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My Houzz: Winging It in a Scottish Castle

In 2000 Nicola Hallsworth moved from England to Scotland, where her husband, Fred, had bought a house in the suburbs of Glasgow. Being a country girl at heart, Nicola wasn’t keen on life in the suburbs and longed to move...

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8 Ways to Get a Handle on the Junk Drawer

Junk drawers get a bad rap, and while it is (mostly) well deserved, there is a way to get that beast sorted and organized once and for all. From creating categories to making smart choices about what goes in and what stays...

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Houzz Tour: An Eclectic Ranch Revival in Washington, D.C.

David Benton and Dennis Kirk’s 1957 ranch home sits at the end of a quiet street in the Palisades neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Its simple exterior and familiar profile recall iconic American architecture, though humbler...

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Budget Decorator: 12 Ways to Perk Up Your Home for Fall

With the crisp fall air comes a natural desire to cozy up at home with warm drinks, fluffy throws and the glow of candlelight. It’s also a time of year when you might want to entertain more. By making a few smart purchases...

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Want a More Colorful, Natural Garden? Try a Perennial Meadow

Perennial plants have been a favorite in gardens since the first days of the cottage garden, when the benefits of plants that were long lived, easily propagated and generally hardy due to their ability to survive winters...

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Room of the Day: Elegance and Comfort Strike a Balance

This Philadelphia family room needed to stand up to two adults, four children and a dog tramping through it on their way to the backyard and back staircase. One of the homeowners also wanted it to evoke the serene feeling...

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Boost Your Kitchen Storage With Pegboard on a Wall

Pegboard is already a familiar sight on garage and craft room walls for organizing hand tools and supplies. So why hasn’t this easily adaptable material made its way to the kitchen more often? Julia Child championed the...

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Houzz Tour: Home Expansion Lets the Sunshine In

From the outside this house in Dublin, Ireland, looks fairly standard — a modest family home built in the 1980s. Step inside, though, and you’ll find a modern, light-flooded space that is absolutely vast. “The extension...

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Sound Advice for Designing a Home Music Studio

Most musicians will admit to sharing a single core skill necessary for mastering their instrument: control. When it comes to designing spaces for practicing, performing, recording or just jamming, control is equally important...

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Houzz Tour: Details Make the Difference in 700 Square Feet

Randall Reynoso and Martin Camsey were remodeling their Monterey-colonial-style home in Sacramento, California, when life intervened. Reynoso, who works in banking, was transferred to his company’s San Francisco office....

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Inside Houzz: See the Android App's Latest Features

A new version of Houzz for Android is now available on the Google Play™ store. One of the biggest updates to the app is to the Your Houzz screen, which has been redesigned to make it easier to access — and easier for...

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Grow a Beautiful Fall Garden in a Pot

I don’t know about you, but where I live (USDA zone 6) it’s been a long, hot, dry summer. With triple-digit temperatures for most of the summer, my containers look worse for the wear.

I'm starting to dream of cooler...

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Room of the Day: A Great Room in a Former Church

In the early 1930s, the story goes, residents of Tamalpais Valley, in the city of Mill Valley, California, got together to hand build a new one-room nondenominational church. The Methodist Church bought the building and expanded...

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Houzz Tour: Room for Fun in a Sophisticated Family Home

When Sacha Berger and her husband decided to redesign their home, in London’s Queen’s Park, they were determined that it would reflect their eclectic personalities.

Berger, who runs her own vintage chandelier and interior...

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What Is Organic Architecture, Anyway?

We know that our environments affect our moods, and that buildings play a major role in that, but how can we change the way we build our homes to help improve our sense of well-being?

There is growing evidence that suggests...

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First Things First: How to Prioritize Home Projects

I recently received a desperate email from a friend. For a variety of reasons, school and work related, she and her husband and two little boys had been bumping around the globe for years. They had just moved back to the...

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Houzz Tour: A Home Designed to Make Work a Pleasure

If you’re going to work from home, you want it to be a home in which you like working, and that’s exactly what these homeowners set out to create when they embarked on building their house in far northeastern New South...

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Garden-Friendly Native Alternatives to Overplanted Exotics

When we drive through most towns in America, past businesses and through housing subdivisions, we’re likely to see similar plants from landscape to landscape. I’m not sure if contractors just love their trusted standbys,...

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My Houzz: Reflecting Personality in a Rented Townhouse

When designer Jessica Viscarde and her partner, Ryan Ward, moved to Melbourne, Australia, two years ago, they decided their ideal suburb would be close to the city, with plenty of green spaces, and have a friendly, easygoing...

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12 Ways to Make That Inspiration Board Truly Inspiring

Wall-mounted inspiration boards are satisfyingly tactile and can be unique wall art in their own right. Let these 12 fresh takes on the classic bulletin board inspire your own installation, from clipboards and pegboards...

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Mysticism and Meaning Meet in an Ohio Artist’s Gardens

Every garden, every landscape we create has a story to tell. It’s why we do what we do: to express ourselves. We have something to say. It could be as direct as stating our love of good, fresh food by way of a healthful...

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Great Design Plant: Wild Bergamot, Friend of Foragers

Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) is one of the most resilient North American native plants and is a delight for bumble bees and butterflies. It can be used in a variety of situations, including butterfly and pollinator gardens,...

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Does Your Landscape Need a Little ‘Cosmic Latte’?

A neutral color palette creates a calm and stylish environment in our homes and provides a harmonious backdrop for furniture and decorations. Can the neutrality of beige and its various cousins do the same in garden design,...

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Great Design Plant: Sensitive Fern Shows Its Strengths

Ferns elicit primal human emotions, which is why many gardeners, including myself, are drawn to them. They mentally transport us to another place and time. Just five minutes in my fern garden can be the antidote to one of...

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Guest Picks: 20 Fun Finds for Family Dinners

Getting everyone seated around the table to share a meal at the same time can be challenging at the best of times. To make things a bit easier — and a lot more fun — it helps to have a few tricks up your sleeve. These...

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