Adding Window Screens For Extra Protection

 

Preparing the room for the coming of our second child is becoming an addiction. I wanted everything to be perfect, I wanted our child's room to be most comfortable and safe for her. The room is almost finish now, but, we are still making some changes to be sure that everything will fall to it's proper places. We know that she can't appreciate yet everything that we are doing for her. But, I know somehow that she will soon feel that she is very welcomed and very much loved by everyone, especially us, her parents and her older brother. We added some window screen to make sure that mosquitoes won't easily get in our house especially her room. My husband made the wooden window screens, good thing there is you tube, he watch the steps carefully and bought the materials needed in making one.

My husband had to remove the window box before he could successfully install the window screen. After the installation, he immediately placed the window box just below the window screen and he also added some elegant standard faux bracket to our window box. He saw these faux bracket while shopping for the materials of our window screen. It is ready made and just needs to be painted with the same color of our window box and just glue them to the bottom of our window box. We were very happy with the outcome of the window screen. Now, our minds will be at peace knowing that even we open the windows at night, the mosquitoes won't get in to our little girl's room.

Life is simple, but we are the ones who actually make things more complicated. We find satisfaction after overcoming many complicated situations in life, maybe that's the reason that we choose the path that is more complicated. Just like in decorating a room, we can choose to have less decor or furniture, but we choose to add more because we feel that we will be needing it all.  At the end of the day, we should be thankful to God that He never left our side even in the most complicated situation.

Ways To Use Your Window Boxes At Home

 

Window boxes around the house has been prominent, since we have a lot of windows. I made sure that every windows has it's own window box with flowering plants to compliment them. Making sure that the flowering plants are trimmed and well-watered are just some maintenance that I do from day to day. Although having all these plants inside and outside the house might be too exhausting to take care of but, the good thing is that I get to exercise everyday without leaving the house and paying extra in going to fitness gyms. These plants also also have very good effect not only on physical aspect but also on our mental outlook on life.

Every house in our neighborhood also have their own way of using window boxes. Some puts it in their patio, while others, hangs it in their veranda. It really depends where you want to place or display them. I remember, one of our neighbors invited us on their housewarming party. When I used their washroom, there I saw a beautiful window box with mixed bougainvillea vine arrangement. At first glance, I really though that flowers were real. I can't resist but to take a much closer look and feel the flowers to check. I was really amazed to find out that, it is an artificial mixed flowers and vines. I was fooled by my own eyes and laughed silently at myself. There are really numbers of ways in which we could use these window boxes as decoration at home. We can even use either live or faux plants to go with our window boxes. There is actually no limitations in creating your own style and design at home. It's up to you and your imagination, what place you want to present your guests with when they come by and visit.

Our life is also like a house full of windows. people can take a peek into our lives with these windows, but they would never know ho we really are until they enter our house.

Houseplants Good For Our Health

Flowers and plants that we use to decorate our house are not simply for decorations or adornments. House plant does not only give color to your room or office but also gives us energy.  Along with its beauty and attraction, it brings real health benefits to your body.  These benefits reported are essential for our health such as to influence the state of our mind and to maintain our quality of life in a simple and natural way.

Plants that surrounds us provide many benefits. We can have plants in lancaster window box which give a pleasant view of your window. It will make you feel calmer and optimistic. As studies shows that sick people who face a window with a garden view recovered more quickly than those who had to look at the wall. Plants also fight fatigue and colds. According to a University of Agriculture in Norway, indoor plants can minimize fatigue, colds, sore throats and other cold-related illnesses by 30 percent or more, partially by increasing saturation in humidity and decreasing dust. So for those who are allergic to dust, just like me, plants can reduce the presence of dust from the air for up to 20 percent.

In addition to that, businesses and work environments are starting to believe that adding plants indoors do make wonders for employees' health, morale and well-being. According to one study published in Rehabilitation Literature, it showed that when they put plants into the office, they noticed enhanced work performance and increased productivity in employees.

Despite of the health benefits of the house plants, there are still a few people that are not encourage to plant or garden. Then, don't be afraid. Here online, we provide you all the basic necessities in gardening as well as tips and tricks in home decorating. Garden enthusiast has many resources to check online about gardening tips and supplies. If you need supplies better look on windowbox.com for they provide a wide range of gardening supplies from containers to live plants.

Gardening Gifts Ideas For The Holidays

Gardening is a passion for many people. They spend a lot of time in arranging their garden and taking care of their plants. They not only exert physical effort in gardening but they also invest their emotions in it. As garden enthusiasts, having healthy plants and creating a beautiful garden is what makes them happy just like artists who have finished their masterpiece. For the plant lovers, their garden is their work of art and their masterpiece.

