Cardinal songs

A male cardinal was singing loudly in the crepe myrtle near the garden shed this afternoon. 'Whuut, cheer, cheer, cheer...' he sang. Here's an excellent link from Bird Jam and Lang Elliot to listen to a cardinal's song.

'This is MY territory' he said, translated from cardinal language. It was the first cardinal song I'd heard this season. My gardening companion probably heard him this morning- he commented on how many birds were singing now.

We're in a time of winter turning into spring, with wildly variable weather, coming out of a very cold winter for our region. But definitely spring is in the air, with apologies to those of you that are still cold and icy.

Early Primroses.

The forecast storm has rampaged over Europe causing flooding and deaths but Britain only caught the edge of it last night. There are some flood warnings in the east of the country but nothing out of the ordinary here. In fact for most of the day it was sunny and warm. I put in a full day's work in the garden which was very satisfying. I started what I thought would be a quick task, clearing the long grass growing around the 4 azalea bushes on the grassy bank by the drive. Unfortunately on closer inspection the grassy bank turned out to be mainly weeds which I couldn't leave. By the time I had used my trusty screwdriver to remove the dandelions, buttercups and plantains, leaving the primroses and daisys, there were a lot of bare patches on the bank which will need reseeding. Before that I need to give the leylandii hedge on the top of the bank a trim so that I can clear up the trimmings before throwing down some grass seed. I found my very first primroses of the year growing in the shelter of the hedge. The previous 2 winters have been wet and warm and the spring flowers have appeared very early on but all the experts are saying that this winter's bad weather will delay the spring flowers by at least a month.
While up in the chickens' run I spotted a few visitors to my neighbour's lake. I couldn't see the second call duck, maybe it was successful in its attempts to get home to Ashelford Farm.

Interior Decorating

How To Clean Your Cane SuiteCleaning your cane suite is a great idea, as can is very resilient.To clean cane and prevent it from yellowing, douse a stiff brush in a solution of warm water, lemon juice and salt, and scrub the cane well.Tighten up sagging cane chairs by sponging the top and undersides of the seats with hot and soapy water to which you’ve added a few spoonfuls of salt.Rinse with a clean wet cloth and allow drying in the sun.
Modern fireplaces could add a warm and become center of attention in any room. They also could be used anywhere in courtyard in order to make it more interesting, beautiful and relaxing place. EcoSmart fireplaces are easy to maintain and could be installed almost at any surface. Their design is sophisticated, elegant, minimalist so it can be considered modern. EcoSmart fireplaces burn Denatured Ethanol so they don’t require utility connection and easily could be refilled. Here are some real life examples of how people use these fireplaces in their homes decorating adding glamour and warmth to their contemporary and traditional living areas:

Modern furniture combined with good interior design; create atmosphere and style

Creating a cohesive interior design for you home isn’t that hard if you know some of the basics. In fact, decorating your home so that all the various elements combine to create the look you’ve always wanted can be a lot of fun. Following are some proven tips to help your house into a designer home: Taking the first step As they say, let’s start at the beginning. Chances are good that your home is a mish mash of furnishings, art, accents and accessories that have been collected over time. To create the perfect designer look, you want to first consider the purpose for each room, how you want it to look, your personal tastes, features that can and can’t be changed, and finally, the budget you have available. Star with the key elements The success of a room’s design lies in the balance you create. The basics of gook design are proportion, balance, contrast, rhythm, pattern/texture and harmony. Knowing how these elements work together will help you design your space so that it’s not only beautiful, but comfortable and functional as well. Proportion Scales is one of the most important things to consider when creating the look of a room. A room that is proportioned correctly will feel welcoming while an incorrectly portioned room will just feel crowded and unfriendly. The trick is to match pieces in terms of their scale. A large overstuffed sofa needs an equally large end table or coffee table; otherwise, these accents simply disappear as the sofa dwarfs them proportionally. When considering scale, look to the other rooms in home for furniture that may be a better fit with the focal pieces you have in your room. Balance When crating balance, there’s two ways to go here. The first is symmetrical design, where everything is perfectly balanced. With symmetrical design, there’s roughly two of everything or items are mirrored in the room. For instance, one chair is placed exactly opposite another one just like it. While this creates balance, it can also make a room look static and lacking any visual interest or energy. Experienced designers use asymmetry to create this interest. Objects balance well because they are judged by their visual weight, not pairings. For instance, you have a large sofa on one side of the room that is balanced by two large overstuffed chairs with an accent table in the middle and floor lamp behind. These pieces balance the sofa visually, even though they aren’t equal in size or shape. The design works because there is balance in the asymmetrical layout of the furniture. Contrast Imagine walking into a white room with white carpet and white furniture. Pretty boring, huh? Contrast helps draw the eye around a room through the intelligent use of color. Bold use of colors creates energy while the use of muted shaded in complementary tones crates calm. The more contrast you crate, the easier it is for the human eye to follow the intended design of the room, moving visually from one space to another, guided by the use of color and contrast. Rhythm While crating contrast with the use of light and dark tones can be effective, it can also create boredom. To keep the room connected, you want to use rhythm. This means reusing specific colors, patterns, textures or themes throughout the room. Pick a couple main colors and repeat them in different ways in tour paint scheme, fabrics and accents. Pattern & Texture As the eye moves about a room, it picks up specific patterns. These are grouped together, so a blue wall is combined with a striped piece of fabric that has the same blue in it. Patterns that don’t fit crate conflict in the mind, compromising the appearance of the space. Again, you want to pick one or two primary patterns or textures and vary them within the color palette you’ve already crated for the room. Right alongside the elements of contrast and rhythm decorating is pattern/texture. Harmony If you’ve ever heard three signers sing different parts that sound amazing together, then you already know what harmony is. The same is true for the harmony in your home. Different colors, different designs and different proportions combine to create a new look that was never there before, just as new notes are created by singers singing three different parts. The room is suddenly complete. It has a look that if you remove just one element, won’t have that harmonic fell to it any longer. When you’ve achieved harmony, you’ve achieved your design goals.

