How to Utilize The Narrow Land for Gardening

As a child living in the boarding house or urban areas, can maintain plants in your own garden may be just a dream. But with a green lawn that stuck-stuck just a patch size, what can you do? But you also want to occasionally maintain plants to beautify the atmosphere, or simply give a fresh impression when the mind is saturated-saturated.
But now, gardening in the land is narrow or small is no longer impossible. Without the courtyard area of the houses of old yet you can still create a freshness to plant flowers and plants. Well, curious how? Consider the following tips!

1. The chandelier is more often used as a light, but you can also make it useful as a place to grow.

Gardening has always been synonymous with vast land and filled with soil. But now, the dream to have a garden could materialize even though there is no vacant land for planting. The trick is to create a hanging plant. If planting in pots hung by a rope was too mainstream, so now you can make a sensation by planting in other media, namely chandelier. Maybe you could take advantage of the light that has been damaged or bought secondhand at a flea market. Well, after that you enter the land and plant species of plants such as ivy, white betel and betel ivory. In addition to adding freshness in boarding, this plant can also be used as decoration.
2. Do not have land not barriers to seeking freshness, because now you can learn to be a table magic dream garden.

Living in urban or boarding house often makes you thirst for freshness of plants due to lack of reforestation area. But calm, because now you can create coolness with mini garden that you can make yourself. One way is to use a desk that never more you use.
It's easy really. Simply enter the soil into your desk drawer until 3/4 full, then planting bibitmu there. Maybe you could choose a plant that could reduce such pollution chinese evergreen plants (sri fortune) or golden photos. Or you can choose your favorite tamanan. Then, put it in the open room table. Well, interesting and easy to apply, right?
3. Creating a beautiful garden in a low now possible, by applying the gardens this hat!

A beautiful garden is the dream of all people. Relax, you do not be sad because of the lack of land, because now you can create beautiful miniature garden in a narrow area. You could try to take advantage of various types of hats that have been unused. How to plant it easy anyway, first-garden you used plastic pots or cans that have been given a bit of a hole, then use a nail or wire to stick it on the wall. After that, plant a plant seed and cover with a cap as a garnish. Well, the garden like this certainly make your friends boarding fascinated every day.
4. Not merely have to use clay pots for planting, you can use the toys of childhood as his successor.

If sometimes planted using clay pots can make your room to be dirty, now you can take advantage of the toy stroller childhood as his successor. You just simply add the growing media such as soil into it, then plant several species of plants that have dense leaves and much like boston ferns or petunia plants with beautiful flowers. So, without a lot of money you can make a mini park with your own hands. In addition, this method also makes it easy to navigate the site.
5. If the horizontal farming is not possible, you can outsmart by using a bag to grow vertically.

Maybe we've been fixated with the idea that gardening can only be done on a vast flat land. But you can also gardening vertically know. The way you only need to change the way into a terraced pattern. One by using such a bag motors. You can sew it yourself or use a bag of "baggage" that are placed on a motorcycle or a bicycle seat. Well, this bag can you nails on wooden wall in stages, then you use to plant. In this way, guaranteed kosanmu become more beautiful and cool.
6. Have boots that have been abandoned? Well, now you can turn it into an impromptu flower pot.

Planting is something that a lot of benefits. In addition to providing coolness, the plant also could be an ornament to beautify the room. One option is to use unused shoes as a pot. You only need to enter the growing media such as soil and fertilizer, then plant crops such as morning glory or paper flowers. With a pot like this, guaranteed not only the extra oxygen you get but also the value of beauty so keuntuangan. Easy and beautiful right?
7. Gardening without complicated you can achieve with just a versatile bag. In addition to cost, this method also does not take a lot of places.

Gardening is always synonymous with dirty. In addition, you are also faced with the flush ribetnya one by one. But now you get a more practical choice for planting, such as by planting multipurpose bag. Bags commonly used for sandals, shoes or luggage boarding is effective enough to accommodate many plants. It's easy really, you simply enter the growing media 3/4 and then enter the seed crops such as mustard vegetables or ornamental plants such as vinca. Well, this way you can gardening with more practical because one place can accommodate a lot of plants. Interested in trying?
8. Now PVC is not only useful for water lines, but also to supply vegetables to eat healthy everyday.

