Healthy Home Zerorez JulyAug 2017

A Sunny Makeover Tips to Springify Your Yard

Remove rust spots from garden tools, clean and sharpen blades on mowers and trimmers, and tune up your power tools. Brighten Your Beds: During winter, broken branches, leaves, dead plants, animal waste, and litter seem to accumulate in your flower beds. Use a rake and your trusty garden gloves to remove all debris from your beds and berms. Make sure to inspect birdbaths, fountains, and other lawn features for debris, too. Fertilize Your Flowers: Now is the time to add new mulch to your flower and veggie beds and to give your trees and shrubs a boost of fertilizer for spring.

You’ve spring cleaned, de-cluttered, and organized your home top to bottom — now it’s time to relax and smell the roses, right? Wrong. It’s time to take that spring cleaning motivation outside to your yard and garden! Follow these cleanup tips to give your home a refreshing facelift and prepare your flower

beds and lawn for the rest of the year. Who knows? Your yard might even become the envy of the neighborhood. Tune Up Your Tools: If you missed your garage or shed during your indoor spring cleaning, make sure to tackle those now.

Home Is Where the Art Is

How to Create a Gallery Wall

“Collect the things you love, that are authentic to you, and your house becomes a story.”

wildfire, and if you want in on this trend, here are a few tips to follow:

Start with one large piece to anchor the wall, but don’t worry about centering it. Gallery walls are all about asymmetry and balance. Lay everything out on the floor first and play with a few different arrangements. Take pictures of the ones you like best until you land on the perfect setup. When you make your final decision, all you have to do is recreate it on the wall! Just make sure you leave at least 3 inches between pieces. This will prevent the wall from feeling overcrowded. To get the full effect of the gallery wall, try using two or three different colors or styles of frames. You can find inexpensive frames

– Erin Flett

Wall art not only makes your space feel homier, but it helps you feel more at home in your space. And when it comes to hanging wall art, there is no right or wrong way, no stylebook or palette you have to abide by. Simply surround yourself with the things you love and you’ll soon discover that home is where the art is! The advent of the gallery wall means that you now have an easy, inexpensive way to display all those things that matter most to you. Gallery walls are catching on like

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