Decorating Backyard for Fantastic Home design


Have narrow backyard? Make it as little garden, so you have a lot of advantage, and make your home comfortable. The first advantage is make sure that light enter your house easily, second, air circulation will better. Back and front aperture will guarantee cross ventilation happen.

Garden in the backyard also can become running away area, moment to escape from day to day work. Garden backyard makes our privacy increasing, not like front garden. You can unify backyard garden with kitchen, so id there is a party, guest can take food I the kitchen, then walk to garden to enjoy both of garden and food.

For example, below is picture of backyard garden:



That garden above, garden backyard decorate with small pool made from natural stones. The pool not too deep, and decorating with water spraying. And there is path, seem like float on pool. Pool positioned higher than land surface. Overflow water patches water canals that surrounding the pool.

Because there is space limitation, choose small plants. In this example garden, yellow clump plants (Neomarica Sp.) and Japanese grass. At corner of garden, Yang Liu plants planted. Yang Liu plants perfect for small garden because the physic feel light and waving. And finally, for pool resident, there is water plants.

Pink Saturday 10/30/2010

Welcome once again to Pink Saturday. Please visit with Beverly of How Sweet the Sound for more participants.

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And Happy Halloween, all your spookie chicks! I made this a couple of years ago and it still sits on my front porch all year round. I just wiped it down and added the sign for this weekend. I told you I don't "do orange" so this is my contribution to the autumn season.

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It's been a rough week for me. I'm always smiling and a truly upbeat person, but when I laid this body down on my masseuse's table on Wednesday I just lost it. I'm glad I was face down because the tears started falling the second Maria put her hands on my body. She's a very, very caring person, and I'm just glad she couldn't see the tears flowing. Just her touch relieved a lot of stress in this old body. And trust me, this has been very stressful trying to get relief from the fall I took.

Anyway, I thought I'd just ramble a bit today. The earth is taking making its autumnal glory for the year and that perhaps is one of the things that can depress the human spirit, realizing I'm in the autumnal period of my life.

Our last 2 tomatoes from the garden and the last gardenias from the plant. You can't believe how fragrant these smell. Beautiful.


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Random Thoughts:

I read recently where the schools are providing DINNERS for school children! My parents would have been appalled at this. Where in the world are their parents? We're paying for this with our tax dollars. I find this appalling that anyone even thought of this. Parents are stewards of their children, not anyone else. I fed my kids when they were home. I never let them starve. Just boggles my mind.
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Did you know that P&G uses supercomputers to make sure that Pringles go into cans without breaking? I just love high tech stuff!
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Why do models stand with hands on their hips in those photos of them attending events? Do they realize how stupid they look? Standard pose: Hand on hip, looking over their shoulder, one leg crossed over the other. As I said, stupid looking!
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AND some of them have such huge breast proportions that I'm wondering if the world is facing a serious silicone shortage!
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I love all the pictures I see of the English, Italian and French countryside but it's always perplexed me why they build them on hills or steep windy roads. Sheesh, there seems to be flat land around them. Why make it hard to build and to go to and from the grocers? Weird. Beautiful, but still weird.
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My friend and I usually announce the end of our phone calls by asking each other if we've solved all the world's problems lately. We generally answer each other with this statement: No, but we haven't created any world problems lately either! Gives ME hope. ;-)

Until next time, my sweet chicks.
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Back(!) and What I Did with Some Pretty Papers

First, some eye candy for you chicks. :-)
Me and Miss C when we were visiting with her last month.


