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The Home Renovation Guide blog, North America’s favourite for Renovation and Remodelling enthusiasts is looking for appealing articles, tips and product reviews!

Articles should be about 500 words in length (although not the maximum limit) and they should speak to the home enthusiast, interior designers, decorators, contractors, suppliers and other home professionals. Preferred content are informative tips or useful information for the home owner, however, relevant press releases, new product announcements, contests and casting calls as well as product reviews or interviews, etc., related to the home improvement sector are also welcome. A

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The Best Gutter Guard Makes Water a Friend Instead of an Enemy to Your Home

Water at your home’s foundation can ruin your home. Home’s can be designed to keep water away from the foundation but most aren’t designed that way which means that if you have tree debris you’ll need the best gutter guard to keep the foundation of your home dry. Without the best gutter guard installed on your home water is an enemy. Presuming your roofing is not leaking you want to make sure that all the rain water that runs down the roof does not have a chance at getting into your windows, siding, and basement . Water problems are easily avoided if the ground around your foundation has decorative rocks and is sloped away from the foundation and you have a two foot overhang on your roof. View more…

The style of interior designer, Gary Spain

June 24th, 2011

Im absolutely loving San Francisco interior designer, Gary Spains, decor style.  Modern, colourful, eclectic and extravagent are words which spring to mind- it just goes to show what you can achieve when you think outside the box in terms of design and decor.

The rich yellow colour of the chairs and framed picture look stunning against the patterned wallpaper and wooden flooring.  These rooms may look thrown together but in reality, a huge amount of thought has gone into every piece of furniture and its placing.

Against all odds, the mix of pattern, colour and texture really works in this room above!

This bathroom is to die for!!

My mini interview in Grove MagazineFuture PerfectA magical Christmas in Lapland

Questions on the SJÖBERGS 1500 workbench

I was wondering if any of you could give me an idea on how you liked your SJÖBERGS 1500 workbench or thought of the model if you had seen it or used it? The price is nice but I understand you get what you pay forlol. I do small to midsized projects using all handtools. Planeing and hand sawing, chisles, handcarving etc. For the 89 pounds does it sit and hold pretty firm? I have a smaller shop space and this will be my first woodworking workbench, I have a handmade workbench for all various, tasks but no dogs or vises.

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Building a room from the ground up!

This is a subject we have touched on before. However we still have those customers that come in, fall in love with a rug and then share with us that they just invested in furniture; regretfully the rug they love isn’t going to coordinate. As we all know the majority of the time furniture is custom made and difficult in not possible to return. We don’t ever want you to feel regret when it comes to a large purchase like furniture so here is our guide to building the perfect room in your home.

Whether you’re building a room from scratch or re-invigorating an existing room in your home our recommendation is always to start with the rug!

The first step is to identify the rug that you LOVE! For m

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Two plays on assemblage

Two plays on assemblage, Bonsai Equilibrium by Beatrix Li-Chin Loos and Peculiar Attachments produced by D. Lab, are proposed by Galerie Gosserez with simple, efficient and elegant colours and shapes. On show from Friday 17th June at 3 rue Debelleyme Paris.

Colour as raw material with alphabetical form, Peculiar Attachment produced by D. Lab, Chung Sui Fai asserts an approach to the assemblage game which positions it in directly in the footsteps of visual designers from Memphis to Pierre Charpin, Eric Jourdan or today’s Dito. D

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