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As much as we all love the idea of gardening, if your garden space is limited, the soil on your property isn’t great or you simply want gardening to be easier, here’s a seriously perfect solution. Give yourself more room to grow with Vego’s modular raised garden beds. They’re sustainably made, they last decades longer than wood, they’re easy to assemble, and will adapt to your available space, regardless of size, shape, balcony or backyard. And another plus: For something so functional, they’ll look great in your yard.

Not everyone has the luxury of a separate home office or a room just for working out. Sometimes, you’ve got to squeeze a play area in the living room, take work calls in the kitchen, and maximize a spare room to its fullest potential.  But how do you combine these different functions into one space without it looking cluttered and chaotic? We asked interior designers to spill their top tips for achieving a space that is equal parts versatile, stylish, and harmonious.

While it's not spooky season just yet, there's no harm in getting your home's decor ready with some seriously fun Halloween-inspired items. Make your space more moody with dramatic black candlesticks, swap light summery pieces for rich velvets, autumnal hues, and witchy finds, or embrace the spirit with decorative pumpkins, a terracotta skull planter, and ghost candle.

Entryways are the first thing that we see when we enter a home. They welcome us in and send us off every time we leave. As a result, they are a common dumping ground for a number of different everyday essentials, from shoes and coats to keys, hats, gloves, and sunglasses. Amidst the hustle and bustle of a busy family home, it’s common for the entryway to become overwhelmed with stuff.

A new season brings the perfect opportunity to start fresh, whether that means trying out a new morning process or getting organized once and for all. For Meg Markland of Neat by Meg, it’s all about getting back into a routine. 

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Mudrooms can serve as a spot to tuck away backpacks after school, set down and go through the mail, or store outwear and winter accessories. If you're feeling as though your mudroom isn't as functional as it could be and are looking for some organizational accessories to revamp your space, we've got you covered.

Not everyone has a backyard appropriate for a large garden, but almost everyone can keep a container plant. Size is only one of the many advantages of growing plants in containers rather than in the ground. This only works well, however, if you select plants that are happy living in a pot. Gardeners in the West have many choices. Read on for some top options for California or Nevada container gardening.

We see a lot of articles about how you can save money by growing your own food. And it’s true, it’s absolutely true, you can. A packet of salad seeds is roughly the same price as a bagged salad, and will keep you in salads all summer (and probably beyond). You can save money by picking up seeds at seed swaps, saving your own seeds, sharing with friends and neighbours, making your own compost and plant feeds and recycling household items into pots, etc. But there’s an elephant in the room – a factor that’s often left out.

In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars, Kate Greene talks about Shannon Lucid, the NASA astronaut who spent six months living on the Russian space station Mir. Shannon, it turns out, was a bookworm. During her stay, she read 50 books and improvised shelving from old food boxes, complete with straps to stop the books floating off. This was in 1996, a good decade before the invention of the Kindle, and so these were real books. She apparently chose titles with the highest word to mass ratio, since launch weight is a critical factor! Lucid left her library behind for future spacefarers, but it burned up when Mir was de-orbited in 2001.

What kind of traveller are you? Do you prefer to lie in a hammock slung between two palm trees, reading the latest blockbuster novel? Or would I find you soaking up the local culture along with the sun? I’m more of the latter, and it helps to know a smattering of the local language if you go off the beaten track!

Continuing my research into which of NASA’s African American astronauts are space gardeners, I turned my attention to the second name on the (alphabetical) list: Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.