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If you have friends who love to garden, it wouldn't be hard for you to think of what to give them for the holidays. There are a lot of gardening gifts available such as seed and herb kits, gardening tools, and other gardening materials. Here are other ideas on what to give your garden enthusiast friends for the holidays:

1. Window Flower Boxes. If your friend doesn't have one yet, then this will be a good option. Window flower boxes are not just any plant containers. They can totally accentuate the plain windows of a home. Since you are giving this to your friends, they can just put it on the porch or somewhere that will not lose the balance of their home's exterior design. You can choose from a lot of styles such as hay rack trough window box, fiberglass window boxes, and PVC Window boxes.

2. Planter Box. A planter box can be very useful for the garden. Your friends can even bring their plants and flowers insdie their home or just anywhere. There are modern planter boxes today with beautiful designs so that they can be a good decoration for the home as well. They can may also come in different sizes that can fit anywhere even in their center tables.

3. Glass Terrariums. Terrariums are ecofriendly ornaments that your friends would definitely love to have. They are so modern yet easy to maintain. It can be of different types such as globe terrariums, bubble terrariums, or hanging terrariums.

Sometimes, any gardening gifts would be appreciated by your friend who is a garden enthusiast because these will be useful for their passion. But of course, we want to give the best for the people we love and care for that is why we search for something special. The above-mentioned gardening gifts are very useful not only for their garden but also for their home. They are modern decorations that every plant lover would appreciate.

Flower Window Boxes For Limited Gardening Spaces

Not all of us are fortunate to have a wide space outside our home where we can put our plants and flowers or create a relaxing garden. For those who are living in urban areas or in apartments, you can hardly find a space for gardening. What people usually do is use a planter box where they can put their plants and flowers.

Self Watering Window Box

Another useful tool to use for gardening in a limited space is the window box. Flower window boxes are installed on windows where garden enthusiasts can grow their plants and flowers. The trend nowadays is the use of decorative window boxes which are not only for gardening purposes but for home decorations as well. They have different kinds of designs that are made to fit in any types or colors of windows and any house structures.

Wood is a common material in home decorations but they are not ideal for an outdoor planter box such as the flower box. So the most widely used window boxes today is the PVC window box. They are made of Cellular PVC, a material that can best replicate the appearance of wood but has better properties. Unlike wood, PVC window box does not rot, crack nor twist which makes them ideal for outdoor use.

A lot of designs for flower window boxes can be found in your local hardware store and on the Internet. They are usually made in standard sizes. But if it doesn't fit on your windows, you can ask for custom window boxes. They will be specifically made according to your preference and to your windows' requisites.

A limited space is no longer a hindrance in gardening. Flower window boxes are a great way to grow our plants even if we don't have a back or front yard. Using decorative window boxes can even make our home or apartment windows more beautiful and attractive. Choose a design that will best match with the color and beauty of your flowers to create a stunning home exterior.

Grow Your Plants Anywhere Using A Planter Box

Gardening was once a tedious job for most of us especially for those who are too busy with their other priorities. But today, gardening can already be done easily. Container gardening is the best way for us to enjoy gardening even when we have so little time to spend for it. It has made gardening possible for plant lovers who cannot find time to do their passion.

By using a planter box, we can now grow plants and herbs anywhere even inside our home or office. Planter boxes today are made durably and artistically. They can have elegant designs that are ideal for residential and commercial use. Yet, they are even more functional than you thought. They are not only for the people's eyes but for the plants' health and survival as well.

Using a flower box to take care of your favorite flowers will make gardening easier for you. You can place them in your porch, in the kitchen or in the windowsill so that you can check on them any time. For a much better choice, you can get a self-watering flowerbox so that you do not have to water your plants from time to time and avoid them from leaking into your floor and mess up your home's interior.

The best advantage about using a planter box or a flowerbox is that you can put them anywhere. As mentioned above, they can be placed on the porch, in your living room, kitchen, or even outside your window. Accentuate your windows by placing custom window boxes and planting colorful flowers on it. Choose fragrant flowers so that the aroma can go inside your home. Custom window boxes are like planter boxes as well but they are just installed on the windows.

So if you love to garden but you cannot accommodate it in your daily schedule, container gardening is the best solution for you. Using a planter box for gardening needs less maintenance, the health of your plants are very well taken care of, can be done both indoor and outdoor, and most of all they are very trendy.

