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Posts tagged “furniture”

A New Way To Look At Old Furniture

[This is the 4th life for this little table.] When design inspiration strikes, it's hard not to act on it! During this tough economic time, priorities can definitely change and we've been thinking of ...

How To: Clean Patio Furniture

It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend here in LA and we're gonna be diving into outdoor month in June so we thought it was a good time to dust off this post on cleaning patio furniture to inspire yo...

The Cedros Design District
Solana Beach, CA

click for more pics Within just an hour or two in any direction from Los Angeles you can end up in another city and environment. (Mountains? Beach? City? Island? Whatever you want, you can find.) One ...

Ethnic Loft
Austin

There's absolutely nothing like the feeling of stumbling upon a gorgeous and affordable store you never knew existed on a lovely Saturday afternoon. This weekend we had the pleasure of discovering ou...

Gone Mad: Decor Goes Plaid

In preparation for this post, we conducted a little experiment: Instead of haunting our usual lunch spot, we ventured a little further out and parked ourselves at an outdoor table at a cafe in Eagle ...

Uptown Modern!
Austin

While we thought about playing a joke on you with this post (it's only this date once a year, right?), we decided against it since our post today is absolutely not a joke. Though we claimed we had fo...

Modern Furniture Casters

Since escaping the wall-to-wall carpeted suburban home we grew up in, we've always had a deep fondness for furniture on casters (as do our friends over at ATSF). Putting furniture on wheels offers the...

Inspiration: Sloom & slordig's Hanging Furniture Display

Admittedly, this is less about utility and more about the element of surprise and aesthetics, but we love this store display of old furnishings mounted onto the wall, used as part display, part storag...

Inspiration: Community Partnership for the Homeless
Austin

Continuing with our coverage of the affordable housing movement in Austin (check out previous posts here, here and here), we had the pleasure of getting involved last week with a great program of the...

Inspiration: Learning Upholstery with Spruce
Austin

Anyone with the DIY spirit (or a deep love/obsession with furniture) probably knows well the frustration that comes along with acquiring a piece of furniture to refinish or recover only to discover y...

Roundup: Online Floorplan Tools

We ran across this idea for creating a new floorplan and got a kick out of it. It's pretty old school, but tactile and immediate and it means less time in front of the computer. But also, we would h...

Inspiration...Bright Red

[These pretty bright red chairs look great in this space!] If you are looking to make statement and introduce color into your space in a bold way, consider bright red in your design palette. We often ...

Sneak Peek: Jason Martin Design Collection

click for more picsAngeleno Jason Martin, former co-owner of Silho Furniture, just shot us over an email about his new website showcasing examples of both his furniture line and interior design work. ...

Advice on Moving Furniture
Melbourne

Some good friends of ours are about to move into a new house together and can’t afford removalists. They’re fine with packing all there stuff into boxes and transporting them but the idea of movi...

Online Store: This Is Not IKEA

We have been an IKEA shopper for years. And while we love the selection of affordable goods, we recently looked around our apartment and realized we are a bit IKEAed out. As our design style has slowl...

Inspiration: Community Patchwork
Austin

This being the month for bedrooms, we felt this awesome community patchwork project we stumbled across during Austin's famous First Night celebrations was worth showing. It reminds us of curling up u...

I Wonder Who Designed That?
A Product Guide To Furniture + Decor Designers

The world of furniture and home decor spreads far and wide. While many designers are as well known as the products they were inspired to create, (see Frank Gehry, Philippe Starck, etc) there are many ...

Matching An Accent Wall with One Piece of Furniture

Confession: The concept of painting an accent wall is sort of difficult for us. For some reason, our visualization of an accent wall looks more like an unfinished paint job rather than a bold decor s...

Store: BoConcept
Austin

While we're normally a tad wary of non-local stores (we're just such huge fans of local business, you see), we had promised to bring you updates on all the new stores opening up in the 2nd Street Dis...

Store: Weego Baby
Los Angeles

The newest store in the Weego Home family just opened up in the old Moca Store space on Main Street in Santa Monica. Besides carrying modern nursery and kids' room furniture and accessories, true to ...

Get Your Home Basics in Order

In this room, white slipcovers covering a great basic couch and chairs are the starting point for a completely different look.We've been talking a lot about pops of colour. We love the idea of changi...

Top Ten: Online Shops for Vintage Furniture and Accessories

More and more we find ourselves doing our furniture shopping online, or at least our window shopping. And with so many great online vintage furniture and accessories stores around, we decided that a ...

What Do You Really Need In Each Room?

Do you get the kitchn emails? (Sign up here if you'd like to subscribe.) Recently, Sara-Kate posted about the only tools you really need in your kitchen; it boiled down to three. Maybe it's because...

New Shipment at GROT
Los Angeles

Emma, house tour almnus and deal finder extraordinaire, recently let us know that GROT in redondo beach got a new shipment of mid century furnishings for us to drool over: ...

Inspiration...Everyday Sales At Anthropologie

Anthropologie's sale section could (or maybe should!?!) be it's own store and it's available to you every single day! Full of elegant, colorful, delicate yet rustic home decor, bedding and furniture, ...