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Look no further if you are shopping for bedroom furnishings

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I’ve been asked to do a write up for the online bedroom furniture and decor store TotalBedroom.com.

Headquartered in New Jersey, TotalBedroom.com is an online store that specializes in the sale of bedroom furniture for both adults and children, as well as bed linens and bedroom accents. The company had it’s start in 2003, and since that time has built it’s reputation as a provider of top quality bedroom furniture and accessories.

I’ve viewed each of the sections of the website, and I must say that they have taken the time to select some beautiful bedroom furnishings in traditional and contemporary styles. You’ll find bedroom furnishings to suit small and large spaces. Beds with built in extra storage compartments for those who need to be economical with their space, and luxurious full sized bedroom sets for those who have large rooms to fill.

brookland-leather-bed-dark-brown-med2.jpgOne of the bedroom furnishings that caught my eye was this beautiful Brookland Leather bed. The bed comes in queen and king sizes, and is constructed with a hardwood frame. Isn’t it lovely? This bed is actually on sale right now too!

I’d imagine that most of us are used to shopping in department stores or smaller retail stores that specialize in specific types of furnishings. If you have been shopping for bedroom furniture recently you are probably familiar with retail prices. I’ve found that the prices are substantially lower at TotalBedrooms.com when compared to similar items that can be found in retail stores.

Navigating the site is quite easy. Just use the menu that’s located on the left side of each page of the site to select the items you are interested in.

The top of the menu begins with TotalBedrooms.com’s Best Values section where you can find queen sized beds under $399, Headboards from $149, Platform beds from $154, Queen sets under $1,999 and comforter sets from $169.

You can shop the site by brand name or by the type of product. Listings include Daybeds, Bedroom sets, Beds, headboards, Futons, Futon Covers, Bedroom Furniture, Bedding, Kids Furniture, Bedroom Accents, Mattresses, Bed frames and Trundles. Their selection of beds range from Twin size beds all the way up to California King size beds in styles that include platform, sleigh, leather, wood, metal and lovely canopy beds.

bedding-diamonte-med2.jpg If you are interested in purchasing sheets, bedding or comforter sets look no further. TotalBedroom.com has a wide selection of styles in a variety of price ranges to suit your budget.

I’m quite taken with this Diamonte Bedding set. It’s lovely and looks luxurious. I even like the metal bed frame that it’s being displayed on.

The Deluxe Diamonte Bedding pack comes with a comforter, bedskirt, shams and a tri pillow pack. Whereas the Super pack includes all of the above plus Euro Pillows. This set is available in queen to California King size and ranges in price from $359 to $419.

The main page of the site lists specials such as Platform beds at reduced prices, Items that are on sale for between 35% to 65% off, Bedroom sets that are on sale and new items that have just been added to the inventory. You’ll also find specials listed at the bottom of most of the pages on the site as well.

If you happen to find a product being sold on TotalBedroom.com that’s being sold elsewhere for less you can inform them of the price difference and they’ll try to beat the price that you’ve found. See their Price Match Policy for more information.

If all that I’ve described above isn’t enough what do you think of the fact that TotalBedroom.com offers top level delivery service free of charge? They even use an online tracking system that will allow you to check the status of your order. At this time they only ship to the 48 states in the Continental USA.

All in all I think this is a well thought out website. It’s easy to navigate and is filled with a wide selection of products that anyone would be pleased to purchase for their home.






Helpful gardening tips

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Here’s a a few handy gardening tips that you might find useful, particularly if you are new to gardening:

1. Do your homework. Visit public gardens, read magazines and books.

2. Amend the soil for success. Lighten clay loam soil with compost.

3. Design for surprise: place some curves in your design or interesting nooks that visitors to your garden have to enter to see what magically beautiful plant you have growing there.

4. If you inherit a garden: Wait a season to see what comes up. You may destroy something you want to save. We were lucky to have purchased our house in June. I was able to watch what grew that year and used the following winter to plan out my new garden.

5. Smart plant picks. Purchase plants that are drought tolerant or said to be easy to care for if you don’t want to spend too much time in the garden watering and pruning.

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6. Mass appeal. Plant large areas with one flower in one color, such as purple phlox. You can always tell who’s a beginning gardener because they plant one of each plant. masses of three to five or more plants planted together in the garden bed make a much more satisfying display.

7. A wild prairie garden can be work until it gets established. If you want a natural looking garden find out what plants are native to your area and use them abundantly.

8. Japanese-style garden do’s. For dimension, build hills and cover them with moss.

9. Time-saving trick. Plant hosta around the base of trees and you won’t have to trim around them.

10. Get the kids to help. Most kids like helping in the garden. You may still end up doing more work than they do, but it’s a way to spend some quality time with them and also a way to get them outside.

11. Sure-fire critter repeller – build a fence with a gate if you want to keep out skunks, who don’t climb but can dig just fine) and other pets that might frequent your garden. Gates and fences don’t stop all critters but a fence might deter a few of them.

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War of the Roses

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It figures.

I finally manage to get out into the garden this weekend and of course it’s during a heat-wave. Needless to say I didn’t go out into the garden until late afternoon or early evening as I was waiting for it to cool down a bit.

Still, I made some progress!

The wind was blowing quite hard on Friday afternoon – probably bringing in all the hot weather that’s settled in this area. I noticed that my climbing rose- Antique89 was tipping over in the wind and was crashing into my patio table.

The rose is approximately 7 feet tall and has very thick canes. It was leaning over at more than a 45 degree angle. I quickly grabbed some stakes and my garden tie (plastic ribbon) and scissors and ran outside to fix the rose.

Antique89 rose and bud

While I was wrestling with the rose our boarder apparently came outside looking for me. She didn’t find me. I was under the rose! Hello! Roses don’t normally scream. That was me that was moaning and groaning as the thick thorns dug into the skin on my hands, arms and even my legs.I’d say that Antique 89 and Baron Prevost are probably the thorniest roses that I have in my garden. I’ll be working with all of my roses over the next few days and I’ll let you know if I find any other ones that fit in that category.

Unfortunately, since I haven’t been in my garden all that much over the last two months I have a lot of work to do and a lot of rose wrestling to do. I know, I know … this is the time of year that a gardener should be in the garden regularly, but I’ve been sick and just haven’t been able to get out there.

Much to my dismay and joy as well, the rose are growing as if they are on steroids. Must be all that alfalfa tea I put on them last year. They are huge! Since they are so large they are beginning to flop all over the place too.

Last winter as we prepared the garden for it’s cool slumber my husband thought he was doing me a favor by removing most of the stakes I had in the garden supporting many of my somewhat floppy roses. He did me no favors – especially now, since I’ve let the garden become somewhat overgrown. I’m going to have to climb right into the flowerbed and try to untangle rose branches and discover perennials that are hiding below them.

I’m proud to say that one half of the backyard garden has been tamed! The roses have been straightened, and the plants below them can now be seen. Half the beds have nice red cedar mulch on them. It’s starting to look pretty nice back there. I hope to get the other half of the backyard and the front garden done within the next two days. I still haven’t planted all those annuals though. I thought that I’d better tame the garden first so that I can actually see what areas are a little bare and need annuals. The rest will go into my planters.

I’m going to get my husband to take a picture of my arms tomorrow and if he does I’ll post it. I must have about 50 scratches on each arm – pretty much from the elbows down. They are burning and they look terrible.

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