your home beautiful

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Whether you love Valentine's day or hate it, there comes a time in everyone's life where you're in a relationship where a gift is expected. On a new note, instead of gifting usual flowers and chocolates, go for something that they might use or has a witty side to make your partner smile. While for girls there are a plethora...

7 Ways to Keep Your Kitchen Child-Friendly

child safe kitchen
There are so many dangers in the kitchen that can lead to occurrence of accidents. Since the major role of any sweet mom is to protect their kids, the first and major steps is ensuring that you kitchen is child- friendly. The following are thus some of the tips and tricks to ensure that your kitchen is safer for...

5 Electrical Safety Advice for Kids and Parents

well lit room
Electricity is considered as an integral part of our everyday life but it can also be dangerous for us and our kids if we are not careful while handling the electrical system in a proper manner. Failure to follow safety measures while dealing with electrical equipment’s, appliances and electrical wiring can cause fire, accidents, wounds and other unavoidable circumstances. Therefore...

Home Grown Gardening Guide – Keeping Things Green in 2019

lush garden ideas
Creating and maintaining a functional garden around your home is a rewarding experience. With the right information and gardening tools from Fiskars USA you can design a garden that fills your specific needs. Do you have a bit of a green thumb? Plants that require lots of pruning, staking or other attentions are ideal. An amatuer scientist? Some plants...

When you need to replace glass windows

replacement glass windows
Having glass windows in modern houses is a common trend. The popularity of the glass windows is accompanied by many reasons including the ease of leaning. However, there is also the risk of the glass breaking requiring maintenance or complete replacement. In homes that have children, it could be risky if the glass used for window installation is of...

Nora Murphy’s Country House Style

Country House Style
Nora Murphy's Country House Style: Making Your Home a Country House 2018 was a great year for books. And publisher Vendome really hit it out of the park with a lot of great books. One of my favorites is by Nora Murphy, Nora Murphy's Country House, Making Your Home a Country House.  Let's be honest, almost everyone loves a country...

A post home renovation MUST HAVE

Blue Air sense
As some of you might remember, hubby and I remodeled our home while I was pregnant with our first son, Leo (now 3 1/2!!).  I was staying with my parents while my husband ripped up lots of old flooring and installed new. The project just kept snowballing to a point where I thought we would need some sort of...

My New Favorite Book: The Gardens of Bunny Mellon

The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
Need a little sunshine?  The dreary winter always leaves me craving some eye candy in the form of gardens, luscious green gardens.  That's why The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, published by Vendome, is one of my favorite books of 2018.  My reason needs little explanation - just take a look below: Her gardens of Virginia are my absolute favorite. My dream...