How to Stay Warm When Entertaining Outdoors

If you love to entertain outdoors even in cooler weather, setting up proper outdoor heating is the key to enjoying your backyard to the utmost. When the cooler time of year rolls around and temperatures plummet, this is often a great excuse to enjoy an outdoor fire...

Green Living And Your Neighborhood

Submitted By: Sharon McMillan Green living is no longer a vague term known only by environmentalists. One of the ways we know that an important social trend has hit the big time is when major consumer providers adopt the term. Just about every major influencer in our...

What is Mid-Century Modern?

Mid-century modern is a design term applied most frequently to residential (and some commercial) architecture, interior design and furniture. Related to the Space Age, the International style and Googie, mid-century modern translated the ideology of Modernism into a...

An Air Devine

Period authenticity continues to gain prominence among historic home owners desiring to recreate the past in their homes with as many details as possible. One avenue to maintaining authenticity which is gaining popularity involves incorporating the use of restored...

Renovating Your Old House

By Susan Clifton If you love old houses or old furniture then you need to know about Renovator’s Supply. For generations they have been helping in the restoration of old houses. So before renovating your old house visit their site for products ranging from...

Vintage style kitchen remodeling

The hot trend today in restoring old homes is to restore the kitchen to reflect the period it was built. But what do you do about the appliances? There are many companies specializing in restoration of vintage appliances. Whether your kitchen was built in the...

Collecting Depression Glass

Anyone familiar with flea market shopping has seen the collectible glassware known as Depression Glass. Mass produced from the late 1920s through the 1940s, much of the glass was given away at movie theaters, with an oil change or with the purchase of oatmeal. My...

The Armoire

The armoire has been rediscovered and re-invented. Today we find the armoire in every room in the house. In the family room or bedroom it conseals the television and stereo. In the bath, it serves as a linen closet and in the kitchen, of course, a pantry. But there...