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How To: Decorate Around a Dark Leather Sofa
Boston

We've been helping a family member redecorate their living room and the first major purchase for the space was a new sofa—a new dark leather sofa. Our taste doesn't usually lean to leather so, init...

How To: Make a Wood Door Curtain
Boston

We just arrived home from a much needed vacation in New Hampshire, to discover our recent issue of Natural Home Magazine. Maybe the influence of being in the woods for a week drew us to this simpl...

How to: Track Junk Mail
Boston

Our mailman loves it when we get magazines in the mail. Not because he likes carrying them around, but because he gets a chuckle out of what our title is on the address label. Our Domino subscrip...

How To: Search on Craigslist
Boston

The other night we found ourselves sitting around after dinner with our dueling laptops, looking for unusual things for sale on Craigslist. We were having a contest seeing who could come up with th...

How To: Decorate to Reflect Your Pet
Boston

About a year after we brought our little white dog, Arlo, into our Jamaica Plain apartment, an unconscious shift to white décor began unfolding. We didn’t even notice it was happening until an ou...

How To: Hang a Cycloc
Boston

As national bike month comes to a close and more of us are out on the streets - braving the potholes, endless construction and Boston drivers - we need a place to rest our bikes when we return home....

How To: Hang a Quilt Artistically
Boston

The large expanse of white wall in our guest room bored us terribly, and we didn’t have any idle artwork lying around that we could use to jazz it up. Then it dawned on us - we have a fantastic N...