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I love browsing through Interior Design sites

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As you might already know from reading this blog and some of my other sites I’m very interested in renovation, DIY projects and Interior Design. In order to get ideas for my own projects I watch some of the TLC shows about renovation and design, and I often find myself browsing through Interior Design websites.

One of the sites that I’ve just been visiting is called Long Beach CA Interior Design. Obviously they specialize in work in California. That’s pretty far away from me so all I can do is browse.

I really like the kitchen and bathroom designs that I found in the sites Interior Design past projects section. They did this kitchen and bathroom in a Spanish Hacienda style home. The exterior has a real Spanish feel to it, but the inside is very modern and definitely influenced by North American trends.

Are you like me? Do you enjoy looking at the way interior designers design the look of a room or home? If you do, do you get ideas from the designs that you see that you can use in your own home?






Still looking for the perfect mailbox

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I’m still on the hunt for the perfect wall mounted mailbox for our house. The lid on ours doesn’t even close anymore unless you push down on it firmly. It’s becoming a pain! It’s also creaky and noisy so when the mailman comes around and leaves new mail, if I’m not expecting it the sound of the mailbox lid can make me jump out of my skin!

Lately I’ve been looking at Whitehall Mailboxes. I really like the variety of styles, and they look like they are well made quality mailboxes.

There’s a really nice looking wall mounted bronze mailbox that I really like on the Whitehall mailboxes site. It looks tasteful and elegant and it seems to come with house numbers as well. An added bonus I’d say.

The mailbox that I like is on sale too. In fact, all of the Whitehall mailboxes are on sale. They make wall mounted mailboxes, custom mailboxes, and personalized mailboxes, as well as mailboxes on a post, street side mailboxes and slot mailboxes.

Check the site out if you are looking for a new mailbox too.

Roly Poly Soy Eco-Candles

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Do you enjoy scented candles in your home? Perhaps you sometimes give beautiful candles as gifts? If you answered yes to either of those questions you might enjoy eco-friendly Soy Candles . These candles are longer lasting than regular petroleum based candles, better for the environment, bio-degradable, made from a renewable resource, and they are of course reusable.

I’m so excited about these candles. I’ve never heard of soy candles before. You see, I’m allergic to most scented products. Perfumes and most scented candles give me an almost immediate severe migraine, and it usually feels like one of my eyes are going to pop out of my head. The problem, I believe is the petroleum in these products. About twenty years ago scented products were more natural but as soon as they became petroleum based I developed my severe allergy.

Now it seems that I can have scented candles in my home.

The candles themselves are just lovely. One of their best selling products ins the 22oz Roly Poly Soy candle. It’s extra large, and longer lasting than regular wax candles.

The candles feature top shelf fragrances that are based in all natural vegetable oil, rather than the traditional liquid petroleum based fragrances. No wax candle is totally soot free but these are said to produce virtually no black soot.

The candles are custom made for you. When you create your order you can specify the candles scent, color (dye free), and the candle type – hexagon, round, size by ounce of your roly poly and so on.

The scent list alone is making me want to order up a bunch of these candles. Amaretto coffee, American apple pie, blueberry muffins, coconut lime verbena, Honey dew, mulberry, gardenia, jasmine, super cinnamon and many many more scents. I counted over 100 different scents before I stopped! No wonder I suddenly want to order several different candle scents huh?

The prices seem quite reasonable. I’m sure you’ll be pleased. Oh and if you really like their candles you can join their candle of the month club too, or sign someone up as a gift. They ship world wide using USPS priority mail or FedEx depending upon where the order is being shipped. Most orders should arrive within 3 to 10 business days.

If you decide to order Soy Candles use this coupon code FREE5 and you’ll save 5% off your order.

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