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A flower garden can be a peaceful and beautiful refuge from the rest of the world. Sitting in the midst of fragrant flowers while reading a book or strolling along paths lined with flowers in cheerful colors can help you to wind down after a busy, stressful day. With some planning and work, a lovely flower garden can be yours to enjoy.

Planning Flower Garden Designs

Creating beautiful flower garden designs takes much planning and consideration. You will need to consider the types of flowers and combinations of colors you desire for the garden. You will also need to think about the placement of borders and shrubs as well as seating and ornaments. It is a good idea to choose an overall style for the garden and stick with it. When you begin your flower garden designs project, you should make a scale drawing of the design to help visualize your concepts.

Shapes in Flower Garden Designs

Decide upon the shape and pattern for your flower garden designs. Rectangular flower garden designs are a traditional shape and always popular. Circular shaped gardens add interest to the standard rectangular lawn. Flower gardens planted on a diagonal to the house can make a lawn appear larger than it actually is.

Styles of Flower Garden Designs

There are a number of styles of gardens that you can plant, and many of them are not too difficult to achieve. Some favorite flower garden designs are listed here.

Rose Flower Garden Designs

Rose Gardens are easy to plant and beautiful to see. In addition to modern roses, include fragrant, old-fashioned varieties of roses whose scent will delight. Plant bulbs in the beds and border them with seasonal flowers to keep the garden full of color during the blooming seasons.

Cottage Flower Garden Designs

Informal cottage gardens have an old-fashioned, rustic look about them. These flower garden designs incorporate the use of flowers, plants and vegetables.

Shade Flower Garden Designs

Shade gardens are good flower garden designs for spaces with many trees blocking the sunlight. There are many flowers that do well in shady areas, including impatiens, begonia, azalea, hosta and viola. The lack of leaves on the trees in spring allows spring bulbs to grow, filling the space with color.

Wildflower Flower Garden Designs

Wildflower gardens are flower garden designs that feature plants indigenous to the area where the garden is located. These gardens tend to require less pampering than some of the other types listed here, usually not requiring much weeding or amendments to the soil.

Butterfly Flower Garden Designs

Butterfly gardens are delightful flower garden designs, planted with flowers known to attract butterflies. Plants such as marigold, lilac, coreopsis, lavender, black-eyed susan and goldenrod are all good choices for butterfly gardens.

Hummingbird Flower Garden Designs

Likewise, hummingbird gardens are a good choice for those who enjoy spotting these small birds. Hummingbirds like richly colored flowers with sweet nectar and a tubular shape. Red and fuschia flowers in particular tend to attract hummingbirds. Some hummingbird garden favorites are morning glory, petunias, azalea, rose of sharon, delphinium and honeysuckle.

Those who have played Xbox Kinect will have experienced a little of what it’s like to live in a digitally submersive world like that featured in the movie Minority Report, where a wave of your controller-free hand has cause and effect on a screen in front of you. Well, this prototype by Openarch shows us a Smart Home where screens are no longer required, a home where the walls and floors become viewing stations at which to play games, video chat, surf the internet and use a multitude of handy household app style functions:

It’s heartening to note that they have produced a real functioning prototype and it is not one of those futuristic concept videos that we usually see floating about.

This is “the first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet,” says Openarch. “Its inhabitants lead a new digital and connected life. It is flexible and thanks to its ability to transform, it can adapt to any condition that the user requires.”

As this technology works on a projection basis, you can probably say goodbye to pattered wallpapers and rugs, other than virtual ones!

Openarch isn’t the only company that is bringing in new ways in which we interact with data and objects. Check out this video from Microsoft’s Research Labs that shows their vision of how we might interact with objects digitally in the future.

But this is just the beginning in a long line of enhancements imagined for our future, similar more integratable concepts are coming to the market, such as the Samsung Smart Window:

With fascinating additions like these, life and education take on exciting new dimension, and loved ones, friends and colleagues are connected ways never before possible. It’s seems we have a lot to look forward to!…

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When decorating a kid’s room, we always tend to incorporate style and learning and the Tot Tutors Book Rack in Primary Colors will surely do its job in giving colors to your kids’ room and at the same time keep them reminded with colors, especially the primary colors.

The Tot Tutors rack comes in a toddler size, so your kids can easily put in and out their materials like books, magazines, art books, and more. The rack size is even easy for 3 years old kids to access. However, parents should take charge with their younger than 3 years old learners because, the rack has small parts that make this rack not a good piece of furniture for children under years old. [Click here for more information about the Tot Tutors Book Rack in Primary Colors]

The rack frame is made of sturdy wood making it safe enough for your tots. It has five pockets made of nylon fabric and comes in bright colors of red, blue, green, and yellow. In addition, the pockets are large enough to carry books of different size and thickness and it promotes good organization and reading skills to your kids.

