Create a Mediterranean Retreat at Home.Life under the Tuscan sun may seem like a faraway far·a·way adj. 1. Very distant; remote. 2. Abstracted; dreamy: a faraway look. faraway Adjective 1. very distant 2. dream, but soon you won't have to look much further than your own home. Homeowners can now create their own hide-away, with decor inspired by the style and colors of the Mediterranean. Mediterranean style, sometimes referred to as Spanish modern, combines a unique blend of old world rustic with new age design. Home design stores are now tapping into the interest in the laid back, elegant lifestyle of the region. "Mediterranean lifestyle centers around entertaining and enjoying great food in the company of friends and family, in a lively atmosphere filled with warm colors and intricate accessories," says Taylor Hastie, director of design and trend for EXPO Design Center. When creating your own Provencal hideaway, look for vibrant spice spice, aromatic vegetable product used as a flavoring or condiment. The term was formerly applied also to pungent or aromatic foods (e.g., gingerbread and currants), to ingredients of incense or perfume (e.g., myrrh), and to embalming agents. color schemes and use sunflower sunflower, any plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae (aster family), annual or perennial herbs native to the New World and common throughout the United States. accents and olive and rosemary motifs to enhance the charm and atmosphere. You can also texture walls with layers of paint and glaze glaze, in pottery glaze, translucent layer that coats pottery to give the surface a finish or afford a ground for decorative painting. Glazes—transparent, white, or colored—are fired on the clay. by having them hand-rubbed on plaster Plaster A plastic mixture of solids and water which sets to a hard, coherent solid and which is used to line the interiors of buildings. A similar material of different composition, used to line the exteriors of buildings, is known as stucco. or sand-textured wall. For the full story and a photo, go to http://www.medialinkfeatures.com/home.aspx?Story=30257 ABOUT MEDIALINK FEATURES: Medialink Features provides free, ready-to-run, non-copyrighted news features, fillers and photos to newspaper and online editors. To download copy and photos, please visit http://www.medialinkfeatures.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: All copy and photography is available for free and unrestricted use with Medialink Features (MF) dateline attribution at·tri·bu·tion n. 1. The act of attributing, especially the act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art. 2. . |
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