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This award-winning house in London is not only sleek and eco-conscious, it is also surprisingly budget friendly, says ...

In an excerpt from her latest book, Island Dreaming, designer Amanda Lindroth restores a Lyford Cay estate to its rollicking ...

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Next time you shop for groceries check the produce section for ginger root, spaghetti squash, whole pineapples, and Chayote ...

"I plotted out on graph paper a rough shape of the garden I wanted, and then estimated how far the beech tree on the left of ...

Remember Kermit from “Sesame Street” singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green” with his sad voice? He sang “It’s not easy bein’ green, having to spend each day, the color of the ...