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10 Things to Remember While Decluttering in the New Year

January 2nd, 2024
The beginning of a new year is a natural time for fresh starts. If you’re planning to take advantage of that new year burst of energy and motivation to tackle the clutter around your house, this guide can help. Read on for 10 essential things to remember when purging clutter — including making an exit strategy for your stuff, taking a low-pressure approach to decluttering, surviving a shoppin ...

12 Ways to Promote Wellness in Your Home

December 29th, 2023
Mae's Digital Marketing Services Designing for wellness at home means creating spaces that are good for physical and mental health. It incorporates everything from improving air quality to using textures, materials, colors, shapes and furniture layouts that ease anxiety and make us feel closer to nature. Here experts weigh in, offering advice on how people can promote wellness at home. While ...

10 Things Organized People Do First Thing in the Morning

December 27th, 2023
For many of us, the morning is a busy blur of family breakfasts, random tasks, frantic clock-watching and rapid showering. So how can a morning feel more calm than chaotic, more productive than problematic? One option is to take a leaf out of a truly organized person’s book and work a few of their can’t-live-without routines into your life. Here are 10 organizational approaches to try. 1. Mak ...

Last-Minute Ideas for Attractive Winter Container Designs

December 18th, 2023
From fragrant conifer branches and glossy evergreens to jewel-like winter berries and decorative baubles, winter container arrangements can be lovely additions to bare winter landscapes. With the holidays around the corner, you may have only enough time to hang a few baubles on a potted plant in your entry or tuck some pine cones around the base. To get you started, here are nine inspiring w ...

A Clean Home for the Holidays in 5 Days

December 11th, 2023
Every day we’re getting closer and closer to holiday events, and if you’re hosting a gathering at your home this year, you’re likely starting to feel the pressure of throwing the perfect party. Undoubtedly, “clean the house” is on your checklist for the event. While that task probably isn’t your favorite, you know it has to be done. That’s why we chatted with Michael Silva-Nash, a cleaning p ...

7 Reasons Not to Clean Up Your Fall Garden

November 27th, 2023
My belief in leaving the garden alone in fall was cemented on a December morning, when a robin landed on a garden chest where I keep my tools. It balanced on the edge where some snow was melting and dripping to the deck below. The robin arched its head downward and pecked at each droplet. Soon a bluebird landed right behind the robin on the edge of the chest. Then another bluebird. All three ...

20 Festive Christmas Decorating Essentials Made Easy

November 24th, 2023
Dust off your twinkle lights and pull out that box of Christmas decor. It’s time to get decorating, and we have 20 beautiful and easy ideas to fire up your festive style at home. Better yet, all are quick, simple and designed to get the holiday spirit flowing. 1. Hang a Wreath There’s something about a wreath on the front door that kindles a festive feeling. Christmas crafters might prefer t ...

10 Ways to Enjoy Your Yard More This Holiday Season

November 20th, 2023
Colder weather and shorter days tend to make us feel like hunkering down indoors, but a dose of fresh air can be just what we need this season. Whether you’re looking for ways to get your family outside or would like to escape the house for a bit of peace and quiet yourself, here are 10 ideas for getting out in the garden soon. 1. Cozy Up Around a Fire Pit Step outside before a holiday meal ...

10 Ways to Shower Your Home With Gratitude

November 15th, 2023
Don’t leave your house out of your Thanksgiving celebrations! Here are 10 creative and thoughtful ways to express your gratitude for your home — now and throughout the year. 1. Throw a party. Whether you think of it as a no-gift housewarming or home blessing, having a party to welcome friends and family into your home is a meaningful event. If you never got around to throwing a first party in ...

How to Relax and Put Housework in Its Place

November 10th, 2023
Do you sometimes feel as though you’re losing the battle to keep your home as organized as you would like? As Benjamin Franklin so pithily put it, death and taxes are the only certainties in the world. But Ben forgot about housework. It’s repetitive, physical, relentless and (I can hear my mother here) thankless, and that will probably never change. But maybe the remedy for housework-generate ...

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