Step inside a contemporary home that’s dressed for Christmas
Housetohome.co.uk takes a room-by-room tour of a contemporary home for fab festive style ideas to steal.
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Home Decorating Ideas : How to Decorate Walls Without Using Pictures
Decorate the walls with old frames, mirrors and art work to create texture within a room. Use your imagination and create an interesting look with tips from a professional decorator in this free video on home decorating. Expert: Ann Myrick Bio: Since 1997, Ann Myrick has been a professional decorator, house cleaner, home organizer and planner. Filmmaker: Tim Brown
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What are some ideas for a Yellow, Black, and White theme wedding?
I am getting married in May in the garden behind our home. We are having a big white tent with lights and buffet style catering…I am looking for ideas for flowers, bridesmaid dresses, favors, signature drinks and other decor such as table centerpieces….Any ideas???
Categories: Garden Decor Tags: Black And White, Bridesmaid Dresses, Signature Drinks
Does anyone have ideas for Eid decorations?
Now I know its a bit early to be thinking about this but this year I’m putting a lot of love and energy into celebrating Eid-including the dressing of the dinner table and the decorations.
Does anyone have any ideas for how I can decorate my home for Eid?
So far I’ve got fairylights on my list.
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Categories: Home Decor Tags: Dinner Table, Love, Table Decorations
Growing Strawberries Tips
Strawberry Growing Tips
Growing strawberries is a popular homeowner garden project. Strawberries are the first fruit to harvest, usually available by mid spring. The basics of how to grow strawberries is straight forward for the accomplished gardener but for the beginning gardener planting strawberries can be a little tricky if you are going to have a successful crop. Growing strawberries is one of the most popular homegrown fruits for most gardeners. Growing strawberries means fresh berries, plump and red, for strawberry shortcake topped with a dollop of whipped cream. If this description makes your mouth water, just imagine the different ways you can use the strawberries you grow in your own garden.
Strawberry Plant Basics
1. There are three types of strawberry plants and different methods of how to plant strawberries. The different strawberry plants are: June Bearing, Everbearing and Day Neutral strawberries. June Bearing strawberries are plump, well-shaped and sweet, and are ready to be picked in mid- to late June. These are seasonal berries with only one large yield crop. Harvesting takes place over a three-week period.
2. Everbearing strawberries ripen in the spring, blossom again and ripen in late summer. These berries tend to be smaller in size, but still taste sweet and you get more than a single crop.
3. Day Neutral strawberry plants continue producing fruit throughout the growing season. Similar to Everbearing strawberry plants. They tend to be smaller, sometimes misshapen and produce fewer runners.
How to Plant Strawberry Plants
Gardening is all about location. Choosing the right location for planting strawberry plants will provide the best chance to produce plump berries with a high yield. Strawberry plants require at least six hours of full sunshine each day to grow to maturity. Select a well-drained location, preferably with sandy loam. The soil should have a pH level of 5.8 to 6.2 which will provide for a healthy level of acid/alkaline to grow strawberries. Make it easy on yourself and choose a spot for your strawberry patch that makes watering easy. Strawberries require frequent watering to ensure a healthy crop.
Be careful to select only healthy, disease-free plants from a reliable nursery or mail-order garden catalog. Thirty plants will keep a family of four supplied with delicious berries throughout the strawberry growing season and have plenty left over for making jam or freezing.
1. There are several methods for growing the luscious red berries. Grow strawberries in matted rows, hills or containers for those with limited space who want a few fresh strawberries.
2. Before planting, be sure to till the cleared soil. Fertilize using a ratio of 10-to-10-to-10 fertilizer after June Bearing harvest or second harvest of Everbearing and Day Neutral strawberries. Over fertilizing can result in a green leafy strawberry patch with few or no berries, so use caution. Mulch your strawberry patch using 2 inches of weed-free straw.
3. Provide one to two inches of water every week from the time plants begin blossoming through harvest.
Matted Rows
1. A strawberry plant that sends out a plethora of runners (June Bearing varieties) grow best when planted in a matted row. Set your plants 18 inches apart in rows with at least 4 to 4.5 feet apart. Dig a hole large enough to spread the roots out. Hill the hole and place the crown flush with the soil. Cover with dirt, leaving half the crown exposed. Pat the soil around the plant and give it a thorough watering. Move on to the next plant.
2. Pick off all blossoms, old leaves and runners. You will need to continue picking blossoms from the plants throughout the first year to ensure the energy goes toward establishing the plant and not producing berries. As the plant produces runners, train them to stay in the row. You will not have strawberries the first year, but the pay off the next is worth the wait.
Planting in Hills
1. Everbearing or Day Neutral varieties of strawberry plants grow best in hills. Create a raised bed by mounding the earth to about 8 inches high and 2 feet across. Set plants about 12 inches apart. Staggered rows work with approximately 2 feet between each row.
2. Unlike June Bearing strawberry plants, remove the runners from Everbearing plants to encourage fruit formation. Pluck off blossoms the first year until July. These plants work hard continually producing strawberries and become worn out. Treat Everbearing strawberries as annuals or plan to dig up and grow new plants every three years.
