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Every happy garden owner knows that perfection has no bounds. And if you finally started looking for landscape design ideas, then you’re on the beam! How to arrange a garden path, so that it might be functional and aesthetically acceptable at the same time? What kind of designer tricks would help in zoning a small garden? How to make a good shot in gardening ideas – from cultivating to storing? What is country garden style and how it works in color gamma, shapes and heights? How to realize flower garden ideas in a particular climate, space and surrounding architecture? What kind of garden decking designs are neater and more affordable? How to arrange a garden patio and create a very special atmosphere in it? If this is your interest – then browse our garden design ideas, improvise and create the best oasis of your own!
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How to Care for Indoor Plants in February
Winter is not an easy season for almost everyone, and room plants are not an exception. However, this is supposed to be the last cold month, which means that owners of home flora species will attempt the final climb before the season of revival and…
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Waterproofing a Garage
If you own, or are looking to build, a garage there’s every chance it’ll be affected by dampness. Garages are not designed to be very habitable, and focus is more so on weather protection than comfort. However this is challenged during our harsh winters, with…
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How to Create a Blooming Lawn in Your Garden for Next Spring?
Many tourists, who were lucky to visit Western Europe in early spring, have named plenty of first spring flowers growing right on the lawns in parks as one of the most amazing things they have seen in their journeys. And it’s not surprising at all…
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Tillandsia, or Airplant: 8 Ideas for Growing Rootless Plant
If you don’t like trivial indoor plants, HomeKlondike has a win-win option in stock – a tillandsia. Most commonly this plant is named an “airplant”, because it needs neither a pot, nor watering to grow. Tillandsia is an epiphyte, i.e. it grows attached to other…
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How to Decorate Outdoor Wedding: Original Ideas for Romantic Garden
Summer wedding is a nice reason to go beyond traditional indoor celebrations. For instance, it would be a good idea to abandon a stuffy restaurant hall in favor of a romantically decorated garden. Plenty of greenery, blooming flowers and beautiful lights create stunning and inspiring…
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Comfortable and Beautiful Outdoor Furniture for Summer 2017
Outdoor furniture is required to comply with a bunch of requirements: it has to survive in the burning sun and heavy rainfall; it should be lightweight, durable and easy-to-care; finally, it has to be comfortable and beautiful. HomeKlondike decided to collect the most comfy and…
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Expensive vs. Cheap: 10 Garden Accessories and Pieces of Furniture
Sometimes we find a thing in a store that is great for the décor, but not so great for the pocketbook. And we tighten our belts to buy this very piece. But sometimes it would be nice to take your time, since most pieces of…
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10 Amazing Design Hacks to Add Magic to Your Summer Cottage
Our summer cottages and country houses can be wonderful places for peaceful rest, if it weren’t everlasting cares and troubles. Relax and enjoy the summer and we have 10 simple ideas that would bring back magic to your days and nights!
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Garden Swing: Piece of Décor, Fun for Adults and Dream for Kids
Everyone likes swinging on the swings. Perhaps, with the exception of those unfortunate people, who get sick from just the thought of to-and-fro movements. A garden swing for kids means fun, thrill and fresh wind blowing in their faces. Tired of big city life, adults…
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30 Garden Décor Ideas – Easy & More Comprehensive
It’s never too early or too late to beautify your outdoor territory. And it doesn’t really matter whether you already have a full-fledged garden, how tall your vine is and whether your garden gazebo is already constructed. Nothing can keep you from making a few…
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Garden Path Materials: Review, Comparison and Ideas
Garden paths are important functional elements of our gardens. At the same time they give plenty of room for creativity and can surely be independent pieces of landscape design. When it comes to planning garden paths, the first thing you should decide on is how…
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Laying Turf Lawn: All Pros and Cons
Is a turf lawn a panacea to all challenges and problems facing your yard or caring for it may turn your summer season into a nightmare? We’d like to discuss all the strong and weak points of this covering, since forewarned is forearmed.
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How to Organize a Summer Kitchen: Tips, Ideas and Photos – Part 2
We’re continuing to discuss the concept of a summer kitchen. In the previous post we mentioned that an outdoor cooking area may have a few functional zones that make it more attractive and comfortable that a customary indoor kitchen. What are they? Let’s see!
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How to Organize a Summer Kitchen: Tips, Ideas and Photos – Part 1
In summer time, cooking in a hot enclosed kitchen, we usually dream about a wisp of fresh air, singing birds and leaves shaking gently: in a word, all the finer things of the country life. That is why today we decided to speak about how…
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10 Vegetables That Can Be Grown on the Balcony
With the coming of spring even the most confirmed townsmen may feel the ancient farmer instinct: an irresistible desire to touch the ground, smell the scent of earliest flowers and eat the first berry. If you are a lucky owner of a balcony or a…
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Outdoor Lighting: 6 Inspiring Ideas & 60 Amazing Photos
The season of pleasant journeys to the countryside, happy strolls along the gardens and little family get-togethers in gazebos is about to begin. And we were wondering how to make these happy moments even more powerful and cozier with the help of the right lighting….
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Garden Paths Planning: Where to Start From?
Garden walkways play the role of bridges linking different parts of your outdoor territory in a harmonious and convenient way, and hence should receive as much careful consideration as the layout of a house. How should they be designed? What designer tricks can be used…
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Kochia: Spectacular Ornamental Plant for Your Landscape Design
When you look at this sweet ornamental plant, you would never guess that the closest “relatives” of it are goosefoots and saltbushes known as extremely obtrusive weeds. Traditionally its tied dried “shrubs” were used for making brooms: the branches played the role of a broom…
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Amazing Jag Grill 3-in-1: Grill, Firepit & Dining Table
Spring is in full swing and this is the perfect time for admirers of the great outdoors, especially barbecues. As a general rule, the process of cooking meat is nothing to enjoy and this heavy responsibility is born by one “lucky” person, while the rest…
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Dealing with Clay Soil and a Waterlogged Lawn
Does your lawn have a slight depression and always seems to be wet and soggy, with large puddles that take forever to drain away? Perhaps you also have clay soil which doesn’t help the situation. Waterlogging is a problem on compacted and clay soil and…
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10 Garden Jobs in March
In the end spring has found its way to reach even cold regions… It would be wrong to say that it was unexpected, but winter months always seem to be so long that sometimes we start thinking they’ll never end. That is why it’s so…
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Vintage Handmade Fire Pit from a Treadle Sewing Machine
As we already know from the previous post, Vadim Kuleshov is a skillful craftsman, an experienced gardener, a keen topiary expert and just a diverse self-taught nugget, who can create many beautiful garden things. Among them there is a vintage fire pit composed of spare…
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Metal Garden Sculptures by Tom Hill & Vadim Kuleshov
Say what you like, but men and women see a different vision of the same decor. And metal landscape sculptures are a nice proof of this fact. But despite their brutal nature, we have to acknowledge that men creating them do have a sense of…
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Timber Shed Maintenance: In, Out and All About
Most of us have a shed or a summer house in the garden for storing all manner of ‘stuff’; some of us use the building as a workshop, or a studio, or a storeroom and keep it looking good. A question many people ask is:…