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Look!: The Droog Porcelain Lamp by Dick Van Hoff
Email from 7.8.08

It took me over a year to find this lamp. A quietly memorable but rare utilitarian design for a pendant lamp, I spotted it in the offices of ID Magazine during a visit last winter (below) and then ...

Look! Building a Deck Around a Tree
Boston

The term “treehugging” sometimes gets a bad rap, though less so in the post-Inconvenient Truth-era. When we visited our family’s place in the White Mountains of New Hampshire this past weeken...

Color Inspiration from Idée
Washington DC

Looking for a cool way to come up with a color scheme? Check out Idée’s Multicolr Search Lab for Flickr…. ...

Look!: Combine Hot & Cold Faucets on Old Sinks
Boston

We relish our old bathroom sink; it’s decrepit but it’s original to our 1907 home in Jamaica Plain and for that we remain faithful. Granted, it can get a little irksome to not be able to genera...

Look! Mid-Century Modern Pup
Boston

We have a new addition to our home—an 11-week-old French Bulldog puppy named Bacon—and he has us looking at our apartment in a whole new way...on all fours......

Look!: Vintage Chairs at Bobo

We recently stumbled into Bobo, a trendy new restaurant int the West Village, to check out the decor. We found the upstairs roofdeck to be our favorite spot (we were only having drinks), but inside...

Look!: Gray Bricks
Holland

When people paint their interior brick walls, they tend to paint them white... ...

Look!: Neighburrito's Tiny Countertop by LTL

From LTL, the same architects who designed Glenmore Gardens: check out Neighburritos on Rivington. It used to be Dash Dogs but whether they're serving hotdogs or burritos, we love this small-space c...

Look!: Krakow Colors
Poland

If you find more inspiration walking around a new city than paging through design magazines (or websites!), a stroll through the lovely Old Town in Krakow -- with its UNESCO World Heritage market squa...

Look! Urban Garden Inspiration
Washington DC

We stumbled upon this reading garden at our local library, and were immediately struck by the low maintenance design. With comfortable chairs and no grass to mow, this garden makes excellent use of...

Look!: Mini French Doors as Bathroom Doors
Boston

Our bathroom is very small to begin with, so the fact that the door opens inward is not good design since it chews up the precious little space that's already there. So when we saw our friend's mi...

Look! Milk Glass
Boston

We had milk glass in our minds after looking at the sweet vintage giveaway that AT SF did last Thursday. Then when we saw our friend Maggie's stunning collection this weekend, we wanted to revisit ...

Look!: HGTV's Property Virgins Filming in DC
Washington DC

We were surprised and delighted last Sunday when we popped into our favorite watering hole in Cleveland Park (Ireland's Four Fields) to discover an HGTV production crew filming scenes for an upcomin...

Look! Giant Flip-Up Windows

We spent a long weekend in Portland, Oregon and spied these giant flip-up windows at a restaurant in the Pearl District......

Look! Unexpected Inspiration: Home Slogans
Boston

While stuck in the airport with a delayed flight and a few large, artificially-colored drinks, we spotted this giant sign looming overhead. Maybe it's because we don’t spend much time in suburban ...

Look!: Four Community Gardens in Green Red Hook

Okay, this may be the hot news in Red Hook these days. But a short walk to Fairway over the weekend revealed that the neighborhood's also blessed with more than a few beautiful community gardens......

Look! Shed Life
Washington DC

Check out this post on Lifehacker. Brian Dehamer needed a work space, but with the arrival of a new baby extra space was something they just couldn’t find inside their house…...

Look! Rural Rock Garden
Boston

We're putting together a great tour of this beautiful house in rural New Hampshire for next week. Until then, we thought we'd share this picture of their rock garden as garden month here on AT nears...

Look! Shawn Henderson Interior Design

We recently had the opportunity to check out the newly re-designed offices of Shawn Henderson Interior Design (Shawn was a judge for our January Jumpstart Contest). In addition to running his design...

Look!: Wallpaper In and On Closets
Washington DC

We like the use of wallpaper in unconventional places; in a closet, bookshelf or a cupboard. Both Martha and Domino have had some great examples in the past......

Look! Hardwood on the Ceiling

We are not strangers to hardwood flooring applied to the ceiling — we grew up with it. It was a design element our parents used in two of their homes. The presence of wood grain can really warm u...

Look!: Great Sheepskin Makeover at Ted Muehling's
Email from 6.12.08

I just stepped into Ted Muehling's shop at the bottom of Crosby Street to buy a small birthday gift for Sara Kate (it was today! last week) and saw a great idea for today's email. Inside, where he ...

Look!: Corner Toilet
Boston

We fantasize about someday revamping our old, tiny bathroom, when the budget allows. We wouldn't be able to expand its ultimate size so instead we ponder creative ways to reconfigure the sink, show...

Inspiration: Modern Landscaping book from 1964
Washington DC

We found this Sunset landscaping book at a thrift store this weekend and couldn’t believe how great some of the garden structure suggestions were. It’s becoming a marvelous resource for some...

Look! Cork Headboard
Boston

We love creative headboards and we've been sleeping under this one for years without really noticing just how creative it is......

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