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The Canal Apartment
Tech Tour

This tiny 376 square feet Parisian rental apartment offers some unique tech touches that optimizes space and amenities, such as glow-in-the-dark striped wallpaper, a trolly cart Blu-ray home theater s...

Maisie Maud Broadhead's Cable Art

Normally we try to offer solutions to hide cables and wires in the home. But artist Maisie Maud Broadhead has found a way to incorporate the cable of a lamp into the space in a most impressive fashion...

How To: Hide Thermostats and Door Buzzers

Now this is brilliant. How many of you are living in rentals where your landlord decided to ruin a perfectly good wall with a thermostat smack dab in the middle of it? Our thermostat and door buzzer, ...

9 Tech Items Topping Our Holiday Wish List

We're not really materialistic or all about "the gimmies," but with Thanksgiving and family get togethers right around the corner, relatives are sure to start probing for things that might be making o...

Dell's Inspiron Zino HD

While it may be a few years late in the mini-PC market, and closely resembling a familiar friend, Dell's Inspiron Zino HD promises to deliver snappy performance for desktop PC lovers on a dime. Perhap...

Stumped Lamps by Egg Collective

These tree stumps are a side table and a light! Made from fallen sycamores and miscellaneous light bulbs these side table lamps are a creative, beautiful and functional. • Read the full post at ...

Before & After: An $80 Rental Kitchen Makeover

My husband and I moved into our current rental apartment one year ago, and while we loved the fact that the kitchen was separate, roomy and had stainless steel appliances, we were underwhelmed by the ...

Nancy's Mid-Century Swanky
House Tour

Nancy’s got a great eye — when she first saw this mid-century gem she knew it had potential. At the time however, it was seriously in need of an upgrade: the interior reeked of early 90’s décor...

Pop-up Stuff Swap: Score!

Just in time for the Fall Cure, Brooklyn-based art center, 3rd Ward, will be hosting a pop-up swap event. On November 21st 3rd Ward will be lending its space to a massive free exchange of anything fro...

Window Farms: Hydroponic Edible Gardens for Urban Windows

In order to help urban dwellers grow food inside their apartment all year long, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray developed Window Farms — vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible wi...

Small Kids, Big Color Contest on Ohdeedoh

As you may know we are right in the middle of ANOTHER fabulous color contest, this time full of creative kids rooms. From babies to teens, these kids are enjoying a colorful life and sharing a little ...

The Ultimate Halloween Party Roundup: Menus, Party Ideas, and Inspiration from Around the Web

Maybe it's because Halloween falls on a Saturday night, or maybe it's the gloomy economy. Whichever it is, everyone seems to be in a spooky Halloween spirit this year! There is a lot of fabulous inspi...

Look Up! A Kitchen With a Ladder (and More Storage)

A ladder in the kitchen? We've dreamed of a library lined with bookshelves and a sliding ladder, but we never thought about a ladder in the kitchen. But that turned out to be exactly the right solut...

Bold Wallpaper for a Famous NYC Cookie Baker

We love how this kitchen has clean, crisp modern touches right alongside some really traditional elements—the toile-like wallpaper and the wooden cabinet (maybe it's antique?) tucked into the far ri...

Using Color in the Kitchen
Guest Post from Johnny Grey of Johnny Grey Studios

Art, paint and pattern: three spirit-raising tools that I use in every project. They exist in the kitchen as part of the fabric of the design. Can you have a happy or home environment without them? Co...

Video: Eddie Izzard on Supermarket Psychology

Happy Monday! Our discussion on choosing the fastest checkout line reminded us of this more humorous take on "queue strategy." Get your week started with a laugh from one of our favorite comedians, Ed...

Notting Hill House's TV Above the Fireplace

There are two types of people in this world. Those who don't mind having their TV hung above their fireplace and those who prefer to hide it more than anything else. Then again, there are times when i...

Ten Best Looking USB Hubs We Can Live With

Despite the existence of just about any and every shape of USB peripheral out there, the lineup of USB products we'd actually like to invite into our home is quite small. Here are ten USB hub designs ...

Panasonic's Eco House of the Future

Yesterday we saw Panasonic's attempt at the first robotic dish washer. Today, we're going to check out Dvice's house tour of their Eco Ideas House over in Japan. We'll admit their designs are a little...

A Master Bath and Home Office in One?

Last week's issue of New York Magazine featured their Home Design Fall package. They looked at a few before and after gut renovations, including this master bathroom in Prospect Heights Brooklyn. We w...

Technicolor: Green

Usually when we talk about green technology here on Unplggd we are referring to eco-friendly products, but today we are actually focusing on goods that would make Kermit the Frog happy. Though admitte...

An Upholstering Primer: Part 2 of 4 — Finding a Good Upholstery Atelier

Guest Post from Matthew Haly of The Furniture Joint True upholstery ateliers —or as they are more commonly known, upholstery studios— consist of a wide range of services. They normally o...

Three Green Innovations for Your Home

The West Coast Green conference just wrapped up in San Francisco earlier this month. It’s an annual event that started four years ago and is now the largest conference focusing on green building inn...

Green Style: Before & After Bedroom Transformation

We came across this incredible Before & After on the blog Hashai, and we think it's a great example of how you can completely transform a room with just a few simple changes... • See the 'Af...

Green Style: Succulent Living Wall by Mosstika

Hungary native Edina Tokodi (a.k.a Mosstika) lives in Brooklyn and does green graffiti installations, using moss as her primary material. Her use of wildlife in urban environments encourages pedestria...

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