Month: June 2018

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Produce Your Own Massage Room

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Aaaah — comfort! More and more we’re looking to our own homes to provide a haven from the outside world. After spending a day hard at work and hearing news reports about the market, when we come home, we want to be soothed. And admit it — just the mention of the term”market” made your neck and shoulders tense up, didn’t it? What better way is there to ship the cares of the day packing than with a massage? And it is even better if massage is in your home so you do not need to get up and drive home afterward. So, now that I have you dreaming, what would you want to create the ideal place for this superb indulgence? Read on to see how colour, odor, sound, tactile elements and amenities all work together to create the ultimate in a room where you can have a muscle-melting…

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Art

Guest Groups: Art for Children’s Spaces

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Curating affordable art finds is just one of my favourite features to put together in my website, Lolalina. The online creative community has positively exploded in the past several years, making sourcing distinctive and beautiful art a real treat. This month for Houzz I’ve hand-picked 20 prints ideal for bringing creativity, warmth and personality to a child’s space. I hope you find something to love for your little one! –Laura from Lolalina Etsy “Raccoon” Screen Print by Little Chat Studio – $30 Raccoons on a bicycle built for 2 — what could be cuter? This limited edition print from illustrator Alyssa Nassner is cute, yet also really cool, which makes it flexible enough to please the little ones, hipster adolescents and Mama too. Etsy “Campout” by Hillary Bird – $15 This print by artist Hillary Bird conjures up comfy feelings of camp-outs and summer holidays — such a sweet silhouette…

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Gardening and Landscaping

Garden Tour: Edith Wharton’s The Mount

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Earlier this week we explored the newly restored inside of The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Berkshires house. Now it’s time to explore the motives! Wharton completed a European grand tour and then written a book called Italian Villas and Their Gardens that was published in 1904. She designed the formal gardens in The Mount herself to create a space between the home and the house’s woodlands, meadows and lake. Her niece, the famous landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, was also involved with the plan of their grounds. Here’s a look. More: Take a tour in the Home In Italian Villas and Their Gardens, Wharton observes”The Italian state house… was nearly always constructed on a hillside, and one afternoon the architect appeared forth from the terrace of his villa, and saw that, in his survey of the backyard, the enclosing landscape was naturally included: the two formed a part of the exact same…

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