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Your eyes deserve to view beauty. I hope Fred Gonsowski Garden Home helps to turn your vision, into a reality.

Some Winter / Christmas craft projects for Fifth Graders

With the days getting shorter, and kids being inside more, parents and even school teachers are looking for inexpensive projects to bring out the creativity in their fifth graders. This post is a compilation of my best read / most … Continue reading

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It’s easy to make a Tulle Christmas Wreath

In the fifth grade with the help of a wonderful nun named Sister Mary Charles (nee Catherine Lily) we created many really nice Christmas decorations; one of them was a tulle wreath. When I made the wreath, before writing this … Continue reading

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Fireplace Safety, Using a Fireplace for the first time, and Tips for Stacking wood to make, what I think is, a Picture Perfect Fire

A fireplace is not a toy, and operating one should be taken very seriously. When you start a fire in your fireplace you are working with something that can look quite beautiful, but, at the same time you are facing … Continue reading

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How to Decorate a Christmas Tree with Tulle

Using tulle to decorate a Christmas tree is something a lot of people are starting to be interested in. In the mid 1980’s and 1990’s I used it to decorate theme trees at the Albany Institute of History and Art’s … Continue reading

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When buying living room furniture, FORGET the LOVESEAT, buy two Wing, Club or Occasional Chairs instead

Each person has a personal comfort zone. By this, I mean a set amount of inches of space between one person and another while having a friendly conversation. For most people, I feel it is the distance of an outstretched … Continue reading

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The answer to …”Can you put a Floor Lamp next to a Sofa”?

The Floor Lamp is a very versatile light fixture that you can use in many different rooms in your house. The light fixture comes in an assortment of styles and finishes, and stands 58 to about 64 inches high, with … Continue reading

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Arranging Furniture around a Fireplace in the Corner of a Room

Every so often a person comes across a house with characteristics that are not common-everyday. One of those different kinds of features is a fireplace in the corner of a room. Having to arrange furniture around it might be a … Continue reading

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An EASY way to get DEW OFF of car windows in the Morning

As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, I am waking up and seeing that my car’s windows are covered with dew. I have an easy solution to eliminating that early morning gift left by Mother Nature.

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FALL Garden and Lawn Projects ;-]

Autumn is here again, and it is time to do some outdoor chores like fertilize the lawn, cleaning up fallen leaves, planting Spring flowering bulbs (tulips and daffodils), cutting back the garden and getting things ready for Winter. Here are … Continue reading

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A look at the September 2012 Garden, here at Whimsey Hill House

Have you ever had one of those feelings / thoughts that said “take the pictures now before the rain? I had one of those moments on September 8th, the day I shot the pictures for this post. I knew there … Continue reading

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