The absence of wide open land is not an obstacle to be gardening vegetables. Because now you can rely on PVC pipe to create a dream garden. The trick is simple and easy to apply anyway, first you paralon sides with 1/5 the size as in the picture. Then make a few small holes in the surface of the PVC pipe for water infiltration. Then paralon you bind with wire and hanging on the walls of the house. Additionally, you can bind multiple paralon in increments. Well, after that fill in the planting medium soil, compost, and chaff. Afterwards you plant several types of seeds of vegetables such as spinach, peppers, cabbage or lettuce. It's easy, right? Gardening this way not only save space, but also save money because you can enjoy the vegetables that you planted myself at the lodging house.
9. Instead of drinking bottles piled up so rubbish, now is the time you use for gardening in the walls of the house.

In addition to hard-recyclable garbage plastic bottles also make the level of environmental pollution is getting worse. Now, rather than plastikmu bottles thrown away, then no harm you use for gardening in the walls of the house. How to make it really easy. First you make a hole about 15 cm x 7 cm with a cutter, in addition to that, add a few small holes in the surface of the bottle. Then tied with a rope one by one storey and hang the wall.After hanging your pots bottle is ready, you can plant several types of seeds of vegetables or ornamental plants with lush leaves. This method not only saves space, but also reduce pollution by using second-hand goods. Funny?So, now imagine 'it if gardening was not only in a large area. As it turns out you can apply these tips for gardening in the land is minimal. In addition to making the environment more kostmu so fresh and cool, these tips also beautify the room in order to be more pleasing to the eye. Dare to try?

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15 Figure Inspiration Backyard Vegetable Gardens

Often we find a backyard left alone by many people and there are also those who diligently planted beautiful flowers to decorate the room ata make Backyard Vegetable GardensYou know, the space can be utilized in respect of the actual Backyard Vegetable as garden so beautiful and at the same time you can harvest the results to be used as food ingredients. Divided by Master Gardener PPJ facebook site about Mrs. Lisa Yusuff who build gardens in the city of his residence in Taman Mutiara Height, Sg Karang Darat, Kuantan, Pahang.Figure respect together so as to provide an injection of enthusiasm and inspiration, especially for those who want to start a project Backyard Vegetable Gardens.According to the page in question, Ms. Lisa Yusuff fortunate to have a room and courtyard are quite convenient to carry out the gardens project Vegetable Gardens Rear His house.Painstakingly Puan Lisa is quite creative it uses recycled materials such as wood pallets, bottles and so on to be used as a vegetable planting container and his mistress.Among the plants cultivated for Backyard Vegetable Gardens: 1) Sprouts 2) Eggplant 3) Cucumbers 4) Long Beans 5) Watercress 6) Kesum 7) chives 8) side dish coelomic 9) A red pepper 10) Chile fire 11) spinach 12) Vegetable Sawi 13) Vegetables Kailan 14) leaves Soups 15) Plant Okra And other crops.

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Vegetable Garden Planning for Beginners

If you're a beginner vegetable gardener, here are basics on vegetable garden planning: site selection, plot size, which vegetables to grow, and other gardening tips. One of the common errors for beginners is planting too much too soon and way more than anybody could eat or want. Unless you want to have zucchini taking up residence in your attic, plan carefully. Start small. The Very Basics First, here are some very basic concepts on topics you'll want to explore further as you become a vegetable gardener extraordinaire: Do you have enough sun exposure? Vegetables love the sun. They need at least 6 hours of full sun every day, and preferably 8. Know your soil. Most soil can be enriched with compost and be fine for planting, but some soil needs more help. Vegetables must have good, loamy, well-drained soil. Check with your local nursery or local cooperative extension office about free soil test kits so that you can assess your soil type. See our article on preparing soil for planting. Placement is everything. Avoid planting too near a tree, which will steal nutrients and shade the garden. In addition, a garden too close to the house will help to discourage wild animals from nibbling away your potential harvest. Decide between tilling and a raised bed. If you have poor soil or a bad back, a raised bed built with nonpressure-treated wood offers many benefits. See more about raised garden beds and how to build them. Vegetables need lots of water, at least 1 inch of water a week. See more about when to water vegetables. You'll need some basic planting tools. These are the essentials: spade, garden fork, soaking hose, hoe, hand weeder, and wheelbarrow (or bucket) for moving around mulch or soil. It's worth paying a bit extra for quality tools. Study those seed catalogs and order early. Check your frost dates. Find first and last frost dates in your area and be alert to your local conditions.

