For most parents, the nursery is the place that will embody their newborn’s personality throughout their first years and they want it to be inspiring, playful, and not look like everyone else’s. While pastel colors, pinks and blue have been safe color palettes in the past, there is a design push for originality and unique [...]
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5 Wrought Iron Patio Pieces in Bold, Bright Colors
As living spaces shrink and small space solutions become positively trendy, we’re taking it outside and lending a bit of summer fun to the tiniest patios around. When we think “patio furniture,” we think of ample teak chaise lounges and vast outdoor barbecue areas, but in some cases, there’s only room for a garden or [...]
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How to Fashionably Clean the Dirtiest Area of your Bathroom
When cleaning the bathroom, most of us try and get it done quickly and efficiently to lessen the pain of the experience. When cleaning the commode, most of us would rather get our teeth pulled then face this inexplicably dirty task. Luckily, there are designer toilet brushes to make the job less daunting and many [...]
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The Eyes Have It: Interactive Wallpaper with an Optical Twist
A quick word of warning: this feature isn’t well-suited for the more paranoid among us. For those of us who — to coin a phrase from 1980s singer Rockwell — always feel like somebody’s watching us, the black and white wall covering entitled “I See You” is a worst nightmare come true. For the rest [...]
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The Grandeur of Adding Brass Accents to Your Kitchen
It’s always interesting to watch home decor trends come and go in history. Metal finishes are a great example. In the 60’s & 70’s there was a huge movement of shiny chrome and metallic in lighting fixtures, furniture and more and as the 80’s approached the look of yellowy gold and brass had a huge [...]
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Neighborhood Spy: Links to Sweet Little Somethings
With the birds chirping outside, Easter baskets overflowing with hand-dyed eggs and chocolates flying off the shelves like hotcakes, we thought we’d make today’s link roundup all about the little things that make life just a smidge sweeter. First, the gentlemen of Uncrate share a new take on the phrase “nectar of the gods” with [...]
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Baby It’s Cold Outside: Sweater-Inspired Accessories
While most of us are basking in the first signs of spring and looking ahead to languorous summer Saturdays and beach getaways, a few are still hanging onto those last precious days of cold weather before we pack our sweaters away and open up the swimsuit drawer. For the latter set, we’ve rounded up a [...]
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Hide It Away: Artful Storage Solutions
It’s a fact of this pampered life in which we live: clutter just has a way of accumulating more quickly than we can keep up with. Receipts fly like confetti; junk mail piles up into little paper skyscrapers on our countertops, and all the random little trinkets we bring into our homes from the outside [...]
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Tick Tock: Five Brilliant Mod Wall Clocks
Time is something we never seem to have enough of. As it happens, though, watching it pass isn’t quite so terrible when there’s an element of art tucked inside whatever visual cue we’re processing. While we’ve been walking around with our faces buried in our phones and laptops, a few (likely very prompt) designers have [...]
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Color Obsession: Robin’s Egg Blue Accessories
There’s just something sublime about the color of robin’s eggs. The perfect blend of blue and green with a hint of warmth and depth was so fetching that legendary retailer Tiffany & Co. trademarked its own specific Pantone color, PMS 1837, numbered in homage to the year the luxury goods company was founded. Although “Tiffany [...]
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Hate the Quality of Air at Work? The Cloud and Co Desk Humidifier
If you are thinking that you have no control over the air quality around your desk at work, think again. The Seoul, Korean company Cloud and Co has designed a Bottle Humidifier that solves the problem of dry musty air around your workspace and provides you with humidified air in your personal space. No more [...]
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How to Beautify Your Kitchen with Open Shelving
If you are looking at your kitchen and trying to determine how to bring display, decor, and function to your closed cabinet kitchen, open shelving may be the answer. Open shelving kitchens are reminiscent of the country kitchens of years gone by that housed everything from dinnerware to pantry items. Today, open shelving is one [...]
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Neighborhood Spy: Links to Those Little Extra Somethings
Today’s roundup is about those little final touches that just add a certain something to a room. Accessories are the quickest and easiest ways to subtly change the tone of a room from staid to playful, neutral to bright, or even boring to brilliant. First up is CasaSugar, walking us through 65 beautiful and inventive [...]
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