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What's your idea of paradise? Maybe a tropical island setting or a charming English cottage? With some research and resourcefulness, you can turn your outdoor living space into the retreat of your dreams. Imagine: a Hawaiian hideaway with tikis and palms, a peaceful Tuscan setting or a formal European-style knot garden. All in your own yard.
Eerie Inspiration Pictures for Halloween Yard Displays
Ample or limited, your outdoor space needs to be transformed into something more supernatural for Halloween. Spooky, terrifying or family-friendly Halloween decorations adorn people's front and backyards, porches, entryways, doors, windows, patios, balconies and wherever else they can find to decorate. Halloween is second only to Christmas in consumer dollars spent on outdoor decorations. Find ou…
Quick & Easy 4th of July Outside Decorating Ideas
The 4th of July barbecue is at your house this year. Like the rest of us, you don't have a huge budget to spend on patriotic decorations for your porch, patio and outdoor table. Get creative. Look around the house for red, white and blue linens, tableware and vases. Mixing fabrics in these colors with geometrics, stripes, red-and-white checks, paisleys or bandana prints make a festive presentatio…
The Top Holiday Outside Decorations to Raise Your Spirits
Consumer are cutting back and doing without. In a few months, so much seems so frivolous and unnecessary. Holiday gifts are less expensive but more carefully considered. Many are foregoing any visual signs of joy. But Christmas is about feelings and memories, many of which are sparked by simple adornments: lights, greenery, and images. The Los Angeles Times recently sent designer Phillippe…
Winter Holiday Ideas from Roger's Gardens
When you step outside this season, what surprises await? While you probably won't be expecting a new car tied with a bow in your driveway, there are other less expensive ways to decorate your outdoor space with flair. One of the more traditional ways of sprucing up your yard, entryway or outdoor space is with plants and trees. Whether it's a fir that's been in your yard for decades or some newly …
Balsam Hill Denali White Wreath & Garland
Balsam Hill's Denali isn't a $5 wreath you pick up at the drugstore and festoon with all of the bows and ornaments it can hold. Balsam Hill is a company that's exclusively in business to make holiday trees, wreaths and garlands. And they do a superb job. The Denali and their other products are among the best-quality artificial holiday foilage I've ever seen or inspected up close.
Outdoor Holiday Wreaths - Who Has the Best?
As a Californian, I consider two wreaths to be pretty festive, but in the other parts of the United States and Europe, wreaths adorning each window and door is a common site. Whether you use one wreath or a dozen, you want something that is beautiful, well-made, and will last for many seasons to come.[p] Balsam Hill's business is artificial holiday greenery: trees, garlands and wreaths. They kno…
Vickerman Co. Mixed Country Pine Wreath with Lights
The Vickerman Co.'s Country Pine Wreath is a beautiful mixture of dark and medium-green pine needles of different textures, which gives it a realistic charm. The wreath is pre-wired with 70 small clear lights, so all you have to do is plug it in and enjoy your ring of glowing, green holiday cheer.
Balsam Hill Crimson Harvest Wreath & Garland
Balsam Hill's Crimson Harvest is not a $5 wreath you pick up at the drugstore and festoon with all of the bows and ornaments it can hold. Balsam Hill is a company that exclusively makes holiday trees, wreaths and garlands. And they do a superb job. The Crimson Harvest and other Balsam Hill wreaths are among the best-quality artificial holiday foilage I've ever seen or inspected up close.
Bellagio Botanical Display: Beauty, Whimsy & All That Jazz
The Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Las Vegas hosts spectacular displays revolving around seasons and holidays and is open 365 a year. Take a look at the Bellagio's autumn Harvest Show, on display through November 29, 2008. While it's going to be hard to copy the spectacular Vegas-style design techniques of the conservatory's 140 horticulturists, you might grab an idea here and ther…
Halloween Outdoor Decorations: Monster Candy Treater-Greeter
If you had just one nice Halloween decoration to buy this year for your porch, patio, balcony or yard, what would it be? Scary flamingos? A screaming ghoul sure to knock the orange-and-black socks right off of you? An attractive Halloween-themed door mat? Before making a spooky choice, consult our reviews of some of the outdoor Halloween decorations available this year from places like Pier 1, Pottery Barn, Target, and online retailers.
Halloween Outdoor Decorations
If you had just one nice Halloween decoration to buy this year for your porch, patio, balcony or yard, what would it be? Scary flamingos? A screaming ghoul sure to knock the orange-and-black socks right off of you? An attractive Halloween-themed door mat? Before making a spooky choice, consult our reviews of some of the outdoor Halloween decorations available this year from places like Pier 1, Pottery Barn, Target, and online retailers.
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