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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Hooker Furniture’s Skyline Collection: Don’t miss on cleaning the mattress and its cover during spring.
This is the season to clean your pruners and take the gardening gloves out of the storage cabinet. Spring is once again here, bringing with it longer days, the freshest flowers and green leaves and, of course, garden chores. Your spring itinerary waits –
It’s Gardening Time
This is that time when the early bulbs come out and wildflowers show up in the Pacific Southwest and Northwest. It is best to plant vegetables and herbs in Texas, not forgetting the companion plants as you do so. Try something that you have not done before – plant something exotic – and keep a garden of the local wildlife. Get more herbs and veggies into the ground such as collards, chard, eggplant, summer squash, cucumbers, tomatillos, tomatoes, and endive. Plant more of rosemary, sage, mint, lemongrass, chives, thyme, santolina, sorrel and artemesia.
Century Furniture Living Room Adira Sectional 11-Sectional: Include the throws and cushions during spring cleaning.
In the Northwest, be sure to prune the apple trees so that they will be able to produce more fruit. March is the last month that you can prune the fruit trees so better get to it.
When you are from California, March is the month to plant bougainvilleas in pots. You should be able to enjoy an amazing display of this flower plant by midsummer. Look for the compact varieties like Singapore Pink, Purple Queen or the Temple Fire. When you plant, though, make sure that you do not break the root ball since plants don’t want that.
Citrus plants are best planted in the Southwest regions. March is also the time of the year when you can add a lovely citrus tree in your garden. Pruning this tree is also best done during this month.
Those from the Rocky Mountains should plant more tomatoes, parsley, carrots, onions, marigolds, and nasturtiums.
Century Furniture Living Room Adira Sectional 11-Sectional: Include the throws and cushions during spring cleaning.
Sprucing Up the Indoors
Is there also a way that you can prepare your home for the spring season? Cleaning is not just limited to your garden. March is also the month to best clean windows, carpets, mattresses, and upholstery.
Begin with the rugs and carpets. High traffic zones should be prioritized as these have the tendency to bug you more when the time comes. Clean up the play spaces, entryways, and other high traffic zones. Vacuum these areas for no less than 30 seconds. Do the top of the area rugs first then go to the underside to clean them up, too.
Apply some degreaser on stains then use a hair dryer on the wet spots. Open the windows once you’re done vacuuming.
The windows are your next priority. Dust builds up here so take that whisk broom, a hose, window cleaner, and a bucket.
Close the screens and windows before you begin cleaning. Brush away the debris on the screens and the tracks. Hose down the windows from about five feet away. The hose’s power should be able to easily reach your second floor windows without the use of a ladder.
You can either hose down or use a bucket of soapy water to do this window cleaning project.
Next, there’s the curtain. As you have hosed down the windows and are waiting for them to dry, you should also get to the curtains. Use a steamer to clean it up. Once you’ve cleaned per section, open the windows to dry the curtains.
This task should take no more than 10 minutes for every panel.
Lastly, there’s your mattress. All you’ll need is a carton of baking soda, a sieve, stain remover, and some dryer sheets complete with essential oils.
The mattress cover can be laundered in a regular manner. As for the mattress, just pour baking soda to the sieve. Dust all parts of the mattress with soda. You will soon notice dirt and moisture clinging to the powder. This should eliminate any bad odors.
Remake the bed and make sure to vacuum the soda once you change the sheets the next time. Tuck the dryer sheets with essential oils under your mattress cover so you’ll smell the fresh scent as you sleep.
Ain’t spring cleaning great? This may just be an annual task but it’s one that you shouldn’t miss if you want to have a clean, fresh-smelling home once more.
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Saturday, March 5th, 2016
Punches of yellow, red and green can be seen in a neutral backdrop. Featured items are from Hooker Furniture’s Archivist Collection.
Going eco-friendly is the way to go this season of spring. This green design is one that is sure to stay as more and more people are getting involved in making earth a much cleaner place to live in. Nowadays, the paint to use if you consider yourself responsible is a toxic-free paint; green furniture pieces are also the latest craze; and practically every interior design shop is geared towards going green. If you want to begin this revolutionary green movement right inside your home, then consider these spring decorating tips –
Scan and Go
Have a pen and a notepad in hand as you go through every room in your home. Look quickly inside every room and spot the objects that appear to clutter the room. Remove anything that is no longer needed then work your way from there.
Learn to prioritize. You may be tempted to create a long, cumbersome list of things to do, but don’t. Just remove whatever you consider useless then redecorate.
Make a Statement
Your lighting fixtures and cabinetry should be able to help you make a statement during this season. Brushed metal hardware and chandeliers can evoke romantic feelings inside any home. The distressed look in furniture can be carried all throughout your home as a unique theme.
Sunshiny colors are in and are considered as the fashionable color palette for the spring season; however, do not overdo these colors. Just add bright and colorful accent pieces, add a dash or so of wall color, and have it seen in some of your furniture.
Playing with punches of yellow is as easy as adding a glass vase filled with lemons or pots of yellow daffodils. The yellow succulents can be placed in the kitchen where they can serve a double purpose – first as a decor, then as an ingredient in one of ‘em pasta dishes!
Spring’s most popular colors include bright yellow, violet, coral and turquoise.
White accents can also brighten up any room so go ahead and use a white wall as your canvas.
Let the Outdoors Inspire
Just think of mountains, spring beaches and the bluest coastlines and you should be filled with inspiration to dress up your home this spring. Moss green, ocean blue and, yes, just to reiterate, turquoise – are the colors of the year that you should incorporate in your home.
Mixing these bold colors with neutrals is also a surefire way to set up your spring indoors. This is the way to go if you are a tad worried about painting a whole room with bright colors. Paint the walls with pink champagne or violet gray. Have some colorful accent pieces brought in if you chose a neutral backdrop.
Nature will always be a popular theme for spring so go ahead and bring in those natural fabrics. Let them be seen on your area rugs, throw pillows, sofa upholstery, curtains, even your bedding. Sea grass, jute, and wool are just the right kinds of materials that can bring a natural appearance without being too green.
Create Contrast
Creating contrast is as easy as bringing in some metallic accent pieces. Add a framed mirror, some photos in metallic frames, metallic artworks, or metallic lighting fixtures. The master bedroom or living room would surely come to life with these metallic accents added.
Contrast is not solely provided by metallic interior design pieces. Mix colors that come from the same shade, for instance, fuse dark blue with powder blue. Use one color on three walls and the darker one as a statement wall. The darker color could also be used on the accessories that will dot your entire home.
Keep Everything Light and Airy
Lastly, spring decorating is all about the removal of heavy drapes and using sheer instead. Update your home soon, after all, spring is the best season to reinvent the look of your dwelling place.
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