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  • Valentine Cottage Front Garden Before & After

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    English Cottage Garden Front Garden Before Front Garden After Front Garden After Front Garden After Front Garden After Front Garden After Front Garden Before Front Garden After Front Garden Before Front Garden After Front Garden Before Front Garden After Front Garden Before Front Garden After Front Garden After This is the front entry garden at…

  • Easy English Toffee Recipe

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    Amazingly, English Toffee is not only one of the tastiest candies you can make, it’s also the easiest. It requires no special equipment, ingredients or techniques. I know what you’re thinking, but I had never made toffee until today. Instead I would occasionally splurge, paying upwards of $5.50 for a few ounces of toffee from…

  • How To Roast Hazelnuts

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    Hazelnuts are one of those nuts whose flavor is dramatically improved by roasting. Raw, hazelnuts can be bitter and grainy. Roasted, they are fantastic. Here’s how you do it: Ingredients Raw Hazelnuts Method Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Put a single layer of hazelnuts on a cookie sheet. Put them in the oven. Wait…

  • Valentine Cottage Dining Room Reveal

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    Living Room and Dining Room Complete! Living Room Dining Room Dining Into Living Dining Into Kitchen I can’t believe it. I really can’t! After months of stress, sweat, toil and late-night painting sessions, my home is finally on the market! Yow! I know that I’ve been seriously offline this summer, and I apologize (again). But…

  • Valentine Cottage Living Room Reveal

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    Living Room and Dining Room Complete! Living Room Dining Room Dining Into Living Dining Into Kitchen I can’t believe it. I really can’t! After months of stress, sweat, toil and late-night painting sessions, my home is finally on the market! Yow! I know that I’ve been seriously offline this summer, and I apologize (again). But…

  • IKEA Cottage Style Dining Room Ideas

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      IKEA has always been heavily weighted toward modern & contemporary styles, but they’ve always had a good selection of more traditional / cottage-style items as well. Recently, my local IKEA featured this charming dining room display. Just lovely. The the white cabinetry with the glass fronts is classic cottage, giving the look of a…

  • How to Find Less Expensive Granite Kitchen Countertops

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      Since we are selling our house, we’re upgrading the kitchen. I wish we had done this sooner, but at least we’re going to be able to have brand-new granite tile counters for the listing. The tile installers are coming on Thursday and Friday of this week to install the tile backsplash and granite tile…

  • Designing With Toddler

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      I have been hanging onto these adorable retro Western prints for a couple of years now. Aren’t they cute? My son’s room has a vintage Western kind of thing going on (I refuse to say “theme”) and I wanted to make a quilt for him with these fabrics. But I hadn’t been able, as…

  • How To Paint & Trim Oak Cabinets

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      One of the most common decorating challenges I hear about in kitchens is the dated oak cabinetry. My friend Kim has done a spectacular job of tackling this challenge in her own house. With her kind permissions, I’ve put together a step-by-step how to on her process. If you like Kim’s work, please also…

  • Spelt French Bread Recipe

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    Sometimes when I’m a little confused, having trouble working out a problem, or just can’t engage with a design, the thing I need most is to disengage my brain. To just let the ebb and flow of natural events wash over me until the mental grit and grime has floated away. So, this morning I…