Hotel 1928
30.08.2023 - 15:31 / bhg.com / Abby Wilson
Chaz Dykes | Design: Better Homes & Gardens
The Better Buy, a podcast from Better Homes & Gardens, explores all things home—from decorating and DIY to renovating and budgeting. For season 2, we’ll delve into the full home buying process, from house hunting and moving to interior design and landscaping, with stories, practical tips, and advice from our guests each week. We’re on a mission to inspire and empower you to create your dream home. New episodes every Wednesday!
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Host Mélanie Berliet talks with HGTV star Mika Kleinschmidt about how to tackle a speedy home renovation project with grace, why it’s important to take advantage of functionality from before demolition all the way to the final stretch, and what went into building her own dream home.
Mika Kleinschmidt is the owner of Dirt 2 Design, a Tampa Bay-based home design firm that customizes renovation and build projects to match clients’ individual needs. Along with her developer husband Brian, Mika hosts HGTV’s 100 Day Dream Home, which is currently on its fourth season. The pair also won the second season of Rock The Block in 2021, and most recently, starred on the network’s Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge.
Mika shares her advice for finding ways to bring functionality to each and every room of your home.
Functionality is so important because you’re paying per square foot. You don’t want wasted space that’s not going to get used. You don’t want something that's not gonna work for your family. You also have to think ahead, not just about what's functional now, but 10 years from now, will this be something that works?
You can really make a statement with some really cool lighting in a
Hotel 1928
A walled garden hidden away in London's busy Spitalfields neighbourhood
Ben Fink Shapiro | Design: Better Homes & Gardens
Fruits are nature’s little treasures, bursting with flavors and colors that make our taste buds dance with joy. So grab your fruity enthusiasm, and let’s dive into the world of delightful Fruits That Start With D!
There’s no understating the importance of a kitchen backsplash. Not only is a backsplash practical—sparing your bare walls from spaghetti sauce splatters—but it sets the tone for your kitchen’s personality. Think of it as an opportunity to flex your design skills, whether that means including a jolt of color, choosing an unconventional material, or sticking to a classic-as-can-be style. There’s a caveat, though: if you veer too trendy or too conventional, a backsplash can quickly look outdated. To spare yourself from inevitable regret, we asked three interior designers for their honest take on backsplashes they’re sick of seeing. Warning: controversial opinions ahead. Read on to learn which popular backsplashes they think need to retire, so you can invest in a conversation piece (not a controversy) that you’ll love for years to come.
I started growing flowers for cutting on my allotment over 10 years ago. I was really interested in where the food we ate came from, and I had started to wonder about the provenance of the flowers at my local florist and the ones in buckets at the supermarket. The more I read the more I realised growing my own would be better for the planet – many shop-bought flowers have a significant carbon footprint because they’ve been grown abroad and there are issues around the chemicals used to grow them, the demands made on local water supplies and the working conditions of the growers and pickers. I also preferred a certain style of flower arrangement, something that looked like it had been picked from the garden, with a looser more natural feel.
Dennis Leupold | Design: Better Homes & Gardens
It’s Sunday morning, and Ryan is still asleep, and I got a bit bored and started playing around with one of those “blog title generators”. (For those of you for whom this is a new concept, they generate click-bait style headlines for a topic you give them.)
The kitchen is often referred to as “the heart of the home,” but what happens when the weather gets nice and nobody wants to be inside anymore? Enter the outdoor kitchen. It’s the perfect place to relax with friends and enjoy the backyard. Today we’re sharing tons of outdoor kitchen inspiration, ranging in scale from giant outdoor kitchen kits to simple grilling areas made with reclaimed materials.
My parents are coming to visit today, to ‘see the garden’ (which is probably just a convenient excuse for them to visit). I am a little apprehensive – not least because it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop raining all day. We were going to have a barbecue; we’ve thought better of it.
Word by Matt de Neef, The Conversation
Join Emma the Space Gardener as she explores gardening on Earth… and beyond! In this episode, Emma recaps the latest space plant news and then talks about some of the seeds with space stories.