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Ashton Gardens is associated with everything good and unique. At this magnificent venue, you just do not find a perfect setting in a beautiful space, but lots more which are equally stunning. Whether it is your flowers, your food, or your music, every thing has been perfectly designed to make the ceremony a truly once in a life time affair. It is because of such top of the drawer personalized services that Ashton Garden finds favor with couples who share a taste for everything tasteful and matchless.

No other place can guarantee you an experience as priceless and peerless as Ashton Garden. The safe enclosure assures you a smooth ceremony at any hour of the day. The venue comes with spacious Bridal Dressing Suites and a cozy and warm Family Lounge. For the male members of the party there is a wonderful Groom’s Lounge meant for perfect relaxation.

The wedding reception comprises two spectacular ballrooms with floor to ceiling windows. After the wedding is over, guests can assemble in these majestic rooms and marvel at the sight of the lush dense private forest. If guests assemble here in the evening they can find themselves in fantastic atmosphere lit by the warm lights of crystal chandeliers and large colorful candles. The majestic staircase has been designed for a photo session with your guests.

Like the one of a kind setting of the venue, Ashton Garden can serve your guests food which also will be unique and one of a kind. Serving to your own idea of what a perfect wedding meal is, the unique food of Ashton Garden offers an array of flexible options. If you want, the team will tailor an exquisite menu for you. And what is great, is that you can get it for all budgets.

Choose Ashton Garden as your wedding venue, and cherish delightful memories for the rest of your life!

Pruning is one of those things that intimidates new gardeners — even some of us who’ve been doing it for a long time. True, you can do a lot of damage if you go about it in the wrong way. And if you want to take on complex pruning jobs — such as restoring fruit trees or shaping hedges — it makes sense to get a good book on the subject. I recommendThe Pruning Book by Lee Reich. But, with a few simple guidelines, even a beginner can prune ornamental shrubs successfully. In general, your goal with any ornamental shrub is to:

Remove dead or damaged wood
Open up the shrub for better air movement
Reduce height, if desired

Start in late winter, before the leaves come out. It’s much easier to see what you’re working with. Plus, you get to be in the garden — at last!

Make sure you have a set of quality tools. For most jobs, you can get by with a set of hand-held pruners and a pruning saw for bigger branches. For big jobs, it’s handy to have a loppers to take care of branches that are too thick for the hand pruners. Don’t skimp on quality. Good tools are more expensive, but they make the job easier and more efficient.

It’s important to identify each shrub before you prune. If you don’t know what it is, find a neighbor that can help you, or contact a Master Gardener via your county cooperative extension service.

Why? Some shrubs should not be pruned in spring. In general, spring bloomers, such as magnolias and lilacs, should be pruned after they bloom. There’s an old saying about lilacs: prune after they bloom but before the Fourth of July. Any later and you risk cutting off the next season’s blooms. For these early-flowering shrubs, just look for dead or damaged wood and remove it.

Once you’ve identified your shrub as a candidate for late-winter pruning, look for dead or damaged wood. Remove it, using hand pruners or the pruning saw for larger branches.

If you want to keep the shrub compact, consider removing some of the older, thicker branches and leaving the younger ones. With many shrubs, you can remove the entire branch, right to the ground. Another reason to remove some of the old wood: It relieves congestion and opens up the shrub. Better airflow means less chance for diseases, such as powdery mildew.

To renew the viburnum hedge, I used a pruning saw to take out about a third of the older branches — right at ground level. Then, I reduced the height by 1 to 2 feet. The “tough-love” pruning looks a little harsh, but the effort will pay off.

After you’ve thinned the shrub, stand back and take out branches that don’t “fit” the structure of the shrub. This is subjective, so do what you think is right. In some cases, it’s just a matter of trimming a gangly branch or two. As you work, keep looking for dead or damaged wood that you might have missed.

If your shrub puts out a lot of suckers — fast-growing branches that appear at the base of the shrub — you might want to remove some of them, especially if the plant is growing vigorously.

