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Showing posts with label home decorating ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home decorating ideas. Show all posts

Monday, April 14, 2025

Lifestyle: Does Your Favorite Room Have a Name?

Is there are favorite room in your home where you go to relax, retreat, block out the rest of the world, or share a special space with someone?

  • It’s a fortress in North Africa (and in some other parts of the world). It is a unique medina or Islamic city and the Kasbah of Algiers is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • “Casbah” is a word that I have heard in movies and in music. I watched an old movie, released in 1948 titled “Casbah” (1948) and it was set in Algiers. There was also a song I liked during my teen years called “Rock the Casbah” . Will Smith sampled it on one of his songs. (Will Smith feat. K-Ci’s ‘Will 2K’ — Discover the Sample Source)
  • Casbah is also spelled kasbah, qasba, or qasaba.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Joie de Vivre's Home and Garden Blog Posts Roundup!

Part of everyone's joie de vivre (joy of living) has to do with simply decorating one's home or apartment or living spaces.  It doesn't take much money to make yourself happy.  You know you better than anybody else, so it should be easy to tap into your own psyche.  I tapped into mine and ended up writing these blog posts.  Somebody else might appreciate my home and garden blog posts.

Design a  Room

Image credit:  Tools to Design a Virtual Room on Amazon

H&G Tips From Joie de Vivre Magazine:

Buying a Home: Ever Fantasize About Having a Celebrity Neighbor?

Dreaming of Your Dream Home?

Is the Sunroom Your Favorite Room in the House?

Does Your Favorite Room Have a Name?

Transplant Flowers to Cure Homesickness

(More blog posts about flowers)

Ideas for Improving the Harmony and Balance of Your Home or Office



Saturday, June 12, 2021

Vintage Books for Your Personal Library or Book Collections

No matter what anybody says I say that libraries will never go out of style.  Yes, there is and always will be digitized literature.  But nothing will ever replace resting comfortably in your bed or on your sofa and curling with a good book!  NOT a tablet!

That being said, I have always loved most things vintage. Have to define “vintage” in case you happen to be about the age of one of my kids. Vintage for them might be circa 1980 or 1990, and they may think vintage for me would be circa 1880 or 1890. Not so.

Vintage, by my definition, is back in my day, the 1950s and 60s, or anything before that but still in the 1900s.

Are we clear? Good!

One of my favorite things is “library trash”. Books that some public libraries toss like trash because they do not have enough room on their shelves and have to make space for the “new”.


In my dictionary: old books = vintage books; and they are still worth reading!




Of course, if it is left up to chance and you are searching for a specific book, the odds are not in your favor and you may be waiting a while – wishing and hoping for that particular reading material to end up on the pile. Not all awesome vintage books are tossed by the head librarian.

Fortunately, there is a bookstore called Vintage Books, that has been around since 1954. It is physically located in New York, New York, but thanks to the wonders of information technology, you can peruse their bookshelf online. There are books listed by the usual genres from Art to History to Mystery to Travel. But you might find the selected works categorized in the Vintage Series worth examining. There are 5 different series: Civil War; Classics; Contemporaries, Departures; and International.

Vintage books are priceless additions to your own personal library and are great gift ideas. What is also great is that these published works are not very expensive, come in paperback or hardcover, as well as audio-book format or in the Kindle edition.

(NOTE: Vintage Books is part of the Random House/Knopf Doubleday network of bookselling sites.  Below are book Selections From the Vintage Series


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The Civil War Dictionary by Mark Boatner
(Vintage Civil War Library)

For almost thirty years The Civil War Dictionary has been the most complete, authoritative, and handy reference book on what has been called the Second American Revolution, 1861-1865.




Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
(Vintage Classics)

A young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian. Her in-laws are not amused.




The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
(Vintage Contemporaries)

A love story is woven into a novel about hopes and dreams, and redefinition of what it means to be American.




Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
(Vintage Departures)

Explorer Christopher Columbus described Cuba as “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen”. 31 writers – poetry, fiction, and nonfiction – agree.




Bombay Stories
(Vintage International)

1930s Bombay provided the author with the inspiration for this collection of short stories.




If you’re gifting vintage books might as well throw in some vintage bookends and a desk! :)


Decorative Heavy Duty Bookends – Metal Large Book Ends – Vintage Tall Books Stand



Sauder Graham Hill Desk, Autumn Maple Finish


Source:  Webnuggetz.com

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Home and Garden: Is the Sunroom Your Favorite Room in the House?

I started learning about architectural styles, home design, home restorations, and renovations, etc.  Did you know that many people, no matter what part of the world they live in, often decide that a sunroom would make a delightful addition to their home?  

First, they pick the sunroom style.  Then they pick the décor.  The entire home addition project is exciting and family members quiver with anticipation.  They can’t wait for the day when they will be able to spend countless hours in “the happy room”.  

If you’re thinking about adding a sunroom to your home or decorating the sunroom you already have, here are some ideas.



🏠  Does your house have a sunroom?
🏠  Don’t you think a sunroom is a great place in the house for entertaining family and friends?
🏠  If you had to decide on a home improvement or home addition project, which would you choose?

  • Build a deck or patio
  • Install an in-ground swimming pool
  • Remodel the kitchen
  • Add on a sunroom




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