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A Home Office In Your Kitchen

Do you have a home office? Some people have a den/office set aside for the entire family to use. While others have “offices” set up throughout their home. My brother’s monopolization of his home office drove my sister-in-law to create her own “office” off the kitchen. Frankly, I love the concept of having a workspace so close to the heart of the home. No matter how large your living space, the kitchen inevitably becomes the central gathering space for friends and family. In our last home our den was a make-shift storage area so I used the kitchen table as … Continue reading →

Home Decorating Tips: Walls

In a previous blog I wrote about my tour of our local Builders Association’s Parade of Homes. I walked away with a several decorating ideas—some that I would seriously consider applying to my own home—others, well; let’s just say I would have a hard time duplicating. The following are some trends and ideas I learned and thought I would pass along to you. If you decide to apply any to your own home, please feel free to let me know how it turned out. In my last blog I wrote that the Home Builders Association’s spokesperson I spoke to insisted … Continue reading →

Green Tips For Your Home Business

When you make the switch from working outside of the home to working from home, you do something wonderful for the environment by cutting out your daily commute to and from work. Even if you were not driving a very long way to go to work, cutting out that vehicle trip five days each week does reduce your effect on the environment. Now that you work from home, you may be spending a lot more time at your house than you did before. This is a great opportunity to take some time to learn a few new habits that can … Continue reading →

Equipping the Modern Family Room

Do you have a family room in your home? At one time, this might have been called the den, and that brings all sorts of images of a dark small place filled with wood panel walls and shag carpeting. But today’s family rooms can be bright and airy. They can feature an electronic bonanza of modern media and be called media rooms, or they can be open to the kitchen and be called great rooms. Many are multifunctional rooms, where television watching, reading, game playing and computer time takes place. Whatever the case, the family room is an ideal place … Continue reading →

Three Global Designs for Baths

International design is becoming domestic style with the clean simple lines, the classic features and the new to us innovations that have been around in other countries for quite some time. Let’s take some bathroom ideas from three well-proven styles and adapt them to our modern sensibility for beautiful, functional and innovative bathrooms. Middle Eastern Flair A bathroom that adapts the flair of the middle east is full of interesting texture and design, from exotic tile patterns that echo the ancient past to bright and vibrant oranges, blues and reds that spice up a space. A focus on seating areas … Continue reading →

Regal Sun Resort (Formerly the Grosvenor Resort)

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The Regal Sun Resort was previously known as the Grosvenor Resort. After a $25 million renovation, little of the Grosvenor is left to be found here. Although the Grosvenor was a lovely resort, the Regan Sun is even better. All 626 guest rooms and suites have beautiful, brand new furnishings, carpeting and artwork as well as the latest technology to make you as comfortable as possible. Each guest room has either two double beds or one king-sized bed and all have a spectacular view of the city, the pool or the courtyard. Accommodations at this newly renovated hotel include: Pillow-topped … Continue reading →

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

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This is by far my favorite of all the Disney resorts. The Grand Floridian was inspired by the turn-of-the-century Victorian resorts of the Florida coast. It is complete with verandas, latticework, dormers, and turrets and will easily transport you back to a time when everything about vacationing was elegant. The five-story main building houses the Grand Lobby which is decorated in perfect Victorian furnishings. There is an open-cage elevator and the ceiling is decorated with stained-glass domes and glittering chandeliers. Outside is the Seven Seas Lagoon and a white sandy beach. If the lobby doesn’t transport you, the 900 guest … Continue reading →

Home Care Extras

Bedspreads and quilts and pillows—oh my! My young daughter enjoys pulling all of the aforementioned items off of our beds and creating what she calls “Pillow Mountain.” The puffy monstrosity usually sits at the end of the hallway—the perfect spot for her to hurl her body into after running at maximum speed down the strip of carpet. The point of this blog is not to give you tips of how to create the perfect pillow mountain (I’ll save that for another blog). Rather, I wanted to provide some care tips on a few home items, including bedspreads, quilts and pillows. … Continue reading →

Who Knew Shag Carpet Would Make A Comeback?

If you have pets or kids (or both) then your flooring likely takes a daily beating. I know this for a fact. Despite the fact we have a no-shoes policy in our home, our 2.5-year-old carpet is already riddled with Play-Doh scars, matchbox car tracks, and the occasional Sharpie stain (don’t ask). This, of course, is very disconcerting for me since I recently learned that savvy homeowners are treating their floors as a fifth wall. According to interior designers, floors have become a huge element in design and in the resale of a home. In fact, in 2005, more than … Continue reading →

Tips For Picking Paint

I’m a real chicken when it comes to picking a specific paint color. Yes, I realize that if I don’t like the end result I can always paint over it. But, I dread the thought of expending so much time, energy, and money to paint a room only to dislike the end product. According to the experts I have consulted (in a previous blog I shared my goal for 2007—-update several rooms via new paint), most consumers are much more color confident and much more open to experiment with color, especially on the exterior of their homes. Of course this … Continue reading →