That’s it. During the year, pay attention to how your pruned shrubs grow and make notes for next year. Again, it’s pretty important to identify your shrub before you start making cuts. For instance, hydrangeas benefit from special pruning techniques. The popular blue varieties are best pruned right after blooming. However, white Annabelles and PeeGees can be pruned hard in spring. For more information look at some good gardening blogs.

If you are planning a kitchen remodel for the first time then I really appreciate how stressful it can be. Apart from the many ranges and styles of kitchens available online and in free brochures to get ideas and inspiration from there are some harsh realities that you need to know. Unfortunately, having done a number of kitchen remodels the later far more successful and easier than the earlier ones I have learned a number of things which I think are vital for those new to kitchen remodelling need to know if they want their kitchen remodel to be a fairly simple operation. I list the key factors of a good kitchen remodel as follows:  

Plan, Plan, Plan and plan again

Most of you will read this and probable say but I already know that and you are right. However, there is real thorough planning where you cover every possible detail and plan for potential problems which is differing from having a few ideas in your head, alot of kitchen ideas and a basic kitchen plan. Believe you me the planning process of kitchen remodels is so important that it will not only save you time but also money and stress. When planning you kitchen remodel you need to think about the following:  

1. Plumbing: Where do you want the sink and washing machine to be?  

Is the existing piping in the right place for the sink and washing machine to be fitted exactly where you want it now?  

Also, is the pipe work dated (if the property is old) and in need of updating?  

Does the pipe work have the necessary stop taps in case of an emergency in which you need to lock off the water supply for a particular area?

This may seem like a stupid and simple question but I am amazed at how many homes and even small businesses such as take aways have few stop taps and some cases just the mains stop tap. If you don’t have sufficient stop taps in the kitchen and have a problem such as leaking pipe it means you will have to lock off the mains system cutting off all the water to the home which means no hot water, central heating and running water until the problem is fixed. I learnt the hard way during my first kitchen remodel when a pipe burst in the kitchen during a very cold spell and I had to turn off the mains water stop tap which also caused further problems with the central heating due to the drop in temperature and the freezing of pipes!   

Does your gas point need to be moved due to fitting your hob or gas appliances in another part of the kitchen?    

 A friend of mine, who in his rush to move into his new home, decided not to take my free advice about planning his kitchen remodel throughly and in detail, informing me ‘I don’t have the time, I’ll get it sorted, no worries, may be next time’. As he solely focused on getting his kitchen fitted and relying on advice from a small kitchen business he had not planned the necessary steps for his pipe work to be fitted exactly where he needed it. In his old kitchen his cooker was in the corner where as in his new kitchen he was installing his new hob on another wall in the middle. This meant that his gas pipe needed to be moved. However, in his rush to have his kitchen fitted he had his floor tiled so the kitchen could be fitted on top of the tiles before moving the gas point to the other wall where the new hob would be. Where the pipe should have been fed under the floor boards to the new location it had to run along the wall which caused more work and complexity when fitting the kithcen units thus costing more time and money.

Should I use copper or the plastic easy fit piping?

Copper may cost more but give me it any day over plastic piping. I have seen on a number of occassions plastic pipes cause so much damage due to the push joints on plastic failing where copper would be so much more superior as a material. Also when pipe work can be seen copper looks so much nicer than plastic!  

Do I have an extractor fan fitted with carbon filters or an extractor fan connected to a pipe which sucks in air from outside?

An extractor fan which uses air from outside is much better and more cost effective than using an extractor fan with carbon filters that must be changed regularly to be effective. However an extractor fan which sucks in air from outside needs a pipe that leads to an external wall and therefore should be on an external wall or very close to one otherwise you will see a pipe above your cabinets which doesn’t look particulary appealing. This is where using an extractor fans with carbon filters excel they can be placed anywhere. If you are not bothered about the additional cost of changing carbon filters and plan to have it in a location away from an external wall then it is the better option.  

2. Design:

 Are my kitchen walls in a good enough condition to simple paint them? I have seen kitchen walls in my time old and even recently plastered that have more bumps and bends then a country valley! Such walls needed to be rectified and made smooth and flat by a good plasterer before you paint, or should be tiled. I have seen people paint on walls that are not straight and flat in the hope that the paint may cover up somehow the uneveness of the walls! It doesn’t work! Replaster or tile!  

