Design Notes: Button book, magazine spotlights Garden Walk Buffalo
Buttonbook
Susan Beal has some clever ideas about what to do with those buttons you’ve been saving all these years. Or the vintage ones you find yourself admiring at thrift shops, estate sales or in your grandmother’s button box.
Get crafty. And she shows you how in her new book –“Button It Up: 80 Amazing Vintage Button Projects for Necklaces, Bracelets, Embellishments, Housewares and More” (Taunton Press, $21.95).
Among the projects: button hair clips, button wine glass charms, button wreaths, button- embellished T-shirts –and so much more.
Gardens galore
The current issue of Great Backyards, a national gardening magazine, features 12 – count them 12! –gardens from the enormously popular Garden Walk Buffalo, which is held the last weekend in July each year and features more than 300 gardens.
Featured gardens, with interviews, include: 39 Granger Place; 16 Rabin Terrace; 75 Lancaster Ave.; 72 Lancaster Ave.; 215 Lancaster Ave.; 378 Summer St.; 84 North Pearl St.; 587 Breckenridge St.; 531 Linwood Ave.; and 20 Norwood Ave.
In addition, gardens at 44 Irving Place and 42 Orton Place were photographed to illustrate gardening techniques.
Another garden at 279 Richmond Ave. is featured in a second publication, Garden Gate magazine (April). The article is called “Warm Winged Welcome: Bring in the butterflies with an easy-care garden.”
Budget decorating tips
The financial outlook may be gloomy, but your home doesn’t have to be.
Here are some budget-friendly decorating ideas from Paula Berberian of wallpaper maker Brewster Home Fashions:
• An area rug makes a room more engaging. For an affordable option, use an outdoor rug or a large bath mat in a bright color or pattern.
• Create artwork by cutting fabric to fit in 8-by-10 frames.
• Perk up your walls with removable, peel-and-stick wall decals. Berberian recommends her company’s WallPops, above, particularly the Tribeca collection, but a cruise through the Web or a trip to a home center will turn up additional options.
• Use an old kitchen table for a homey computer desk, perhaps painted a bright color.
Compiled by Home & Style Editor Susan Martin from News and wire sources
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