Welcome to the all new Natural Living Link Up which will be held on No Ordinary Homestead every Friday. Due to the fact that we have limited gardening space now, I figured it was time to retire the Garden Life linkup (after nearly a year) and flow into something that...
Converting a cold, sterile house into a warm and inviting home is something that can often be achieved with a minimum of expense and effort. A home should reflect the personalities of its inhabitants and should also make everyone – both residents and guests alike –...
As you may have read, we were recently in Berlin and we stayed in a gorgeous hotel. We spent nearly 3 days in the hotel, so I got to know our room pretty well. And there were some design elements that were so smart, regardless of whether you're in a big house or a...
In keeping with my attack on the kitchen, I recently realized that also our silverware drawers in the kitchen are fairly organized, there is still a bit of chaos in there. So when we purchased the plastic tubs for the spice storage, I also grabbed a few random small...
I could hardly believe it when the call came in on Monday evening. Our new windows were being delivered to the window installer on Tuesday morning, and they wanted to set up an appointment to deliver them to us and get started with the installation in the afternoon....
If you've ever had the privilege of visiting our home, you may notice that we have pure white walls...nearly everywhere. I say nearly because we did actually get brave and paint the walls in our guesthouse something other than white (namely a warm caramel color and...
Because we're taking on new web design and consulting contracts here in Germany, I decided it was finally time to do something good for my home office. It's been a bit of a mess for a while. And although I have managed to mostly keep my desk clean (which really is not...
Don't forget: Today is the last day to enter the Made in Germany giveaway where over $1100 in prizes are up for grabs! Three winners will be chosen in the US and Europe! Low entries so far -- especially in Europe I almost didn't decorate for Easter this year....
Warning: I am about to show you just how big of a geek I really am... Perhaps you' are way more organized than us and you don't hold on to stuff FOREVER. Maybe you don't just have a drawer-full of old floppy disks lying around, which once held crucial information on...
I was just doing some browsing last night for speaker stands and living room deco ideas since we love the new layout but our walls are still really bare...and I realized that flat screens really revolutionized the way a living room is laid out and the amount of space...
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