Are my tiles cheap ceramic tiles or heavy duty porcelain tiles which need super diamond drill bits to drill through?

I love Italian porcelain tiles. They are thick, strong and robust. They will last a life time and still look beautiful however… Thick porcelain tiles Italian or otherwise are a nightmare to drill into. I have wasted so many drill bits along side other work collegues that I am sure we made the DIY stores we frequented rich just because of our purchasing of drill bits! Cheap ceramic tiles break often so buy extra as you will need them!  

Do a use cheap paint to safe costs or do I use expensive paint?

 I was ask this recently what is the difference between cheap and expensive paint. What is the difference? It depends on the quality of the product not the price? I buy alot of paint from a paint recylcing place in my home town which will mix whateever colors to your taste using expensive and cheap paints. I have found that they are as good as expensive paints that are branded as top quality. What I always do in order to use less paint especially on newly plastered walls is wash the walls with PVA bonding mixed with water and then add a little PVA glue to the paint so I use less coats of paint, saving time and money.  

Lighting

If you have a small kitchen do not go for dark coloured units especially if your lighting is limited. If you have large windows which allow you alot of sunlight then you can consider having darker cabinets. Spot lights really help in kitchens which lack natural lights and reflective surfaces such as the high gloss kitchen units also help to create the effective of more light due to their reflective quality.  

Workmen

Please, please use professional kitchen fitters or joiners who have sufficient experience and show you examples of their work. Don’t be fooled there is a huge difference between a professional kitchen fit and a standard kitchen fit done by the local joiner or your friend. Somone who specialises in fitting kitchens will be much better than someone who fits kitchens sometimes, hangs doors, builds bookshelves etc. Also, if you are using tilers, plasters and plumbers ask to see there work and ask around about them. I amaze at how poor the level of quality and service is being offered by so many workmen. I have suffered dearly financially due to poor workmen. And finally, if a workman is cheap beware! Cheap price poor quality! And don’t pay all upfront!   

 Kitchen Units   There has been so much said on this subject that I have very little to say. Work with a good kitchen designer to produce the kitchen the way you want it in terms of style, use, space and comfort. Read some of the other blog posts on this blog which discuss this more detail. Hope you enjoy this article until the next one check out more articles and kitchen tips at: http://kitchenremodeldesigns.blogspot.com/

Along with water,  hydroponics plant nutrients, Co2 and oxygen, grow lights is the key basic component, required by plants to live. Providing additional light is necessary for indoor gardening. Furthermore, light should resemble the sunlight as much as possible. In order to achieve that goal several types of lights are used: incandescent, fluorescent, high intensity discharge or HID lamps and sulfur lights. While there are many other types of lighting, only the mentioned above are recommended for indoor gardening. The major concern with other types of lights is that they do not produce light in the appropriate spectrum, required by plants.

Though typical widely used incandescent lamps fit any ordinary light socket, this type of lighting is considered to be the least effective in lighting your garden in comparison with other types of lighting. Incandescent lights produce light in the red spectrum; that is why such lamps are commonly covered with a blue coating in order to increase the amount of blue spectrum in the produced light. In general, incandescent lights are considered to be poor options for indoor gardening needs.

In comparison with incandescent lamps, fluorescent lights produce more light with lower energy consumption. However, the light, produced by fluorescent lamps, is not intensive enough and cannot penetrate more than 6” – 8”. Light, produced by fluorescent lamps, is usually simply insufficient to provide normal growing of plants, vegetables and flowers. The only application, where it is possible to use fluorescent light, is growing seedlings, cuttings, or some particular plants with low light requirements, such as orchids.

High intensity discharge lights, also known as HID lights, are currently the most effective lights for indoor gardening. Metal halide (MH) and high pressure sodium (HPS) grow lamps are two major types of HID lights. Each type produces light in a particular range: for example, metal halide lights generate blue spectrum light similar to the full summer sun, and high pressure sodium lights produce light in red and yellow spectrum, resembling the autumn sunlight. 

