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Do you like what you have but dont like your room? Heres the solution: pull your rooms together so they look finished and professionally decorated by following these techniques to add the wow to your rooms! (Ive used them in hundreds of homes!).

1. Paint the walls and ceiling a rich, warm neutral color or one of the colors in your rooms fabrics. Your furnishings will immediately look more at home. I call it marrying your architecture to your furnishings.

2. Next, move your seating away from the walls and group it around a fireplace, a view window or any logical focal point.

3. Now, add a generous area rug to accent and unify your entire seating area.

4. Fill any empty looking corners with large plants and soft up-lights. Add a decorative, folding screen for a fuller look.

5. Place your lamps to evenly and softly light your seating area. Use additional lighting to accent your artwork, collections and accessories.

6. Create a focal point on the coffee table by elevating one of your favorite accessories on a stack of several books (sans covers). This will give your treasure more presence. Then add a low, full green plant or a blooming orchid and a couple of large, glowing candles. If you like a fuller look, use a decorative tray or runner underneath.

7. Lastly, be sure to decorate the top half of your room (from the furniture up), with tall plants, window treatments, artwork and that wall color. The room will feel considerably larger, more interesting and most importantly finished!

These few changes will make all the difference so you can start enjoying living in a beautiful home!

Mary L. Brown of One Day Design is an interior re-designer who specializes in quickly transforming rooms using the furniture, accessories, and artwork people already have to give them a professionally decorated look! She’s been featured on FOXTV, NBC and HGTV. Download Marys FREE Top 10 Decorating Mistakes (and How to Avoid or Fix Them!) and sign up for her FREE decorating eNewsletter at http://www/OneDayDesign.com

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Price : $17.96

Features

• Weeding tool for efficient, effective weed removal
• Stand-up weeder: pulls weeds by roots quickly and easily
• Durable steel construction and rustproof finishes for long-lasting wear
• Long-handled, patented design allows use from standing position; includes bag clip
• Limited lifetime warranty

Amazon.com Product Description

The Hound Dog Products Weed Hound stand-up weeder pulls weeds by their roots quickly and easily! It requires no bending and no chemicals, making weeding easier both on you and on your garden. The weeder can also be used to aerate soil for a healthier lawn. Like all Hound Dog Products tools, the Weed Hound features durable steel construction and rust-proof finishes for long-lasting wear; its comfortable grips and upright design make gardening easier on your hands, knees, and back. It comes with a limited lifetime warranty.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-07-09
I borrowed one of these from a friend to pull the dandelions from my yard and I loved how effective it was. I had to buy one of my own. I’ve pulled weeds with roots up to a foot long - and I didn’t have to worry about using poisins near my gardens. It does leave a hole but you can fill it very easily.

Review date : 2008-06-24
Was fairly disappointed in this product’s performance. Have to place it Just Right and soil needs to be Just So - otherwise wind up yanking away at branches of weed and not the weed itself.

Review date : 2008-06-04
I’m a novice gardener and have become the steward of a sadly overgrown garden. I bought this blindly after having spent a day kneeling and ripping up weeds by hand. I lucked out! What a great product. It’s solidly constructed and has some real heft to it. I did have some issues getting used to how it worked at first. After a while, I got the rhythm and had a blast destroying unsuspecting dandelions and milkweed. I sure hope the neighbors didn’t hear me as I laughed maniacally at the death of those weedy invaders!

Why knock off a star? I did find that a little twisting motion applied as I pulled up slowly helped to get the entire root system. I also noted that sometimes the hound got a little greedy at times and pulled up a lot of soil. I just knocked it off and pushed it back into the divot. And finally, the metal sometimes gets a little stuck and tough to release if I get a little to carried away with weed assassination. I really had to whack it to get it to work again- but keeping that in mind prevented further issues. I also bet I could squirt a little WD40 in there to get it moving again.

All in all- absolutely worth the money!

Review date : 2008-05-30
I think that this works great. I love it and have not put down any bad chems to get rid of weeds.

Review date : 2008-05-08
The design concept is good but this tool needs some reconfiguration before it’s truly effective.

1. The pulling tines should be a bit longer. (They aren’t long enough to grab on and pull up the whole dandelion root, even in wet soil.)

2. The diameter of the base of the tines (where they are mounted) needs to be about 1/4 inch more. (Would give a better chance of grabbing onto the root as the exact center of a dandelion is sometimes hard to eyeball.)

3. Shaft of tool needs to be about 3 inches longer. (So the tool-user doesn’t have to bend over so much to use this thing.)

I remember the days of my youth when I would go and visit my grandfather’s log cabin off in the woods, with hardly a neighbor in site, except, perhaps, a squirrel or a porcupine. The drive up the winding road to get to his cabin was never too tiresome, because I knew what treasure lay waiting at the end of the road.

When Grandfather’s cabin would finally come into view, I would be awestruck by it’s simplicity and beauty. Perhaps, some people these days would think that it was a dump, but it was truly beautiful — in a simple, rustic sort of way.

It wasn’t the outside of the cabin, however, that I loved — it was the inside. Even after having been away for an entire year or more and when the entire log cabin would be filled with dust and insects, I would immediately feel at home. The interior walls (the ones that were not simply logs) were very textured and tactile with bits of hay peeking through. Homemade quilts covered every cozy bed. Thick log headboards looked over and protected each bed. Twig chairs sat evenly around a large, uneven wood table with knots and lines of age.

Grandfather cooked all of our meals on a wood-burning stove that also heated our small, two-room log cabin. There was, of course, no bathroom to speak of, but I never minded the trek out to the outhouse… so long as somebody came with me.

I think that it is because of the wonderful, happy, and cozy times that I spent in my grandfather’s cabin that I love rustic furniture so much now. My house is not completely covered in rustic furniture (although, I would love it if it were), but I have a few pieces here and there that really make my home feel like a home.

However, there is one room in the house that is entirely rustic - my daughter’s room, and although she’s young, she loves it. I really wanted her to grow up with that happy feeling that I felt whenever I went to Grandfather’s log cabin. In fact, some of the furniture in Susy’s room is from the old cabin - when Grandfather died, we had to sell our special home away from home.

Susy’s entire room seems to be wooden. We even found an old, rustic, wooden rocking horse. We don’t have any handmade quilts for her bed, but we did find some beautiful patterned quilts at the store. The rustic furniture in her room includes a log bed (straight from Grandfather’s cabin), a wooden set of drawers with antler handles, and an armoire with wonderful ironwork accents that we bought from a local artisan.

My Grandfather’s rustic log cabin may be gone, but we’ve made quite a comfortable home for ourselves with some of our favorite rustic furniture pieces, even in our living room.

Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, parenting, fashion, and home decor. Her background includes teaching and gardening. For more of her articles on rustic furniture, please visit Rustic Furniture Plus.

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