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Look!: Recycled Magazine Wastebasket

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Just when we thought we seen it all in recycled magazine home accessories, a Crafter user spent a day putting together this wastebasket, based on a project in Mark Montano's Big-Ass Book of Crafts. It's different, and we like.

Yuri Kinoshita: Designer

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While wandering slack-jawed through the warehouse sale at Kyoto Art and Antiques, we were introduced to the work of Yuri Kinoshita. Her paper lanterns are grand, bold and unlike any we've seen before, yet remain intimate and comforting in their shape and glow.

Sliding Display Shelf from VivaTerra

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Now here's something a little different: a display shelf, with picture frames hanging from the bottom of it. We like framed wall art, and we like collections on shelves — we even like framed art leaning on shelves. Here's a way to get it all if wall space is really at a premium.

Hip to Be Square
Canadian House & Home: June 2008

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While many of us work on coping with challenges specific to boxy apartments — vast blank walls, lack of character, how to eke an eating area, workspace and den out of one room — David Podsiadlo and Amander Schuler, owners of Gus* Design Group sought out such a space, trading their Toronto townhouse for this 2,500 square foot cube, beautifully appointed in its squareness.

Look!: Wallpapered Table

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Ikea Hacker posted this project from Alice, a mom who needed a solution for a Vika table that had seen some abuse in the form of repeated water spillage by her daughter. Vintage wallpaper was topped with a sheet of glass to both hide existing and prevent future damage.

Hammer / Screwdriver Combination Tool

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When we left home for college, our mother thoughtfully sent us off with one of these for our dorm decor and maintenance needs. And it still sees regular use many years later, even though we have a well-stocked toolbox and far more sophisticated multi-tools (think Leatherman).

Isamu Noguchi's Akari Table Lamps at Canoe

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We have a feeling that Isamu Noguchi's classic lamp designs (ca. 1950) are going to feel modern for a long, long time. Having coveted this blue patterned one ever since we saw it at the MoMA store, we were surprised to find out that the Akari lamp has more than one iteration — purchasable, even.

Modern Mat from Veer

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The world of 3' x 5' mats seems endless, like pillows or cute dishes; there are so many affordable, workable options to choose from that it's best to go for something with personal significance or gut feeling alone (as opposed to a table, where you might be constrained by space, or an 8' x 10' rug, where price can significantly narrow the options).

Bamboo Hardwoods

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5-5-08-bamboo-logo.jpgWe love bamboo as a sustainable fiber and building material, and Bamboo Hardwoods founder Douglas Lewis clearly shares that love, to a great extent. His store is an outpost of every type of bamboo product imaginable.

Lily Pad Falling Water Fountain

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We can say, with absolute conviction, that we've never been intrigued by a backyard water feature until today. We think it's the popping blue color and thin, unfussy tiers of this one that have suckered us in to the concept at last.

Kyoto Art and Antiques Warehouse Sale

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5-2-08-kyoto-logo.jpgOpen only twice a year for 10 days each time, walking into the warehouse of Kyoto Art and Antiques feels like stumbling into the past — namely, the storerooms of an early 20th century trader with Japan.

Plastic Bottle Decor by Michelle Brand

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Fashioned as screens, curtains or room dividers, Michelle Brand strings together the flower-like bottoms of plastic bottles for her repurposed creations.

Pottery Barn's Nautical Entryway Cabinet

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At first glance, we passed this piece off as way too tacky. On second glance (and we were surprised that there even was a second), we realized the bright blue ground and oversized white nautical graphics lifted our mood. Fitting for an entryway piece.

TileVault: The Skylights of Seattle's Underground

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What: Glass tiles in the sidewalk that double as skylights for our underground ghost town
Where: Seattle's International District
When: Photo taken April 25, 2008
Why: The swirled glass is beautiful underfoot, and sends our imagination reeling with how it must look from the bottom up.

U+ Studio Collection's Time Table

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We've blogged about a "time table" before, but this is not that one. Instead of a full-size dining table with a gigantic digital clock surface, Umbra's take is a more understated, analog clock side table.

AIA Home of the Month: Rambler Redo
Northwest Home: May 2008

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The new issue of Northwest Home (which, since last month, is now a pull-out in Seattle Magazine) features AIA's Home of the Month pick. The rambler in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood comes in at just under 2,000 square feet, and it's serene, modern and beautiful.

The Sleepless in Seattle Houseboat is Up for Sale

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For those of you whose introduction to Seattle and our houseboats came via the eponymous Tom Hanks film, here's one for you. The houseboat is on the market — for a cool $2.5 million.

North Woods Cable Throws at Velocity

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Velocity has significantly boosted its online bedding offerings in recent weeks. And though the weather is warming, we were still drawn to these beautiful hand-knit thrown blankets by Andrew Morgan.

The Essential Ingredients of a Man Cave
CNN: 04.17.08

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CNN put out a call for readers to submit pictures of their man-caves, and what intrigued us most were the categories the pictures fell into. Are these really the basic elements for a stereotypically male-genedered space?

Ring Ring Rack

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It took us a few minutes to figure out how this works, but when we did, we appreciated it — mostly because it's a sturdy, wall-mountable solution that requires only two little screws.

Glassybaby

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4-28-08-glassybaby-logo.jpgFlowers die, chocolates melt, glassybaby forever. That is the compelling concept behind this Seattle-based hand-blown glass vessel business, which grew out of founder Lee Rhodes' garage into something Oprah and Martha Stewart talk about.

Wall O Photos at Urban Outfitters

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With the Wall O Photos, an idea that started as cheap-o dorm art has evolved into viable decor for the more grown-up home. We're speaking, of course, of record frames and CD display holders, even photo pocket shower curtains — you know the ilk.

Look!: Cardboard Accessory Cubbies in the Diesel Store

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We don't have this many pairs of sunglasses to store, but if we did, this wall of open-faced shoe boxes to store them in would make us feel pretty cool.

Glass Fishbowl Made of Recycled Windshields

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We found this over at Uncommon Goods, and we'd love to see it in use, full of colorful fish. The two-handled shape reminds us of a Victorian punchbowl, and it in fact could be used as one, or as a vase, or for storage.

Color Pattern Clock

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This clock is a bit too clever for its own good. It works by illuminating a number of squares in a grid to correspond with a digit in the time. It perhaps comes as a surprise to no one that we found it in SkyMall.

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