Deciding How Big A good-size beginner vegetable garden is about 16x10 feet and features crops that are easy to grow. A plot this size, planted as suggested below, can feed a family of four for one summer, with a little extra for canning and freezing (or giving away). Make your garden 11 rows wide, with each row 10 feet long. The rows should run north and south to take full advantage of the sun. Vegetables that may yield more than one crop per season are beans, beets, carrots, cabbage, kohlrabi, lettuce, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, and turnips. Suggested Plants for 11 Rows The vegetables suggested below are common, productive plants but you'll also want to contract your local cooperative extension to determine what plants grow best in your local area. Think about what you like to eat as well as what's difficult to find in a grocery store or farmers' market. (Note: Link from each vegetable to a free planting and growing guide.) Tomatoes—5 plants staked Zucchini squash—4 plants Peppers—6 plants Cabbage Bush beans Lettuce, leaf and/or Bibb Beets Carrots Chard Radishes Marigolds to discourage rabbits! (Note: If this garden is too large for your needs, you do not have to plant all 11 rows, and you can also make the rows shorter. You can choose the veggies that you'd like to grow!) When to Plant? If you are planting seeds, consult our Best Planting Dates for Seeds chart. It's customized to your frost dates as well as Moon-favorable dates. If you're putting plants in the ground from a nursery or transplanting from a greenhouse, see our Best Planting Dates for Transplants (by region). Try our Garden Planner It's easy to plan your garden with our Almanac Garden Planner! This planning tool spaces out your vegetables for you, provides sowing dates, and has many free garden plans for inspiration! Try it for free here.

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Great Garden Ideas: What's Old is New Again

Where to start? Just take a look around to see what you can find that may have a second life as a unique garden addition. You may not even need to buy anything if you rethink some objects that are in your attic or garage. The only limitation to your garden transformation is your imagination! An old painted dresser gets a new life as a multilevel planter, while adding a sense of fun. Open drawers hold plantings and bring the eye upward to hanging wall baskets. A bold color, such as blue, adds a cool, contemporary feeling. (Photo: Fiona Lea/GAP Photos)

Vintage food cans with the lids removed make interesting herb planters. The variety of the foliage, as well as the designs on the cans, adds visual interest. A single container is charming, but several grouped together create a strong focal point. Place the containers outside your kitchen for an easy-to-reach herb garden. (Photo: Friedrich Strauss/GAP Photos)

Most of us have more opportunity to enjoy our gardens while home in the evening. By adding lights, you can transform a garden into a sanctuary. Here, tea lights inside old mason jars are hung by string (or wire). (Photo: Lynne Keddie/GAP Photos)

Old painted birdhouses provide a refuge for your garden's feathered visitors but also do double duty as a support for a hanging basket of colorful petunias. (Photo: Kim Beckmann)

Melissa Will from Ontario creates inspirational garden art using repurposed objects. Her favorite garden art projects are her chandeliers. Using lamp crystals that she found at a thrift store, Will fashioned some homemade bling for her garden by attaching the crystals and blue glass beads to an old metal colander. She keeps the chandeliers in the garden year-round to watch the winter sunlight sparker through the crystals. (Photo courtesy Melissa Will)

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At Home With Michael A. Clinton of Hearst Magazines