Though high pressure sodium lamps usually are more expensive (by about 10%-20%) than metal halide lamps, they are more durable with extended lifecycle. Besides, HPS lights feature higher lumen output (97-150 lumens per watt consumed) and lose only about 5% of their brightness after one year of use (for comparison, MH bulbs produce about 70-115 lumens per watt and  lose up to 15-20% of their initial brightness within a year). 

Irrespectively to the particular type of lighting in use, it is recommended to replace lights on the timely manner: MH bulbs – after 12-18 months, and HPS bulbs – after 24 months of work. Basically, metal halide lamps is the more preferred type of lighting for plants, when they grow, and high pressure sodium lamps suit best for flowering plants. However, the discussion on which type of lighting is best is still open among gardeners. Each type of lights offers its own advantages, as well as disadvantages, so it is often a matter of personal choice, preferences, growing environment and needs. The scope of this article is to provide plain information on the available types of lighting for indoor hydroponic gardening, while leaving readers enough space for personal decisions on which product to prefer.  By the way, recently a new type of lights appeared. The so-called conversion systems allow switching between MH and HPS lights when it is necessary simply by changing the bulb. Though this type of lighting offers certain benefits, conversion systems are still pretty expensive. More information on particular types of HID grow lights used in hydroponics systems will be provided in the next set of hydroponics guides.

A furnace is a device used for heating; it is derived from the latin word “formax” meaning oven.
In a home a furnace can be powered by different means, the means one chooses to power the furnace will reflect on efficiency and cost.

In the home the appliance is normally installed permanently and used to heat the room though a conventional and radiation current flow although there are some furnaces that are not permanently installed; these are called floor furnaces.

Generally, a furnace for home is powered by different means; they could be run by electricity, coal, charcoal, oil, liquefied petroleum and gas.

There are different types of electrical furnaces that are used. Where an electrical furnace is being used, the common furnace for home is the central electric furnace which could be the electric arc furnace, the induction furnace and the muffle furnace.

Electric furnaces are more expensive to operate and less efficient mainly because of duct heat loss and extra energy required for home distribution. The air is heated through heating elements (coils) and pumped through insulated ducts through the house or room using a blower (large fan).

The temperature of the furnace for home is regulated by a thermostat, which turns of the power to the furnace when the required temperature has been reached and turns it back on when the temperature falls below what is required. This system prevents the home electrical system from overloading.

As with any furnace for home, the electrical furnace needs to be cleaned frequently to remove dirt and carbon. A furnace that is not well maintained will reduce the efficiency of the unit and could even result in a fire or unclean air.

The oil run furnace for home is also called the waste oil burning boiler. It can still be spotted in a few homes in the US even though they are not all that common any longer. The furnace for home makes use of oil, mainly vegetable oil to heat the environment. Biodiesel mixed with these oils increase the efficiency of the furnace and have a lower CO2 emission. The oil furnaces also present the opportunity to use renewable energy to heat the home.

A gas powered furnace for home is the most common in the US. In choosing a furnace size matters and has to be chosen in relation to the room size, a large room with a small furnace will give a low efficiency. On the other hand a furnace that’s too large for the room will cost more to maintain due to an epileptic cycle of the furnace, resulting in wear and tear. Large furnaces also tent to be noisy and the temperature may vary uncontrollably creating and uncomfortable environment for occupants.

In choosing the best furnace for home it is best to consult a reputable contractor who will be charged with making the appropriate calculations to determine the size of the furnace to be installed.

“Ebb and flow” hydroponics system is an example of the common arrangement of the indoor garden. Such system is composed of the upper grow bed, which is a box or tray that holds containers with plants. Those individual containers may be filled with various mediums, the most frequently used ones being rockwool, coconut fiber, lava rock, perlite, vermiculite or styrofoam pellets. The best mediums are those that are porous and can accumulate some water for a long time: lava rock is said to be the best in this respect.

The other part of the hydroponic system is the lower bed – the reservoir with the mix of water and nutrients dissolved in it.  Aquarium pump, regularly triggered by a timer, sends water solution up into the tray with plants.

The most important thing is to keep the correct composition of water solution in the reservoir – this is the key factor of the hydroponic garden flourishing. Many beginners find it difficult to maintain the right pH level of the water, necessary amount of nutrients, and their correct ratio. 

