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Come With Me To The Casbah!
A ripe persimmon is a thing of beauty – sweet, succulent and an amazing shade of orange-red. Orange and red continue to be popular colors in decorating this year but 2004’s shades are softer and more vibrant, like ripe persimmons and pomegranates.
Carpet Takes Center Stage
NC—From soft, layered intricate vine and floral designs to multi-levelled patchwork weaves to tailored ribs, geometric loops and lattices to nubby, terry-like twists, there are more than 200 styles and 4,000 colours of wall-to-wall carpet on the market today. "The unique and innovative patterns, textures, and colours that are available today, resulting from the latest fibre and manufacturing technologies, offer endless home styling options and are taking the spotlight at every floor show", says Leslie Beaumont, from Beaulieu Canada, Canadas largest carpet manufacturer.
Maximizing Your Living Space
Look to contemporary modern décor to maximize space. TORLYS Uniclic® Cork flooring, with its sensuous texture, can warm up a modern interior, preventing it from looking stark.
Corks Coziness Makes It Ideal Flooring
In kids bedrooms, and family, music and rec rooms, Cork feels cozy to the toes.
Adding Texture To Your Floors Adds Texture To Room
Texture is key in flooring as well. The Perspective 4 plank line of floors features bevelled edges along both the width and the length of planks.
Use Shelves And Storage Units To Conquer All That Stuff!
NC—Stuff! Stuff! Stuff everywhere! The clutter starts to overwhelm. However, life can by simplified and clutter tamed with a few organizational hints and a good shelving or storage system.
Essential Tools For Home Improvement
NC—While the home may be a familys castle and an escape from todays hectic world, its probably not perfect. Decorating styles change. There are pictures to hang and shelves to install. Things break. Its too pressing to ignore, but too minor to engage a professional. The question becomes one of where to begin.
Year-Round Tree House: Attic Renovations Create Fun Space For Play
NC—Tree houses are great in theory but pose a number of safety issues and arent ideally suited to cold weather play," says David Flood, Insulation Expert, Owens Corning. "If you have an attic with adequate headroom, a clever alternative is to create a year-round fun space for children in the upper reaches of your home. With a few renovations – and some clean-up – you can transform the attic into a playroom."
Home Audit: Ensure Optimal Insulation Levels For Maximum Energy Savings
NC—"Improving your homes insulating system is a speedy and cost-effective way to increase energy-efficiency and comfort in your home, reducing heating costs in winter and cooling costs in summer," says John Peterson, Insulation Expert, Owens Corning.
So Youve Decided to Finish Your Basement!
When a family decides to finish a basement space, there are so many factors to consider it can seem overwhelming. What does your family want to achieve within the new basement Are you looking for a play area, a family room, a work-out room, home theatre, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, wet bar, etc Do you have the square footage required to accomplish what you want How do you get started and how long will it take How much will it cost and is it worth the money What if there is a huge beam in the center of you basement Do you have to have a building permit Do you have to remove the items you currently have stored in your basement
Set Out a Feast for your Feathered Friends
February is “Feed the Birds” month in much of North America. And what great timing! If you’re going through a cold winter, you can help the wintering birds that are going through it with you. If you live further south, you’ll have not only year-round feathered friends to feed, but also an influx of migrating visitors from colder climates.
Finding a Color Scheme - Decorating with What you Have
If you feel helpless when it comes to picking and blending colors, your answer could be as far away as your nearest pillow. Check out this quick way to create a color scheme for your home with our PICK - SEE -LMD method.
Maximizing Space on a Minimized Budget
Do you often have friends, family, or guests over for the weekends and are in desperate need of a spare bedroom Are you going nuts trying to figure out how to turn that extra bedroom that’s never used into an office, yet still wondering how to board guests over the weekend Or maybe you are running out of storage space and closets are now turning into no-mans-land
Bathrooms That Make You Go Ahhh
New luxury and convenience items provide for the perfect home retreat
Seeding Flowers Indoors: An Inexpensive Way to a Beautiful Summer Garden
Every year you plan that THIS will be the year you have pots and pots of lush plants on your balcony or deck. Then you visit your local nursery in the spring and reality hits -– the cost for your fantasy is just outrageous! Sound familiar
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