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Garden design ideas | Garden webchat, Friday 9th July, 1pm | housetohome
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Looking for garden design ideas and gardening tips? Get your garden questions ready for expert, Anne MacCaig, Friday 9th at 1pm. As a former TV gardener for UK Style's 'Model Gardens', Anne helped design and construct 28 gardens, so she'll have plenty of

Prince of Wales counts flowers in his garden
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The eccentric gardening habits of the Prince have been disclosed by Debs Goodenough, his head gardener at Highgrove in Gloucestershire. The Prince also insists on pruning the trees himself, keeps a duck to eat the slugs and has wild thyme planted on the

Carl Warner's fantastic food landscapes
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Commissioned by a butter company in Finland, this early scene was inspired by both the landscapes of Ansel Adams from Yosemite Valley and the yellow brick road from the wizard of Oz. Carl will be at Hampton Court Palace Show in the Growing Tastes tent

Space solves: Small lamp shades and exposed brickwork
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I have a standard lamp in my small front room. The lamp doesn't look right with a small shade, but a large shade means the lamp has to be placed a fair way from the wall, which is a waste of space. Can I get a shade with a flat side, or two flat sides,

Interiors: Design stars of the future
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One Year On is an annual showcase of hot new design talent. Focusing on work by designers 12 months after graduation, it covers every discipline from furniture to graphics and offers savvy consumers the chance to snap up a future classic. We've had a

July gardening essentials
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July is a difficult month in Bay Area gardens. In coastal areas, the sun will bake the garden for a few days in true summer fashion, and then the fog will rush in, bringing cool, misty weather and a good dose of mildew. Farther inland, gardeners must

Textiles 101: Care, storage and lighting
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in San Francisco, Calif., is in this week's Stylemaker Spotlight. Over the past 22 years, Kathleen Taylor has established herself as the go-to person in the design industry for antique textiles - often hung on a wall as artwork, used to upholster

Outdoor rugs add pattern to natural setting
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Outdoor rooms are no longer complete without a rug. "They're a fun way to add pattern to a natural setting," says Maine designer Angela Adams, who recently introduced an outdoor rug collection to her line of casually elegant furniture, fabric, bedding

Restoration Hardware's landmark move
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Restoration Hardware has purchased the Italianate palazzo that was home to the Ed Hardy antiques gallery. The South of Market landmark, with its elegant garden courtyard, will reopen in mid September as the Corte Madera company's first San Francisco

Custom, spec or tract: Which house fits you?
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Buying a new house means making lots of choices. But long before you choose between Roman and roller shades, you make the biggest decision: Should you buy a custom, spec or tract house? The choice depends on your schedule, budget and personality. Buying

EMP Tek Impression Series Home Theater Speaker Package - Product of the Week
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Finding a home theater speaker system that sounds great, looks great with your home decor, and is priced right, is not always easy. If you are looking for new set of loudspeakers for your home theater, you might want to check out the stylish and great

Clever ideas for window coverings
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Mix and match fabric and accessories for fabulous blinds When you're decorating a room don't forget the impact the window coverings you choose can make. A new range of blinds from The Fabric Box make it easier to customise your window treatments to

Win £1,000 to spend at Warren Evans
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36 BST Warren Evans has teamed up with the Guardian to give one lucky reader £1,000 to spend in-store across the entire Warren Evans range of handmade quality beds, mattresses and furniture. Using only Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood and

Good morning, sunshine
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At the allotment at 8am to do some watering, move some tagetes and to think about fertilizing with nettle tea, Though possibly not a good idea as Allan and I are to attend a funeral later in the morning, and the smell tends to follow you around for a

The Sound Bar Option
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You just purchased that fabulous big-screen flat panel TV, and now that you have it all set up it really does look great, but it sounds terrible. Let's face it, a TV's built-in speaker system usually sounds anemic at best and downright unintelligible at

Lowe’s or Home Depot
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Sometimes I feel like my home renovation project is a life sentence and my conjugal visits are spent at the hardware store. In addition to the many specialty stores I visit to find just what I need, I spend a good deal of time bouncing back and forth

Fab kitchen ideas on a budget
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From cheap and cheerful kitchen updates to instructions for making a cushion, here's what we loved on the blogs this week! Not had a chance to read the blogs this week? Tut tut - here's what you missed... Jenn at roomenvy got us all excited with these

Children's wallpaper from Toys and Interiors | Kids' wallpaper | Wallpaper ideas
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Keep the kids amused with this fantastic sea adventure wallpaper - perfect for playrooms and bedrooms Looking for children's wallpaper ideas? Check out this sea adventure design from Toys and Interiors. From killer whales to treasure chests, it's sure to

See inside Elton John's pad!
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From Wimbledon strawberries to designer kitchenware, what we love from the blogs this week... Missed out on your blog fix this week? Shame on you! Luckily, we've rounded-up the best posts below. You can thank us later. For now, get clicking... Over on

Patrick Sutton Home Summer Preview Party
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On location in Harbor East since establishing a pop-up store for the 2009 winter holiday season, Patrick Sutton Home is staying put, at least for now. Although Sutton has eventual plans for moving to a new location close by, the store recently welcomed

Outdoor Room Decor (On a Budget)
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We love the Baltimore Sun’s recent photo gallery “Decorating an outdoor room on a budget.” Interior Designer Missy Conolly and landscape pro Johanna Hoehner do it up for Sun photographer Amy Davis and offer simple, elegant solutions for beautifying

Home Theater Term of the Week - Dolby Digital Plus
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Dolby Digital Plus is a high definition digital-based surround sound format that supports up to 8-channels of surround decoding, but also contains a standard Dolby Digital 5.1 bitstream that is compatible with standard Dolby Digital-equipped receivers.

International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society pick top aquatic plants
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The International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society annually polls aquatic-plant experts around the world to build a list of candidates in the running for its pond plants of the year. These plants – in three categories including tropical

Summer Decorating: Not-So-Shabby Chic
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If you've ever thought about experimenting with Shabby Chic style, summer is the time to do it. Shabby Chic is similar to cottage style and defines itself with the use of mismatched furniture, worn and vintage items, lots of soft, faded fabrics, and an

Heat-loving lilies
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If you look at old black-and-white photos of gardens between the world wars, the dominant flower of summer seems to be the lily. Tall and architectural, the stalks are festooned with nodding trumpets, hundreds of them in the richest gardens. One imagines

What to know about growing these flowers
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Planting: Lilies need moisture in the growing season, but they rot in heavy, wet ground in winter, so they should be planted in rich, well-amended soil that retains moisture but drains. Plant lily bulbs about eight to 10 inches deep to aid root