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• House Tour: Emily & Craig's Logan Square Rehab

• Lego Digital Designer: On the Lego website, "it was fascinating wading through the 3-D models of Lego dream homes crafted by devoted fans. "

• Tile Vault: Dollop Coffee Co. Floors

• Color Concept - Scrabble Board: "We love the color palette of the Scrabble board, which reminds us of family vacations at our aunt's river cabin."

• Top Ten Best Things About Coming Home: "Sometimes there's nothing we'd love more than to extend a trip. Other times, we are just itching to get back home..."

• Cooking Light Fit House Tour: "A fundraiser house, put together by Cooking Light magazine and raising money for the Women and Lung Health Initiative."

• An Imagined Life: Tabletop Chandelier: "...you must see that I am exotic and, as I said before, independent. I don't need any ceiling to support me. You will never find me hiding behind some ratty shade. What you see is what you get, Mister. I've got curves, flash, and a whole socket full of moxie."

• A Roundup of Green Guides: Including World Changing, Cradle to Cradle, and Massive Change...what are your recommendations for green reads?

• Indoor/Outdoor Fire Pit by John Beck Steel: "The height is 18 inches, with a 14" diameter, meaning it will be an easy fit for smaller outside spaces such as balconies or urban patios, unlike many other fire pits."

• Thoughts on Garden Decor: What's cute, what's creepy, what do you love or love to hate??

• Good Question: Which sofa to go with these items?

• Table in a Bag: A great piece to keep in the car, use regularly outside at home, or have on hand for trips to the park...

• The Knockout and the Knockoff: A series of inspired How-To's based on Orla Kiely's designs • Top Ten: Modern Magazine Holders

• What's Your Music While You Clean?: Cleaning the house to West End Jazz Band in Denmark (above, watch via You Tube)

• IKEA: Be Brave, Not Beige: "As a push for color among textiles, the IKEA website has launched the tagline, 'Be Brave, Not Beige'..."

• Ferran Adria's Faces Tableware: FACES is a new tableware line collaborated by deconstructivist chef Ferran Adria and Spanish top industrial designers.

• Seed Pod Poster: by Renee of Wolfie and the Sneak, which Gayla Trail (You Grow Girl's founder) describes as "the perfect mix of science and pretty."

• SCC Midwest: Check out Sarah's "Cheesy Retro" and the other new entries in the contest.

• Hot or Not?: Flexible Resin Sheet to transform into a bowl, basket, or tray.

• New at CB2: The Rex Lounge chair...wide and low for outdoor use.

• House Tour: Amy and David's Modern + Tiki = Home

• Luggage Storage: For all of you living in small spaces, we wonder how you store this necessity: the bulky, cumbersome object(s) we call luggage.

• Modern Spaces: Small Space Storage Gallery

• New at Unison: Table Linens and Accessories

• How To: Fold Your Plastic Bags for Reuse

• Look!: Tree decor inspiration in Austin, TX

• Flickr Finds: Olivia Leigh's Bedroom Wall

• Best of the Home and Housewares Show: ScanWood is a Danish line of super-simple lovely wooden kitchen, tabletop and office accessories. Around since 1919, they make modern, functional tools and decorative pieces from beech, cherry, maple, ginko and olive wood...

• Close-up: Amy's Framed Flocked Wallpaper

• Best Products: White Waffle-Weave Shower Curtain

• PT Design Medicine Cabinet: Functional pop art for the bathroom.

• Mary Brogger: Steel Curtains, Rezac Gallery, Chicago

• Blogging Domino: Wary Meyers Decorative Arts

• Studio Wai: Color contest finalist Luke Wong's designs

• Denyse Schmidt Quilts: Her business model includes the very high end "couture quilts", her medium to high priced "Works" series and the more accessible "DS Designs" series.

• Modernica Beds: "An intersection of vintage styling and modern simplicity occured in the design process of the Case Study line of beds from Modernica."

• Lela Stacking Chairs: "These are so well rounded and comfy looking, and although they are intended for use in 'public areas,' we'd happily have one in our own place."

• Look! More Tree Stump Seating: "Done as part of an elective at the UIC School of Architecture, this intervention sought to enliven the existing student mailbox area..."

• Blogging Small Space Big Style: Episode 310 took us to NYC, Santa Monica and Long Beach.

• New from West Elm: Geometric Bedroom

• Blogging ReadyMade: First Look at Issue 27- The Green Design Issue