Parents that are not into carpentry should not worry because the rack requires only some home assembly and it surely will be very easy for them. You should take some time to measure and know your kids’ room size to make sure that you still have enough space for the rack that measures 28 x 11 x 28 inches wide, deep, and high respectively.

Teach your kids now some good organization and reading skills while making their room look bright and colorful by having the Tot Tutors Book Rack in Primary Colors in their rooms. [Click here for more information about the Tot Tutors Book Rack in Primary Colors]

This story “Give Colors To Your Kids’ Room With The Tot Tutors Book Rack In Primary Colors” comes from Modern Home Design – Home Dosh

Australian writer, illustrator, and artist Sean E. Avery has created a collection of interesting mixed media sculptures of animals and insects, using shattered CD fragments arranged to form the illusion of fur and feathers. The reflective media gives an iridescent sheen to the modern art, resulting in silvery-blue rodent coats, and bird forms showing the meticulously layered pieces transformed into oily rainbows over flourishes of tail feather and wing.

Avery describes: “The nature of my sculpture practice ensures that each piece will be completely unique. I blend many different man made materials together to make them appear strangely organic, with a distinct sense of movement. I only use recycled materials to create my sculptures, which classifies my work as “sustainable art”.

This giraffe is pattered with microchips, and looks back over its shoulder at a cable-tidy-tail.

Sean has won many local awards as a sculptor in Western Australia, and Ripley’s Believe it or Not have recently purchased sculptures for display in their Baltimore and Hollywood museums.

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We all want for our home to be clean and clutter free as possible and we can only achieve it if we have the right tool at home like the Smoke Finished 5-Tier Media Rack that can hold your game CDs, DVDs, BluRay, and even books. Available from Atlantic, this stylish and clean media rack can hold 130 CDs or 90 DVDs.

Available in clear smoke finish, this rack will surely match with your modern home interiors and furniture pieces with no problem at all. The shelves and dividers made it easy for you to classify your CDs like putting all your game CDs on one site and your BluRay on the other side for easy retrieval if needed. The geometric design of the rack adds up to the beauty it can bring to your home. [Click here for more information about the Smoke Finished 5-Tier Media Rack]

The rack requires a little assembly and parts like screws and bolts needed for assembly are included in the package. One must note though the rack is presumably designed to be a wall mounted one because of the body and the base’s similar width, which tends to fall off if filled fully when used as a stand-alone shelf.

Apart from the similar width size of all the five shelves, the rack looks great in any home of different interiors. The Smoke Finished 5-Tier Media Rack is sleek enough to complete your elegant home interior design.[Click here for more information about the Smoke Finished 5-Tier Media Rack]

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Most Americans refer to any wool area rug with geometric designs and flowers, as an “Oriental Rug” or “Persian Rug”.  At one time the ancient Persian Empire extended from North Africa to India, and included Turkey and Armenia. The world of rugs and carpets includes over 10,000 different types, identified by the patterns of the [...]

Kids are active in nature that they love to do multiple things simultaneously and the Klinko Kids 3-in-1 Little Frog furniture for kids will surely help them in achieving the things they want to do. This awesome furniture can be your baby’s best buddy because it can be their useful reading chair, their playful table, and their relaxing lounge chair. The simple yet high quality design of the furniture made it a space saving one. However, you should not let the sleek and simple design mislead you because the three functions it offers will surely amaze you.

Designed by Klinko Kids, the 3-in-1 little frog is safe for your kids. It features no removable parts and uses materials that are safe to the environment and to your kids. These materials include the certified water-based and non-toxic wood sealer, water-based and non-toxic wood glue, and water-based and non-toxic wood stain. Aside from safety, this furniture from Klinko Kids also provides comfort. The armchair made reading more comfortable as well as the soft foam vinyl cushion.

In addition, this furniture also has the sleek and fancy design that will surely look good in any modern homes of different interiors. The furniture is available in five different colors that are in perfect contrast to the locally farmed poplar plywood making the little frog cool enough to the eyes. Assembling can be dead easy because it come pre-assembled, so you only need to do a little assembly and you can let your kids enjoy it.

In addition to the safe materials used, the Klinko Kids 3-in-1 Little Frog is also hand-crafted making it a product that requires zero carbon emission during production, which is obviously favorable to the environment.

HomeDosh has received this Klinko Kids 3-in-1 Little Frog submission from the page ‘Submit Your Product‘ feature, we welcome you to submit your unique products for publication.

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They are privacy and shelter are two important things in the garden. The latter is often a problem in gardens which are exposed to cold prevailing winds. Both these points are important not only for the gardener himself, but also for the plants in his garden.

