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A Few Unusual Ideas For Decorating Your Home by Guest Writer Ella Andrews

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If you are not keen on traditional ways of home decorating you can always go for some nontraditional ways of doing that. We can assure you that your friends are going to love your place. As you know most people prefer to stick to traditional ways of making their dwellings more comfortable and cosy. That is why an innovative approach to the matter is always welcome. The following lines will give you a few ideas on how to decorate the rooms in your place in an unconventional way so that you can make it a great place to live in and to pleasantly surprise your guests.

A Few Unusual Ideas For Decorating Your Home4Decorate the bedroom

People are used to thinking that bedrooms as a rule should all look in the same way – a bed, a chair and that is. But this is not obligatory. You can always think of some clever ways to renovate the room. Many people place their mattresses directly on the floor so that they can be closer to the ground. This is an interesting idea that you can make even more unconventional. Hide the mattress under a colourful tent made of a couple of veils. This will turn your bedroom into a real fairytale in Oriental style. Another interesting solution for your bedroom is to use a mannequin where you can put the clothes you are about to wear on the next day. Or you can simply use different combinations of clothes and colours to decorate it and use it to brighten your room mood.

A Few Unusual Ideas For Decorating Your Home2Decorate the kitchen

This is the most difficult place to decorate as actually you do not have a great choice on what exactly to decorate. You cannot place a flowerpot on your oven after all. However, you can still experimentalise and play with the kitchen lockers and shelves. What you can do is replace or relocate the doors of the lockers with small curtains in colourful and bright prints. You can choose flower prints, dots or anything else you like that makes you feel good.  But you can go even further – you can use the box of your old TV to store your collection of books.

Decorate the bathroom

Instead of buying new shower curtains you can use a couple of towels to serve you with the very same purpose. Or you can alternate a shower curtain with a towel. This decoration looks quite interesting. Its only disadvantage is that towels are more difficult to get dry but it is worth it.

A Few Unusual Ideas For Decorating Your Home3Decorate your garden

If you are living in a house you will have to think of a few ways to make your garden look more cosy and beautiful. You can use a ladder on which to place flowerpots or an old bicycle where to hang baskets with flowers. You can even paint a construction cart in bright colours and fill it with flowers.

Bio: Ella Andrews is a content writer who has great flair for decoration and interior design. She is always searching for new challenges. Therefore her present article is focused on exterior home design related theme.

Flowering Shrubs Guide By Guest Writer FlowersByPost.Org.UK

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Flowering Shrubs GuideThere are quite a few flowering shrubs which can make your garden look particularly pretty and any landscape much more appealing. If you live in a temperate region, it’s easier to grow and take care of such a shrub. The following list is based on the seasonal interest of each flowering shrub. This interest is not only based on the blooms of the shrub, but also on their shape, branching pattern and any other striking peculiarity. The blooming times of the following shrubs vary depending on the region they are growing at. Most people purchase flowering shrubs that they can enjoy all year long so this is the main focus of the list as well.

Spring Flowering Shrubs: There are many lovely shrubs which are in bloom in spring, so it won’t be hard to pick one. Forsythia is a shrub with bright yellow blooms which will beautify your garden from the very first days of spring. Some growers even use methods for forcing the flowers to bloom before spring has come. Some of the most famous flowering shrubs are azaleas and rhododendrons, with some of their types being evergreen. Another popular choice is the lilac, which is a late-comer, but it’s one of the perfect heralds of spring. The lilac has a lovely scent, whose aroma floats in the air everywhere around it and it’s quite recognizable all over the world. Its pretty petals will make your garden a true fairytale spot.

Summer Flowering Shrubs: If you live to the south, you can enjoy the blooms of the mountain laurel, a symbol of the transition from spring to the warmest season. In areas Flowering Shrubs Guide2where the laurel is native to, it can be mostly found in the forests. Another flowering shrub for the summer is the Rose of Sharon, which is in bloom in the second half of summer. The shrub is related to the Hibiscus, but its blossoms are not as large.

Some of these flowering shrubs double in fall and winter too – not devoid of interest. With outstanding autumn colours they add beauty to every landscape.

