Home Improvement

Industrial look for Interiors of Home

There is an increasing interest in the industrial look for interiors of the home especially in the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. It takes the look of a turn of the century factories and lofts and brings it into home décor. With the lack of affordable housing in large cities, people moved into old factories and lofts to make a living space.

The walls often have red brick, metals, and dark paint. The furniture often has a pipe or metal look with a solid upholstery usually in leather. It is never complete without the old looking light fixtures with the Edison bulbs. Encourage is the use of recycled materials.

This is minimum design without cluttering the surfaces with anything. Space should mostly be bare and open. Accessories include large wall art and metal structures recycled from a junkyard.

Exposed pipes and ductwork should not be covered. Vintage photos placed in old metal frames can be placed on the walls or tables. The industrial style is simple but relaxed.

Funny Garden Moments

I am in Need of a Distraction

I am in need of a distraction, so this weekend I am getting out the new seed catalogs and making lists, and checking them twice. I start with a fixed amount which becomes a small percentage of what I will spend. This is something I go through every year, knowing the plants I come to cannot be found at area greenhouses or on store shelves.

Selection of Catalogs

I will buy a rare and exotic seed packet, something just to try. They usually contain 10 seeds with only one that will germinate. This happened last year to some double coreopsis, one plant made it and was transplanted last spring in which the dog decided to anoint the plant. It died.

I will make a vow not to make the garden and flowerbed bigger to accommodate the surplus plants. I will not germinate too many seeds, if I do, throw some away.

Garden Tools

What do you do with Your Old Garden Tools

As you are going through your old garden tools, what do you do with your old garden tools? Take your old tools and repurpose them into “new” garden items.

Garden planter make out of an old hog pan

Rusty spades and hand tools can be reborn in new items for your garden. An old spade handle glued or screwed to an old hog pan creates a planter for your deck.

Bird feeders from shovel heads

I seen someone remove the top off of an cable roller and made a clock out of old hand tools. Take shovels heads and make a plant stand or bird feeder.

Garden gate make from old garden tools

Create a garden gate out of garden tools or make a trellis for the clematis to climb on. Then take that leaky hose can even make a nice wreath for your front door or garden shed.

Take those old tools, the rustier the better, and incorporate back into your garden.