10 clever roof projects to elevate your home

Trends can be a fun way to change up your space every so often, but when you invest in a quality (and costly) piece of furniture, you definitely want it to stand the test of time—throughout the seasons and fluctuating fads. When searching for this type of decor, what you want to try to find is known as universal or timeless design.

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There are many Clever Ways to Hang Your Plants to make them look better and also use the limited space in the best way possible. Let’s have a look!

When you’re a child, you’re always crafting. Even the simplest bits and pieces that you find around the house are turned into clumsy but colorful works of art but, as we get older, we tend to lose some of that limitless imagination.

A ‘thriller’ plant adds a strong statement with its form and colors while the fillers fill up space neatly. The spillers dangle at the edge of the pot, and all three create a mesmerizing green look! Here are the Best Spiller Filler Thriller Plants for you!

Once the summer months arrive, so does the heat—and there's nothing worse than a hot home in an even hotter season. If you’re noticing that your home is working overtime to stay cool during the warmer months or year-round, there may be some problems you need to solve.

The warm weather is here and that means it's time to pull out your fans, dehumidifiers, and air conditioners. If you aren't blessed with central air in your home, then you are all too familiar with the yearly task of finding the right cooling appliances and positioning them just so as to ensure you stay cool in all areas of your home.

If you've found yourself drawn to Mediterranean style as of late, you're certainly not alone. Jeffrey Dungan of Jeffrey Dungan Architects greatly appreciates Mediterranean style design and shares a few of its key elements.

The goal for any sustainable gardener should be to create closed-loop systems—where the garden can be maintained without the need for many, if any, external inputs. In other words, wherever possible, we should aim to create a garden that can support and sustain itself over time. 

Gardeners know pollinators are essential, especially those industrious bees buzzing tirelessly in and out of squash blossoms and trumpet vines. But one kind of bee may wear your patience thin if you’ve discovered their handiwork: Carpenter bees! If you’ve found perfectly round ½-diameter holes drilled into your deck timbers, wood siding, mailbox posts, or outdoor furniture with a little sawdust beneath the holes, you may be housing these gentle bees.

Whether you're mowing the lawn or hosting a cookout, the last thing you want to worry about is stinging insects such as wasps. But the truth is that wasps have a somewhat undeserved bad reputation. These insects actually do plenty of good in our lawns and gardens, and not all types of wasps are aggressive.