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Fall is a great time to start growing plants in the garden. With bright, sunny days to compliment cool temperatures, this creates a perfect climate for the next growing season. However, the weather in New England consists of four distinct seasons: short springs, humid summers, cool falls, and harsh winters filled with heavy snowstorms. Winter Garden While you might have already prepared your home for winter, there are other steps you can take for your garden as well. Here are 4 winter tips to prepare the gardeners of New England. Store Seasonal Features Seasonal features like wall fountains are great for adding style and structure to your garden. If you have previously added a fountain to your yard during the spring or summer months, you will need to consider the …

Household Pests The squeaks, scratching, and creepy crawly things you keep seeing and hearing around the house are enough to drive you insane. Be it spiders, ants, roaches, or mice, finding out that these tiny creatures are taking up space in your home is not only gross, embarrassing, and annoying, but it could quickly become a sanitary issue. If you’ve found a rodent or insect in your home, you’ll need to take a few extra steps to get rid of them, before matters get worse. Contact Professionals for Infestations Seeing one or two spiders or ladybugs around the house may be nothing more than a change in the seasons and a bug who unfortunately found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. This can easily be negated with …

Home Decor Ecommerce Determining what to charge for certain items can be one of the more challenging aspects of running an ecommerce store. This variable gets even more crucial when your inventory is large, expensive objects that turn over slowly. Furniture and home decor ecommerce stores can fall victim to this trend. Without a competitive pricing and inventory strategy, it can be difficult for an ecommerce home store to run at its full potential. These are some strategies for pricing and selecting your furniture and home décor inventories. Image Source: Pexels Cost-Based Pricing versus Value-Based Pricing Before you determine specific prices for your inventory, you need to know how you want to approach pricing various items. Two of the most popular ways to decide on how to price an item …

Home Improvement Your home is meant to be a reprieve from the hectic pace and jarring patterns of the modern world, but unless care is paid to the layout and features of that home, you might instead find yourself in a setting that only makes you more anxious. Here are some ways to make your space peaceful. Build a Zen Garden Image Source: Flickr A Zen garden is not typically a garden with flowers. Instead, it is a garden composed of sand and rocks, something like a child’s sandbox. Instead of the ubiquitous pail and shovel, however, a Zen garden often has a rake nearby, used to draw patterns in the sand and to manipulate the rocks. Zen gardens can also incorporate surrounding greenery or a water feature. Spending time …