With cheer-bringing blossoms on bare stems from the dead of the winter, the flowering quince is an ancient Chinese symbol of an auspicious New Year. At least as cheering to me would be visiting a Big 10 soccer team lose the Rose Bowl into a California group (go Stanford), and I will think of other […]
As an expert interior photographer for magazines and books, I have learned a couple of straightforward suggestions which may make a big impact in assisting you to take better photos of your home’s inside or design project. Little things like having a tripod, shooting from straight on and averting wide-angle lenses may take you a […]
Good friends Charlene Miller and Merry Munk enjoy sharing and showing off their salvage style on their fundamental Ohio porches. These two could often be found scouring flea markets, auctions and garage sales in search of their next paintings. Their finds eventually succumb to the intense Midwestern weather, however the resulting patina a part of […]
Architect Tony Round admits that there is nothing romantic about a home renovation, especially if you’re an architect. “I revived with my spouse, who is alsoan architect — you could say that that was one of the biggest challenges that we faced,” says Round with a laugh. He and his wife, Andrea Kordos, worked on […]
November from the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. is a time to wrap up gardening for a while, finish those up lingering to-dos and start enjoying hot fires and seed catalogs indoors. It’s also time to start thinking ahead and prepping for next year. Chores that are not completed this month might need to wait […]
You do not often see café curtains in interiors these days, but they used to be anywhere — or at least that is how it seemed when I was a child. Luckily, they appear to be inching back to the radar. Recently I’ve spotted café curtains in the most unlikely settings, from an industrial loft […]
I am a teacher, and college always starts in August — way too premature. From the Central Plains, that usually means you’ve got about a month of perspiration on your casual dress outfits and being totally confused about what season it is, particularly when your pupils are wearing sunglasses and shorts. But this seasonal double […]
Thanks to Brad Pitt’s star power and Frank Gehry’s belief in Pitt’s Make It Proper foundation, Louisiana now houses one of only 22 Gehry residences in the United States. Building of this Gehry duplex has been finished late last week at New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. […]
Guerilla gardener Steve Wheen would like to put a grin on your face, and he is starting in the most unlikely places — potholes varying from a 5-inch sliver on the pavement to cracks that may be seen from a professional window that’s 10 stories up. “The connection between pothole gardening and pleasure is simple: […]
Sure, we’re called the “water world,” but remarkably little of the grim stuff — less than 1 percent — is available to us as potential drinking water. The rest is tied up in saltwater, ice caps and other less-accessible sources. That scarcity is not clear to the majority of us in the planet, where water […]