Designing For Expansion and Restraint

Garden Reports and Rejoicing – January 23

The title of this post seems like a contradiction, but hear me out. We have a narrow lot. Although the total isn’t small by Cape Cod standards, the overall property is long and thin. This shape presents several challenges when it comes to garden design.

One of the considerations is how to make it all seem less restricted and create the impression that our land extends in width as well as length. In the lower part of Poison Ivy Acres the added concern is that these lands can’t, because of zoning, contain any permanent structures and we want them to be as native and low-maintenance as possible.

The answer lies in large, sweeping groups of plants. My si

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CB2 Opens In Toronto!

Crate & Barrel’s sister store, CB2, finally opened its doors around the corner from our office in Toronto. I visited over the weekend, and thought I would share the items that caught my eye:

This rocking chair would add just the right amount of colour to a grey or white living room. Curtis Clover Rocker, $349.

They had a few of these fun mirrors hung vertically as one long mirror — perfect for an entryway. <

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Kitchen Redux

This month’s annual kitchen issue has me thinking of my favorite kitchens that have previously graced the pages of AH&L. H

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Concord Collection, Elegant and Minimalist Dressers from Your Bedroom

Dressing table is one of the important furniture for your room. There you can apply your face, take care and also beautify yourself. Concord Collection is minimalist and elegant dresser. It is available in muted colors with a drawer that you can use as a storage medium of your beauty tools. Have immediately to your bedroom.

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Scary Mummy Translucent Window Decoration that Illuminates by Night

Want to scare the neighbors? Wish to send chills down the spine of people walking past your home? Hoping to terrify any potential burglars from testing your locks? If so, menacing Mummy translucent window decoration might be just what you are looking for. Placed in one of your windows, the scary figure will catch people’s attention and either make them laugh with merriment or run for the hills as fast as their legs will carry them, if they have not already fainted.

Designed especially for double windows, the decoration is basically a plastic film substrate printed with water-based inks portraying a Mummy figure with arms outstretched. R

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