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The Hunt for Vintage Kitchen Sinks
Want to relive the excitement of California’s gold rush of the mid 19th century? Or the grandeur of the Victorian age? If your answer is a ‘Yes’, try installing an antique sink in your kitchen and mull over the glorious past of your ancestors while eating your meal.
Obtaining a real antique or vintage kitchen sink is not going to be easy. The kitchen sink from the pages of the history book is likely to have developed cracks or chinks and the one you are lucky to chance upon may not have the necessary accessories like faucets to make it workable in today’s kitchen.
The kitchen sinks of the mid 19th or early 20th century were made of marble, porcelain, fireclay or copper. They mostly came from Continental Europe – France and Italy.
Kitchen sinks from the early 20th century are quite difficult to find in useable original condition. This helps drive
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Cottage Style Home Decorating: What’s Your Favorite Cottage Style?
Cottage Style decorating can have many variations depending on personal taste, but one thing is certain–comfort, ease of living, and a welcoming feel take priority. The style lends itself well to small spaces, whether you live in a home, condo, or an apartment. My husband and I have decorated all 11 of our dwellings during our 25 years of marriage in several variations of Cottage Style and we have found it to be a flexible and affordable way to create a comforting and welcoming home.
What’s your favorite Cottage Style?
Romantic: Think lots of colorful flowers on everything from upholstery to pictures, plates, and linens. Colors are often soft pastels of pink, peach, green, and rose, but can be more vibrant hues of gold and burgundy and deep green. Antique wooden furniture with soft curves is often mixed in with curvy wrought iron gates and beds. Furniture finishes can be
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Create A Marvelous Masculine Bedroom
A masculine bedroom doesn’t mean that the bedroom can’t be romantic and appealing to the lady of the house also. It is much easier to create a bedroom reflecting masculine designs that a lady will love than it is to create a frilly bedroom that a man will feel comfortable with. Not really the way we’re used to thinking is it..? No doubt because the woman is usually the designer, right? Let’s try and do something new with our bedding this time. Where do we begin then..?
Masculine bedrooms are often created through color and clean lines. Black, blue, purple, green are some of the beautiful colors on the masculine pallet. Fabrics can just about any material you desire. Egyptian cotton, cotton/polyester blend, jacquard weave, velvet, faux suede and leather are all choices in the bedroom for the man. Faux fur and animal prints are also popular masculine choices for bedding
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Say Goodbye to The Wooden Window Shutter
A discussion of the wooden window shutter plus definitions and descriptions of the many kind of inexpensive and low maintenance shutters on the market.
The traditional window shutter is usually made of wood, needs a lot of maintenance and looks like it is right out of an episode of the Brady Bunch. These window shutters that have been in existence since Colonial times are a bit of an anachronism. Most people simply never shut them yet still the hinges need to be oiled and shined.
It might be time to get rid of the anachronistic wooden shutters on your home and go with something more modern such an aluminum window shutter that resists the elements and never closes. This will definitely cut down on your replacement and maintenance costs for keeping the exterior of your home looking sharp!
Here is a run down of the different types of decorate window shutter that
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Summer Decorating Tips To Cool You
Redesigning your home for summer gives you the opportunity to have fun with your home. A few simple changes can make your home feel refreshed as well as refreshing.
Make your home feel fresh and cooler with these interior design ideas:
Welcome to Our Haven
Start with your exterior to instill the image of a cooling retreat. Provide shade to your front door. If you don’t have sheltering trees, add umbrellas in heavy pots to shade the entry landing. A wall water fountain near the front door adds cooling sounds to support your sense of hearing. You can make a standing water fountain with a small pump, a container with no drainage, a water plant like the common reed, and pebbles. Deep shade and water sounds invite you to linger outdoors while promising further respite inside.
Cool Down With Lighting
Yes, the color of light influences the way you feel. Use white and blue iridescent
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Designing Woman
We all remember our grandmother’s house. It was either warm and welcoming or smelly and stark. Her couch was either the kind you sink into and never want to leave or the kind that when you sit on it your behind actually bounces off, as if the inanimate piece of furniture was trying to catapult you across the room.A piece of furniture can look nice but not feel nice, which is why everyone ends up gathered in your kitchen when you have parties. That couch you thought would bring the room together so nicely did such a good job that you feel guilty breaking the monotony by entering the room. Unless your house is a wing in the Louvre, your furniture shouldn’t be museum pieces-or else you’re destined to be the type of grandparent with the “smelly” and “stark” house. And no one wants that. So, …
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