Are you thinking about remodeling your drab kitchen? Be warned: Remodeling projects will not always fill your pockets with cash when your home sells. In fact, you might not recoup the entire cost of the project.
A farmers market is a way people can purchase fresh produce and other
products from local farmers and food vendors. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, about 7,175 farmers markets operate in the country. This type of market allows consumers to connect directly with locally grown food and the farmers who produce that food.
Seeding and sodding both have their merits and limitations. Below, find out what you need to know about selecting the right method of turf establishment.
You may have heard the acronym CSA before, but if you’re like many people, you may not be certain what it is. Over the past two decades, community supported agriculture has gained in popularity — and for good reason. Find out all about CSAs and how you can sign up for this way to buy local, fresh, heirloom, unusual and seasonal produce.
Time to liven up the hearth with new hues. Check out some of our favorite pairings.
In Japan, gardening is more than plants and their care; it's a philosophy. Each element of the garden represents an ideal, a physical representation of a spiritual pursuit.
A graceful waterfall splashes into a cool pond stocked with silver and orange koi. Stone lanterns light a winding path to a charming teahouse through a fantasy forest of trees trimmed to resemble puffy clouds, mimicking their bonsai brethren.
Q: We still haven't decided on our countertops yet since that step is over a year away. Is there a sink you can recommend that will work with any countertop that we may pick out? This information will be very helpful. -- Jane, Rhode Island
Decades ago, while designing home sites for orchard farmers in California's Sacramento Valley, I came upon one grove of heirloom white-flesh peaches.
Are you guilty of falling short of a true spring clean? The tendency this time of year is to focus on physical clutter, but the kind you can't see -- emotional clutter -- is just as important to tackle. By emotional clutter we mean all those repressed, suppressed and unexpressed emotions and old beliefs that are keeping you stuck, rooted in a spot that probably no longer represents who you are or what you are capable of.
Many find it hard to select the right combination of colors for their home. A good place to start the selection is to look at the values of the colors Mother Nature gives us. After all, she is great with color.
Like humans, plants have to cope not only with the heat but also with energy-sapping humidity, wind and drought. They grow more slowly, their leaves fade, wind batters them and, in areas of high humidity, they're prone to insects and disease. High nighttime temperatures don't let plants recover from heat stress.
The concept of cool roofs is thrown around a lot these days. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested that painting roofs white, along with making paving more reflective, would reduce global warming as much as taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years. Yes, he was being hyperbolic, but he does have a point. Dark roofs absorb the sun's heat, and in hot climates, a lighter colored roof can cut down on the amount of air conditioning needed.
At our garden center, customers often ask why we can’t simply use common names for the plants we sell — those scientific botanical names seem so complicated to pronounce and remember!
Hui Anne and Stephen's basement is a multifunctional space that does triple duty as office, TV room and playroom. Their family room is spacious, but it had way too much going on, and none of it was working. When you walked in, you just didn't know where to look -- there were distractions everywhere. The room had become a repository for old, mismatched furniture and storage boxes. But the space had huge potential, and I focused on creating a stylish yet hardworking room, perfect for this young family.
Q: I have a home from the early 1970s, and over the years the garage floor has settled about 2 inches. I can still use the garage, but the stairs to the house have also settled. I cut pieces of plywood to cover the steps to raise them back to what they used to be. I'm now trying to sell my home, and a contractor friend told me the stairs might be a problem because they're uneven. Are there any rules covering a home this old? How can I fix the problem?
One of my favorite furniture-makers, CR Laine, has started coloring outside the lines when designing upholstered chairs, ignoring the old adage that you shouldn't upholster small pieces of furniture in large patterns.
Mother’s Day is Sunday! What to get Mom? How about a nifty telescope? It may not replace flowers, but for some it might be just the thing. The writer’s mom (Elsa Garratt Becker) would have liked that. She always had a curiosity about the natural world and skies above - and one time had an unforgettable time visiting an amateur astronomer’s home-built observatory in Maine back in the 1930s - but she never owned her own telescope.
High Point, N.C., is the market where the world's best designers launch their new looks and lines, so it's the mecca for trend-spotting. Here are my top five favorites for the season.
We recently bought a house with an outdoor shower stall. The problem is that the showerhead is an old beat-up fixture and we want to replace it. What do you recommend for an outdoor showerhead, and how should we take care of the plumbing lines and the new showerhead for the winter months? -- Diane, Ohio.
