Bedroom Design Ideas You'll Love

Our guide to bedroom design is jam-packed with more than 90 decorating tips and tricks to help you transform your room into a cozy retreat.

Cottage Bedroom

Century-old quilts in Pinwheel (left) and Bear's Paw patterns dress the antique wrought-iron beds in one of this Nantucket cottage's bedrooms. The new rag rug was handwoven by area artisans at the Weaving Room, and the demijohn lamp hails from an antiques shop.

Bright idea: Loosen up a traditional bedroom with mismatched quilts.

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Gallery: Super Resilient Tsunami House...

Located on Camano Island in Washington State, the Tsunami House was built by Designs Northwest Architects to withstand conditions not normally faced by a residential property. The main level features a foundation capable of withstanding high velocity tsunami wave action, while the lower levels were built with walls that are able to break away in the event of a storm surge. Built with durable and low-maintenance materials, the house is perfectly equipped to weather any storm.

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i(ce)-Tunes: Sweden's incredible ice orchestra

By Simon Busch, CNN

They're among the rarest instruments in the world, but they'll be discarded come spring.

They're so fragile even the players' breath risks nudging them out of tune.

Turn up the temperature in the concert hall and you'd have, not a finely chiseled viola, flute or conga, but a glass of water.

"And you'd be healthier for drinking it!" says Tim Linhart, ice-instrument maker extraordinaire to an orchestra playing a series of concerts throughout the winter in the remote Swedish town of Luleå, just beneath the Arctic Circle.

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Vegan Black Bean, Butternut Squash, and Corn Soup (aka Three Sisters Soup)

1 Tbsp olive oil

1 cup diced carrot

1 cup diced onion

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 cups peeled, seeded, diced butternut squash

2 cups fresh or frozen corn

1 1/2 cups cooked black beans (or 1 15oz can black beans, drained and rinsed)

4 cups vegetable broth

Salt, about 3/4 tsp or to taste

1/2 tsp cumin (optional but encouraged)

Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a medium-sized soup pot. Add the garlic, onions, and carrot and sauté for about 10 minutes, until the onions are translucent and the carrots have softened slightly. Stir occasionally to keep from sticking to the pot.Add the beans, butternut squash, and corn, and sauté for another 2 or 3 minutes. Add the vegetable stock and raise the heat so that the soup comes to a boil. Lower the heat to medium or medium-low and simmer about 10 minutes until vegetables are tender.Add salt to taste and cumin (if using) and cook another 4-5 minutes. For a different texture, you can also puree some of the veggies in the blender and then add them back to the soup pot. Serve warm! Enjoy by itself or serve with cornbread or over rice, quinoa, or millet. - See more at: http://www.inhabitots.com/how-to-make-a-hearty-and-healthy-vegan-bean-squash-and-corn-soup-aka-three-sisters-soup/dsc_0244/?extend=1#sthash.DouLGLLi.dpuf

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Edoheart’s Lingerie Collection Preserves African Textile Culture

by Kirin Rinehart

Eseohe Arhebamen-Yamasaki, better known as Edoheart, has a vision. It’s one of rediscovering, rebuilding, and replenishing local traditions and communities in Africa through art. She hopes that by starting small, but dreaming big, her debut lingerie collection will improve the massive problem of poverty throughout Africa through the encouragement of local African textile art traditions. Edoheart’s first collection of three patterned fair trade silk bralette-and-brief lingerie sets are made by small-scale artisans and craftspeople in sub-Saharan Africa. Production of the collection enables local artisans to make a living by bringing money into communities and protecting an ancient art. Although it’s a small step, Edoheart is hopeful that this collection is just the beginning for real change.

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Dream destinations for 2014

Giraffe Manor (Kenya)

Having a giraffe -- unscientifically the most beautiful creature on earth -- poke its head through a window to steal your breakfast is a breach of privacy you have to get used to at Kenya's Giraffe Manor.

The 10-suite Nairobi hotel sits amid 140 acres of forest and has a family of endangered Rothschild giraffes as permanent residents.

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CHASING WATERFALLS

Collected By: Charu Suri

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