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Locally Made Bowls Crafted from Fallen Trees

Spencer Peterman turns fallen, rotting trees into beautiful bowls that can stretch far beyond the kitchen. These natural beauties, filled with something colorful, could be used as permanent centerp...

Moveable Magnet Calendar

Ever see that Sarah Jessica Parker movie, If Lucy Fell, where she and her roommate had a giant, painted calendar on their apartment wall and would prime over and re-paint the whole thing on the firs...

Bemz Now Offering Replacement Covers for IKEA Poang Chairs

Let's face it, the IKEA Poang chair is ubiquitous for a reason. It's passably attractive, reasonably comfortable and a decent price. While IKEA offers a good range of cushion covers, Bemz now offe...

10 Etsy Finds for Fall

We woke up this morning with lovely little ice cubes where our toes were supposed to be, but we decided to make the best of it and search out some handmade and vintage house wares and artwork to cel...

Inmod Design Your Own Duvets: New Styles!

About a year ago, we posted about Inmod's design your own duvet covers. Turns out they've revamped their styles and added a slew of new patterns to their product line......

Sign of the Times: Handmade Social Networking Pillows

After being dismissive for a looong time, we finally decided to sign up for Facebook. Now we're a little obsessive about checking it. These sassy social networking pillows are of course over the t...

Roundup: Type-Inspired Decor

Back-to-school season has us admiring letters and numbers more than usual so we thought we’d put together some excellent examples of typography for the home....

Freeform Accordion Hook from Urban Outfitters

We're always on the lookout for hook-type storage solutions so this novel one from Urban Outfitters grabbed our attention. We love that it's a play on the traditional age-old accordion hook. Chock...

DIY Silhouette Shams

Silhouettes are everywhere these days and we’ve seen silhouette pillows aplenty before, but we thought these personalized shams were a fun and less-preppy alternative to the standard monogram pill...

Reclaimed Pine Pig Bookends

A while ago we wrote about the slippery slope towards collecting pet related decor. Well, we've been resisting the slide but a curious transfer seems to be happening. We seem to be more and more a...

Etsy Find: Beer Bottom Mobile by Western Art Glass

Now that the sun has finally decided to grace the east coast with its presence for more than a few hours, we’re on the lookout for porch décor in honor of some outdoor parties we hope to be havin...

On-Time Clock by Fabrica

Dear Monday, We aren’t really friends. You might even say we are enemies. It’s not likely that a time machine is going to pop in and mend our relationship, so how will we ever find a way to get ...

Letterboxes by The Design Office

Inspired by children’s alphabet blocks and Bruno Munari, Providence-based designers John Caserta and Jeremy Mickel of The Design Office created these artful Letterboxes which can be assembled into...

Magnetic Peel & Stick Chalkboard

For those of you who are in the market for a magnetic surface, but want a quicker solution than applying magnetic paint, we found these Magnetic Peel & Stick Chalkboard panels from Magnamagic......

Adding Casters to An Ottoman

If we ruled the world all furniture would be made with lockable casters. As a serial rearranger, we value ease of mobility first and foremost. But in the case of this trash find ottoman (we recov...

RoCoco Chalkboard Wall Sticker

We have chalkboard (paint) on our mind lately, evidenced by our recent post about colored chalkboard paint. We like the idea of these minimal effort wall stickers... ...

Collapsible Vases from The Future Perfect

We spotted these ingenious collapsible vases, known as the Hope Forever Blossoming Vase, in the current issue of House Beautiful. What a perfect solution for small space living! They come in 11 st...

Rope Tape from BeBack / Soon

We loved Apartment Therapy New York's recent post about colorful Japanese masking tape. So we thought this fun, decorative tape from the British design company BeBack / Soon would make a nice compa...

Colorful Mozia Clocks by Giovanni Levanti

These simple clocks from Italian architect Giovanni Levanti for Diamantini & Domeniconi add a cartoonish pop of color to a neutral wall. Their shallow cone-shape adds some 3D texture to a wall. Whil...

Papier-Mache Birds from Viva Terra

Maybe we've been unduly influenced by the label "lovebird" but we do have a little crush on these papier-mache birdies, which are larger than they appear in the photo. We'd love to clump a whole s...

Reclaimed Time: Found Object Clocks at Supermarket

Just came across these nice clocks by designer Mike Reynolds, made from found parts and pieces. We're particularly fond of the time pieces created using old metal drawers and boxes......

Look! The Slippery Slope Towards Collecting Dog Decor

We are concerned, very concerned, that IT is happening. That, as we prophesied in this earlier post about our first doggy statue, we're edging way too close to becoming "those people" who collect a...

Bemz Now Selling Daybed Covers — Over 100 Styles!

We're big fans of daybeds but it's not always easy to find stylish off-the-shelf daybed covers. So we were excited to learn this morning that Bemz, the Swedish company that sells reasonably priced s...

What Untraditional Fabrics Do You Use?

We're always thinking about how to use textiles that were designed for other purposes in our home decor. We found this white vintage stool in the photo above, at Boomerangs in Jamaica Plain for $20...

Gecko Decorative Stickers

Honestly, we've never been big fans of wall decals. But these designs from Gecko Decorative Stickers, created by Brazilian designers Leonardo Conrado and Gabriela Rocha, were whimsical enough to ma...