6 ways to make a small bathroom look and feel larger

Even if you can’t knock down walls to build your dream bathroom, designers say it’s possible to create the illusion of more space.

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LAKE HOUSE BEFORE AND AFTER

That was a fun fashion post with my good friends!  Cindy, Mary Ann and Annie always bring it so if you did not go check out their inspiration on spring fashion you need to.... I realize I have not posted about my project on Lake Keowee!  The client is one of my besties sister and it was so much fun as I really tried to work with a lot of what she had.  They downsized in

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Yes, eraser sponges are magic. No, you can’t use them everywhere.

These cleaning staples have an abrasive effect, so proceed with caution when using them.

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Putting on the pizzazz: a no-holds-barred home in Nashville

An exuberantly eclectic 1880s house in the musical heart of Tennessee

A humongous, cloud-shaped cream lampshade made from paper plates hangs over an ornate, hand-me-down antique concierge chair and a mishmash of dining chairs in the dining area of Vadis Turner’s funky Nashville home. “I wanted something extraordinary for the space, but that can be expensive,” says Turner, a multimedia artist who moved from New York to this 19th-century townhouse with her husband, Clay Ezell, and their first son in 2014, “so I was, like, instead of me trying to figure out how to buy some crazy chandelier, I could trade with a friend.”

She hadn’t seen Christopher Trujillo, a production designer, since they’d shared the same studio building back in New York. She suggested she pay him to fly out to see her and trade pieces – and that was how the lampshade came to be.

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What even is mulch? 27 of the most basic gardening questions answered

How do I know what soil I have? Do bulbs come back? And how did people garden before Google? As the growing season gears up, our experts are here with a barrowful of advice

Few domestic gardens need work every weekend – whisper it, but they’re quite good at looking after themselves. Broadly speaking: new growth on twiggy, brown (or woody) stems is a fair sign to prune old growth back to encourage the new growth into a neater, fuller shape; a shift to spring and summer signals a need to feed plants; if your plants are romping away, your weeds probably will be too – pulling them out while they’re small is easier – and planting or sowing things late is better than not at all. Mulch whenever you think about it. Alice Vincent

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‘I’m just a lawnmower man, I’m no one special’: Nathan Stafford, the Sydney gardener with a following of millions

He has amassed a huge international social media audience for videos of tidying, ASMR and helping out ‘legends’. Now he has a meeting with a housing minister. Who is he?

On a quiet street in Sydney’s Glebe, Nathan Stafford is standing halfway up a ladder balancing his child’s old shoe, with his phone wedged inside, on the ladder’s top rung. He’s trying to angle his phone to get a good shot of the yard of a public housing unit below. The weeds have run wild and the grass is threatening to reclaim the concrete footpath snaking through.

Moments ago the shoe and the phone were atop a yellow bin he’d dragged to the front door of the home to film the resident, Jo Lee, as she answers his loud knock. She’d asked him to come help.

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7 ways to use wallpaper — without covering a whole room

Design pros share their favorite tricks for making a big impact with just a little bit of wallpaper.

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