Dressing Your Home
Home Improvement Tips From Leading Developers
Space Saver: 5 Ways to Use a Flower Bucket
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
When it comes to saving space, storage solutions should be like a super model, tall and lean. Why? Tall and lean storage solutions have small footprints, using very little precious floor space, and being tall, they use vertical space, which is always a good strategy anytime you need space efficiency. Enter flower buckets, tall, lean, and ready to do many jobs around your home.
In addition to being eco-friendly, a flower bucket’s steel construction is durable, long lasting and waterproof, making it useful both indoors and out.
Tip: French flower buckets generally come in three sizes. Use the tallest one for maximum benefit.
Here are five ways to use it around your home or work space.
1. Umbrella stand for the entryway, mudroom, back door or porch: It’s waterproof! No more rain mess.
2. Trash bin for the office or bedroom: Tall and lean, it’ll tuck right into a corner or under a table.
3. Large compost bin in the kitchen, balcony/patio, or backdoor: Just use extra long barbeque tongs to toss contents about.
How To Use Iris in the Landscape
Thursday, February 9th, 2012Home ownership has bred hundreds of thousands of potential gardeners some with a natural enthusiasm and others with merely the desire to plant something which will add to the general attractiveness of the house.
Since the average home plot is rather small. Novice gardeners have the problem of purchasing plant material which will create the maximum effect.
When it collies to flowers, none can more adequately fill this need than tall bearded iris. Only a few clumps, strategically placed, are required to put on a show in a small garden in late May and early June.
It is not without reason that tall bearded iris have been called the poor mans orchid. for the exquisite beauty and airy grace, and even form, bear a strong resemblance to the orchid.
Capay Valley farmers at crossroads in ‘Last Crop’
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Follow Capay Valley farmers Annie and Jeff Main as they struggle to preserve Good Humus Produce, their small organic farm, in the documentary “The Last Crop.” The film will be screened from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking, in The Chronicle building at 925 Mission St.
Produced and directed by Chuck Schultz, the film explores the challenges facing family farms today and what the Mains are doing to preserve their land. Like other farming communities across the nation, Central California’s farmers are aging out and cashing in, placing the future of family farms such as the Mains’ at a crossroads. None of the Mains’ three children are interested in taking over the farm.
After the film, there will be a panel discussion with Annie and Jeff Main, Schultz, and Molly Bloom, California FarmLink’s North Coast regional coordinator. Serena Unger, senior policy consultant for American Farmland Trust, will moderate.
No-Nonsense Minimalism: Plywood Slot-Work Furniture Set
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Sometimes design errs on the side of art, and sometimes it trends toward engineering this is definitely in the latter category.
Per The Turner Collective: Series 1A is a collection of minimalist objects, balancing objectivity, schematic clarity and inner logic, leading to a natural functionalism and geometric simplicity.