Bolefloor Curved Wood Panels: Floors as Nature Intended

Bolefloor wood flooring is taking hardwood floors back to nature. Natural wood isn’t straight, it is curved but because of limited technology, hardwood floors were without this natural curve. Bolefloors is taking wooden floors back to their natural state with curved floorboards. No two floor boards are the same and they add beauty and a . . .

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The Art of Hanging Art

By Rebecca Macaulay The subject of this post is highly subjective. Art. Art today is many things. Art today is anything. Its merit is in the eye of the beholder, or in this case, the hanger. Like selecting art, hanging art is a skill that requires a level of creativity befitting each individual piece. Not . . .

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Floral Arrangments You Could Try This Spring

Flowers soften any room and make soft rooms positively dreamy, but they can also add unexpected dimensions to modern, even industrial spaces. Feminine selections are often reduced to a combination of, or a choice between: Lisianthus, Peonies, Roses, Dahlias or Tulips and being the most fashionable of the season, are the first to be featured.

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Christmas Centerpieces

Beautiful tablescapes provide an enchanting and welcoming gathering place at holiday parties and dinners. We especially love those tables which incorporate Christmas centerpieces. These lovely decorative focal points are created with a myriad of elements often found in the season’s decorations. Decorative candles, garlands, wreaths, natural elements, metallics, mini Christmas trees, and wintry flowers can . . .

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Terrific Terrariums & Tiny Cacti

We were just taking a casual stroll through the West Elm website when we stumbled across these beautiful terrariums that got our green fingers itching like they haven’t itched since we discovered Nature Aquariums and Aquascaping Inspiration. These little beauties are perfect for those of us who don’t have the luxury of a large garden . . .

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Exquisite Wall Coverings from China

This compilation of beautiful wall coverings shows an exquisite range of Chinese influenced murals, featuring cherry blossomed landscapes, hummingbirds and butterflies, alongside large floral wall decals, and sophisticated fleur-de-lis motif wallpapers. Some are renders but they still give you a pretty good idea of how they influence the mood of a room. Via ruixi.tmall.com

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Nature Aquariums and Aquascaping Inspiration

Essentially, the craft of aquascaping is landscape gardening underwater, involving the creation of aquatic plant, driftwood and rock arrangements, including cavework. Whilst an aquascape would typically house fish alongside the plants, it is also appropriate to use simply plants and rockwork, or other hardscape alone. The aquatic works of art adhere to a collection of . . .

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