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Choosing Flowers with the Color Wheel

Whether you are planning a window box or a garden, knowing which colors of flowers go together and what their impact will be is an important planning step. You don’t want your flowers to clash, overpower or get washed out. And different colors can convey different moods and looks. Using the color wheel, as well as your own common sense can help you create a beautiful display. Before we get into the color wheel, let’s talk about the color white. White isn’t on the color wheel, since it is a neutral color and will compliment any others. You can use … Continue reading →

Choosing Flowers for Your Window Box

A window box can add a great deal of curb appeal to your home and create a beautiful foreground when you gaze out of the window. Window boxes can really transform a plain window. In fact, that is what window boxes have been doing for centuries. Although window boxes are easy to install, you can truly make yours stand out from the crowd and the curb if you just know a few tricks. Here they are. For a window box that has dimension instead of looking flat, build the flowers up using a combination of three different heights and shapes. … Continue reading →

Flower Arranging Tips

Whether you grow your own flowers or buy them from a florist, or even if you just pick up some pretty things on a nature walk, the beauty of flowers can be enhanced by an artful arrangement. But don’t worry, you won’t need a degree in floral design to create some professional looking displays. Just use the following tips to help you arrange your nature as a professional might. One really easy way to arrange your flowers with style is to recreate the shape that they take when they are growing outside in nature. For example, left a branch of … Continue reading →

Updating Your Family Portrait

When was the last time you updated your family portrait? It’s been nearly three years since my family sat down for a formal photo, which is why I figured this summer would be a great time for an update. We went, we sat, we smiled, and then I nearly fainted when I saw how much we owed the photographer for the session. Next time I plan to ask a shutterbug friend take our shots. It’s a good way to save money. What’s more, with a little practice just about anyone with an interest in photography can take stellar group shots. … Continue reading →

Dahlias

Dahlias have a special place in my heart as a flower because of the association I have with them when I was first dating my husband. He proudly showed me to the back of his property, a tiny yard that was literally a two-foot wide strip of dirt on the opposite end of the driveway the home shared with two other homes. Growing in that little spot of dirt was a single Dahlia. Even without my association, you can see that there is something nostalgic and romantic about Dahlias. They are colorful; they are flamboyant; they are heirlooms. From the … Continue reading →

Create A Gallery Space

Create a formal (or informal) gallery space to add elegance and fun to your home. It is easy to do! The first thing you need to to is to pick an area of your home for your gallery. A hallway way is an idea space, especially if it acts and an entry point into your home or into the main entertaining space. But if a hallway doesn’t work for you, consider any wall space, from a dining room to a family room. One home I saw had their gallery in their first floor half-bath, and it really livened up that … Continue reading →

Displaying a Collection

If you have several things that you would like to display around your home but don’t know where to begin? Accent pieces can really give a living space the final finish. Before you start arranging an rearranging your stuff until it looks good, why not take a look at a few guidelines? Find a spot to group your items. If they can’t be hung, look for a table or a chest to group them. This will give you more impact over scattering the objects around your home. Groups of objects generally look better when they are in odd numbers. Odd … Continue reading →

Tour the HGTV Dream Home

Want to know how the other half lives? Okay, so maybe it is really the other 2 percent. With HGTV’s Dream Home for 2008, you can not only dream of the perfect home, but dream big. That is because, along with taking a virtual tour this custom built, furnished and decorated home, you could be lucky enough to own it. I have been following the HGTV dream homes for a few years now. Every year I droll over these home and faithfully enter the contest for a chance to win. Of course, it is never me. I guess I could … Continue reading →

Home Week in Review: November 5 – 11

There are many different “rituals” families engage in throughout different seasons and occasions. For some of us, that first gust of chill wind in the fall brings on the nesting instinct. Mary Ann shared this with us in her Baking Day and Reaching Out to Nature articles. Don’t forget to check out the Home Blog archives for past autumn articles as well to see how other writers feed the need to nest. Or, check out past tips for preparing for the holidays and colder weather. I had to share my favorite ways to welcome cool weather too, and I’d like … Continue reading →

Snapping Keepers Of Your Kids

Taking pictures of your kids is one thing… finding ones that are worth keeping is an entirely different story… at least in my home. I’ve taken thousands of pictures of my daughter. I’m not kidding—thousands. Of those, I’d estimate only about half are worth showing off. To say photographing children can be a challenge is an understatement. Because I shoot with a traditional film camera I don’t even bother getting it out if my child is not well fed and rested. It simply isn’t worth it. Young children are unpredictable. When they aren’t flashing bunny ears behind their siblings’ heads … Continue reading →