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Basic Hand Tools Still Used in Woodworking

Human beings have worked with wood for centuries, cutting it and shaping it for dozens of different purposes. In addition to creating housing for protection from the weather, men and women have cut, drilled and shaped wood by hand for many other purposes. What has changed more than anything in the woodworking world are the […]

Guide to Make Your Kitchen Work Best

Make your kitchen work best for you. Be sure it is presentable and complete. It should also enable you to feel pleased and satisfied. Get high-quality second-hand kitchen furniture like a portable island, a baker’s rack, or a microwave cart. Find them at the proper location. Read these simple directions. First, read your daily newspaper. […]

London City Gardeners – top of their game.

In inner London a record is currently being compiled of ancient apple trees. A surprising number of old, moss-grown, unnamed and neglected apple trees have been discovered, in tiny patches of churchyard all but swallowed up in surrounding development, in tiny backyards, in these odd little squares that one finds surviving throughout the city. Indications […]

London City Garden Design: some cool city tips

What you did not want was anything that would involve you in actually gardening. The lawn-mowing, the hedge-cutting, the digging in of manure and the digging out of potatoes was, quite simply, not what you meant by having a garden in London. What you meant was having a place outdoors where you could imagine, on […]

London Based Garden Design and the City Influence.

Forget the Chelsea Flower Show, the Grow-All-Your-Own-Food-in-a-Bucket movement and old Uncle Alan Titmouse and all. This elusive creature, the London fashion, is moving into minimalism in gardens. Know how very stylish some of these gardens are. Cool grained marble slabs combined with the clean lines of clumps of green bamboo and built-in hardwood benches. A […]