Turn Your House Into A Lovely Home

We all want to live in a fully furnished beautiful place. An abode where we can have peace of mind, spend quality time with the family, and won't be ashamed to welcome our friends and guests. In short, we want our house to be called a home. So we typically improve its appearance by using modern furniture, wall arts, and adding decorations inside and out.

Some of the most fascinating addition to our home are plants and flowers. They not only add beauty to our surroundings but they can also give us fresh air and help save Mother Nature. Today, a backyard garden is no longer necessary just to add a greenery outside our home. Though our gardening gifts will never go to waste because there are already a lot of ways on how we can grow plants inside and out of our homes.

1. Hanging baskets. They can be fascinating decorations on our porch, patio, or any other outdoor spaces. Put cascading plants on hanging baskets and they will definitely make your home more charming and attractive.

2. Window Box. Accentuate your windows with colorful flowers by placing them in a window box. There are different styles of window boxes that you can use to perfectly match the color or design of your house. You may use metal, PVC, fiberglass, or hay rack. Using any of them will definitely add pizazz to your windows.

3. Planter Box. Bring the charm and aroma of your flowers inside your home by placing them in planter box. Even your herbs can be brought in too. With the wide selection of planter boxes today, it will not be hard for you to choose which fits in your interior or exterior decorations at home.

With the variety of gardening ideas today, it is up to your creativity to use them and make your house turn into a beautiful and lovely home. You can look for designs of home decorations using hanging baskets, window boxes, or planter boxes on the internet and follow their patterns. You can even follow the designs of luxurious hotels even if you do not use expensive materials. Just mix and match the various resources that you can afford and you will achieve the beautiful home that you have in mind.

Holiday Window Boxes

Few days from now Christmas is coming to town. I bet everybody’s excited to fill their homes with interior decorations. Trim their Christmas tree with wonderful holiday ornaments and attach a holiday wreath on their door. Everything about Christmas is pleasant for everybody.

Every year our concept for home improvement is the same. We have same old Christmas tree, wreaths, and other common Christmas embellishments. For a change, have we tried something unique that could catch our neighbor or guest’s eyes when they see the patio or can be inside our home? It would be best to try something new in our house, something pleasant yet unique decoration that could create a different look to our home during the holiday season.

Why not try including our plants, plant stand, window boxes and hanging plants as part of our home Christmas decorations? They would surely be head turners to people passing by our home. These home accents can be of great value because they do have multi-purpose especially the flower box and hanging baskets.

Flower boxes for instance are perfect home accents. They don’t only work as plant containers. They also compliment windows and patios. We can surely put flowers that give bountiful blooms. Example of which are violet flowers, campanula, kalanchoe, etc. that would give the exact beauty that we need for our box. As holiday decorations, flower box can be given some accents like silver, red and green ribbon (that definitely will depend on our interior Christmas motif), Christmas lights and Christmas ornaments that can be attached and easily removed on certain surfaces.

Another example is the hanging basket. As per some online stuff, hanging baskets are easy to create. But we need to be creative as not to spoil the beauty that hanging baskets bring. Just like the flower box, hanging basket needs to have bountiful blooms of flower. These blooms bring out the beauty of the hanging basket even if it is plainly made. As Christmas decoration, we can add some holiday ornaments like silver bells, and ribbons to the basket.

Whatever we do so long as the spirit of Christmas is in our hearts, we will always have a merry and joyful Christmas. Happy Holidays!

Garden with Romance and Health

Isn’t it wonderful to walk along a sunset boulevard full with flowers? Do we feel loved if we stroll beside a park full with flower box gardens? This romantic scenery is also possible at home. Some trowels, shovels, flowers and container boxes are our best friend if we plan to have a garden of love in our house. I think it will not be difficult to have one if we really want it. Who knows? Our better half might like it and will be really thrilled to have it added in your love cradle. I bet you have a great smile on your face while reading this. Well, everyone has their own way of making their relationships exciting. But to deal with flowers, there are so many benefits that we gain just to have this unique symbol of romance. It does not only stop at giving some bouquets of bloom to our loved ones, or spreading red rose petals on their pathways. It is the healthy lifestyle that we can achieve just to have it in our home.

Simple as it is, gardening, does not only give us an emotional satisfaction, but it also gives us a full body work out. Say, we are going to lift a twenty-pound flower box, then transfer it from your front yard to the backyard, which would be like 10-15 meters away. Wouldn’t it be a good early morning exercise for you to do that? The entire activity is cardio exercise mixed with muscle toning. Another one would be shoveling. If we are to shovel holes it would be like another cardiovascular exercise mixed with some muscle training. Gardening is truly a great exercise not only for our body but also for our heart.

