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This Just In: Home Magazine Folds
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. has announced that it will pull the plug on its struggling shelter magazine, Home, due to "sharp declines in the 'mid-market home sector'," according to the Wall Street Journal. Home will join the ranks of fellow folded shelter titles, Conde Nast's House & Garden and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's Blueprint.
Open House: Where Do You Cut Back?
Unless you're a celebrity with money to burn, or just one very successful lay-dee, most of us have to cut back somewhere when it comes to furnishing and renovating our homes. I myself have been known to drop big bucks at high-end design shops and haggle over flea market finds in the same day. And although I'll concede that spending money on my house itself is in most cases a better investment than purchasing furnishings to fill it with, sometimes I just can't restrain myself from bringing home a beautiful lamp or having a chair reupholstered.
Five Tips For Increasing the Property Value of Your Home
In anticipation of the new TLC series Hope For Your Home, which premieres this Saturday, I thought I'd share with you host Kirsten Kemp Becker's five tips for increasing the value of your property. A veteran Realtor, author and real estate company, and owner of a successful design company, Becker knows a thing or two about acclimating your home to the current economic climate. Here's a few ways she says you can do so yourself:
Definition: Pied-à-terre
A pied-à-terre is a place of lodging for occasional or secondary use. In French, the term literally means "a foot on the ground." It was named such because basic crash pads used by traveling execs during the week were traditionally on the ground level of apartment buildings.
Do You Love Your Home?
I love my home! It may not be my dream house, but it's the right home for me right now. It has many flaws but I always enjoy contemplating my next decorating moves, even if it means "making lemonade."
Midday Muse: An Extension of Home
Too many times, I'm guilty of thinking of "home" as my house. Every time I visit a community garden, drop by a public park, or take a stroll around my city, I'm reminded that home means much more than my house. Home is your neighborhood, your street, your city, your country — the entire world.
Casa Verde: Green Home Tips
Preservation magazine, the publication for the National Trust For Historic Preservation, has 10 green tips for an eco-friendly home based around the notion that "the greenest house is the house already built." Here are some that you may not have thought of or known about:
- Keep original windows intact. Studies show that older windows can perform as well as vinyl replacements.
Round-up: Natural Air Fresheners For Your Home
Got a stinky smell in your home? You might want to pause before turning to that can of synthetic air freshener.
Did you know that most synthetic air fresheners — such as Lysol — do little to nothing to freshen the air?
Could You Live in This Tiny House?
Jay Shafer has lived in tiny houses measuring in at under 100 square feet for over 10 years, mostly because he says he hates vacuuming. I'm intrigued, but know that I'd have a hard time living in a place like this. However, I think it's a great way to really figure out what material goods are needed, and which ones you can live without.Su Casa: Schoolhouse Rock
Lydia Daum posted pictures in the Su Casa group of Chateau Wilmarth, the schoolhouse she owns with her sister.
Lydia writes:
My sister Luci and I have the tremendous good fortune of living in a turn-of-the-century school building. Back in the early 1990s, the local school district was going to tear down all the neighborhood schools, but chose instead to sell them to individuals or businesses.
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