Summer Home Shopping Trends in Home Decorating, Gardening, Entertaining, and Camping
June 15, 2012
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Cool Canvas
These quilted cotton canvas throws are soft enough for a bed yet strong enough to use as a stylish picnic or beach blanket. They’re 56 by 70 inches, easy to launder, and come in 20 patterns or a range of solid colors. $145
Utility Canvas, Gardiner
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Garden Fresh
Even if you’ve never so much as hoisted a trowel, you can pretend you have a green thumb with these salad servers shaped like a garden fork and spade. They’re a perfect hostess gift, too. Brushed aluminum, 12 inches. $16.99
Hammertown Barn, Rhinebeck, Pine Plains, and Millerton
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Salute!
Italian wine tumblers have stylized floral decorations that give them a vintage vibe, so you can feel all continental and trendily retro at the same time. Dishwasher safe. $43 for a set of six
Hammertown Barn, Rhinebeck, Pine Plains, and Millerton
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Cool It
To keep cold drinks cold for 24 hours (or hot ones hot for 12), you can’t beat the double-wall insulated Hydro Flask — it’s sweat-proof, freeze-proof, lightweight, and made of stainless steel instead of a plastic that leaches nasty toxins. It’s guaranteed for life, and to cap it off, it comes in pretty colors. $25.99
Kenco, Kingston
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Boy Toy
A high-quality, sharply honed, hand-forged Scandinavian Forest Axe is perfect for yard work or to take camping. Girls can use it, too. $129
Kenco, Kingston
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Oar-some
Kenco stocks about 300 kayaks, but this one, the Pungo 120, is the most popular. It’s comfortable, fast, light, and easy to paddle no matter your age, size, or paddling skills. Comes in mango, red, blue, and other happy colors, or camouflage if you want to blend in. $830
Kenco, Kingston
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Pillow Talk
Give your living room or porch a lush tropical look with these down and feather filled, linen-rayon pillows in a palm-frond pattern. Custom sizes can be ordered. $125 for the 18-inch ones
Nest, Millerton
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