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Taking Inspiration from Art Nouveau: Bringing Nature, Beauty, and Ornament into the Home and Garden
Take inspiration from Art Nouveau’s love of nature, graceful lines, meaningful ornament, and handcrafted beauty with these simple ideas for the home and garden. This post explores how to bring a little Art Nouveau-inspired charm into everyday life through botanical motifs, curved forms, natural materials, useful objects, and thoughtful seasonal details.
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How to See Your Home Like a Designer: Timeless Design Principles for a More Beautiful Home and Garden
Learn how to see your home and garden through timeless design principles like line, shape, balance, proportion, rhythm, contrast, unity, and repose. This post shows how these principles can help you understand why a room feels peaceful, a corner feels unfinished, a path feels inviting, or one small detail makes a space feel more…
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10 Beautiful Ways to Create a Warm and Inviting Entryway
In the last post, 10 Ways to Create a Welcoming Front Door, we talked about simple ways to make the outside of your home feel more inviting before anyone even steps inside. And in How to Create a Welcoming Home Through Beautiful Transition Spaces, we explored how the in-between places of a home can…
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10 Ways to Create a Welcoming Front Door
From soft lighting and rugs to art, mirrors, natural textures and a welcoming scent, these tips turn your entryway into a beautiful, practical greeting space.
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How to Create a Welcoming Home Through Beautiful Transition Spaces
Thoughtful details in driveways, gates, porches, halls and other crossings ease tension and make each transition into your home feel restorative.