Standard organic plant nutrients are available to fertilize plants; however, many people are reluctant to do that, as they think such fertilizers will quickly make the water reservoir dirty. Indeed, organic nutrients interact with the organisms in water, which leads to their decomposition. Specialized concentrated nutrients, on the other hand, keep the reservoir relatively clean, since they are synthetically made and thus they cannot interact with the organisms in water. Nonetheless, such “clean” fertilizers will severely burn the plants roots if used in access.

Being pumped into the grow bed, water with a fertilizer saturates the plants and returns to the reservoir lacking the previous amount of nutrients and ppm (parts per million). Thus, its composition is always different and changeable. That is why a gardener should always monitor water solution, controlling its pH level and plant nutrients amount.

What are the benefits of hiring professional commercial and residential interior design consultants in Tampa FL? Why not just do your own commercial or residential interior design? Can you not just look at interior design coffee table books and magazines and copy the interior design for your home or business space in Tampa FL? If you think commercial and residential interior design is that simple, you are quite mistaken. I hope you do not learn this mistake the hard way by risking the interior design of your own home, office or showroom in Tampa FL. After all, your home, office or showroom reflects your own personality. You would not want to present a shoddy impression of yourself to everyone.

Whenever you need to build a new house, office or any other commercial space, or even if you are just remodelling any of these, you will surely benefit much from hiring professional commercial and residential interior design consultants. You will need their highly experienced and well informed advice and services in order to arrive at the most appropriate, functional and aesthetically pleasing commercial or residential design for your needs in Tampa FL. You must remember that they have the expertise gleaned through proper training and extensive exposure to the best trends in their field.

Residential interior design services include the interior design for various rooms in a home, including nurseries, bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, studies and libraries, among others. It covers windows, window treatments, furniture and room accessories, too. Even the colors to be used in the paint and finishing, as well as in flooring, carpeting, rugs, furniture, upholstery and curtains are included. Residential interior design services may be provided for the private needs of families or even for companies involved in building and selling residential real estate in Tampa FL.

Real estate companies often hire the services of professional residential interior design consultants to do their home staging. In such cases, professional residential interior design consultants have to furnish an empty house with the best possible interior design scheme to show off all of its strong points and potentials to prospective clients in Tampa FL. The house will have to look very inviting and ready to be lived in.

Real estate companies also hire the services of professional residential interior design consultants to help them come up with their model design. Professional residential interior design consultants can help architects and engineers to do this because they know what features are needed in a house structure in order for it to be more attractive to buyers. This is because professional residential interior design consultants have more frequent interactions with actual homeowners in Tampa FL.

Commercial interior design services covers all aspects of interior design such as windows and window treatments, wall treatments, flooring, carpeting, rugs, furniture and accessories for offices, lobbies, country clubs, model homes, restaurants and cafes, retail stores, malls and other commercial spaces in Tampa FL.

Another benefit of hiring professional commercial and residential interior design consultants is that they can help you lower your costs in various supplies and materials. Professional commercial and residential interior design consultants have ongoing business relationships with their long term suppliers including window treatment stores and furniture stores. They get huge discounts from these suppliers for being long term and frequent buyers for their clients. They, in turn, pass on a substantial portion of these discounts to their clients in Tampa FL.

Now that you know the benefits of hiring professional commercial and residential interior design consultants, I am confident that you will never put your home, office or showroom in Tampa FL in less competent hands. Why risk ruining your very own home, office or showroom when you can make it the best it can be with the help of the experts?

Interior designing is anything that deals with inside space such as doors, windows, walls, textures, finishes, lights, furniture and furnishings. Interior designers use all these elements to develop a safe, functional and aesthetically pleasing space for the users. Interior designers plan space for all kinds of buildings including schools, hotels, corporate spaces, shopping malls, private residences, theaters, restaurants, hospitals and airport terminals. These days, interior designers must be attuned to various aspects of architectural detailing such as home renovations, floor plans, and construction codes.

Free Interior Design Course

Interior designing is often confused with interior decoration, but designing involves a multitude of creative, analytical and technical skills. Within the career of interior designing, there is a wide range of disciplines. Large companies hire interior designers specializing in commercial or residential interior designing.