Did I say heart? Well, when we are stressed, there are lots of negative health conditions that we acquire like heart ailment. For us to take care of for our heart we need to manage our stress. And one of the best therapies is to have flowers and do gardening at home. Gardening is the key to a healthy life according to home and gardening enthusiasts. As mentioned, exercise is good for our health because it is the best way to relieve stress. Also flowers can make the saddest soul happy. By only gazing at the beautiful creation of God, our mood suddenly changes from hopeless to positive.

Indeed, flowers and gardening have great impact to us. People who lack garden at home miss half of their lives as an individual because even just a simple mini flower box can create positive changes to our lives. It can be a holistic positive change for our health as well as our romance. Putting flower and gardening together will give us happiness and to start now is a great idea.

Gardening with Flower Box and Hanging Baskets

In gardening, we have so many options on how to use our available space at home to maximize the usage of our living space. Examples of which are window box, flower box, flower baskets and the conventional bed gardens. But nowadays, people from urban areas are more interested on modern gardening methods like flower box and hanging baskets.

One of the most popular gardening methods these days is flower box gardening. It is not like the conventional gardening style that occupies a lot of gardening space. You only need few long boxes which measures about a meter or two to accommodate several plants and some soil. Flower boxes would be easier to manage because it only has limited space for planting. Container gardening does not only cater herbal or vegetable plants. Most garden enthusiasts are also using flower plants for home decoration purposes.

The good thing about container gardening is the option of placing flower boxes indoors and outdoors. Both have great impact to our house. There are also several selections for container boxes. PVC, aluminum, wooden and iron are some of the available container types. All different material types are available in all local flower shops and can be purchased online as well.

Another urban gardening trend is the use of hanging basket. It does not occupy most of our living space because of its hanging advantage option. It is far different from flower box because it only allows single plant or flowering plant. The latter is the most ideal choice for planting because of its colorful bloom and best to have bountiful flowering plants placed on a basket. Hanging basket is usually made of iron or metal wires. The only difference of each type is the inserts. Coco liner, moss and twigs and coco fiber are some of the available insert types for hanging baskets. Good thing about inserts, they are changeable. We can definitely change it every now and then if we want to, unlike flower box, it would be a lot of work and time knowing that it is a lot bigger and has lots of contents.

Take a look at some available flower box and hanging baskets online to have some time visualizing about how you can develop your home by adding these simple gardening structures. I bet it would be fun!

Home Improvement Decorations

We all have our means of making our home presentable in our own way. We tend to create simple yet very interesting beautifying ideas in our home. And one way of promoting home improvement is by gardening. Gardening does not only improves the physical aspect of our home and surroundings but it also helps clean the air that we breathe and support a healthy lifestyle. Either indoor or outdoor gardening, there are now available tools we can use including flower window boxes, raised bed gardens, conventional gardens and indoor container gardens. All these products are specifically designed to compliment any modern or classical house design. Whether the place is within a rural or urban area, gardening is very feasible as long as you have the right tools.

Aside from gardening, we can also add a wall decor to give our home a new accent. There are different types of wall decor including wooden, metallic and steal wall décors. We can check out the nearest local home store in our area to seek for some designs that complement our household theme.

Water features as a part of our home decor need not be limited to the kitchen or bathroom. They can also be equally ideal in any room or setting including indoors or outdoors. We can also add fountains as one of the main spot attractions of the home. It would be an elegant touch and a dominating home accent feature in our home.

Outdoor fountains  are very appealing to place in ponds and can be made much more vital with water spouts. Another example of outdoor fountain is a Birdbath. It is a water feature that is perfect for the garden or the back yard as well and can provide a welcome invitation to area wildlife.

Indoor fountains can be the dominating home decor feature in a room, quite literally providing the commanding feature with a majestic wall fountain or waterfall.

To make our décors stand out, we can add some lights that go well with the interior home decoration. It would be amazing how beautiful the entire décor be to have the lights focused on them. It will bring out the best to whatever additional stuff we have at home.

Home accents are easy to find and add to our home but we need to be more creative to have perfect ideas in mind. We have so many options of what to add to make our home more pleasing and enjoyable to visit. The above mentioned things are only suggestions. I bet you can make your own and create a much better home improvement decoration. Can you think of something and share it to us?

The Fun of Gardening

There are certain instances in our lives when we want to keep ourselves busy. This has nothing to do with our activities at work instead; this is about doing something interesting at home during our time off. We can do many things aside from relaxing during our rest days. Why not make ourselves productive by growing a nice and beautiful garden.

