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March Features
Design Favorites: We <heart> Digging Dog Nursery and rave about their mailorder garden catalog, a great resource for custom-made beds that fit in with mid-century modern decor, and a multi-million-dollar mobile home (let's hit the road!).
Design Resolutions: Our editors are sharing their favorite tips and suggestions for how to tackle some great projects. Resolve to make your home the best ever, from getting rid of clutter and lightening up your decor to installing handy hanging solutions.
Monthly Shopping Guide: Our monthly column focuses on our favorite hand-picked products from the web's best bloggers. New attraction: solve the Jigsaw Puzzle Game and you'll get a discount shopping coupon (it's a tricky puzzle, so good luck).
Holiday Decorating Special: We're starting off the month with three great videos showing you dinner party place settings that will be ideal for Passover or any spring fling event. Later in the month, watch for our St. Patrick's Day GREEN-themed special!
Food2Share: The heart of every home is the kitchen, and we've got you covered with an exclusive Dream Team Dinner Party Guide offer (good until March 5) and our review of the incredible new food + decorating + fashion book. Alabama Studio Style.
Double Eagle Restaurant: Our Scrapbook feature this month focuses on a surprising 1849 building that was turned into a restaurant complex in the early 1970s. We were amazed at the way this National Registry facility looked antique, but was a clever array of antiques and architectural details. A memorable visit in Old New Mexico.
Home Products: Bet you can't wait to get out into the garden! Spring couldn't come any sooner for us, but even if you've got snow on the ground, it's the perfect time to start planning your Victory Garden (take a tip from Michele Obama and plant some nutritious, healthy veggies). We have the perfect comprehensive organic, heirloom veggie planting kit from veggie blogger and master gardener Kenny Point (we love having everything we need, from tools and seeds to fertilizer and natural pest control, all in one handy, value-packed kit.
Carlsbad Caverns: We took a video over 1,000 feet beneath the earth's surface of this spectacular cave system in New Mexico. Watch as we make our way from the Visitors Center into this other-worldly place.
Great Movie Design is this month's column from our resident design expert Irwin Weiner ASID. Irwin gives his choices for those movies, past and present, that he thinks have a strong impact on residential interior design. Will you agree with Irwin's choice for Best Interiors in a current movie?
Q&A: Polly from Seattle wrote to us as a burned-out do-it-yourselfer in need of some fresh energy and remodeling project inspiration. Luckily, we found just the right book filled with designer rooms and artsy-craftsy projects.
The Center for the Book Arts: This month's Art2Share column features the workshops, classes, and exhibitions from Manhattan's Book Arts center. We encourage you to look at books as an art form to add to your home collection.
Nectar Imports is our latest Luxe Properties column. We found a great Asian imports (and so much more) resource in upstate New York that's a must-stop for design-savvy shoppers. And have a cup of organic tea while you shop, too.
Do You Vastu? is the latest report from healthy living expert DeAnna Radaj. She's learning all about Vedic Architecture and the principles of Vastu, ways to orient buildings so that they create prosperity and good health.
Ken's Fans is Jay Johnson's featured video this month. He interviewed Sheila Arp, an expert on Ken Edwards Stoneware, and she gives us a zillion reasons why Ken's pieces are collectible and desirable.
Vintage Broyhill Lacquered Dresser: Read about this month's featured decor item, and you'll find a great storage solution for your home. Would this mid-century modern dresser look great in your home?
Fine Collectibles from George Evans: We asked our resident antiques industry expert for the latest industry buying trends from the Original Miami Beach Antique Show, and he shares a pair of Art Deco sconces with us, inspired by Miami's Deco District.
Philippe Starck: In this month's Designers We Love column, we feature a Wallpaper* video interview with this iconic designer that you'll want to see!Design Tips & Expert Advice
Worst Design Mistakes: Irwin Weiner ASID & Nicola Chernicoff, our Design2Share video hosts, talk about the worst home and construction design mistakes and how to avoid them in the video below. How many of these "pet hates" are in your house right now, and how can you solve them?
Hiring a Professional Landscape Architect: In this next video, Irwin & Nicola interview a top American landscape architect and get some great ideas and tips on when you should hire a landscape design professional. Walk through some actual outdoor design projects to see how great landscape design can enhance any home.
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Featured Project: Do-It-Yourself Painted Headboard
Now is the perfect time to think about freshening up your interior space. With a splash of color here and a new piece of furniture there, it's easy to redecorate your space for spring. Here's an easy, budget-conscious DIY design idea to help get you started.
Paint Your Own Headboard
Chances are if you if you purchased your bed frame as part of a bedroom set, the headboard is already included. If you don't want to put forth the extra cash, especially after paying for a pricey mattress, no problem! Painted headboards are a great way to add a pop of color to your bedroom.
Step 1: Measure the width of the head of your bed and mark it with blue painter's tape from floor to ceiling. Now, choose your color based on your desired color scheme. You obviously don't want it to be the same shade as your walls, but it should complement that color.
Step 2: Once you have your color, paint the wall, staying within the blue painters tape. Once the paint dries, if you choose to do so, you can detail with paint or with some removable wall decals from a company like Blik. For as little as $40, Blik makes easily removable wall decals in fun shapes like bookshelves, chandeliers, birds, etc. If this sounds like too much work, don't worry and leave your wall a solid color.
Step 3: Simply position your bed up against the painted wall, prop up some decorative Euro pillows in coordinating colors and patterns, and you have yourself a headboard. You might want to take this opportunity to invest in a new comforter or duvet in fun, light, spring colors. You'd be surprised at what a little bit of paint and some new bedding can do for your space!
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