As there is increasing demand of creating aesthetically pleasing homes, more and more people are getting their homes designed and decorated by the professionals. This has led to increase in the availability of free interior design courses that can be done either part-time or full-time.

There are many online free interior design courses available which help you get trained conveniently and quickly in all the aspects of interior designing. These free interior design courses teach to identify and respond to the needs and priorities of the clients, employ various principles and elements of interior design and color, select best styles for the walls, floor and windows and ways to start and operate your own interior designing business.

There is not much difference in the course structure whether you attend the interior design college course, or an online free interior design course. The online students are given the same core coursework, and online professors teach about spatial planning, colors fabrics. The free interior design course also includes ergonomics, architecture, furniture design, psychology, ethics, and CAD.

There are lots of benefits of taking a free interior design course. There is no travelling required from your home or office to reach the school, and it helps you save the commuting expenses. You also save effort and energy, as you are not driving extra miles, and instead can utilize that time in your studies.

There are many online schools offering free interior design courses, but you need to be very careful in choosing the right school. The most important thing is to make sure that the school or institute is accredited by the accrediting bodies and has the license to offer the online course. You should also check the credibility and reputation of the online school, and compare different online courses to choose the one that best fits your needs.

Indoor gardening is becoming more popular as technology improves and costs decrease for supplies and equipment.  Growing indoors can be very rewarding and the results are absolutely fantastic when done correctly, that said they can also be devastating when things go wrong.

In this article I would like to dispel some myths about indoor gardening as well as give some tips for simple ways to improve your harvest.

Myth #1: You can grow in any room indoors.

Growing indoors even in the best circumstances is more difficult than you would think at first, and depends a lot on “what” you are trying to grow.  For this article I will focus on food bearing plants such as tomatoes and cucumbers, and other succulent garden plants, as well as herbs and fresh flowers and orchids.  Plants such as garlic and carrots that create bulbs are even more challenging and will not be discussed at this time.

Tip #1:  No matter what plants you decide to grow indoors, you will still need to meet its basic requirements for growth.

Mainly, good ventilation from the outside, Light, and fertilizer as well as a exhaust for the heat from the lights and built up oxygen that the plants cannot eat.  Plants Breath CO2, but with global warming and all there is plenty of that in regular air, so just make sure your ventilation is good into and throughout the room.  Light and fertilizer depend more on what you are trying to grow. Be sure that water is nearby unless you like to carry heavy things a lot.  Even long hoses only go so far.

Myth #2:  Indoor gardening doesn’t involve getting down and dirty.

Cleanliness is close to godliness.  Growing indoors can be a messy job.  Weather you decide to use hydroponics or soil, there is usually some sort of spills involved.

Tip#2: Plan for the worst!  Enclose the growing area in a cheap and easy home-made reserve reservoir to prevent run-off and spills from damaging your home.

Create a wooden frame of 2x4s that sits flat on the ground and lay a giant plastic sheet (available at home depot) that tucks over the board on all sides.  Be sure to measure before hand, but often you can get 12 x 30 ft or more.  The idea is to create a giant tub below the plants in case of emergency. This is especially important for hydroponic systems that are not on the ground floor.

You know, I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. Every morning I’m sitting at my kitchen table having my usual cup of coffee or two. If I happen to be at home during the noon hour, here I am, back in my kitchen fixing myself something to eat for lunch. In the late afternoon, once again, I’m back in my kitchen preparing the evening meal for myself and my family.

I have noticed over the years that the one thing most kitchens have is a clock hanging on the wall. I have also noticed that the style of kitchen clock hanging on the kitchen wall can make the difference between dull and unnoticeable and charming and sensational.

In order to compliment the style of your kitchen with a kitchen wall clock that will be a charming sensation, all you have to do is know what kitchen wall clock will add these attributes to your kitchen’s atmosphere.

So okay, let the truth be known that the thought of writing this information on kitchen wall clocks wasn’t all my idea. I received an email from the contact page of the website the other day. It was a note from a lady by the name of Catherine.

