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Remodeling Tips
Create a backyard refuge of your own with inspiration from these favorite outbuilding havens. Each built a structure to serve as a serene getaway, mere steps away from the back door. Include an inspiring art studio, a bird-watching and dining den, a comfy clubhouse with a swinging daybed, and much more! What's your favorite?!
Drapery panels make it easy to control the amount of sun on your porch. Sunbrella designs these sleek fabric additions that make a stylish statement on any porch.
Get inspired by these porches with inviting focal points and picture-perfect design features.
The most common type of bedroom closet is the wall closet, also called a reach-in. When you open the closet door or doors, the whole closet is accessible. Since the opening needs to be wide, there are several variations in doors. Sliders are common, as are bifold doors. You can also have a double door (two doors open outward into the room) as shown.
Do you cringe every time you open your closet door? It may be time for a makeover! Most of us have them and appreciate them, but many of us would rather that our closets … stay in the closet. But there is hope for disorganized, messy spaces. From premade closet organizing systems to custom configurations, there’s a solution that can work for you.
Finished in a weekend or less, these fun, easy projects will help transform your backyard into a personal oasis.
Bring your home and your life outdoors by creating little living rooms on porches and patios. Arrange seating as you would in a family room to encourage gathering for good conversation and relaxation. Use comfortable cushions and pillows covered in outdoor fabric liberally, and your outdoor spaces will become the most popular rooms in, and outside, the house.
Need a place to sit and dine outside, install a circular flagstone patio near the back kitchen door. To size it right, plan for a 42-inch table and four seats, with room to pull out the chairs and walk comfortably around them. Surround it with a lush perennial garden that extend all the way to the boundary fence.
Inside Out
A glass-wall system seamlessly merges interior and exterior spaces, allowing the homeowners to enjoy both environments simultaneously.
Every sink style has its trade-offs. Go for the one that best suits your needs.
Pedestal Sink This slim silhouette is a favorite in diminutive powder rooms and small-scale baths, but offers zero hidden storage and negligible deck space.
There are no hard-and-fast rules about how high to hang towel bars and robe hooks. Designers use the dimensions above as a starting point. Decide where to put things early on so that you can add extra blocking where needed before finishing the walls. If you can, mark potential spots with painter's tape first, then adjust for comfort.
Reds and oranges set against a purple background give this room a Moroccan feel.
Deep Sunset 10053A, by Valspar
The quality and brightness of the light just don't compare with those of incandescent bulbs, so you're less likely to put CFLs in your most heavily used fixtures, where the savings would add up most. LED bulbs, on the other hand, don't require any compromise. So whenever a bulb blows in a high-use location, resolve to spring for an LED replacement (about $10 for a good one) that could pay for itself within a year.
The payoff: By the time you've replaced twenty 75-watt incandescents, you'll have reduced your annual electricity bill by at least $325.
These solid wood furniture items are reminiscent of chess pieces, showing a creative interpretation of modern stools. The round geometric forms and simplicity of unfinished wood add a beautiful look to the seats, improving their functionality and allowing to add natural accents to interior decorating.
These stools come in various shapes that create a chess set of fabulous pieces. Designed by Giorgio Bonaguro, these unique furniture pieces reinvent stools, adding a storage spaces for magazines.
The Alfiere stool features an attractive form, interrupted by a large diagonal cut in solid wood piece which acts as a magazine rack. The Regina stool looks elegant, and the Pedone stool brings a simple round shaped into interior decorating.
