Fun With Lawn

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.
Sunlight on two sides of a room

The Must-Have Book For Home Renovators

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Thinking about renovating? A Pattern Language is the definitive renovator’s "bible."
Agapanthus "Streamline"

Use Outdoor Plants For Indoor Arrangements

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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.
Barbara Barry Bedding

Bed Making 101: Fold “Hotel Corners” Right

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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.
Pink Lemonade blueberry

Why You Need To Grow Blueberries Right Now

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Blueberry shrubs are easy to grow, attractive year round—and, of course, produce delicious berries. Here’s where to buy them for less.
Art stands 2- C. Hussey

Easy Make Stands For Your Little Art Works

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Designer Brendan Power explains how to make these classic tabletop art supports for small images from simple blocks of wood.
The Grove, David Hicks - Ron Rule

How To Make A Spectacular Pot Garden

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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.
Woman With Coloured Washcloth-iStock

All Washed Up: White Washcloths Are Over!

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Forget about the colour of your parachute. We ask, what colour is your washcloth? If it isn't black, it's wack!
Thermador Dishwasher Interior

When Dishwasher Soap Packets Are Overkill

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Premeasured dishwasher soaps are convenient but overkill just about everywhere—but particularly in places where the water is soft.
Labware - Clinton Hussey

Thinking Outside The Conventional Vase

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It’s not the flowers, it’s the containers that make these three arrangements pop.
Nood Bed and Bedding

Get Nood Now: They’re Closing In Canada

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With prices slashed in a closing sale, these New Objects Of Desire are flying out the door.
Deep Cleaning The Floor

How To Deep Down Clean Your House

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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.
Origami Boxes Cover Coloured LED String LIghts - Casey Phaisalakani

Make Easy Origami Cubes For String Lights

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Easy to make origami boxes add depth, elegance and fun to LED Christmas tree lights—or any other string lights for that matter!
Live Christmas Tree - Clinton Hussey

Find Eco Friendly Christmas Trees

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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

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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

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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.
Hedge, France - Ron Rule

Choosing A Hedge: Which One + Why

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With its amazing shape-shifting properties, hedging is one of the most versatile and cost-effective green materials you can use in a garden.
Anthropologie

The Look For Less: Anthropologie Home

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How to get an Anthropologie free-spirited, lived-in bohemian interior without the Anthropologie price.
Appliance Buyers Guide Wolf 36" Gas Range

Pro-Style Wolf Ranges At Super Low Prices

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Vancouver’s Dirty Apron Cooking School is selling its commercial-style ranges at an appetizingly low price.

Hunting For Ghost Chairs Repro Or Real

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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.
Undecorate Interior - Melanie Acevedo

It’s Time To Give Undecorating A Shot

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Today’s most fashionable interiors reflect the quirks and passions of the people who live in them. Welcome to the world of undecorating.
Distilled White Vinegar - C. Phaisalakani

Ordinary & Amazing: Vinegar Cleans Up Good

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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.
Terracotta Pots - Casey Phaisalakani

Clever Ways To Use Ordinary Flower Pots

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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

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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.