Catherine had written me a note saying that she was browsing through the website and came across “Wall Clocks.” As she further explored this section of the website, she was so impressed by the information on kitchen wall clocks, she decided to write me to express her appreciation. So this is actually how I got the idea to write about kitchen wall clocks.

So let me see. Where do I start? How about I go over different styles of kitchen decor and then I will make suggestions of what style kitchen wall clock might be the perfect match.

When it comes to kitchen styles or decor, you have Art Deco, Country, Modern and Retro. The colors of your kitchen may or in some cases may not influence the style of kitchen wall clock you hang on your kitchen wall. This all depends on basically on the type of kitchen wall clock you choose to hang.

I will start out with the Art Deco kitchen. This type of kitchen decor usually has some sort of wall art hanging on the walls. This could be plaques in the forms of fruit or vegetables. Also, the kitchen backsplash walls will typically have mosaic tile murals running above the counters with pictures of Horns of Plenty, Wine Bottles with Platters of Fruit and Cheese or Baskets of a Colorful Fruit and Vegetable Arrangements.

The Art Deco kitchen could be accompanied by several styles of kitchen wall clocks. These clocks include the Recipes Decorative Wall Clock which starts its life as an actual painting which is then transformed into a kitchen wall clock. In this style of kitchen wall clock you also have Whimsical Teapots, Cappuccino Decorative and The Vitis wall clock that features a Vitaceae vine design. These are more than kitchen wall clocks. These are works of art.

So now let’s take a look at Country Kitchens. Here there are a variety of themes to choose from. You have to ask yourself is your Country Kitchen theme based on flowers, farm animals, domestic animals, fruit, vegetables, wild birds or frogs (yes, I said frogs).

If your answer is flowers, then you might want to choose the Sunflower with the Brown center kitchen wall clock, Red Garden Wall Clock, the Daisy pendulum wall clock or the Bouquet Tiny Times Clock. Your choice is just a matter of which clock will best match up with the colors and style of your kitchen.

Next we will take a look at the Modern Kitchen. Here you have stainless steel appliances with metal wall tile walls and backsplashes. Glass top kitchen tables with acrylic chairs, chrome pot racks and multi-colored small appliances sitting on counter tops.

So now you ask me, “What style of kitchen wall clock would be the perfect solution to this modern day mess hall?” Well let’s have a look. You could go with the Stainless Steel Kitchen wall clock and keep the metal thing going in your kitchen. You could go with the Round Mirror or the Thin Mirror kitchen wall clock. That is, of course, if mirrors in your kitchen are your thing.

You can go with the Studio 24 Collection. This stunning contemporary kitchen wall clock will turn heads. This rectangular wood wall clock, finished in Black Coffee, features a curved front with recessed brushed nickel bands, with complementing brushed nickel finished hands. This kitchen wall clock features a curved pendulum that is supported by a bold brushed nickel stick to match the case. You never know what style wall click will have you friends saying, “Wow, where did you get that clock?”

Now let’s turn our mind’s eye to the Retro Kitchen. For those of you who have the Diner style kitchen in your home, these kitchen wall clocks are for you. You know who you are. You have the red Formica kitchen table with the chrome table edge and four red padded kitchen chairs with the bent metal chrome chair framing. You have a checkered tablecloth and a jukebox table top music selector that just happens to be a combination AM/FM Radio/CD Player/MP3 Player.

Well let’s see. What kind of kitchen wall clock are you looking for? You could go with your standard Retro Round Metal Wall Clock in you color choice of red, green, black, silver or white. Then you have the Deco Retro Kitchen Wall Clock. This white porcelain frame is accented wonderfully by retro-styled red Arabic numerals and a red center dial. Maybe?

For those of you who really want the finishing touch to the retro diner look in your kitchen you have to go with a retro logo kitchen wall clock. Here you have clocks such as the Coca Cola Double Bubble Clock, the Nesbitt’s LTD Edition Double Bubble Clock and the Orange Crush Double Bubble Clock. These are reproductions of the same clocks that hung on the walls of diners across the USA in the 50’s and 60’s.

So now you know that when it comes to kitchen wall clocks you have choices. So many choices that it is mind boggling. My suggestion, take your time to before you choose your time.