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What is a Good Interior Design?
What is a Good Interior Design? Maggie’s Leeds Centre / Heatherwick Studio. Image © Hufton+Crow Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/989337/what-is-a-good-interior-design The world’s recent shift towards prioritizing wellness has influenced people to seek healthier lifestyles by understanding the body and the mind collectively. External factors such as the geographic location, the environment, the community, financial status, and the relationships with friends and family have all shown to have considerable impacts on an individual’s health. However, it became evident that ensuring physical and mental health was not limited to having access to medical facilities and professional treatments, but was also determined by several factors related to the quality…
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Good Housekeeping’s 2022 Home Renovation Awards
The excitement of home renovation can quickly turn to panic when you realize just how many products and materials go into the project. What’s the right countertop for the kitchen? Which fixtures will work best in the bathroom? Is now the time to switch to alternative energy? We get it! That’s why we launched the first ever Good Housekeeping Home Renovation Awards. Whether you’re planning a major remodel or just looking to simplify your home’s maintenance, you’ll find plenty of solutions in our roundup of winners. Take it from us: There is a lot happening in housing. Even before the pandemic, home improvement was a red-hot industry, with more millennials…
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How to create good Feng Shui in your home: 10 tips for every room
Feng shui may be an ancient practice, but its practitioners believe it has much to offer 21st century homes. By paying attention to our home environments, we can create spaces that support us, they say, and who would argue with the idea of a home that is both relaxing and revitalizing? Practicing bedroom feng shui can enhance wellness and provide a rejuvenating sleep space, for example, and all around the home being mindful about spaces by understanding feng shui’s meaning can bring about a nurturing and comfortable environment. Here, we offer expert advice on how to create good feng shui in your home room by room and make the simple…
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You’ve been storing your “good” butter the wrong way
I first learned to really love butter in a suburban diner called Corfu. Located about 45 miles outside of Chicago, the restaurant looked like someone had gutted an old Denny’s, saved the furniture and then painted a large-scale mural of coastal Greece before finally putting the chairs and tables back on the dining room floor. My mom and I went there for lunch so often that we eventually established a kind of routine. We’d go around 1 p.m., after the bulk of the lunch rush, slide into the merlot-colored pleather booths and peel the vinyl menus off the freshly wiped tables. Our orders remained unchanged for years. She’d get the chef’s…
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Bathroom Feng Shui: 10 tips for good Feng Shui in the bathroom
Contemplating bathroom Feng Shui ideas to ensure your bathing space is just right for you. Draw on its principles to design a bathroom that will improve your quality of life. No longer simply functional rooms where we could begin and end our days, bathroom décor ideas are now much more likely to be at-home wellness centers where we unwind, escape, rejuvenate and repair – and this has had a big effect on not just how bathrooms look but how we design them. Here, we’ve put together the best bathroom ideas to allow you to use Feng Shui principles in your space, together with advice from designers who follow its philosophy…
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Crowds “crazy good” at Billings Home Improvement Show
The Spring Home Improvement show has drawn good attendance this weekend at METRAPark. “The thing I love about the spring show is that the weather can be snowy outside and then you come in here and it looks like spring,” said Mark Hedin, promoter for the show. “Spring is sprung. You know within the air. People are anxious. They’re excited. And so far the crowds have been crazy good.” Mark Hedin, Home Improvement Show promoter. KTVQ photo He said the basketball tournament at the arena adds to the number of people at the home show. A METRAPark adivisory board member also said the attendance looks great this year. Hedin and…
