14 Backyard Outdoor Kitchen Ideas Perfect for Entertaining There is a version of outdoor cooking that happens on a portable barbecue beside the back door, with the host shuttling between the kitchen inside and the garden outside, managing two cooking environments simultaneously, missing most of the conversation, and arriving at the table slightly stressed and…
14 Bedroom Plants to Improve Health and Wellness and Help You Sleep Better There is a specific quality that a bedroom with living plants possesses that a bedroom without them consistently lacks. It is not simply a visual quality — the green of a trailing pothos against a white wall, the architectural silhouette of a…
15 Backyard Fence Landscaping Ideas for Style and Privacy There is a specific quality that the boundary of a well-designed garden possesses that the boundary of a standard garden consistently fails to achieve. It is the quality of a wall that becomes a garden — the fence that grows things, the boundary that contributes colour…
15 Foyer Decorating Ideas for Welcoming Entryways Most homeowners spend their decorating energy on the rooms guests actually sit in — the living room sofa, the dining table, the kitchen backsplash — and treat the foyer as whatever space is left between the front door and the rest of the house. A console table inherited…
15 Small Farmhouse Bathroom Ideas That Blend Vintage Appeal With Contemporary Comfort There is a specific quality that the farmhouse bathroom achieves in a small space that the grand bathroom cannot replicate in a large one. It is the quality of a room that was designed for the specific pleasures of washing rather than for…
15 Pumpkin Decorating Ideas Beyond the Front Porch There is more to the pumpkin than the front step. The carved jack-o’-lantern by the door, the cluster of orange and white on the porch — these are the pumpkin’s most public and most familiar appearances, and they are fine for what they are. But the pumpkin…
13 Tub and Shower Combo Ideas There is a specific design challenge that the small bathroom presents that no other room in the house quite replicates. The requirement to provide a bathing and showering facility — two activities with different spatial, plumbing, and atmospheric requirements — within a floor area that challenges the comfortable provision…
13 Pumpkin and Apple Themed Kitchen Styling Ideas There is a reason pumpkin and apple appear together so consistently in the autumn kitchen, and it is not simply that they are both in season at the same time. They share a quality of warmth and roundness, a shared colour family that runs from deep orange…
15 Outdoor Planter Ideas to Elevate Your Garden, Patio, and Entryway There is a specific quality that a well-chosen outdoor planter brings to a space that the same plant in the ground never quite achieves. Not better growth — the ground almost always provides better growth — but better composition. The planter positions the plant…
15 Backyard Pool Ideas That Feel Like a Private Resort There is a specific quality that the best resort pools possess that most backyard pools consistently fail to achieve — not a quality of size or of water temperature or of any measurable specification, but the quality of an environment that was designed for the…
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