This Home Is Ready For The Summer Season

This lovely home has a sunporch that is ever so pleasing from the front.

It is all set for the coming summer season too.

The back is beautiful with a nice alternative to an inground pool. Every day is a spa day here.




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Conservatories And Garden Rooms

Garden Rooms
"A SLIDESHOW FEATURING ELEGANT CONSERVATORIES, ATRIUMS AND SUNROOMS—AREAS IN THE HOUSE THAT CELEBRATE THE IMMEDIATE PRESENCE OF NATURE."

Images: Architectural Digest




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Vintage Kitchen Painting By Janet Hill

If you can't have a vintage kitchen, you can at least have a delightful painting by janet hill.




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Puppy Tweets Collar for Social Networking Dogs

Mattel's Puppy Tweets Collar
Do you think I should get one of these for Webster? Who is going to set up his Twitter account? If I do it for him, he will probably want a Web Cam too.




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Life's Little Instruction Book | Volume II | Page 11

I never tire of reading the great advice given by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.




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I'm Choosing A Canopy Bed Tonight. Goodnight

I know I'll sleep well tonight in this beautiful canopy bed. Goodnight. See you in the morning. It makes me sleepy just looking at the photo. zzzzzz I love Monday night TV. It's almost time for The Antiques Roadshow. I hope I can stay awake to watch all my shows. Primetime here I come.




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Skagit Valley Tulip Fields, Washington State

Now those red tulips are just plain gorgeous, aren't they?
Skagit Valley Tulip Fields in Early Morning, Washington




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Sophisticated Log Cabin

Backwoods Design ~ Slideshow
A look at Butch Anthony’s home, part of an 80-acre compound in the Alabama woods, and his “micro” folk-art festival.

Images: The New York Times




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Buy or Make Your Own Seed-Bombs

Available from Anthropologie. See how the ones above are made here.

If you want to get down and dirty and make your own, watch this slideshow from The Los Angeles Times showing the step-by-step process of making seed bombs that gardeners-on-the-go can drop into the soil of barren, forlorn spots. I think these are so wonderful. You can be the Johnny Appleseed of wildflowers by throwing these around to beautify the urban landscape. I think I'll throw some around places where I never mow here at the cottage and see what happens.

Here is another pictorial tutorial from Instructables.




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Tiny Garage Converted To Home For $32,000

I love stories about converting spaces into tiny homes. This article that appeared recently in The New York Times tells about a garage that was converted into a 250 square foot home in Seattle for $32,000. View Slideshow and read Full article. I've always wondered how I'd fare in small quarters. My cottage isn't that big and I struggle all the time keeping things neat. It would be a lot easier if I ditched half my stuff but I'm not ready. This lady was. Interesting, isn't it? Could you live happily ever after in smallness?




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