April 2007

Between friends

Along with the cookbooks and card boxes on my kitchen shelves, I keep a black binder filled with the recipes that I love the most. Some represent my best from-scratch standards; others are for the holiday dishes I make year after year.

SLICE OF HISTORY

What's your resolution for 2007?

From practical to spiritual, many of you set significant goals for for more meaningful, productive, healthful, or peaceful lives. Here are just a few...

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Cheap & Chic Headboards

EASY HAM RECIPES

Dress for Spring

Blooms, eggs, and hints of fancy send a lilting breeze of pretty touches through your home.

Glaze of Glory

For walls bathed in subtle shimmer, try this: Paint, stencil elegant rosettes, then brush on thinned gold paint. Who knew a couple $2 bottles of crafts paint could go so glam?

Good Eggs

Headliners

Turn a tired old headboard into the main event of a stylish bedroom with our easy and clever ideas.

Q:10 WAYS TO PICK COLORS

We asked designers and style makers from across the country: What are your tricks and tips for choosing paint colors?

Dynamic Duos

Inspired pairings of old with new, traditional with modern, delight and surprise in this Michigan home.

FLOWER POWER

CHECKED MATES

I'm ready to usher spring into my breakfast room, and this tablecloth with a medallion pattern will instantly add bright color...

KING ME

RED HOT! INSTANT STYLING IDEA

HELLO, SUNSHINE

Fabulous Color

Those three traits can liberate a too-serious room. Take this traditional living room, for example. A kaleidoscopic color scheme and pure-fun fabrics make it pretty and playful. The point? Color-- and its lively, happy, youthful aftermath-- get the green light even in formal settings.

Open Wide!

Three small rooms morph into an inviting kitchen that mixes vintage style with modern accents. Now it's a family magnet.

Pantry Perfect

Tidy up the dirty little secrets lurking behind cabinet doors.

Hidden Agenda

An uncommon amount of storage is tucked into a small bedroom without adding square footage.

Divide and Multiply

Tried-and-true propagation methods help budget-conscious gardeners create a yard that look like a million bucks.

Two's that tango

Mix-and-match guidelines for eye-catching garden combinations.

Colorful Shade Garden

A Lawn to Remember

Your lawn can do more than just take up space. Here are 5 ways to make it the center of attention.

Tasty Tomato Gardens

Back by popular demand! Last spring Better Homes and Gardens magazine offered three collections of tomatoes chosen by our garden editors. They were so popular with readers that we are offering them again this year. Grown by White Flower Farm, these beautifully delicious tomatoes will brighten your garden and tempt your taste buds.

AMAZING GRACE

THIS MONTH IN THE GARDEN

VACATION DESTINATION

DOWN AND DIRTY

HEADS UP

Fowl Play

Sculpt fanciful birds from bushy boxwoods-- instant topiaries. It's easier than you may think.

Tomato Success Kit

Partnering with Gardener's Supply Co., Better Homes and Gardens magazine offers this exclusive kit to successfully grow luscious tomatoes. Thanks to this patented self-watering system with 4-gallon reservoir, thousands of gardeners have grown large, healthy, tasty crops.

Planting the Seed

Inspire kids of all ages to dig in and enjoy nature's bounty.

Talking it Out

Discussing the sensitive topic of your parents' finances and well-being feels weird at first. Here are ways to overcome the awkwardness.

End Errand Madness

A writer hooks up with a time-management expert to change her daily routine and help her-- and you-- find more free time.

Flights of Fancy

No matter where your family lives, birds are taking flight right now. Enjoy spring migration-- and one of nature's great wonders-- with a bird-watching weekend.

Mary Rose isn't afraid of color

Having worked in the fashion industry for most of her career, Mary Rose has lived through every color trend imaginable-- and loved every minute of it. When updating her Portland, Oregon, house, she bypassed beige and went for the bold.

Bohemian rhapsody

LAURA MCGUIRE'S DALLAS COTTAGE BLOOMS WITH AN OFFBEAT STYLE THAT'S COMPLETELY FEMININE AND COMFORTABLE.

Step into Paradise

PLUSH FURNISHINGS AND TROPICAL STYLE BRING INTERIOR ELEGANCE TO A SMALL BACKYARD.

EGG-CELLENT CHOICE

SPRING CHEESES

GOOD TO GO

GREMOLATA

THAT'S A WRAP

FABULOUS FUNGI

Shoots that score

Asparagus has a sweet, grassy flavor and high nutrient content (spears are loaded with vitamin C and folate) that make it a welcome spring arrival. Look for spears that are crisp, straight, and firm with tightly closed buds.

Nutrition Information

I Did It!