Christine Schwalm Design

It's Thursday which means Home and Garden day in the Times.  This week brought a couple of interesting bits.  First off, a full listing of house tours available this spring throughout the city.  You mean I can pay to snoop?  Sign me up for that!  The voyeur in all of us wants to take a peek into strangers' houses,right?  Come on, you know when you're walking the dog, you love it when the neighbors leave the blinds open.  Now I just need to filter through the list and pick the top 2 or 3 contenders. 

The other article that caught my eye was this one about indoor vertical gardens.  You'll remember I wrote about that here about a month ago.  No terrace or garden to grow those veggies?  No problem, just toss that wall unit and install a vertical garden.  I'm just hoping the guy pictured here didn't grow cat nip on that wall or his cat is going to go bananas.