What A Small Patch Of Lawn Can Do For You
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A small patch of the green stuff may be just the sort of versatile ingredient your garden needs.
The Must-Have Book For Home Renovators
Thinking about renovating? A Pattern Language is the definitive renovator’s "bible."
Use Outdoor Plants For Indoor Arrangements
Cut flowers from the garden or corner store are a fine if conventional way to bring summer indoors, but bedding plants, plentiful everywhere just now, make equally attractive and more novel arrangements.
Bed Making 101: Fold “Hotel Corners” Right
Contemporary bed making requires a skill practiced by the military and hospital and hotel staff. Here's how to do it right the right way.
Why You Need To Grow Blueberries Right Now
Blueberry shrubs are easy to grow, attractive year round—and, of course, produce delicious berries. Here’s where to buy them for less.
Easy Make Stands For Your Little Art Works
Designer Brendan Power explains how to make these classic tabletop art supports for small images from simple blocks of wood.
How To Make A Spectacular Pot Garden
How the late, great British designer Sir David Hicks used Plain Jane planter boxes to create a spectacular pot garden at his home in England.
All Washed Up: White Washcloths Are Over!
Forget about the colour of your parachute. We ask, what colour is your washcloth? If it isn't black, it's wack!
When Dishwasher Soap Packets Are Overkill
Premeasured dishwasher soaps are convenient but overkill just about everywhere—but particularly in places where the water is soft.
Thinking Outside The Conventional Vase
It’s not the flowers, it’s the containers that make these three arrangements pop.
Get Nood Now: They’re Closing In Canada
With prices slashed in a closing sale, these New Objects Of Desire are flying out the door.
How To Deep Down Clean Your House
Have you ever noticed there are two kinds of house dirty? The first is surface dirty, which is what most of us deal with on a weekly basis. Then there is deep down dirty. We look at surefire ways to tackle the second kind.
Make Easy Origami Cubes For String Lights
Easy to make origami boxes add depth, elegance and fun to LED Christmas tree lights—or any other string lights for that matter!
Find Eco Friendly Christmas Trees
Here’s our 2011 guide to finding eco-friendliest Christmas trees in and around Metro Vancouver, including u-cut farms, Evergrow living trees, CarbonSunc and The Bees Knees Christmas Trees.
An Attractive Way To Cover Over Ugly Tiles
Pebble tiles interlocking tiling system is a renovation miracle. An attractive, idiot-proof product that can be installed directly over variety of surfaces including vinyl, granite and, apparently, old fireplace tile like mine.
Secrets Of The Stars: Luciano Guibbilei
The gardens of international superstar Luciano Guibbilei are filled with great ideas both for people who love to work in gardens and for people who just love to look at them.
Choosing A Hedge: Which One + Why
With its amazing shape-shifting properties, hedging is one of the most versatile and cost-effective green materials you can use in a garden.
The Look For Less: Anthropologie Home
How to get an Anthropologie free-spirited, lived-in bohemian interior without the Anthropologie price.
Pro-Style Wolf Ranges At Super Low Prices
Vancouver’s Dirty Apron Cooking School is selling its commercial-style ranges at an appetizingly low price.
Hunting For Ghost Chairs Repro Or Real
High or low, original or repro, there is more than one way to track down Philippe Starck’s Ghost, the iconic chair that isn’t there.
It’s Time To Give Undecorating A Shot
Today’s most fashionable interiors reflect the quirks and passions of the people who live in them. Welcome to the world of undecorating.
Ordinary & Amazing: Vinegar Cleans Up Good
When it comes to certain kinds of cleaning jobs, ordinary vinegar really is the liquid miracle it’s touted to be. Here are 3 shockingly awesome things vinegar can do for you.
Clever Ways To Use Ordinary Flower Pots
One way to create instant impact in the garden is to use the same ordinary element over and over again. In this case that element is the wide-rimmed dime-a-dozen terracotta pot.
Why Reupholster When A Nip And Tuck Will Do
Why do a reupholstery overhaul when you can renovate. A nip and a tuck was all it took to give a classic old, English country-style sofa a lift.