If someone in your house got sick or injured now, or when there was a natural catastrophe (knock on wood), do you have all you want to look after yourself and the other members of your household? In case you haven’t peeked in your medicine chest in recent memory, or simply haven’t gotten around to […]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie-style homes are some of the most recognizable pieces of residential architecture of the 20th century. Realized mainly in the first decade of the previous century, the homes have low-pitched roofs, horizontal windows, brick walls and heavy overhangs as signature components, and they simultaneously stand out from and echo the apartment complexes […]
Box joinery (also known as box joint) primarily joins sides to create boxes, both large and small, such as trunks, chests and drawers. Notches are cut to fit in an interlocking manner, increasing surface area to permit for more glue strength and requiring minimal (if any) fasteners. Box also helps to keep the parts square. […]
This sturdy herb can easily be mistaken for a decorative grass, but unlike most other blossoms, this one is edible and is a staple in Asian Asian as well as other tropical cuisines. The plants usually hit 3 to 4 feet tall — a few take up even higher — and spread to 3 feet […]
These delicate DIY pendants fulfill the performance of providing the right illumination for the front of my studio, and they also reflect the specific nature of my job: fabric, texture, DIY-ibility, shape and form. These beauties require just a little forethought to create but will earn a stunning, chubby lighting invoice for your home. After […]
By snapping up the teardown next door, this retired Texas company owner was able to expand her garden into the east side of her Fort Worth home. “East-side gardens are very desirable in Texas, as a result of intense afternoon sun from the west; now her home cubes this sun,” describes landscape architect Bill Bibb […]
Chintz can be tricky. Its daring, old-fashioned flower prints may so easily tip into fusty English bed-and-breakfast if you’re not careful. But if you’re careful, it can add colour, texture and a touch of timeless elegance to your decor. Perhaps it’s chintz’s recent unpopularity that makes it an superb antidote to too trendy, high-minded design. […]
Forget posh resorts in the hearts of bustling shopping districts and downtown cores. Fast-paced urban living is hardly what flying is all about. That is why overworked travelers are reveling in agritourism, heading for remote hills and valleys in search of rustic farmhouses where they could delight in rolling greenery and landscapes and maybe milk, […]