House Design

Have you got cupboards that are stuffed with your things which you hardly use? Are moulds destroying your cupboard and the things in it? Here are a few tips with which you can keep your cupboard mould free-

1. Keep your cupboard in a bright and sunny place. Make sure that the room in which it is placed has ample exposure to sunshine and fresh air. Moulds love moist and damp places.

2. Open your cupboard and let the air circulate in and out. Keep your cupboard open for very hours at the interval of a few days instead of always keeping it under lock.

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The difference between completing a home improvement project with pride or ending up in an emergency room with a severed hand can be the variance of a single millimeter and a half-second of time. Motorized saws cut extremely well, and most don’t distinguish sheet metal from a forearm. Nail guns shoot right where they’re aimed, whether it’s at a stud or a homeowner’s cheek. If you regard yourself beyond the need for silly eye protection goggles, be sure to pay your health care premiums.

Forbes Magazine estimates that there are 400,000 workshop casualties every year that end up in visits to the emergency room. Common

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and this year, you should aim to create a memorable experience for your friends and family, and while you’re at it – make some sustainable choices! What could be a better idea around the time of giving thanks, than appreciating the planet that we live on!

You can start by retiring all those plastic decorations that you got from your grandmother. Most of them are made from petroleum-based plastics, and you don’t want any of that near your food! If yo

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This Notting Hill townhouse remodel by London-based Found Associates (Remodelista A+D Directory members) involved stripping the houses interior back to a mere shell and lowering the basement floor (at one point, the architects say, one could stand in the mud at the bottom of the house and look straight up to the roof). The owner of the house happens to be Jamie Theakston, a UK media personality described by the London Times as an “aspiring interiorista”; working closely with Found, Theakston created warm, personality-filled interiors outfitted mostly with midcentury finds from eBay.

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This Willow Glen home is lovely and sophisticated, with French-inspired crisp linen neutrals throughout the downstairs living spaces. But it was the bedrooms upstairs that I loved the most, from the elegant master suite to the charming and whimsical girls’ bedrooms — one in pink and one in orange.

With help from Steve Gilbert of Willow Glen Home and Garden, the homeowners, Virginia and Brett Nicoletti, have created the kind of rooms you want to live in. They graciously opened their home to the 2011 Willow Glen Lifestyles home tour.

The front bedroom with the orange palette was one of my favorites. Don’t

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