First of all, I'm feeling pretty good to where I think I'll start posting once more a week—perhaps mid-week—other than Pink Saturdays. If this doesn't work out I'll let you know. It's just a trial to see how it will affect me. But truthfully, I have missed blogging a LOT. I love it! I'll just have to take care and watch how much I do. I absolutely cannot spend hours on here so if I don't get to you and comment, please try to understand. I'm doing the best I can at the moment.
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Also, I need to tell you that I've thought of that elusive song I was trying to capture in my memory. My authority for 80s songs is my daughter. She can always come up with the song or the recording artist. After trying to remember some of the words I came up with cadillac and pink and she guessed it right away. I've never been a fan of Bruce Springsteen but it was one of his songs: "Pink Cadillac". I don't listen to music around the house as a general rule so I truly don't think I've ever heard any of his songs other than that. Needless to say, it is now in my iTunes! I like to exercise to it.
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Oooooh, and another thing. I wrote a comment to Blogger about keeping the Old Editor. It now does not have the "going away soon" by its name in the "Settings" tab on Blogger. I guess they listened to me and one other blogger who told me she was going to ask them to keep it also. Gals, this is the easiest editor of the two. Much more stable. If they do indeed keep it, I'm ecstatic. Pictures appear where they should. Spaces between pictures and text is closer together and much more stable (I could not get it to do correctly even if I used the Edit HTML tab above, AND the issue of spaces being further apart on the New Editor has definitely come up from people emailing me for help.) Plus I can upload 5 pictures at one time with it instead of one at a time. AND if you need to have strikethrough text or background color for some of your test background, you can change to the New Editor for just that one thing while composing the post and switch back to the Old Editor for the rest of it as I did in this post. However, I must warn you that if you switch back and forth the colors may be inconsistent in some of the text and the spaces between the photos can be a bit off. Me? I stick to the Old Editor until everything I want in the post is good and then I go back to do the "strikethrough" or any other thing for which I might want to use the New Editor. The best of both worlds, although, I don't think I've ever used colored background text and don't
especially like it, you can have that option if you wish. A win-win situation for all.
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I showed you some of these gorgeous papers the first of October, but I thought I'd show you the rest and what I did with some of them.








These are some of the candlesticks I pulled out of our garage sale in July and kept. Remember the 2 in the back, right at the top of the photo?

This is what they look like now. Nice, huh?



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Simple Stone Benches by Stone Forest

If you have a house equipped with a terrace garden, maybe you need a charming garden bench furniture like this. This garden bench is produced by Stone Forest, made of stone that has a simple yet modern impression. Stone used in making this bench using natural stone in the form of large stone slabs carved travertine and in a minimalist bench seat, so have the impression that the natural form, is very suitable to be placed on the terrace, the garden outside the house. Moreover, if placed around the trees, bushes or flowers your plantation house. This bench offers a beautiful natural stone, and manufactured in sizes 60 "L x 20" W x 18 "H with a thickness of 3.25" with contemporary colors silver and beige travertine that will add to the impression of modern outdoor patio or your garden.







source : www.homedug.com

The Dream of Beach House in Costa Rica

Do you envision a dream home on the beach? maybe for those of you who liked the beach so want to be able to stay in a comfortable seaside home. Here we want to show the edge of a slaughter house designs that may inspire you to design a comfortable beach house. This house was designed as a private house with 6 bedrooms dentgan custody by the Hermosa Palms in Playa Hermosa, Jaco., Costar Rica. The house is covered by large glass panels, allowing natural daylight and provide viewpoints freely off towards the shore, so the spectacular view outside the room can be seen clearly. The living room is the best spot to enjoy the surrounding view while gathering with some friends and family. Furnished by modern and high quality furniture, the house offers a small heaven for you to stay during your weekend or holidays. The house is divided into two volumes, the main house that contains four bedrooms and private bathrooms and the guest house that contains two bedrooms with bathroom. Featuring large infinity pool, mini bar, pool table, equipped kitchen, a movie theater cinema, two cars garage, laundry room, music system and many more, the house is a beautiful accommodation. For details info you can visit Airbnb.












source : www.homedug.com

Multifunction Furniture of Sogo

For those of you who have a high artistic soul, maybe this is the answer from a bench design unique furniture made from Siddharth Kambe. The design of this furniture are equipped with many functions that will help you save time and space. Furniture, dubbed Sogo is a modern bench that can function as a chair or desk and bookcase shelves for example, where a laptop, chess table, or a center table. Cool furniture is made of plywood which was formed in a simple and compact so it can be the perfect solution to fill your small apartment, or small room.





 source : www.homedug.com


Romantic Floor Lamp by Werner Aisslinger

Maybe you want a beautiful furniture concept which is used to fill the interior of your home? following we try to offer a design sensation of the floor lamp designed by Werner Aisslinger for Spanish companies Dab. This floor lamp design is very elegant and charming, very suitable placed in the living room, family room, living room or bedroom. Light produced by these lights are not intentionally designed with bright light, but able to illuminate corners of the room, so that the impact of this lighting effect gives a romantic atmosphere. This lamp is made with a solid color with an artistic decoration, and variety of style choices available in two sizes, 55, and 65 cm.