Style and Favorite Bedroom Furniture

The bedroom furniture collections below are cover a variety of styles, finishes and materials. We know that Our home is Our castle, Don't you think your bedroom should be palatial? We will try to create our sleeping room to be nicely to keep Us satisfied with all of furniture including bedroom furniture.


There are many kind of bedroom furniture style, whether it is single bedroom or double bedroom. Bellow are some picture of bedroom furniture style that most popular in the market:

Executive bedroom furniture
Romantic bedroom furniture
Adult bedroom sets are mostly with some interesting design such as traditional or classic bedroom style, romantic bedroom style, executive bedroom style and also some of people they like a set of bedroom furniture with contemporary style.

Single bedroom furniture
Double bedroom furniture
To select one of the bedroom furniture set of course depend on every style and budget that you have prepare to buy them. When you go to furniture store, They will give you the opportunity to choose between beautiful sleigh beds, modern platform beds, classic poster beds, iron beds and bedroom furniture style.

Bedroom furniture with contemporary design
You can buy bedroom furniture with high quality and top manufacturers such as Ashley, Elite Furniture, Ital Art, Trica Bar Furniture, Zocalo, Fairmont Designs from the market. Try to set your sleeping room with nice colors, choose the bedroom furniture same color with the others furniture that you have put them on your room.

Kerala Villa Plan

Designer:Krishnakumar
Abu Dhabi
Email: krikumar50@hotmail.com

Contemporary Hardwood flooring

Hardwood flooring

layer of flooring is two, three or more layers of wood glued together. The most superficial layer of flooring is better quality wood with a thickness 3.8 mm and each layer is located at 90 degrees to the previous one, which provides its strength. This type of flooring can be found on the market ready for installation option, varnished and stained.
Black And White Interior design
Interior Decorating
Designer Italian Furniture - Luxury Shelf
Wall System -living room modules system
Modern Hardwood flooring

hardwood laminate flooring that uses a tongue and groove system. One hardwood laminate flooring board fits into the next lengthways and the friction of one against the other makes it too difficult to move the first hardwood laminate flooring board lengthways along the other for the first board to meet the next board at it’s end.
Bedroom Inspiration Design
Modern Office Furniture
Modern Kitchen In Red
Modern Bathroom Design by Fratelli Branchetti
Modern Bathroom Design (Wooden Sink)
Modern Home Inerior Decoration
Living room Design - black and white
Luxury Hardwood flooring


Therefore the Z piece and hammer are needed to hammer one end of the first hardwood laminate flooring board so that it moves along the second board at it’s side into the end of the next board. Sounds confusing I know but once you look at the instructions that come with the hardwood laminate flooring, it will all become clear.
Modern Furniture Exterior Designs
Modern Bedroom Inspiration
Modern Interior Design Decoration
Armani Casa - Interior Design
Luxury Interior Design
Interior Design - Hardwood flooring

Next you will need a knife to cut the underlay and a square and ruler to mark the lines along the hardwood laminate flooring boards at the point at which you will saw them.
Decoration Ideas
Modern Interior Design Decoration Ideas
Modern Sofa Design
Black Bathroom Design
Bathroom Sink Design
Bathroom Raining Showers
Luxury Colors Interior Design
lighting design and decoration
Modern Kitchen Counter Design
Modern Curtains Design

