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• How to Choose the Perfect Landscaping Plants for your Outdoors
• Customized Green Walls for Fresh Interiors by Greenworks
• Versatile Furniture Piece For the Unutilized Corner Spaces: LEAN
• Creative Store in New York with a Glacial Cavern Theme

How to Choose the Perfect Landscaping Plants for your Outdoors Posted: 06 Jun 2011 05:44 AM PDT All of the excuses of the cold weather, too rainy, and imperfect conditions are now gone and it's time to get serious about your landscaping. While it's easy to go to a nursery or your local improvement store's garden center to choose plants, have you ever noticed that all plants aren't perfect for every home? Whether the sun/shade ratio isn't proper, or you choose plants that are too large or small for your yard, choosing the perfect landscaping requires guidance! Here are tips to choose the perfect landscaping plants for your home, to enjoy throughout the warmer summer months. Front yard versus backyard landscaping:  One of the best parts about planning and choosing your plants are deciding where they will go. Front yard landscaping requires you to assess the surrounding neighbors homes as well as accentuate the exterior details of your home. While backyard landscaping allows you to be more personalized and unique, due to the privacy of your own home's personal outdoor qualities. Choose plants that will lend themselves to playing up your natural surroundings, but not overpower your curb appeal on the front of your home. Accentuate your landscaping on your home: You may not realize it, but accenting your home with flowering landscaping and plant boxes around windows can dramatically change the exterior of your home. Mimic the shrubbery in your yard and use planters, hanging plant baskets, or even install a trellis to let natural climbing plants grow. Ivy, wisteria and honeysuckle are beautiful vines that can accentuate your home, and not just the ground.  For a customized look, find planters that can be painted in coordinating colors as the color palette of your home. Choosing plants for your wet areas: When choosing plants, remember that plants around water areas are different than those in dry areas. Fountains, and natural ponds have plants such as lily pads, and water gardens that thrive on moisture. They are good for the environment, and they naturally help the ecosystem. Around pools, choose plants that don't require a lot of fertilizer and pesticides that could be harmful to swimmers. Natural grasses are best around pools, and flowering shrubs thrive in moist areas. Natural plants are low maintenance: If you're like many homeowners who enjoy the beauty of landscaping but don't want to spend the time or energy to preserve their surroundings, natural plants may be your answer. From cactus and ground cover plants, to evergreen shrubbery and pine straw or nuggets instead of mulching can be perfect for your home. If you prefer flowering plants, ask your nursery about low maintenance plants, and which ones thrive in your geographic area. This will help you determine what is right for your maintenance level, and will still make your surroundings look fabulous. Choosing landscaping for your home can be made easier by following these helpful tips. The perfect landscaping doesn't have to be expensive, and it doesn't have to be maintained by a gardener. Instead, do your research as to where the plants will be placed, what functions you want it to serve, and the geographical area for it to thrive. With these factors in place, you will love how you feel relaxing outside of your home with your welcoming landscaping! Freshome readers have you already chosen your landscaping? What tips can you share? Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! How to Maximize your Interior Views with Outdoor Landscaping 10 Tips to Prepare your Home for Spring Landscaping 10 Simple Ways to Bring the Outdoors Inside How to Care for your Lawn and Landscaping Before the Winter 6 Key Elements to Designing a Beautiful Porch Importance of Plants in Your Home Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Customized Green Walls for Fresh Interiors by Greenworks Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:27 AM PDT How would you like your home transformed into an indoor green labyrinth? Greenworks is a Swedish studio with an unusual company profile: they create customized indoor green walls and decorations. From mobile plant panels to framed plant screens with lighting effects, this idea can bring a fresh touch to any apartment or public space. According to the producers, you can either buy your own wall and see to the maintenance yourself or they can set up a leasing contract with a well-reputed plant-service-company that will take care of water filling, nutrition, cleaning and replanting with a guarantee promising that the wall always looks healthy. We imagine this would be a great solution for an office building. The advantages of having such a green wall? Air cleaning, humidification, evaporation of the air, aesthetic impressions, sound absorbing, the distinct symbol of having a unique profile and appreciations from visitors are just a few benefits listed by the people at Greenworks. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Fresh and Playful Interiors : Up For Some Color? Turn Your Bathroom into a Truly Unique and Personal Place Leaving and Breathing Green Walls from Nendo Green Roofs Collection Orange and Green Bathroom Design from Duebi Italia Modern Retail Interiors by Kata’s Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Versatile Furniture Piece For the Unutilized Corner Spaces: LEAN Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:07 AM PDT LEAN is a creative furniture item that can serve as a coffee table, a bookshelf and even as a chair. Here is the information we received from the producers in the official press release: “The limited space of city-living has inspired industrial designer, William Lee, to rethink every inhabitable inch and create a concept for the corner. Together with architect Manu Garza of et al. collaborative, the two merged disciplines to develop LEAN. With a sculptural yet simple design, the piece brings purpose to a universally under-utilized space; the corner. With a sculptural yet simple design, the piece brings purpose to a universally under-utilized space; the corner. The versatile piece stands alone as a sculptural element, but also has dual functionality as furniture. When upright in a corner, LEAN is a chair that gains structural support from its adjacent walls. Set on its side, it becomes a coffee table with  negative space for books and magazines.” Find it practical?  [Photos by Warren Chow] Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Modern Furniture MODUL 011 Sideboard Take Advantage of Unused Corners in Your Home : Lorna Corner Shelf Allen Corner Bookcase A piece of furniture with “muscles” Mixture of Old and New: Duo Cabinet by Maak Design Studio A Space Saving Murphy Bed for Your Pet Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Creative Store in New York with a Glacial Cavern Theme Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:11 AM PDT The Richard Chai store is an original installation in the shape of a glacial cavern . The unusual showroom was envisioned by Snarkitecture and designer Richard Chai in New York. According to the architects, “white architectural foam is cut by hand to produce erosions and extensions of the sculpted walls and ceiling to create a varied landscape for the display of Richard Chai's collection. The range of shelves, niches, hang bars and other moments embedded within the form encourage the designer's curatorial eye for display. At the close of the temporary installation, the material was returned to the manufacturer and recycled into rigid foam insulation“. Creative and completely unexpected, we believe this type of approach can have a strong impact on the visitors. Moreover, the arrangements create a great space for the items to be “exhibited” and emphasized, don’t you agree? Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Cutler House in Montauk, New York Exquisite W Hotel in New York by BBG-BBGM Beautiful Room : Chandelier Creative Spectacular Sulfur Cavern Visitor’s Center in the Azores Creative Café Design Inspired by a Library in New York Diverse & Contemporary: Park Avenue Penthouse in Manhattan Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

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