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Best Fall Living Room Ideas: How to Embrace the Season
Ready to make your living room feel a little cozier? These inviting fall living room spaces capture the spirit of fall with warm earthy colors, layered textures, glowing fireplaces, natural wood, and just a few seasonal touches. Take a look at 10 beautiful rooms that prove you don’t need pumpkins everywhere to welcome autumn into…
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Beautiful Blue and Green: One of the Best Decorating Palettes
Blue and green are two colors that simply feel at home together. Inspired by the colors we see outdoors, the combination has a natural ease that makes a room feel fresh. These rooms show just how many ways you can bring a blue and green color scheme into your home. (This post contains affiliate links…
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A Remarkable Catskills Home Filled with Rustic Character
Set among the wooded hills near Narrowsburg, New York, this older Catskills home has character that comes from embracing age. Rustic stone, wood floors, and vintage furnishings give the interiors plenty of personality. Large windows keep the rooms connected to the beautiful countryside. (All photos by Clay Banks.) What I especially like about this Catskills…
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I live where the suburbs meet the country, which affords me the best of both worlds. Come along on my journey where I share decorating, cooking, gardening and more as it relates to both city and rural life. Visit my new sister site, POND AND GARDEN, for outdoor ideas and inspiration.
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My name is Jennifer and I started my blog in 2011 as a way to motivate myself by chronicling improvements to my circa 1875 house. I figured if I was writing about what I was doing, I’d be more likely to tackle and actually finish home improvement projects.
I remarried on June 30, 2011 and my husband and I talked about buying a new home together. But we both love it here in our little town and decided to stay put. The town has more than tripled in size since living here, but I still consider it to be small compared to the other Chicago ‘burbs.
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