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Best High/Low Outdoor Lanterns 2008
Email from 6.4.08

Today I'm going to experiment with cutting to the chase. The list below represent everything I've learned over the past 7 years about where to get beautiful outdoor lanterns. These DO take mainten...

Best Online Garden Fountain Sources 2008
Email from 5.28.08

We were turned on to the subject of fountains on our trip out here to California (the fountain above is in Sara Kate's mothers yard. It's from Jackalope). It's just starting to get warm on the East ...

Best Spring Cleaning Tips 2008
Email from 5.20.08

I hate clutter and dirtiness (the natural enemies of good design), and strive with Spring Cleaning not just to clean out, but also to reestablish any of our home made systems that have fallen on hard ...

Best Small Sofas 2008
Email from 4.24.08

We first started focusing on small sofas in 2004, when my brother was looking for one and having a really hard time. Since then the market has changed and manufacturers have become a lot more savvy a...

Best Storage Beds 2008: From High to Low - Email from 4.11.08

I am not a huge fan of underbed storage and generally believe that allowing the space underneath where you sleep to breathe and be free of clutter is a good thing, BUT necessity sometimes dictates us...

Best Small Kitchens Units 2008

This is a really fun category that we've been collecting data on for years now. More and more we are seeing people go small and compact in order to open their space up and increase the efficiency o...

AT Email: Best Adjustable Coffee Tables 2008 - 4.1.08

April 1, 2008 No April Fools here, just a roundup of a category that is repeatedly high in our google searches: the adjustable coffee table. These are the things that look good low down b...

Best Bathroom Scales 2008

We've blogged our 5 Best Bathroom Scales for Minimalists, good high tech scales at Unplggd, and awhile back we looked at the Bathroom Scale by Stefano Giovannoni for Alessi. While we like its slim a...

Best Bathroom Towels 2008

We think good bathroom towels, regardless of price, are a fully justified and simple luxury. You use them every day and beyond a delightful appearance, you want them to WORK, meaning take the water ...

Best Small Toilets 2008: Toto, Duravit, Kohler

Duravit Starck 2 Okay, you've got a tiny bathroom but you want it to be really, really nice. Where can you find a beautiful small toilet that will fit in? OR, say you're just really space challenged...

AT Email: Best Modern Bedding - 2.1.08

February 1, 2008 Area "Pins" It took me some time to realize that "modern" bedding was a fairly new creation. It seems that most bedding was plain or "traditiona...

Best Vacuum Roundup: Dyson, Miele, Electrolux, Airider...

We've tested a bunch of vacuums over the past few years (and can't wait to test more), so we thought we'd start to round-up our overview of these pesky machines. In general, we find that you pretty...

Top 10: Blankets

To All Top 10 Lists We're well into winter now. Which has many thinking of nestling in and snuggling up with a great blanket. The best blankets are fun to own because they can add beauty to your home...

Best Sofa Stores

We updated and divided our list into four sections: high, medium, low and thrift. This refers to price, but not necessarily to quality or comfort. There are great sofas on the mid to low end as well...

Best Tea Kettles

In our opinion, most kettles really miss the boat. They are either too fancy, too heavy or too slick and the point of the exercise - boiling water - is overdone. For these reasons we have only bou...

Best Modern Wall Clocks

We're clock junkies. We collect them, give them and judge them. This is our Top 10 list for 2007 (below the jump)......

Top 10: Holiday Letterpress Card Companies

We've really gotten into sending beautiful letterpress cards in the past few years. It seems that the more things get digital, the more you need a really sweet hand-made and hand-written note to bal...

Top 10: Party Lighting Ideas

The Workhorses Use white tea lights in great quantities along window sills, tables and hallways: • Roly-Poly votives • White sake cups • Chunky glass candleholders • Rotera lante...

Top 10: Rug Cutters

Calling this a top 10 list is a bit of an overstatement, because we only know of two, but we hew to convention. Shopping for a rug recently we interviewed Steven Forrey at The Rug Company what folks ...

Top 10: Dining Chairs

We've blogged side chairs, but we wanted to zone in more closely on dining chairs. You know, the ones that really need to be comfortable, while allowing you to sit up tall and enjoy your food. As wi...

Top 10: House Tours 2004-2007

We love homes. After the onslaught of the past month's Fall Colors Contest, we thought we'd put the final nail in the coffin by offering up a sampling of even more great homes from our archives. Con...

Top 10: Beds with Storage

Put to Bed. We're sure you saw this one coming! The past few weeks we've been adding to our post archive with a lot of storage beds. Here, you'll find the Top 10 broken down by price (from High-End...

Top 5: Cheap Furniture Basics

Space & Budget Conscious. We've compiled this list of tried-and-true furniture basics that are under $500. Personally, we own a few of these and nearly everyone we know owns at least one of the item...

Top 10: Hot Colors from FC 2006

Click on Deana & Nadim's Daring Duplex Fall Colors 2006 was amazing. Though it seems like a long time ago, many of the entries are as fresh as ever and would have done very well this year. We went t...

Top 10: Modern Free-Standing Coat Racks

Hall Tree. Free-standing coat racks are an odd bunch though remarkably similar in appearance they vary widely in price, stability and functionality... High-end • Sidse Werner's Coatrack & Ha...

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