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You don’t have to haul out that cumbersome ironing board anymore!

by Tricia

If you read this site regularly you know that I don’t have a very big house or a very big garden, but I make the most of the space that I have. In fact I think I’ve become quite skilled at adapting small spaces to suit our needs. Even the apartment we lived in before we purchased our house was a junior one bedroom. I think it was only about 450 square feet!

wallmountironingboard.jpg Considering that I’m always looking for ways to make my small space more efficient I’m sure you can imagine how thrilled I was when I happened to visit http://www.betterlifestyleproducts.com/ and saw the smallest, most efficient ironing board that I’ve ever seen.

The ironing board is called the Lifestyle Fold-Away Wall Mounted Ironing Board.What a big name for such a compact ironing board.

This ironing board folds away into a small box or cupboard that’s mounted on the wall.

In fact, when folded away, the fold-away wall mounted iron has a profile of only 4 1/2 inches. You can deploy or fold away the ironing board in mere seconds. Oh did I mention that it’s also easy to install?

I’ve been managing to use a standard sized ironing board in our house. We store it in the basement and I tend to do our ironing down there (in the dungeon) while standing between the washer, dryer and furnace. Talk about tight spaces!

Think that’s bad? It was worse in our tiny apartment!

I kept our regular sized ironing board in the bedroom closet and when I wanted to iron something I’d either set up the ironing board in the hallway between the bedroom, bathroom and living room or I’d bring it into our tiny kitchen and iron between the fridge and a small table.

What I wouldn’t have given to have had one of these small fold-away ironing boards when I lived in the apartment!  unfoldingironingboard.jpg

Just look at the photos I’ve liberated from the Lifestyle Fold-Away Wall Mounted Ironing Board description page. You can see for yourself how small it is when it folds away and how easily it folds out when you want to use it.

Just think of what else you could store in the space that you’re using for your standard sized ironing board now if you got one of these instead! Certainly if you live in a small space, like I do, a fold away ironing board would make a lot of sense.

The ironing board, when fully deployed, is a full sized board with a ventilated steel surface. It doesn’t require any extra supports when extended. It’s very durable. Also, the wall cover is detachable and paintable so you can make sure it matches your wall coloring if you’d like to.

I must confess that I don’t really enjoy ironing, but I do think part of my dislike of ironing has been struggling with the ironing board. I think if I had one of these Fold Away wall mounted Ironing Boards I’d find the task much easier, less time consuming and dare I say perhaps even more enjoyable?

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This lady certainly looks like she doesn’t mind ironing!

If you live in a small space visit the betterlifestyleproducts.com website and read all the information about this fantastic little ironing board. Actually, even if you don’t live in a small space this might make a great Christmas gift for someone that does. Oh and if you visit the site take a look at their product catalog. They have some very handy items.






Filed Under: Accessories, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping Tagged With: basement, Christmas gift, closet, convenient, durable, easy to install, easy to use, fold away ironing board, gift idea, information, ironing board, items, photos, product, profile, save space, small space, space saver, steel frame, steel mesh, wall mount

What’s prettier than a White Rose?

by Tricia

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My new Climbing Iceberg rose is blooming for the first time in my garden.

I bought this rose a couple of months ago as a replacement for another rose that didn’t make it through our winter … well actually through the beginning of summer. It had been alive in the early spring. Perhaps I let it dry out too much or something.

Iceberg is a lovely white rose. The flowers are about two inches across and as you can see this flower has several petals which give it a nice full look. It has a very light scent. You can really smell this flower unless you get very close. Well I can’t smell it until I get right up to it anyway.

Anyone else grow iceberg?

Filed Under: Blooming today, Garden Buzz, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Photography, Recreation, Summer in the Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, blooming, climbing iceberg, flower, garden, grow, iceberg rose, my garden, petals, photo, replace, rose, scent, smell, spring, summer, white rose, winter, Wordless Wednesday

Our sunflowers got us in trouble!

by Tricia

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Can you believe we got a notice today that we’re breaking a city bylaw?

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I have to cut down my beautiful sunflowers! We got an official notice stating that the flowers in the boulevard are overgrown and must be cut down to 0.92 meters (3 feet) by September 12th. The notice doesn’t say what will happen if we don’t do it, but I’m sure it will be a fine of some sort.

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I guess it’s because we let the sunflowers grow as they wanted – all over the boulevard instead of just a thick line of sunflowers this year. We also have one that’s grown to about 14 feet in height!

I could see the complaint if we were a house on a corner and or if all our neighbors used their driveways, but we’re the second house from the corner and we are the only people out of 8 houses on our block that actually uses our driveway! We don’t use our car much since we live close to work so it’s not like seeing around the sunflowers as we back out is a daily issue and it’s not that hard to see around them anyway. Grrrr.

Sorry I’m so behind on my Green Thumb Sunday post. We had our family reunion over the last five days and I really didn’t have any time to get my blogging done. All the guests are gone now so I should get back to normal blogging again. I hope! I’m very tired though.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Family, Garden Buzz, Garden Maintenance, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: Beautiful, blogging, bylaw, driveway, Family, flower, flowers, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, height, House, neighbor, neighbors, obstruction, photo, plant, September, Sunflower, sunflowers too tall, Toronto bylaw

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