add visual interest to a room with these basic house & home ideas. Injecting personality into a space can be easy and inexpensive if you’re …
November 2022
Video: SmartThings home Automation Demo
Here’s another interesting presentation from last weeks D11 All things D Conference. SmartThings founder and CEO Alex Hawkinson demonstrated his “Internet of Things” modules in a variety of home automation scenarios. Knowing …
DIY: Batik wall Hanging
assistant design editor Jennifer Koper shares how to make a beautiful batik wall hanging. Wall hangings and tapestries are on-trend best now, and I’ve seen all …
DIY picture wall
home & house style editor Stacey Smithers produced this affordable response to a large-scale art investment by tacking black-and-white snapshots to a white-painted corkboard. Quirky …
Design Hack: artificial brick wall
want a hit of Brooklyn character, however lack the requisite subjected brick wall? No requirement to strip things back to the studs. A lightweight faux-brick …
How To balance A Living room
Q. You in some cases talk about size and balance in a room and I think my room is out of balance. My fireplace is …
Affordable Kid’s room update
Looking around my daughter’s bedroom last night got me thinking about how sometimes, when the stars line up, missing pieces in a room fall into …
Vesternet smart home store now available in the USA
Some news for our American readers this week as our title sponsor Vesternet make their smart home store available in the USA. In the last 6 …
New RFID house Automation Starter set as well as Wrist Band tag
iAutomate are selling an updated version of their RFID house Automation kit. amongst the new offerings is a $500 set to utilize with the Mac …
New Loxone IR extension Module plus free online video Tutorials
Loxone have launched a new IR extension device that sits in the consumer unit, like its Miniserver, which talks to up to 8 infra-red modules, …