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Harmonious Home: Smart Planning for a Home That Really Works
This hard-working sourcebook helps you create a home that works. Real-life examples, checklists, and photographs demonstrate the basics of great home planning. Covers all the essentials of fuss-free living, from where to position light switches to providing enough storage and seating.
- GenresInterior Design
144 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2004
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September 5, 2008
ARGH!!! My brother always has these friggen, shnaggen books around his house and I always read them despite my better judgment and before you know it my, once seemingly fine, little house seems like an uninhabitable pathetic excuse of an existence. Well you know what? I'm done with that. DONE I TELL YOU! If you, too, are looking for a more realistic guide to how to decorate/organize your life, then read on and pat yourself on the back because I think you'll find that you too can embrace these simple solutions to the complicated lives we all live:
Do you take copious amounts of photo's? are you looking for an organizational system that you can both embrace and feel good about? Try this simple solution: mound them in huge pile, shove them in multipule boxes (make them cardboards- that's the feel good part: they're recyclable) and tuck them nicely into an empty closet
So you had the cute little seating area set up at the end of the garden with the tikki torch positioned just so, for quiet conversations with a friend while everyone else enjoyed the fire and friendship in other parts of the yard, so it got a little neglected:
Leave the apples! let them rot, embrace the cider vinegar smell. It's nature, don't be ashamed of it.
As a matter of fact. While you're at it, start a compost pile. but don't rush things. start slow. Just get those food scraps in a bowl and set them somewhere convenient (say for example right outside your back door next to the dressing table you got at a second hand story, that you and I both know you're never actually going to re-finish).
Now let's take a look at practical refrigeration techniques. You're going to want to save time by not actually removing purchased items from their original bags, create drama and interest by putting milk on it's side so you have convenient spills to mop up when annoying neighbors are dragging out the small talk and above all else SAVE THE BANANAS no matter how brown and gross they get.
and while we're in the kitchen, let's not forget about ambiance. I find that filling flower vases with actuall flowers is so passe' why do that when you can stack the previous nights bottles AROUND the vase and draw attention to the fact that your life is pathetically lacking in the type of friends that bring you flowers when they come for dinner but abundant in the type of friends that will drink every last bottle of wine you own.
and speaking of wine, let's head to the bedroom. How often do you hear about lack of closet room? Hello! I'd like to introduce you to a little technique I like to call "dress and drop".
I think you'll soon fine that merits of both dressing and dropping your clothes in the same spot, not only opens up loads of closet space it also makes for much shorter range of travel in your bedroom in general, thus allowing you to more quickly jump in bed with your books, your music or whatever else it is you use to sooth your self into a unconscious slumber and forget what the rest your house/life actually looks like.
Do you take copious amounts of photo's? are you looking for an organizational system that you can both embrace and feel good about? Try this simple solution: mound them in huge pile, shove them in multipule boxes (make them cardboards- that's the feel good part: they're recyclable) and tuck them nicely into an empty closet
So you had the cute little seating area set up at the end of the garden with the tikki torch positioned just so, for quiet conversations with a friend while everyone else enjoyed the fire and friendship in other parts of the yard, so it got a little neglected:
Leave the apples! let them rot, embrace the cider vinegar smell. It's nature, don't be ashamed of it.
As a matter of fact. While you're at it, start a compost pile. but don't rush things. start slow. Just get those food scraps in a bowl and set them somewhere convenient (say for example right outside your back door next to the dressing table you got at a second hand story, that you and I both know you're never actually going to re-finish).
Now let's take a look at practical refrigeration techniques. You're going to want to save time by not actually removing purchased items from their original bags, create drama and interest by putting milk on it's side so you have convenient spills to mop up when annoying neighbors are dragging out the small talk and above all else SAVE THE BANANAS no matter how brown and gross they get.
and while we're in the kitchen, let's not forget about ambiance. I find that filling flower vases with actuall flowers is so passe' why do that when you can stack the previous nights bottles AROUND the vase and draw attention to the fact that your life is pathetically lacking in the type of friends that bring you flowers when they come for dinner but abundant in the type of friends that will drink every last bottle of wine you own.
and speaking of wine, let's head to the bedroom. How often do you hear about lack of closet room? Hello! I'd like to introduce you to a little technique I like to call "dress and drop".
I think you'll soon fine that merits of both dressing and dropping your clothes in the same spot, not only opens up loads of closet space it also makes for much shorter range of travel in your bedroom in general, thus allowing you to more quickly jump in bed with your books, your music or whatever else it is you use to sooth your self into a unconscious slumber and forget what the rest your house/life actually looks like.
January 30, 2013
I did not find the info in this book usable. Too wordy and the photos did not inspire me at all. I love the title, but the book fell flat on following through.
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