source : www.homedug.com

Lake Home in Switzerland

We'll show you a tastefully of a lakeside house design with a charming natural scenery. Walensee house is situated on the outskirts of Switzerland. Home design is simple but very elegant, and certainly very comfortable to live because it is located on the slopes of green pasture that allows you to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the area. This house was built with concrete material on its foundation so it is sturdy and safe. Beside that wood and glass are used as materials in the construction of this house. With a combination of existing material, designed a dwelling house which is very compact and thus blends harmoniously with the beautiful natural scenery. The design of this home provides an open living space with views out towards the surrounding landscape so that sunlight can enter to fill the entire interior. Covered by large floor to ceiling glass windows and sliding doors, the house looks bright and contemporary.









source : www.homedug.com

Beach House for Summer Holiday

Do you like the beach? maybe you have dreamed would like to have a house or resort which you can use as a holiday destination in summer? for that we'll show you a very attractive design that works from Jarmund / U.S. Vigsnaes Architects located in Vestvold, Norway. The project is constructed to be fully integrated to the surrounding environment. When we take a closer look to the house, it seems to be carved in stone and the overall design is showcased the beauty of the stone and wood in just perfect combination. Breathtaking view that is offered by the ocean is a value plus to the house design. The house is covered with Kebony wood that allows it to have a great durability to the exposure of salt water. The structure, foundation and roof blend together, creating a nice harmony with the surrounding. “The low elongated volume is cut into to allow for wind shielded outdoor areas, embraced by the house itself. These cuts also bring down the scale of the building, and together with the local variations of the section, make the building relate to the surrounding cliff formations. On the outer perimeter of terraces and pool, a glass fence also protects against wind, but allows for maximum view. “said the architects. 







source : www.homedug.com

Pink Saturday 10/23/2010 and a Refurbished Lamp

A hint at what I'm working on today.

Happy pink saturday! Please click on the logo below for
Beverly's How Sweet The Sound and see the other participants.

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Again, I apologize for not leaving any comments, but as I've said, my health is the most important thing at the moment. I hope to be back within the next couple of months blogging more. It usually takes me several times sitting at this computer to do a post for Pink Saturday. Prayers are gratefully accepted and appreciated.
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Also I have a request. Last monday at physical therapy I heard the song Achy Breaky Heart for the first time ever. It reminded me of a song in the 80s that we used to jazzercize to in class. It had that kind of beat but I can't remember the words or the name of the song. I know this seems like a worthless cause but I cannot get the song out of my head and the words won't come to me. I just loved that beat to jazzercize to though. Can anyone think of a song with that beat? And no, it wasn't Achy Breaky Heart. We didn't do country/western in San Francisco Bay Area at that time. Sorry.
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Some of you might be interested in knowing how I'm doing, maybe not, but I'm going to tell you anyway. :-) I'm doing great! I haven't exercised this much in years and I need to make an embarrassing confession. While this has been going on and I'm exercising diligently 2x a day, every single day except for sundays as it is a day of rest for us, I decided to get out some DVDs I had a woman make for me from some old tapes I had. When I put the DVD on my Mac iBook I thought I'd just sail right through it for at least part of the 60 minute video. I got 10 minutes into it and just about had a heart attack! Very embarrassing. I told hubs that I couldn't go anymore. That was very embarrassing but he said, "It's 10 minutes more than you did yesterday, which was zero." He's right. There has to be a beginning for everything. So I've been trying the treadmill for the last few days and that's much better for an old lady to start out on. You'll be apprised of my progress henceforth.
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I'm going to ramble for a minute or so. You KNOW how opinionated I am and how certain things just set my teeth on edge, right? Well, yesterday I was "visit teaching" a woman in our ward (this is a monthly thing we do in our church to visit and see if they need anything or to help with anything they might need and also to bring the spiritual message of the month.) During the visit her cell phone rang and she answered it. Now, she has voice messaging just like the millions of other cell phone users but she chose to answer it. It didn't sound like something she couldn't have waited to talk about until we had left. I was frothing!!! The look I had on my face could have peeled the wet off water! I know my face had to show my anger to my companion. I never, ever answer the phone when someone is visiting with me. THEY are more important than just about anything that could come over a phone line. I always let it go to message. What is wrong with us that we don't acknowledge the people in our presence as being as important as those that call us? If she had been waiting for an emergency, that would have been different. I'm talking about someone who just wanted to chat and she probably knew that. Please, women, give your attention to someone in your presence who has come to visit with you.
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This lamp is one I did many years ago in white but I decided recently I wanted it more pink. I'm also doing projects I can stand up doing instead of sitting. This is, of course, driving me nuts! But hopefully it won't be much longer before I can sit with a modicum of comfort.




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