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ASO Show House inspires

The Buckhead residence that houses the Atlanta Symphony Show House and Gardens – a grand 18,000 square-foot estate reminiscent of French chateaus — is a trove of ideas and a showcase for Atlanta’s interior design community. Dubbed Tuffeau, the 2013 Show House is a fundraiser for the Symphony’s education programming ...

Alta Cucina Italia offers samples of its line of olive oils and vinegars at the Marietta Farmers Market. Courtesy of Jenny Turknett.

Farmers market season begins

It’s all about passion.Leigh Thompson, market manager for the Sandy Springs Farmers Market, said that’s what you get when you buy from a farmers market.“You can taste the passion. It comes through.”Over the course of the next few weeks, we’ll see a return of beloved farmers, food artisans and other ...

A child can combine the parts of the egg together to mix and match words. This will help them understand compound words. JESSICA GARRINGER/CONTRIBUTED

DIY Under $10: reusing plastic Easter eggs

Let’s face it. I am a word person, so any time I get to incorporate the English language with a DIY project I am all in. Easter is this weekend and after the baskets have been filled with candy and the eggs have been found, you may be left wondering ...

The Modern Atlanta Home Tour, in June, features properties including a 3,900-square-foot Buckhead home with a cantilevered stair hovering above a reflecting pool.

Spring Home tours in Atlanta

Spring cleaning in some Atlanta homes isn’t just for the residents. Dozens of homeowners are preparing to open their doors to guests attending home tours in Spring of 2013.

The Modern Atlanta Home Tour, in June, features properties including a 3,900-square-foot Buckhead home with a cantilevered stair hovering above a reflecting pool.

Spring home tours offer peek into personal residences, stunning new homes with designer touches

Spring cleaning in some Atlanta homes isn’t just for the residents. Dozens of homeowners are preparing to open their doors to guests attending home tours. The peek inside personal properties or new homes with rooms showcasing top designers is an annual rite in Atlanta, with some home tours in existence ...

Marianne Cusato, who co-wrote the book “The Just Right Home: Buying, Renting, Moving — Or Just Dreaming — Find Your Perfect Match,” is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. March 24 at the Atlanta Home Show. Photo Credit: Alex Fagundo, Soul Echo Studios.

Author’s home-buying advice at Atlanta Home Show

If the Atlanta housing market is indeed springing back to life, potential buyers will have some serious decisions to make in the not-so-distant future.Yeah, things are looking remarkably better. According to Eugene James at Metrostudy, housing starts during the last three months of 2012 were up 91.2 percent over the ...

The Spring Atlanta Home Show offers an up-close look at products on the home remodeling and landscaping market. Credit: Stan Garnet.

Atlanta Home Show seeks to educate, inspire homeowners

Home inspector Stan Garnet has seen the looks and heard the questions from previous Atlanta Home Show attendees who realized they’ve taken the wrong steps in everything from repairing brown spots on a ceiling to adding a deck. Garnet is among the 10 speakers and more than 350 exhibitors in ...

Some 16 million daffodil blossoms wave a welcome to spring at Gibbs Gardens in Ball Ground. The Daffodil Festival runs through mid-April, but the blooms never stop coming at the 220-acre garden. Photo credit: Rick Cannon

Spring flings: Garden of delights for getting outside

Spring has finally sprung! And yet here you still sit, wallowing in your wintry “whatever!”-ness, thinking it couldn’t possibly be that easy getting to hang out in somebody else’s garden. Without having to weed or prune a thing. But it is. All you need do is show up and gawk ...

The popular evergreen warm climate Bougainvillea blooms while visitors stroll through the landscaped gardens during last year’s Southeastern Flower Show. The show arrives in metro Atlanta again March 15 and is combining with antique displays and sales as well as crafts from more than 200 high-end craft artists at Cobb Galleria Centre. Vino Wong vwong@ajc.com

Southeastern Flower Show partners with crafters, antiques

The Southeastern Flower Show, March 15-17, is combining antiques into its usual extravaganza of colors, plants, garden plans and fun for kids.An added extra for the show’s 25th anniversary is that the ticket you buy will also get you into the American Craft Council Show, which runs contemporaneously in the ...

Daffodils are plentiful at the Atlanta Botanical Garden's "Atlanta Blooms" event. More than a quarter-million bulbs -- including tulips, hyacinths and crocuses -- will be blooming into view as the show continues through April.

The season is ripe for garden events in Atlanta

April showers bring May flowers, as has been well established. But what does buckets of late-February rain bring? In Atlanta, at least, lots of late winter-early spring gardening events. Here’s a quick look at a few to plan for: Daffodils are out in a big way and the tulips are ...

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