You could call Michael A. Clinton an escape artist. As he has climbed the New York media pyramid — from reporter at Fairchild Publications, to publisher of GQ, to executive vice president of Condé Nast and, finally, to president for marketing and publishing director of Hearst Magazines — Mr. Clinton has always found time to slip away from his over-scheduled life. Far away. Over the years, he said, “I’ve visited 123 countries.” His home on the Upper East Side is an escape, too. “I’ve created this mini-adventure lodge in a prewar building in Manhattan,” said Mr. Clinton, who is in his late 50s. That way, he added, “I can relive a lot of the experiences I’ve had.” Indeed, his two-bedroom apartment is outfitted with exotic furniture and curios, as well as photographs from his travels — not all of which were relaxing. “I’ve run marathons on all seven continents,” he said. “I’ll show you my medals.” What I Love The apartments and possessions of celebrities and public figures. A Hamptons Event Planner on How to Design Your Garden JUL 3 Where Nice Evenings Are Recalled by Kurt Elling JUN 26 Edward Hibbert on His West Village Studio JUN 12 Art-Directing a Garden in Bucks County JUN 4 Judy Kuhn, ‘Fun Home’ Star, on Her TriBeCa Loft MAY 29 See More » The basket of beribboned medallions in the den testifies to his achievement. “The last one was in Antarctica,” he said. He trains for these competitions close to home, however. “Last winter was brutal in New York, and running all over the city in the freezing cold weather was good prep work,” he said. “I run to the George Washington Bridge and across the Brooklyn Bridge. Living close to Central Park is a godsend.” Over the sofa, a collection of midcentury black-and-white photographs, one of them a Margaret Bourke-White picture of a DC-4 flying over Manhattan, is a paean to two other hobbies, flying and photography, which sometimes go together. “I got my pilot’s license about 20 years ago,” he said. “On a nice day, I’ll fly to Block Island.” One of his favorite photographs is an aerial view of a small plane over the deserted Skeleton Coast in Namibia. “I was flying a plane above it when I shot it,” he said. Mr. Clinton, whose sixth book of photographs, “Closer: Seeing the World in Details,” will be published this month by Glitterati ($25), describes photography as “an über-hobby.” The images in “Closer” allow him to focus on the little things that give a culture its character: the way eggs are displayed in cellophane bags in a market in Laos, the candles dripping wax in a candelabrum in Puglia, Italy. And like the rest of his books, “Closer” reveals his contemplative side. “If you’re on a mountaintop in Bhutan or Mongolia, there is not a lot of distraction,” Mr. Clinton said. “You have to focus on the beauty around you and your inner self. That is the whole reason I like to go to these places.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Clinton’s 2013 collection of essays, about his travels, which also has photos, and is called “The Globetrotter Diaries,” is commemorated by a chair painted to resemble the book’s cover, a gift from his sister. In the sunken living room, one wall is devoted to images by other photographers, arranged salon-style on picture rails. “You know Steve McCurry?” he asked. “You know this picture, the girl with the green eyes from Afghanistan that was on the cover of National Geographic? I’m like a Steve McCurry groupie.” Another hero is Nick Brandt. “The giraffe photographs are by him,” said Mr. Clinton, who is a trustee of the International Center of Photography. “He’s been a big rising star in the past few years.” On the same wall is one of two elaborately painted chests that he purchased in Kathmandu. (The other is on the opposite wall.) “Frankly, they were probably smuggled out of Tibet to protect them,” he said. “They were being restored and sold to raise money for Tibetan refugees.” Then there are the Nepalese bells on the windowsill in the bedroom, the silver-and-tin coffee urns from souks in Turkey and Morocco that sit on a bookcase in the front hall, and the boxes made by Cambodian silversmiths in the shape of an elephant, a pumpkin and a pig on top of the toilet tank in the master bathroom. “I like to glance at them while I’m shaving,” he said. “What I have been trying to do here,” he said, summing up his decorative philosophy, “is to create, in the big world of New York, a sanctuary, if you will, with all the mementos of a lifetime of going all over the world.” Of course, Mr. Clinton doesn’t just collect. He has long made a practice of seeking out local residents when he travels to developing countries, doing whatever he can to help out. On a trip to Mozambique seven years ago, for example, he stayed in an eco-lodge that had established a school for a village. “We went to visit it,” he said, “and the kids were dressed in tattered clothes.” After he returned to the United States, he added, “My friends and I had a clothing drive and shipped boxes of clothes to them.” But the piecemeal nature of this sort of philanthropy was less than satisfying, so in 2010, he and some of his traveling companions founded Circle of Generosity, a foundation with the slogan “Granting random acts of kindness to individuals and families in need.” So far, the foundation’s donations include 575 pairs of shoes for children in an orphanage in Luang Prabang, Laos, and Home Depot gift cards for families in New York trying to rebuild their homes after Hurricane Sandy. “All of these donations are made anonymously,” he said, “which is a purer way to give. Without sounding too woo-woo, the only thing we ask in return is that the recipients complete the circle by giving some act of generosity in their lives someday.”