Young growth can be severely damaged by cold winds and frequent buffeting will cause a great deal of root disturbance. Although privacy and shelter can be provided by trees and shrubs, fences also have an important part to play.

The choice of fencing must never be undertaken lightly, for serious consideration must be given to its appearance and construction.

Strength is very important. A fence is only as strong as its supports. Most fences are supplied with strong posts, usually 4-6in (10-15cm) square. Sometimes concrete posts are supplied; these are extremely strong. Strength of timber also depends on the prevention of rot, and unless cedar wood is used (except for posts), all timber should be treated with a suitable preservative. Creosote can be used, although it should be allowed to soak into the timber for several weeks before plants are trained against it. Unless this is done, there is the danger of stem and leaf scorch and its use is not generally recommended where plants are to be grown against or near a fence. A safer treatment consists of the use of copper naphthenate preservatives such as the green, horticultural grades of Cuprinol or Solignum.

Types of fencing

The most popular types are purchased as units or panels. Usually they are from 5-6ft (1.5-1.8m) in length with heights varying from about 3-6ft ( 90cm-1.8m). A solid or close boarded fence is, as its name implies, a design which consists of upright or horizontal strips of wood, some 6in (15cm) wide and 1in (2-2.5cm) thick. The strips are nailed to two or more supporting rails at the rear of the panel. These provide complete privacy and wind protection.

Weather board fencing consists of wedge-shaped strips of wood, (1 in 2cm) in thickness at one edge, tapering to 0.5 in (1cm) at the other. Each strip overlaps the next by about 1 in(2cm). The advantage of this design is that it is virtually peep proof.

Trellis fencing is suited as a support for climbing and trailing plants. It is not a strong design but can be used to good effect for covering unsightly walls or as an additional part of a fence design. It usually consists of laths of wood 1 by 3/4in ( 2.5 by 1.5cm) thick, fastened across each other vertically and horizontally to form 6-8in (15-20cm) squares. The laths are attached to a more substantial framing of 1 or 1in (2.5 or 3cm) square timber.

One of the latest advances in fence production is the sale of kits which are so accurately machined and complete that even an unskilled person can erect panels without any trouble. With these kits have come new ideas in design, and many can be made up into contemporary designs. This is especially useful where bold effects are required in the construction of patios. Many ultra-modern properties are being built and this advance in fence appearance will be welcomed by their owners.

Fencing can also be provided in the form of chain link or mesh netting. The best quality is heavily galvanized to withstand the rigors of the weather.

A more recent innovation is the plastic coating of chain link over the galvanized wire. Standard colors of dark green, black, white, yellow and light green can be obtained.

As the largest piece of furniture you are likely to buy for your living, we are taking a look at sofas, and how they fit into modern spaces. This collection from Vitra is a menagerie of contemporary shapes and colors to inspire your next decorating scheme, enjoy!

White is a fresh look, it’s also a fabulous backdrop for mixing stronger colors when it comes to choosing your scatter cushions and throws. Don’t forget that not everything has to be matched either, a statement chair in a contrasting color will have far more visual effect than a traditional, single toned, three piece suite. The heavy shapes of yesterday are also out the window with the introduction of sweeping silhouettes and curves, even boxier designs have been slimmed down and streamlined to create a more dynamic look for the modern home.

Whilst neutral hues like taupe, grey, and bolder black are still going strong, current shapes and styles have extra edge when upholstered in rich colored fabrics such as hot reds or chic olive green. A mustard shade falls nicely in the middle of the spectrum having an earthy undertone whilst still creating a stronger statement than your paler creams. Scroll on for some great eye candy.

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Crime is on the rise or so it seems. Whether you are operating your own business or just want to insure the safety of your own home, you may want to think long and hard about using hidden digital video recorders to keep an eye on things. If your business or home is fairly large, you know that you may need to have several hidden digital video recorders operating all at the same time. Fortunately, there are several models of hidden digital video recorders that can operate numerous security cameras all at the same time.

One unit in particular, allows you to connect up to eight cameras and has eight alarm inputs. The great part is that all eight cameras can be viewed on one monitor, so you don’t have to go broke building a wall of monitors to handle the job. Once an alarm goes off, the switcher will lock onto the camera covering the area where the alarm went off. And if more than one alarm sounds, it will switch automatically between the affected areas. You can also manually excluded unaffected cameras or lock the affected cameras so that you have a constant view of the trouble spot.

There is also a nine camera version of these hidden digital video recorders that allows you to change setting from one, two, four or eight camera viewing, too. The system adjusts to your needs regardless of how many hidden digital video recorders you are using. Then if you need to expand your system, you don’t have to worry about purchasing another system, you are ready to go for up to nine cameras.