Fresh peaches are a seasonal item and late summer is the season! As an avid fan of ALL things peach, from melba and cobbler to fresh peaches straight off the tree, it will come as no surprise that grilled peach chicken is a favorite in our family. Not only is it delicious, it is also incredibly simple…the perfect recipe to whip up for the last lazy days of summer with family and friends!
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Choosing the Right Table Lamps
Table Lamps…I’ve seen it all - good, bad, and the just plain weird! Table lamps come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, so how do you know what to choose?
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Decorating your Entrance for Fall
Decorating the entrance to your home for the season is fun and simple. Your front door is the introduction to your home for your guests. With these tips you can be ready for fall with an entrance that says “welcome to my home” (as opposed to “welcome to my theme park!”).
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How to Mix Patterns
Mixing patterns requires a delicate balance of just enough of the right ingredients. Too little pattern and your room is YAWN inducing, too much or clashing pattern and your room is chaotic and demanding like an enthusiastic toddler yelling LOOK AT ME over and over!
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Bathroom Tile Options
On a recent tile showroom visit selecting bathroom tile for a couple of projects, we came across some interesting options. There is some GORGEOUS tile out there
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Master Bath Makeover
Next to the kitchen, the master bath is one of the most important rooms to upgrade for the best return on investment. In this case, the master bath was not only dated - and I’m not sure it was even all that attractive in it’s heyday - it was also not functional as the shower tile had failed and was leaking.
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A Kitchen Transformation
A kitchen is probably the most important room in the house when it comes to resale. Your renovation choices will depend on the length of time you plan to stay in the house, the price range of the house, and the state of the current kitchen.
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Project Preview: A Lake House Bedroom
Nothing says lake house like watery shades of blue with a hefty dose of neutrals. Our client was a busy executive with a job that required a lot of travel, and she wanted her petite home by the lake to be a retreat with a touch of glamour.
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Weeknight Gourmet: Super Simple Pasta Sauce Recipe
Our go-to quick weeknight dinner is often pasta. (I mean, who doesn’t like pasta??) I’ve never been a ‘just open the jar’ pasta sauce kinda girl. I like to cook and I eye the ingredients in premade jarred sauce with suspicion. But sometimes you need something that doesn’t require much effort
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The Best Front Door Paint Colors
Here in New England, painting season begins as soon as the weather turns warm and continues unabated until the first frost. Around our neighborhood there are painting contractor sings in nearly every other yard! But before you can hire the painter, you have to pick the colors!
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Design Trends that Should Be Retired in 2019
Unless you are in a position to throw away everything and start over every five years to be “on trend”. it is risky, and ultimately foolish to blindly follow trends. If you absolutely really love something, it shouldn’t matter if it is in or out. Buy what brings you joy. That said, it is easy to tire of trends because they seem to run in extremes…
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Design Inspiration from the Garden
Nature is the best designer and public gardens often have the most inspiring displays! I have recently discovered the pleasures of walking the paths in our local Arboretum that is only half a mile from my house, and I find it brimming with inspiring summer colors that would make gorgeous palettes for designing a room.
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