Fall Shrubs: Shrubs may be smaller than trees, but in autumn it rarely matters, as these following types look lovely. The Viburnum shrub produces white blooms in spring and attractive fall foliage too. They also have clusters of bluish berries which makes them even prettier. The Oakleaf Hydrangea is all about its beautiful clusters of white flowers during the summer. In Fall, on the other hand, its foliage turns purple, red or orangey-bronze – the perfect autumn colours for your garden.

Winter shrubs: Perhaps winter is not the best season for plants, shrubs and flowers, but it shouldn’t result in you neglecting your garden. In terms of landscape interest it’s quite poor, so the focus is usually on the unusual branching patterns. One of the examples of a winter shrub with Flowering Shrubs Guide3a peeling bark is the oakleaf hydrangea, thus making the shrub a triple winner – popular in summer, fall and winter. Another shrub worth a mention is Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick. Because of its rather unusual branching pattern this shrub is often called “contorted filbert” and “corkscrew hazel”. Many people who have this shrub in their garden his shrub in their garden decorate it for Christmas and New Year’s. It’s a good prop for hanging Halloween lanterns and decoration as well.

Handling the Planting of Flowers Classified as Impatient by Guest Writer FlowersByPost.Org.UK

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Handling the Planting of Flowers Classified as Impatient21. THE SO-CALLED IMPATIENT PLANTS

There is a specific classification of plants that goes under the name “Impatient”. The reason for this name can be found in the way those types of plants are being grown.  They usually grow in a garden and they their roots dig deep into the soil. A couple of other easy ways to grow them is by seeds or cutting. Either way they grow easily and without any problems. If you happen to purchase annual impatient flowers and shelter them indoors you will have to take care of them properly and place in a solid ground with enough soil and you will have to provide nutrition and water regularly in sufficient quantities. Of course, the smartest thing is to place them in your garden outside but some people find no troubles with raising them in their house. All it really takes is enough space for the roots of the flower to spread and enough water for them to drink. Every gardener can save himself a lot of problems when it comes down to impatient plants if he delivers the proper care and attention to all of his plants and flowers. This article will explain how to further handle impatient flowers in greater details.

Handling the Planting of Flowers Classified as Impatient

2. APPLICATIONS OF IMPATIENT FLOWERS

Most people put impatient flowers into good use by making the best of their positive effects as bleeding or border flowers or flowers preserved in containers. The best conditions for them and the only ones they require in order to grow quickly and naturally are enough moisture and a rich soil which is easy to drain and wet and finally, shadows-large or small, it doesn’t matter. You have to remember that impatient flowers do not handle the sunlight is such a welcoming manner as most well-known flowers do. Naturally, every flower can get accustomed to the new environment but you have to take the necessary precautions and do it gradually so that no serious damages are allowed. Every flower loves the sun and so do impatient flowers, but because of their higher sensitivity you need to be more cautious with them. The best way to help your impatient flowers to get used to the sunlight is by taking them over rare periods of time under the sunlight and increasing or making more regular that period every other week. If you do it properly and you follow some sort of a plan and a schedule, your impatient flowers should have no problem adapting to your desired amount of sunshine.

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3. PUTTING THE IMPATIENT FLOWERS IN YOUR GARDEN

Finally after the weather turns hot and friendly enough you can feel free to transport your impatient flowers from your home to your garden in the yard or on the balcony.  Every impatient flower comes with a box of some sort. You need to spill as much as possible from that liquid upon the soil in order to make it easy for the flower to establish itself. If you manage to perform the right twist with your hand on the package, the impatient plants will be released from the container into your hand safely and easily. If it doesn’t work the first time try one more time and make sure that there aren’t any roots caught up in the opening in the bottom of the vase. Feel free to remove those roots and release the flower. When you put the flower back in the soil in your garden the roots will grow again longer and stronger.

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Use For Old Buttons

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What a great idea for all of your old loose buttons just sitting around waiting to find a good home. Can be done on an old lampshade that can be painted or on a new white one like seen here to provide a glow to the buttons. Would make a great shade for a child’s room or your craft room. Where might you use this idea? Do you have enough buttons for a project like this?