A strawberry bed in your garden makes an attractive ornamental ground cover as well as a patch for picking and eating. Decrease the plant stress and shock by planting on cool cloudy days. Do not water at night. Water your strawberry patch in the early mornings so the sun and breeze can dry the leaves before night falls. These strawberry growing tips will help you have a great strawberry patch for years to come. Enjoy your strawberries!
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Need help i don’t know what to draw. i am decorating home! please help ?
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well my apartment is so boring and plain and i want to decorate it with my art i can draw many things as long as it is in front of me such as if its a picture on the computer or an object in front of me the problem is i don’t have that many ideas so please help me and give me ideas, like what do think would be fun and not easy though not so hard either and i am a teen so yah please feel free to give any other advice for how i can decorate the apartment, (its a good amount of space) and have it not be so expensive like not over $10 , thank you very much and have a very nice day
and please help i am seriously sick of the plain white walls (i don’t need furniture)
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Decorating Basement.Any ideas?
As a college sophmore still living at home, I’ve decided that im setting up the basement as my lounge/study area/den (think kinda like on that 70’s show). The whole point of it is just my own space. Its a large basement, but I’m thinking about dividing the middle so that the other side still functions as the laundry room. As far as furniture, I have a desk, futon, couch, a chair, a filing cabinet (little one) and some little tables. The floors are concrete and the walls are a really light tan, and can’t be painted. I’m thinking about making some really large pillows to throw around for more seating if friends come over. Now I’m trying to think of colors and ideas to make it more cozy and cool, not so dank and dark. Any ideas you have to add are welcome.
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Categories: Home Decor Tags: Basement Ideas, Couch, Living At Home
Home Decorating Ideas : How to Choose Pillows
When choosing pillows, pay attention to texture, and check out retail stores as well as discount stores for great items. Pick a fun pillow that adds energy to the environment with tips from a professional decorator in this free video on home decorating. Expert: Ann Myrick Bio: Since 1997, Ann Myrick has been a professional decorator, house cleaner, home organizer and planner. Filmmaker: Tim Brown
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Wall Decorating Ideas
If you want to avoid having the rooms in your home look cold and without personality, make sure you do not have any stark spaces in them. When you want to add some life to a room and give it character, you have to add some wall decor to relieve that monotony of blank walls. Here are some great ideas to bring this kind of life to your walls.
One of the best and easiest way is to add texture to the wall. There are so many wallpapers that have texture, and it is a simple task to paper the wall or walls with a wallpaper that has a raised design, or is made to look like bamboo or linen. Of course, this can be brought to an extreme, and there have been avant garde decorators who adhered straw or paper bags to a wall to achieve texture, but this is not a solution that is for everyone.
Wallpaper is still the tried and true way to add texture as well as color to your walls, and if you start to look at some of the wallpaper books in a decorating store, you will be amazed at the variety of styles you can achieve, and leave the straw out in the barn for the animals!
You may also consider wall hangings to remedy a bland wall. A beautiful old quilt adds a lovely touch of texture and color, and also spotlights a unique family heirloom. This is one of the nicest ways to add texture, since it is done in such a personalized way.
Another very personalized way to add texture is to display a collection on a wall. For example, a gentleman who collects antique tools might consider hanging them on a wall in a family room in an interesting pattern. Now they are serving a function, and he has also succeeded in removing some clutter from his garage.
How about using old doll clothes or dresses to perk up the walls in a girl’s room? Here you are sure to have plenty of color, and the textures of old dresses are usually materials such as tulle or organza, which would be very eye catching. The colors of dresses such as this are perfect for a little girl’s room.
Just using your imagination and the materials around you will yield a lot of ideas for adding texture to a dull wall.
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Home Decorating Ideas on a Budget
In order to be able to balance your budget and the interior decorating, they do not have to always go hand in hand, but if you have these great decorating ideas, you can easily get the great new look that you wish for, minus spending a whole lot of money.
The Paint
Painting your room is a very good way you to transform a dull room and have a fresher look, aside from that, it is inexpensive and fun to do.
The DIY network
We have to admit it, the DIY movement is still very well and alive, but why not take a chance at stepping a step further. Why not look for some people that have good skills and swap skills with them. If you are somewhat very skillful with sewing and they are knowledgeable on how to wire a light fixture, you could possibly swap with them and each one of you will get a few more new ornamental touches for less.
The Returned or damaged
Try to communicate with the sales person and let them know that you are definitely trying your best on getting a great deal possible, and that you are more than willing to take returned merchandise, or even those that have slight defected pieces. Most of the defected pieces are not at all obvious and stores will more often that not be glad to get rid of those custom orders that were returned back to them.
The Mix look
Stay away from buying sets of accessories and furniture that are premeditated to go together. This look is not very chic anymore, and can be a bit pricey. As an alternative for those, try looking for items that are a bit similar in a unifying element and buy them when they are on sale, piece by piece preferably that buying them and loading them all up at once.
Learning to sew
If you can learn how to sew and purchase an old and secondhand, sewing machine, then you can make your own tablecloths, curtains, pillows, duvet cover and much more with almost no effort at doing them all. If you want to save a bit more, look for discounted fabrics.
These are just a few innovative ideas. Now that we have got you started there will be no end to the ideas that you can come up with.
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Categories: Home Decor Tags: Interior Decorating, Sales Person, Tablecloths