Refurnished Living: Growing Green
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home A recent conversation with an acquaintance about having a vegetable garden, how easy it was, and how much his preschool-aged daughter loved harvesting the veggies, has...
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By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home When is a wine or beer bottle anything more than just a vessel for your favorite tipple? When it’s in the capable and creative hands of Smart Glass’ Kathleen Plate! What...
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By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle As a self-professed green pioneer, Chris Prelitz has written a book that argues that not only is...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Green bedroom
Sweet, Green Dreams By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home 1. Create your own custom wall with beautiful, modern stencils, like the “Casablanca” stencil (shown in background). www.cuttingedgestencils.com 2. How...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Play it again, plastic
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Combine my two passions, art and the environment and what you get is truly breath-taking. I’m a huge fan of environmental artists Andy Goldsworthy and most recently, Nils...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Straight A’s in being green
Hard to believe the summer is almost over, but with the end of this carefree, sweaty-fun season comes the ritual of back-to-school shopping (and the hilarious Staples back-to-school commercial). Don’t...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Outside the Box
By Allison Grieveson/Life@Home Oh brown cardboard box, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. You’re super-sturdy, recycled and such a lovely, natural shade of brown … oh yeah, and all those lovely...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Gather round
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. No gifts or gimmicks (mostly). Just a time for family and friends to get together, give thanks and enjoy a delicious feast. I...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Green your tree
Get ready for the Holidays by Alison Grieveson/Life@Home You might think that with all the glut and waste that can overtake the holiday season that your pine Christmas tree is the perfect sustainable...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: New Year’s revolution
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Going green can sometimes be a pain in the neck, but making little changes and starting small can make a difference that adds up to a healthier, greener planet. Here are a...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Great gifts for that special treehugger in your life!
What I’m Lovin’ By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home For the month that celebrates love, I thought I’d share a few items I’ve recently discovered that I think are pretty swell. Coincidentally, they would also...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: The American Dream
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home There was a time when a label that read “Made in the USA” was not a mark of quality. Not anymore! Here are just a few quality, U.S.-made home products you’d be proud to...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Introducing designer Jessica Allyn
Refurbished Chic By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Introducing designer Jessica Allyn, a woman inspired by the beauty and form of vintage furniture. Jessica brings old furniture back to life with vivid...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Waste Not, Want Not
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Did you know that, if you started composting today, by summertime your family could easily divert 200 pounds of waste from the landfill? And in return, your composted food...
View ArticleTalk Back: The story behind the story…from our contributors
Read below about how our contributors learned new things while working on this month’s edition of Life@Home. Dollars and Sense Ann Hughes Before looking into it, if you asked me to name the top five...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Outdoor toys that are also easy on the planet
Let the Games Begin By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home With the warm weather upon us, my family and I are spending as much time outdoors as possible. When I’m not purloining perfectly good plastic...
View ArticleThink replacing your kitchen cabinets is your only update solution? Think again.
Reface It By Lee Nelson/Life@Home It didn’t make sense for Donna and Richard Pavlovic to gut their entire kitchen and start investing big bucks to modernize it. “We are retired and live in a townhouse...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: Giving T-shirts New Life
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home You know you have a drawer full of T-shirts. Some that are old and sentimental that you just can’t part with. What to do with all these colorful pieces of fabric? A few...
View ArticleHow to make any space look amazing
Elements of Style By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Most of us have lived in a place that was oddly shaped or awkwardly laid out. And for most of us, that situation is more terrifying than inspirational. We...
View ArticleRefurnished Living: DIY is Easy as 1-2-3
By Alison Grieveson/Life@Home Who doesn’t like the sense of accomplishment that comes from doing, making or creating something? Some companies have cleverly created fun DIY kits that are worth checking...
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