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9 Easy Steps to Start an Organic Garden

Gardening is perhaps one of the most underrated hobbies of this generation. There are photos frames and time lapses that depict it as a rewarding activity – which it absolutely is – but no one can quite capture the hard work that goes into planting a successful garden with your own hands. It takes years of practice, sweat and even blood to plant a garden that is both pragmatic and functional. An organic garden is only as hard to...
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20 Charming Cottage Garden Ideas and Designs

Cottage style landscape designs are known for their charming appeal and their ability to transform inhabited space into cozy and intimate features. There is always an enchanted, fairy tale appeal to them, and their characteristics create an ambiance of pure allure and magic. They can be designed in a large or small space, and depending on that variable, all attributes need to amalgamate in a rather seamless fashion to create an ambiance that borders on the fairy-tale effect. Cottage...
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29 Quick and Easy DIY Fake Fireplace Design Ideas to Perfect Your Place

Fireplaces might be pragmatic design features, but the root of their design does not always stem from pure functionality. There is always an element of aesthetics at play that needs to be integrated with the surrounding environs. The traditional fireplace – with a mantle and chimney – is an essential part of most transitional homes. The fireplaces in these spaces always have that distinctly inherent feel about them. These are more organic and natural then any modern fireplace setting...
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20 Best Tabletop Fireplace Ideas and Designs to Liven Up Your Decor

The evolution of fireplace design has been a process in the making. From the rustic authenticity of a wood burning fireplace to the stand alone context of a bio ethanol fireplace and everything in between, we have had a lot of choices to contend with. Where a gas fireplace asks for a traditional mantle setting along with a chimney and a damper and a few other essentials, the electric fireplace comes with its own set of aesthetic disadvantages. Designers...
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30 Best Fireplace Mantel Ideas and Designs To Brighten Up Your Home

When it comes to traditional fireplaces, the very core of their scheme comes from a proper design attention to the mantle. It is the largest and most obvious designated spot for meticulous detailing when it comes to fireplace design. Without it, the entire scheme might look incomplete, choppy and garish. Modern fireplace mantles come in a wide variety, ranging from style to style. The difference comes in design and use of materials. There are a lot of ideas and...
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20 Gorgeous Media Fireplace Ideas and Designs to Add Charm to Your Home

Most people are well aware of a fireplace, and instinctively know where to put it in terms of an interior context. But when someone would mention the term ‘media’ fireplace, there tends to be a lot of confusion. There are three known genres of fireplace – gas, electric and ventless. When you add media fireplace to the mix, know that it is not a specific genre but an entirely different context altogether. Media walls have been a trending concept...
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20 Best Ventless Fireplace Ideas and Designs To Beautify Your Home

Fireplace design has certainly evolved over the years. Where before we had just a stone masoned chimney with a hearth, now we have electric systems, dampers, vents, chimneys and so much more. A fireplace is not just a fireplace – it is the culmination of an entire style of interior design that you choose to apply to a single feature of your room. More often than not, a fireplace is a central feature of a room – connected to...
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20 Modern Garden Design Ideas

As with modern interior design, a modern garden differs in form, structure and planning than any conventional garden design. Traditional gardens have a standardized landscape architecture – one that has been in practice for over a millennia; a patch of green surrounded by the most convenient of perennials and shrubs to form a border. Such a design is largely applicable but is no longer the limitation of gardening endeavors. A modern garden design may be simple in its planning,...
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14 Outstanding Rock Garden Design Ideas

It has been quite a while since landscape architecture has taken over the world. Designing beautiful outdoor spaces is not only a trend – but also a necessity. No one wants a drab looking, weedy garden anymore. Landscaping might not be an innovation, but it is certainly an art. It takes knowledge, and an uninhibited clever to strategically plant and design an outdoor space in an interactive, organic way. The careful culmination of materials is what adds to the...
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15 Stunning Garden Patio Ideas

Planning an open space in the outdoors has become kind of a contemporary trend. No matter how small this space is, there is always a way to make it presentable. This dressing up of space is not an upscale limitation. Instead of designing vast landscapes dressed only in green, we’ve learned to break these spaces into connected counterparts called patios. On a side note, any small indoor landscaped outlet is also a patio. These can be open or enclosed,...
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Sharp ND-Q245F

Solar energy has been trending the renewable energy circle for quite some while now. Ever since the after effects of industrial revolution were brought to light, the construction industry has been struggling for a permanent solution – a metaphorical ‘green’ band aid for the severe repercussions of pollution. The very first of its lot, solar energy was an unprecedented breakthrough and has been in practical applications for more than a few decades now. Converting sunrays into usable energy that...
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Samsung LPC250SM

The advent of solar technology has marked the beginning of a new era for the world. After the inevitable repercussions of the industrial revolution, there has always been a need of change. The idea of renewable energy was built upon the basis of counteracting the damage done by the pollution of the industries. Solar energy is one of the many options that has become feasible over the course of years. Not only is it fully developed and functional, but...
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Suntech STP255S-20/Wdb

Since solar energy has been taking the world by storm, it was only eminent that it build itself a well- respected enterprise in the genre. Solar power is the conversion of the sun’s rays into useable electricity and depending on the scale of project, along with the number of solar panel modules, could power a building block as small as a residence to an urban setting as large as a neighborhood, and more. Solar technology is constantly making leaps...
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Grape Solar 250W

Now that Global Warming is a real, relevant threat, many users and consumers are taking to new ways of life by embracing the way of ‘green’. Green energy is essentially derived through renewable sources like biomass, earth, water, and sun. Most of these sources come in infinite supplies, or can be easily renewed. The most effectively embraced of this ensemble is the solar energy genre, where the light and energy of the sun are converted into usable electricity by...
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Grape Solar 390W

Solar energy is quickly climbing up the ranks in the renewable energy market. It is resourceful, reliable, and literally infinite – at least until the sun burns out! With the advent of industrial revolution, came the problem of pollution. Industries started popping up all around the world, and with them, increased the smog, smoke, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide emissions – and subsequently, the idea of greenhouse gases. To rectify this problem, the idea of renewable energy came into...