 Nostalgia and spurring those thoughts about the past with physical reminders in your home can up the reading on your personal happiness meter. Customizing our world with objects, scents, and sounds that spur memories we savor has other benefits. See what they are now! BLOG POSTS  | SADIE JONES | THE 7 BEST DINNER PARTIES IN LITERATURE AND FILM
It struck me that there are many parties in literature, either comical or dramatic, glamorous, unpleasant, or just plain uncomfortable - as novelists, playwrights and filmmakers through the generations imprison their characters around a table and take note of the consequences. |  | KIRSTEN DIRKSEN | WATCH: AIRLINE EXEC BUILDS OBSERVATION TOWER TREEHOUSE AS TINY HOME IN REDWOODS
In this video we visit Fred Reid's West Sonoma "spiritual sanctuary" where Scott Constable takes us for a tour inside the second growth redwood grove and up above in the roughly 200 square foot rustic, crafted home. |  | RON BARTH | PRINCESS ELISABETH ANTARCTICA -- RETHINKING SPACE USE IN A VAST ENVIRONMENT
Three years into the full activity of the station, it can confidently be said that the Princess Elisabeth is the model for adaptable construction and smart design. A model that is as easily applied to an expansive lab facility as it is to life in more temperate climates. |  | TERENCE CLARKE | ROTH MARTIN, STEVEN VOLPE AND HEDGE
"My eyes had been opened wide," Roth Martin says. He smiles. He has just described how his life had changed. "And it all began with some fireplace mantels." |  | SUSAN MANRAO | INTERIOR DESIGN TIPS TO HELP MAKE YOUR HOUSE INTO A HOME AFTER THE MATRIMONIAL SPLIT
The constant reminders of an ex-partner around every corner -- those honeymoon photos, or the blank spaces on the wall where those photos used to be -- can make your home feel like a shrine to the past. | | |
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