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CALIFORNIA — California is dotted with cottages and mansions, homes built beach -side or perched on a cliff. The mountain getaway shown above is in Idyllwild. You can drop $80 million on a gleaming home in Beverly Hills that is grander than hotels that most of us have stayed in, or your perfect home could be a suburban abode with party lights strung over the backyard patio. This week's California wow houses cater to varied tastes. Are you looking for a home with a swim-up bar? One's available in Pleasanton. How about a stage to perform karaoke, or to practice your TED Talk? Check out the home in Berkeley. If your dream home is only complete with a backyard art studio , look at the home in La Mesa. Beach houses are featured in Aptos, La Jolla and Palos Verdes ($40 million!). And Patch editors had a thing about staircases this week. We didn't plan it, but scroll through the photos below to unleash your inner Scarlett O'Hara. Exquisite Equestrian Estate With Koi Pond ...

Above: Browse through the gallery of the amazing £3 million house in Streetly Who isn’t plotting how to spend that £ 57 million prize packet that the National Lottery has swelled to this weekend? Should your lucky numbers come up - and it is only a one in 45 million chance - you’ll probably consider upsizing your house. Well, have we got a property for you. At £3,250,000, this home in Streetly Wood is the most expensive property in Birmingham right now (according to its B74 postcode). But it isn’t the price that stand out most about The Manor House. That would be basement. It has been specially designed to accommodate 30 cars. That is one for every day of the month (if you include the garage above) We took a look around. Quite the grand entrance . There is plenty of space to shelter beneath the first floor balcony (Image: Quantrills) Where is it? It is in Streetly Wood, Streetly, on a residential estate comprising of just 16 luxury properties set in a gated woodland settin...

Get a new look and stay on budget If you plan your design, shop smart and invest some sweat equity, you can have a $25,000 bathroom remodel for a fraction of the price. Don't believe us? Well, we updated this bathroom with new wall and floor tile, a new vanity and top, and new plumbing fixtures . Then we framed the mirror and added glass shelves above the toilet—all for less than $3,000. And we did it all with materials purchased at home centers. For this article, we worked with kitchen and bath designer extraordinaire Lori Jo Krengel . The following pages feature Lori Jo 's advice for dramatic bathroom improvements that are easy on the wallet. Lori Jo Krengel is a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer and the president of Kitchens by Krengel, Inc., an award- winning design firm in St. Paul. Lori Jo combines style and function to create bathrooms that meet specific budgets . She recommends consulting a designer before remodeling a bathroom to avoid common mistakes . ...

Be the star of the baby shower (Picture: Getty) All parents love the cards and flowers and offers of help around the house when they bring their newborn bundle home but, in all seriousness, all a new mum really wants is a bit of extra sleep, a new routine and to not have to think clearly for a couple of weeks.   5 fun things to do in half-an-hour while your child naps While you can’t guarantee her all of those things, you can still give her some presents that she’ll treasure – and actually use. So here are 11 gifts every new mum really needs but never thinks to ask for. 1. A newspaper from the day the baby was born The way things are going, newspapers may not even be a thing by the baby’s 18th birthday, so purchase and preserve a copy of that day’s media as a memento of the world news on the day the baby was born. 2. A leather (or leather-look) mum bag She can be stylish AND prepared (Picture: Getty) Mums want their identity to stay intact and, whilst they recognise that the next few ...