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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style. Candice Olson

Focus Three Style Every Bathroom Area Budget Function

Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list! Candice Olson

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The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room. Candice Olson

Family Type Kitchen Opening Most Often Room

Great French design is often about unexpected touches. Candice Olson

Great Design About French Unexpected Often

Why have one chandelier when you can have two? Candice Olson

You Why Two

Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room. Candice Olson

Me Come Look Clients Existing Update Want Room

Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally! Candice Olson

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality. Candice Olson

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home. Candice Olson

Home People Be Brave Other Books Magazines Inspiration Take Take A Chance Look Brave Room Then Your Even Homes Chance

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations. Candice Olson

Marriage People Tell Compromise

Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those. Candice Olson

Love Better Old Those Dated Tend Uglier Spaces Really

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes. Candice Olson

Love People Live Think Changes Way Kitchen Main Opening Doing Up Where Really Creating Homes Floors

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items. Candice Olson

Important Tight Quarters Items Choose

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming. Candice Olson

Home Mom Me Herself Our Through Share Lean Welcoming She Make Although Always Years Warm Worked Hard Raised

Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow. Carl Honore

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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages. Carl Honore

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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.' Carl Honore

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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community. Carl Honore

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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse. Carl Honore

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. Carl Honore

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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep. Carl Honore

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I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure. Carl Honore

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