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Designing Peaceful Homes

Tips for Building, Remodeling, and Decorating

By Jackie Craven, About.com

Certainly every home should be relaxing and serene. Our homes are, after all, our refuge from life's stresses and dangers. But all too often the ideal of home becomes distorted. It's so easy to be impressed by glamorous homes in movies and glossy magazines. Reaching for a Hollywood ideal, we may create a very different kind of home than the one we really need.

The quest for peaceful, worry-free living has inspired a simpler, more realistic approach to home design. Click on the links below and you'll find easy tips.

Ideas in this article are adapted from The Stress-Free Home, a home design book by Jackie Craven, Rockport Publishers

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