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From ‘Broken Angel’ to Condos

Standing at Downing and Quincy Streets in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, one would never know that the handsome yet unremarkable brick building on the quiet corner was once a whimsical neighborhood mascot known as Broken Angel, with eclectic, stacked rooftop additions that reached ever higher. But as the neighborhood has evolved and real estate prices have climbed, Broken Angel was sold last year to a developer who converted the property to luxury condominiums, rechristening it 4 Downing. Sales began last month, with prices starting at $1.125 million for a two-bedroom apartment. The demise of Broken Angel, a building so unusual it once stopped pedestrians in their tracks, coincides with the rapid transformation of a neighborhood that was long associated with crime and poverty. Derelict brownstones have been restored, condos have replaced warehouses and vacant lots, and trendy eateries now pepper Fulton Street. But as Clinton Hill, like so many Brooklyn neighborhoods, reinvents itself as yet another gentrifying enclave, Broken Angel recalls a moment in city history when such a creation could seemingly rise out of thin air.

“It was like no other building, and I don’t think there ever will be anything like that again,” said Margot Niederland, whose short documentary film about Broken Angel screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. “It was like the Watts Towers, except L.A. saved that, but New York didn’t save Broken Angel.” The Watts Towers, a stand of craggy spires in Los Angeles that was once almost demolished by the city, is now a national landmark. But Broken Angel’s creator, an eccentric artist named Arthur Wood, certainly tried to save his life’s work. In 1979, Mr. Wood and his wife, Cynthia, bought the abandoned four-story building from the city for $2,100. They spent the next three decades transforming it into a topsy-turvy work of art. But after a series of unfortunate events, beginning with a mysterious fire in 2006, Mr. Wood lost the building to foreclosure and was permanently evicted by the city in 2013. Ms. Wood died in 2010. “It’s a great loss and I can tell you why,” said Mr. Wood, who is now 84 and lives with his son, Christopher, in Beacon, N.Y. “Architecture affects your mind, O.K.? If you live in a tiny box, you don’t have any ideas and you don’t have any future.” Broken Angel was certainly no tiny box. A series of ladders and planks traversed the building, which had a dirt ground floor. Stained glass windows were fashioned out of salvaged saltshakers, glass bottles and ashtrays. Mr. Wood planned to eventually suspend a whale made out of a Sea King helicopter from the roof; it would have been supported by a crane. Broken Angel rose at a time when the neighborhood was gripped by urban blight. No one could have imagined that a condo might sell here for $2.375 million, the list price for the three-bedroom triplex at 4 Downing before it was taken off the market last week. Longtime residents recall watching the Wood family, including the couple’s two children, Christopher and Elizabeth, collect stones, bricks and wood from the street, carrying the materials home in a wagon. “I used to say, ‘What are they doing?’ ” said Arnette Lloyd Andrews, a lifelong Clinton Hill resident who used to work at a day care center near Broken Angel. “And then all of a sudden, I noticed a beautiful structure near the top. I said, ‘Wow, he must really be an artist.’ ” The building eventually grew from its original 42 feet to a crooked 108 feet, with arches, windows and sloping rooftops that offered breathtaking (if precarious) views of Brooklyn. “It was quite a revelation; it was like stepping back into the 11th century,” said Schellie Hagan, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1983. The comedian Dave Chappelle used Broken Angel as a backdrop of his 2006 concert film “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party,” saying: “If I was a location scout and we needed a crack house, I might refer their place.” For longtime residents, seeing Broken Angel replaced with condos seems apropos, merely another example of how the neighborhood has evolved. “From an artistic and historical perspective, it’s definitely a loss, but Clinton Hill has changed,” said Eddie Hibbert, who owns a salvage shop on Greene Avenue, but is selling the building and retiring. “That’s progress. It might not be the progress that the average person would want, but people have got the right to live and be wherever they want. Change is inevitable. It is what it is.” Growing up inside Broken Angel was not always easy. Mr. Wood’s son, Christopher, recalled being teased at school because he smelled of wood smoke from fires the family burned to keep warm, a task that proved particularly difficult when exterior walls or parts of the roof were missing. But classmates who saw his house were stunned, if not frightened. “I brought two friends from high school in the middle of the night and they were terrified,” said the younger Mr. Wood, a stone carver who is working on the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown. “Their knees were shaking and they were like, ‘Can we go down now?’ ” As the neighborhood succumbed to the crack epidemic in the 1980s, people looking for quick cash would turn up on the family’s doorstep hoping to sell bricks, beams and other salvaged material. “It was like Beirut,” said Christopher Wood. “It was a very undesirable neighborhood.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story But by 2006 the neighborhood had started to change, when a fire started in the upper reaches of the building. “I said, ‘Oh no, that’s going to be the end of Broken Angel,’ ” Ms. Hagan, a neighbor, recalled. After the fire, city officials evicted Mr. and Ms. Wood when a Buildings Department inspection deemed their unpermitted modifications unsafe. The couple set up camp in the neighboring lot, which they also owned, living out of a Volkswagen camper along with a dog, a white dove and a few cats. Mr. Wood soon entered into a partnership with a developer, Shahn Andersen, to convert the property to condos, preserving part of it as a home and studio for Mr. and Ms. Wood. But the relationship with Mr. Andersen unraveled, leading to litigation and acrimony as the bank called in a $4 million loan package that had been granted to the limited liability companies created by Mr. Wood and Mr. Andersen. Although Mr. Wood and Mr. Andersen had spent only about $700,000, they had completed significant work. They had removed the rooftop addition, restored the floors and prepared the space for plumbing and electrical work, according to both Mr. Andersen and Gregory B. Toledo, a contractor who worked on the project. Why the bank rescinded the loan remains a matter of debate, with Mr. Andersen and Mr. Wood blaming each other for the debacle. Mr. Wood sued the bank, Mr. Andersen and the city to no avail. The bank eventually foreclosed on the property. “I don’t even drive by that block anymore, I don’t want to see it,” said Mr. Andersen, who is currently working on a residential development nearby. “We had a great opportunity and it turned out badly and it didn’t have to.” Mr. Wood, however, still hopes to reclaim the property through litigation. “I told Alex, ‘Don’t put too much work into it, because I still have a chance of getting the building back,’” said Mr. Wood, referring to Alex Barrett, the developer of 4 Downing. Today, few remnants of Broken Angel remain. In a hallway stairwell, two 18-inch-tall moon-faced concrete masks in bas-relief face each other, remnants of a larger installation of an angel with wings built by Arthur and Christopher Wood. “It’s no longer what I designed and it no longer has anything to do with me,” Mr. Wood said. Apartments at 4 Downing will have white oak floors and kitchens outfitted with Corian countertops and glazed porcelain subway tile backsplashes. Some units have exposed brick fireplaces — the same ones the Wood family once used to keep warm. The apartments at 4 Downing are among the most expensive listings in the neighborhood, with the asking price for a 1,888-square-foot three-bedroom at $1.6 million. Yet interest in the development has been strong, with about 60 showings the first weekend it went on the market, according to Lindsay Barrett, an associate broker at Compass who is marketing the property and is also married to Mr. Barrett, the developer. Within a month, eight units were under contract. The two townhouses rising in the adjacent lot did not immediately sell and have been taken off the market until the fall, Mr. Barrett said. Listed at $2.375 million and $2.295 million, they were the most expensive units in the project. Few of the people who toured the property mentioned Broken Angel, according to Ms. Barrett, a detail that surprised her given the site’s colorful history. Units have been stripped of Mr. Wood’s artistic flourishes, and the publicity materials make no mention of Broken Angel, either. The decision to downplay Broken Angel was intentional. “This building has had a lot of history,” said Mr. Barrett, the developer. “Arthur and Cynthia Wood’s chapter is a portion of it, and a well-known portion, but it is not the entire story.”