A garden can be a very good alternative for exercise and it also adds beauty to our home. It also gives life and substance to our surrounding. Aside from other amusements, having a garden can be a source of happiness when we go home tired from work. Having a simple yet abundant garden is ideal for everybody as it offers a stress free and a healthy leisure activity. Gardening would be easy and fun if we have some beautiful and interesting plants to grow in them. It will definitely be a wonderful experience for those who are fond of green living environment.

Limited space is not a problem to start a garden. People living in apartments, small homes, and those who lease without land can experience the fun of having a garden by using flowerboxes. Flowerboxes are long narrow boxes which are installed outside a window ledge, which act as garden containers. Once they are fully installed, we can simply transfer our flowering plants to the garden container. Other modern flower window boxes can also be made as a mini garden container or one of the channels along the sides of a window frame for containing the weights that counterbalance the sash. Manufacturers make sure that these innovations are fully flexible and can be combined to any household design. So they produced different types of flower window boxes including Iron, Aluminum, Wood and Vinyl.

Some of the most beautiful flowers to compliment your decorative window boxes are Campanula, Kalanchoe and Persian Violet. They will give a pleasant combination if put together in one container, but, we can always make some choices of what to grow in our window garden. To make the most out of our garden, we should invest some time d and have some fun while taking care of it because plants surely know how to repay us.

The Importance of Gardening

Gardening is a fun thing to do. It may be a bit pricey with the tools that we need to get started, but we definitely have some benefits from it.

It can be a form of stress reliever, it could be a good source of food if we have vegetable garden, it can also be a great addition to smarten our home and it can protect us from the harmful effects of global warming.

As we all know, global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation.For us to preserve our planet, we need to do some green living stuff for a change. We can disregard plastics for every grocery, properly dispose our garbage and not burn them, plant trees to cover up the balding forest caused by frequent cutting of trees for commercial usage and conserve water to avoid shortage. All of this is helpful to fight global warming.

But do you think all of the things stated above are enough to fix the earthly problems? The thing is, these little things that we do are like puzzle to help save the Earth from damages caused by global warming. We can actually add something from this puzzle to start solving the ongoing dilemma of our planet. Why not create a simple garden in our back yard for a start? It would definitely make use of some vacant sections of our backyard. We can do container gardening, say for instance flower box gardening or self watering window box on our window sills and if we have enough space we can invite our neighbors for some community gardening. Absence of back yards due to living in apartments or condominiums is not a problem. We can make use of some space in our apartment and create an indoor garden take for example hanging baskets and indoor designer baskets with occasional flowering plants.

Indoor gardening can be fun. For a great start, we can absolutely try indoor plants with container boxes or pots. We can even have window boxes on the sills or ledges of our windows. Flowering plants would be great with pots and window boxes. Selections from Kalanchoe, Campanula, Carnation, Cyclamen, Gardenia and Hibiscus are some of the example plant gifts that would create great impact with pots and custom window boxes.

Keeping ourselves busy by having a beautiful garden to take care of is better than watching too much television with our spare time. It would definitely be helpful to our environment and at the same time we have fun doing it.

Campanula: A Plant Gift

A Campanula is a bell-shaped bluish violet flowering plant which means “little bell” in Latin. There are different species and colors for Campanula and all of them goes very well on a designer pot. Growing more of it can be very appealing if placed in a window box and it can absolutely be ideal in a hanging basket. Every individual gazing at this plant will love its heartiness, abundant periwinkle blue buds and starry flowers. Most flower shops are offering this fascinating flowering plant for mostly all occasions.

We can have Campanula as a Birthday and Sympathy plant gift. We can also have it as a gift for Mother’s Day, Congratulations, Get well soon, Thanksgiving, Anniversary and even on Housewarming celebrations. It definitely provides a long period of bloom which is absolutely useful if we want to see a long lasting flowering plant gift every day. Having this eye-catching blooming creation in our house with custom window boxes would be very relaxing knowing that the flower gives a pleasant comfort in our eyes.

Campanula ranges from $30 – 40 in the market. Not bad as a gift plant for various occasions. It would be an impeccable plant gift to buy for someone special to us.  To order plants online can be of great convenience if we have a tight schedule and what we see online will be the same as what the receiver gets when the plant is delivered. The main advantage of ordering plants online instead of having it delivered yourself is the thought that you do not need to do the traditional way of buying..

The uniqueness of every gift plant on a flower box will bring joy to every receiver. But Campanula is not just an ordinary plant gift on our garden. It will be a form of attraction for every guest that we invite for some gatherings at home. The thought of having it inside the household will absolutely give happiness to the master of the house.