Our friend is decorating her bedroom in yellow and gray - a color combination we love. She thought it might be too trendy at first, but she loved the pieces she found so much that she decided to go with it. We think that's the right way to approach decorating - don't worry too much about trends and do what you love because you're the one living with it. In honor of our friend, here's a roundup of yellow and gray color combos...
One-stop interior design shop Urban Source added a new feature to their website - a wallpaper gallery with installation photos from Chicago homes...
Kansas City's el dorado architecture firm has produced some amazing residential buildings, many of them sustainably designed. One of our favorites is principal Jamie Darnell's self-designed home (shown above), which uses a structural insulated panel system for noise reduction and energy-efficiency...
Congrats to our Spring Cure graduates, who have pulled off a lot in the last two months. We compiled a slideshow of their before-and-after progress, which we posted last week. (Although it had some technical glitches, it's running smoothly now.) Take a look for a small glimpse of all the hard work that took place across the Midwest and Canada this spring:
We love this group and can't say enough about their progress and their continued support of one another through the Cure. To those who didn't quite make it to the end: you're not alone. Hopefully just making the decision to work on your home has changed your perspective, and you'll join the Cure when the time is right for you. To those who finished: enjoy your cured homes! Click below to see our CHI Spring Cure graduates and give them a big round of applause!
Based in St. Paul, flatpatterns (aka Kevin Costello) designs unique furniture that can be easily flat-packed and shipped anywhere in the country. Costello has an interesting CV - after earning a philosophy degree, he became a designer and developed car seats for the auto industry in Detroit. He eventually left Michigan for Minnesota, opened up flatpatterns studio, and started selling furniture through Etsy...
Michelle Kaufmann's Smart Home opens to the public for tours TODAY at the Museum of Science and Industry. While Kaufmann was in town finishing up the details on the installation, PrairieMod interviewed her about the new Smart Home. Click below for the link to this amazing podcast and more info...
From architect, author, and professor Mark Wigley's 1998 Harvard lecture on Total Design: “Design is always a matter of theory. Design is not a thing in the world. It’s a theoretical reading of the world. Or, more precisely, it is the gesture in which theory is identified in the material world. To point to design is to point to theory.”
We're often asked how we're able to see so many cool things on a daily basis without buying them. Besides our knee-jerk response that we can't afford it on a writer's budget, we also tell people that it's actually gotten easier to resist the urge to buy since we started writing about design - we get a buzz from researching and blogging that cuts down on our need to own the things we see. Still, we have a few tricks we use to quiet the little voice inside that says, "I want it!" Click below to see them...
Opened by Chris Campbell in January of this year, GreenWerks is a contracting service that provides design, remodeling, painting, and repair services. They use low-VOC paints and energy-efficient systems...
One of the habits that we love keeping from the Spring Cure is buying weekly flowers. Looking through our Cure group's recent flower photos, we can see that they feel the same. We love how each person has chosen to display their flowers in simple vases that allow the bouquet to be the focal point. Click below for some inspiring flower arranging...
Since summer is just around the corner, we're looking at patio and deck options for apartment dwellers. Food Map Containers are big enough for an edible garden, and their caster stands make them easy to wheel around a patio or deck. We like the simple design and the size, which accommodates more than an average garden container...
We've talked about the Componibili on AT before (here and here for starters), but our love for this piece has been recently reawakened. In our old home, it was a workhorse in our closet. Now that we're in a new place, we're thinking of keeping it in the bedroom as a bedside table, although we're also considering the bathroom and the living room. We'd be hard-pressed to find a spot in our home where we couldn't use it...
One of our favorite parts of moving is organizing a new kitchen. Ours still has a long way to go, but we're glad we could reuse the shelf organizers from our old apartment in the new space. In fact, our new kitchen has the same standard cabinets that we left behind. Although the cabinets are outdated, we don't really mind them and we've been able to fit everything with a little space to spare...
The wall of storage is a dream of ours - to one day have everything tucked away in one place, hidden behind closed doors. We haven't yet done it in our own home, but we've seen some excellent examples on AT. Click below to see walls lined with cabinets, bookshelves, and other storage systems.
Zig zag patterns tread the line between classic and edgy. The sharpness keeps them looking very modern. Although they rise and fall in popularity, they never go away. We've always liked zig zag prints, especially in rugs, so we thought we'd round up some of the latest pieces that have caught our eye. Click below for more.
It's spring, which means allergy season is upon us. If you have mild allergies, you can do a few things to minimize triggers. Click below to see our room-by-room guide to allergy control...
If you love old-school radios and turntables, but you don't want to sort through broken models in a thrift store, Crosley still makes the real thing, just newer. They dub the CR221 Solo radio (shown above) "new-stalgic" - a mix of modern acoustics and mid-century style...
Our new place has an eat-in kitchen, which we love, but no dining room. Although we prefer cocktail parties to sit-down dinner parties, it's nice to cook for a group sometimes. We were a little sad to lose our dining room until we realized we had an extra room just waiting to be transformed: our deck! We'll only be able to use it half the year, but it's big enough for a decent-sized dinner party...
CleanWell antibacterial products were invented by a family whose son was born with a rare immunodeficiency that made him extremely sensitive to germs. The family found that toxic agents in everyday cleaning products exacerbated the problem, so they developed a homemade formula using naturally germ-resistant ingredients like thyme and oregano. It worked so well that they decided to develop the formula into a mass-marketable green cleanser...
Offi has carved out a pretty specific niche in the home office, organization, and storage markets. They offer well-made, modern pieces that are a few notches above IKEA, but come in below the cost of Knoll or Herman Miller. We like a lot of what Offi produces, especially the Eric Pfeiffer-designed plywood tables and shelving, which offer some innovative approaches to organizing books, paper, and media...
The Cure is coming to a close, but we're still seeing a ton of great photos popping up in our Flickr group. This table and chair makeover project comes from moni-ka in ky, aka merskine. We've shown merskine's home in our Cure posts, but we wanted to highlight this living room set that she created from a craigslist find and a rescued table...
We've been satisfied users of the Twist Euro Cloths since Janel blogged them last year. The sponge cloths have significantly cut down our paper towel usage, but we've still been using old-fashioned disposable scouring sponges for our dishes. At Whole Foods the other day, we picked up Twist's new biodegradable Naked Sponge, and we're hoping that these sponges - paired with a reusable scouring brush - will create less waste in our kitchen...
After weeks of seemingly endless packing, we've finally moved in to our new apartment. We're happy (and a little surprised) to say that the move went really well. Despite stressing over whether or not we'd get everything done, we were organized on moving day, and our wonderful movers from Joey's made everything run smoothly...
We made a trip to the Container Store this weekend for shelf liner and a new silverware tray. While we were there, we stopped to check out the trash cans, since they carry most of our favorites: SimpleHuman Fingerprint-Proof Trash Cans, Umbra's Artala Trash Cans, and the Umbra Metallica Cans. Although we've been dreaming of a SimpleHuman kitchen can for a while, we're thinking of going for the White Big Bin instead...
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