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Jamie Drake Picks His Favorite Rooms From Four Decades of the Kips Bay Show House

John Walker Hughes for Walker Associates, 1985 “A sweet confection, this bedroom was designed by a fellow Parsons chum, and I was in awe of his designing a Kips Bay room right out of college,” Drake says. “The dressmaker detailing on the shirred footboard and the knife-edge double ruffle of the curtains and bed canopy are amazing and truly in the tradition of couture.” Dennis Krukowski Since its inception in 1973, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which tasks prominent designers with creating dream rooms for a Manhattan home, has been a yearly tradition beloved in the design community — and in the local one (the Show House benefits the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club). The rooms included have run the gamut from the ruffled and romantic to sci-fi Blade Runner futurist visions — but are always showstopping. The interior designer Jamie Drake has been to nearly every Show House; this year, he’s a Vice Chair for the event. To celebrate the opening of the 43rd annual edition tomorrow, Drake took a spin down memory lane — with some help from Steven Stolman’s book “40 Years of Fabulous: The Kips Bay Decorator Show House” — to share with T some of his favorite rooms from the Show House’s history (including one of the five he’s contributed so far). “40 Years of Fabulous,” $75, is available at gibbs-smith.com. The 43rd Annual Decorator Show House is on view from May 14 through June 11 at The Arthur Sachs Mansion, 58 E. 66th St., New York

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