Quadric Italian Kitchen Gallery from Padovani

This kitchen is equipped with natural stone at the top and steel in other parts.Italian-style kitchen with Quadric models equipped with special lighting effects. The wooden table is designed especially with the natural stone as the base. This Italian kitchen also completed with a large video projection or TV on the wall so You will feel more comfortable. -Padovani-

Cool Kids Bathroom Design by Sanindusa

If you have enough space to make a special bathroom only for your child then the products by Portuguese company Sanindusa could become an interesting solution for you. This company specializing in production of various bathroom sanitary ware and bathroom furniture offers a very cool collection for kids. It is named Wckids and is made especially to furnish kids bathroom. All items from it would be useful and comfortable just for kids. Playful and funny design of the two color bathroom cabinets creates fresh and positive atmosphere. This bright furniture and high quality sanitary ware could help you to create an amazing kids bathroom for your children. The bright rugs and other bathroom accessories from Wckids collection perfectly decorate this kids bathroom design.

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Design Ideas

Cool Kids Bathroom Design Ideas

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Designs

Cool Kids Bathroom Design by Sanindusa

If you have enough space to make a special bathroom only for your child then the products by Portuguese company Sanindusa could become an interesting solution for you. This company specializing in production of various bathroom sanitary ware and bathroom furniture offers a very cool collection for kids. It is named Wckids and is made especially to furnish kids bathroom. All items from it would be useful and comfortable just for kids. Playful and funny design of the two color bathroom cabinets creates fresh and positive atmosphere. This bright furniture and high quality sanitary ware could help you to create an amazing kids bathroom for your children. The bright rugs and other bathroom accessories from Wckids collection perfectly decorate this kids bathroom design.

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Design Ideas

Cool Kids Bathroom Design Ideas

Cool Kids Bathroom Design

Cool Kids Bathroom Designs

Sun And Weeding.

The woodpecker was back at the bird feeder this morning flashing his red rump as he swung around, I haven't seen him since last autumn but he was a regular visitor last year. Plenty of small garden birds have been feeding on the peanuts and fat balls that I put out for them all through the winter. The sun was out again, after a few heavy showers, making the day seem almost warm. I managed to weed both the flower beds near the house. it's not such a satisfying job because being herbaceous beds there was not a lot growing yet under the mess of dead foliage and they now look sad and muddy where I've removed a few weeds and some over exuberant scrambling geraniums. It's nearly all hardy geraniums in there and when the summer comes it's an extravagant mass of foliage and colour but this year I do need to have a little bit of a tidy up. At least that is one more job to tick off the list.

Tropical stone garden

Imagine you have rocks or stones in your garden or around your house. What to do with all these rocks? Throw them into the neighbors garden is impossible - hence make the best out of it. Either dig a deep hole - about 2-3 meters deep and bury the rocks under fertile soil - by the end you will have a hill to be covered by plants and bushes.

If your garden is rocky and you love to move the rocks out of the garden - you may at least pile them up into one small location to create just one such small rock or stone garden to clear the remainder of your garden for other plants and flowers.

Garden Design by Andy Sturgeon

If you are looking for ideas for outdoor spaces I’m sure that Andy Sturgeon portofolio will give you some inspiration. “Andy Sturgeon Garden Design has emerged as a leading design practice earning a reputation for creating stylishmodern gardens that are a fusion of contemporary design and natural materials. Planting often features heavily and ranges from striking architectural schemes through to soft, naturalistic styles. Lighting, sculpture and furniture are frequently integral to the design.” – Via – Desire to Inspire

Garden Furniture by Patricia Urquiola

I know that winter is around the corner and is not certain to be thinking about the garden but …. the charm of the gardens is indisputable winter, when the leaves of colors covering the grass and there is nothing more romantic that sit outdoors heated by a blanket, and with a cup of hot tea or steaming sweet chocolate. These chairs are designed by Patricia Urquiola and they are from the Canasta Collection that are displayed currently in the autumn edition of Maison & Objet. These designer seats come with a designer price tag – 2000 Euros. – Via –Thedesignblog

Teak Tables

Exclusive range of beautifully crafted teak tables to suite any patio or garden size and shape. Faraway's teak tables are all made from premium quality grade A teak with craftsmanship and attention to detail that is unsurpassed in the industry today.

Style, versatility and practicality converge in this elegant oval table. The double 'Butterfly Leaf' extenders give this table the ability to extend from a compact 2 meter length to a considerable 2.5 meters and ultimately to a substantial 3 meters. This means that whether you have 4 guests or 12, the table will easily accommodate. This table can accommodate up to 12 chairs. All of our stacking chairs perfectly match this set.
As per the Faraway norm, this table is fully machine made using close grained premium quality teak designed to last a lifetime.