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What I’d Do With Too Many Trinkets Before Putting Them Back in Storage
A collection stops reading as a collection around the point it spreads. Ten small things on a windowsill look deliberate. The same forty things scattered across a windowsill, two bookshelves, the top of a dresser and a bowl by the door look like mess, and the advice at that stage is always to thin them…
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I’d Use These Budget Ideas to Make an Ugly Rental Balcony Feel Completely Different
The balcony is usually the last part of a rental anyone touches, and I understand why. You can’t drill, you can’t paint, you can’t replace the floor, and the whole thing belongs to somebody else. So it stays a concrete ledge with a drying rack on it for three years. That’s a waste of the…
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Can Plant Cuttings Double as Home Decor? A Propagation Station Says Yes
Most plant people have the mug. It’s on the kitchen counter, it has a broken-off pothos stem in it, and it’s been there three weeks because throwing the stem away felt wasteful. The water has gone slightly cloudy. Nobody would call it decoration. The odd thing is that the same cutting, in a clear glass…
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Not Ready to Paint Everything? This Is How I’d Try a Softer Version of Color Drenching
Color drenching gets presented as a single decision. You either paint the walls, the trim, the ceiling, the doors and the radiator in one shade, or you don’t do it at all. That framing puts a lot of people off, and I think it’s wrong. In practice it’s a dial rather than a switch, and…
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The Groovy Wall Designs I’d Bring Back From the 70s
Think of your grandmother’s hallway. Orange wallpaper with a big repeating pattern, a wood-paneled wall in the living room, a swirl of brown and mustard somewhere in between. For about thirty years, everyone agreed that this was the worst thing that ever happened to a house, and it all got painted magnolia. Now the same…
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Bring a Little Piece of the Garden Indoors With Pressed Flower Art
Every summer ends the same way. You bring home a bunch of wildflowers from a walk, a few stems from the garden or a little bouquet from the market, put them in a jug on the table, and for a week they’re the best thing in the room. Then the petals drop, the water turns…