I'm a sucker for unusual solutions to space challenges. And this one made a shortcut to the top of my list of successful outside-the-box space ideas: a guest bed in the kitchen....
Lago, an Italian design company, recently launched a new line of fun, modular shelving available in a delicious array of colors....
As our post-Halloween candy exorcism begins, we're looking for ways to simulate the sugar high without the inevitable crash. We think these candy-inspired designs look good enough to eat, but they w...
Not long ago, we blogged about using IKEA kitchen cabinets for a DIY storage bench in our kitchen. We just spotted a kindred idea in the November issue of Better Homes & Gardens. Textile des...
The Pew Research Center recently released findings about people's change in belief between 2006 and 2009 about which household objects they really NEED. For example, in 2006 68% of respondents said...
It might be so automatic that you don't even think about it. But most of us have rituals or routines that we enact upon arriving home, helping us to make the transition from being out in the world ...
Now that the night temperatures have dropped to around the freezing mark, all of the container plants from our front steps and deck have moved in. We've got pots on the floor next to the sofa, on o...
Our affinity for rooms with a touch of the dark, gothic, or strange is a year-round kind of affair, but we know we’re not the only ones with a taste for the slightly sinister, especially as Hallow...
True, most of us don't live in homes with grand hallways like this. But the photo definitely got us thinking that passageways, at least wide enough ones, provide an under-utilized book storage opti...
I'm always looking for ways to reuse what someone already has instead of buying new things - it's the crux of my alternative design business. So when a client needed a little eating space in his ti...
A few days ago we wrote about a gorgeous contemporary home on Providence’s College Hill, but the neighborhood is also where some of the city’s most interesting historic buildings can be found, i...
Hannah Wilmot takes reupholstery to a new and refreshing realm with full-on narrative illustration of Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant"......
We love our large, tufted secondhand ottoman (that we reupholstered) but sometimes using a tray on top of the ottoman just doesn't serve enough of the hard surface function that we miss by not havin...
Dario Argento’s 1977 cult horror classic, Suspiria, is one of our Halloween DVD musts — not for the ridiculous amount of gore or the kooky plot line — but for the over-the-top color-sa...
It never can hurt to get an extra dose of self-validation when you're getting dressed in the morning. These ego-supportive hangers would make nice companions to the self-esteem boosting mirror we b...
One of our favorite art blogs, booooooom.com, recently held a Where the Wild Things Are fort-building contest and the entries, including the contest winner, by Providence artist and woodworker, Eric...
The photographs of the Providence Athenaeum that we posted yesterday made us pine for a vintage library-inspired reading nook at home to curl up in during the chilly months ahead. Here are some furn...
We came across the the firm of Elliott + Elliott Architecture in the 2009 AIA New England awards. Located in Blue Hill Maine the work inspired by the dramatic rocky Maine Coastline stood out to us f...
Last year we posted about a couple who penned excerpts of their grandparents love letters on their stairs. Inside your own home is one thing but Horst Gläsker raises the bar by combining emot...
Based on historic photographs of The Providence Athenaeum, an independent membership library, the space doesn’t look much different than it did in 1838 when it first opened — and that’s ok...
Move over Mary Poppins, you're not the only one who knows how to make cleaning fun. There's a whole community of folks that make art by dimming the lights, opening the exposure on their camera and ...
In addition to a highly restrained color palette, there are several other decorating trends we noticed in downtown Nantucket: jaw-dropping amounts of hydrangeas and sculpted hedges dominate nearly e...
We spent the weekend in Rochester, New York where we heard about this local architectural curiosity, the “Pod” or “Mushroom” House designed by James H. Johnson Architecture for Robert and Ma...
Devoted to improving the quality of the built environment in the region, AIA New England just published the 2009 Design Awards winners and there are some truly wonderful interior spaces in the bunch...
Dutch design group Platform21 (remember their IKEA hack contest?) recently held a remarkable repairs competition and posted a Repair Manifesto that opposes throwaway culture, encourages people to vi...
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