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White garden ideas: 10 elegant designs full of shape and texture
With these white garden ideas you can see what possibilities a monochromatic scheme can offer. In reality, a white garden is never just white, but includes myriad tones of greens and grey foliage, and various ‘shades’ of white flowers – from pale yellow, ivory, cream, oyster white, greenish white, bluish white, to the very palest blue. You can create calming, serene and elegant spaces by including only white blooms as part of your garden ideas, for timeless designs that will work with both contemporary and traditional yards. A white garden is definitely an option that should be added to the mix when you’re deciding on a garden color scheme. ‘White…
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Two Half Baths Don’t Equal Full, and Other Real Estate Bathroom Math You Should Know
Photo: Artazum (Shutterstock) Last weekend we talked about home bathroom sizes—as in, what you get in a half-bath versus a 3/4-bath or a full-bath. And while that information is necessary for decoding that terminology in real estate listings, there’s another part that isn’t exactly straightforward either: The total number of bathrooms in a home. Even though we use fractions as shorthand for describing how many fixtures are in a bathroom, you can’t simply add those fractions up to calculate the total number of bathrooms in a home, as it would appear in a real estate listing. In other words, two half-baths don’t equal one full-bath. Here are some tips for…
