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<p>Mary Carol Garrity / Tribune Media</p><p>Artist Claude Monet&rsquo;s garden in Giverny, France has a wonderful rustic look.</p>

The inspiring gardens of the Loire Valley

Mary Carol Garrity
June 24

Renovation & Design

<p>Roy Antal / Postmedia files</p><p>Solutions for a smelly closet range from open bars of soap to potpourri or vodka.</p></p>

Tame that smell behind your closet door

Reena Nerbas 
June 21

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<p>Tyler Brownbridge / Postmedia files</p><p>An article on Health Canada&rsquo;s website breaks down mould formations into three categories. Most small and medium mould growths can be cleaned or removed by homeowners, but larger ones should be done by professionals.</p></p>

Turn to the feds and pros to deal with mould

Ari Marantz 
June 21

Renovation & Design

<p>Marc LaBossiere / winnipeg free press</p><p>The pergola framework ended up being adapted to become a sunroom, with walls framed between the posts. Plywood was affixed to the framework of the wall panels between each post and eight slider windows were installed.</p></p>

Deck turned into sunroom

Marc LaBossiere
June 21

Renovation & Design

<p>Photos by Laurie Mustard / Winnipeg Free Press</p><p>Laurie Gyd&#233; does yoga in a room she and I just recently discovered in her home.</p></p>

What lies within

Laurie Mustard
June 17

Renovation & Design

<p>MARIANNE MAJERUS</p><p>Landscape designer Charlotte Harris leans against the patinized copper verticals of the loggia she designed with woodland plantings on a rhythmic repeat framing the background.</p>

Greenery gets the gold

Colleen Zacharias
June 17

Renovation & Design

<p>Benjamin Moore</p><p>This porch ceiling outside a Connecticut home is painted in Benjamin Moore&rsquo;s Harbor Haze. </p>

Paint it blue

Jura Koncius
June 17

Renovation & Design

<p>Miele / TNS</p><p>Miele's canister vacuum has a universally applicable brush head that goes from carpet to hardwood floors and integrated controls on the handle. </p>

How to buy the right vacuum cleaner

Debbie Carlson
June 17

Renovation & Design

<p>Nick Olsen, who designed the room Salon du Beau Monde at Kips Bay, says his main advice for small space design is not to be too respectful of scale.</p>

Living (not so) large


June 17

Renovation & Design

<p>Barbara Damrosch</p><p>Composting reduces the amount of methane gas produced at landfills and creates nutrient-rich soil for growing.</p>

Super scraps

Casey Seidenberg
June 17

Renovation & Design

<p>Photos by Marc LaBossiere / Winnipeg Free Press</p><p>Custom-built privacy panels, fastened to end posts that are counter-sunk into the ground, hint at a backyard sanctuary that lies behind the walls.</p>

Privacy panels for your own personal paradise

Marc LaBossiere
June 10

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