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IKEA Decorated Train in Kobe, Japan

We suppose it was inevitable that IKEA, that lovely big blue box of home decorating, started showing their wares in other venues. But when we saw photos of their showcase train in Kobe, done as a stun...

Interview With Readymade's Shoshana Berger at Charles & Hudson

There's an interview with Shoshana Berger, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bay Area's own ReadyMade magazine over at Charles & Hudson. One of our favorite quotes? You can’t throw a cat in Broo...

Moormannberge Hotel

We realize it was just a few days ago that we said we hated knotty pine, but we'll make an exception for the Moormannberge Hotel. It is in the Alps, after all, and designed by Nils Holger Moormann....

Drool-worthy Listing in Seattle's Central District

Having grown up in the Central District and experienced first-hand the radical change in its demographic profile over the years, we're usually the one to tsk-tsk conversions of old buildings whose ...

Strapbands Chair by Yahïa Ouled-Moussa

Parisian-based designer Yahïa Ouled-Moussa re-uses old canvas belts, weaving them onto discarded wooden chairs. We like these colorful versions, but there's also a military one, incorporating old ...

Diane DiPrima's Light Well Reno

"Before" Sometimes a space feels more special when there's less of it, focusing its purpose and character to maximum effect for the occupant. So became the case for Diane DiPrima, who renovated the ...

Sunken Clawfoot Bathtub

You never know what you're going to get with old houses sometimes. In this turn of the century house for sale featured on Vintage Seattle, you get a clawfoot bathtub that's been sunken into the flo...

Book Tree

Yes, we know that the holidays were oh-so-long ago, but we just saw this great tree on Rag & Bone Blog, and it does our little book-loving heart good....

Housemartin's Peek at San Francisco Shops

We just noticed that Pam from Housemartin posted a nice little round-up of some San Francisco shops this week. Her photos of several stores we've blogged (and a couple we haven't gotten to yet) are...

Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer

Honestly, it's not as if we need more books, or more art -- what we actually need is to get some of our art framed -- but when we saw Victoria's post on Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer just no...

Tattoo House's Tree Supergraphic

We love the tree supergraphic that Andrew Maynard Architects used in their renovation of Tattoo House. The screening adds privacy, softens the home's modern lines in a neighborhood of traditional h...

Tricia and Peter's New Home

Colorful. Tricia and Peter showed off their love of bright colors in their House Tour: Tricia and Peter's Hip & Colorful SF Pad a few months ago. And then they moved... ...

CU29 Chair by Tom Dixon

Take a chair made of expanded polypropylene, cover it with nanocrystalline copper, and what do you get? The limited edition CU29 Chair by Tom Dixon. (Does it look familiar? He gave away a bunch of ...

Rolling Huts by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen

Rolling, rolling, rolling...This cluster of Rolling Huts is located in the small village of Mazama, Washington, and is used to house the owner's visiting family and friends. Seattle's Olson Sundber...

The Dairy House by Charlotte Skene Catling

Let there be light. This dairy-turned-five-bedroom-house in Somerset, England, is shortlisted for the Bombay Sapphire Prize, which celebrates the innovative use of glass. Its walls are made up of ...

YumSugar's Ultimate Holiday Entertaining Giveaway

Perfect timing. During this month we're devoting to entertaining and doing our own daily giveaway across all our our sites, YumSugar's teamed up with Hostess With the Mostess for an Ultimate Holida...

Domino's Decorating Contest, Round Two
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Runner up. AT:SF pal Victoria has a chance to win some moola in the runners-up round of Domino's Decorating Contest. Click on the Domino link to vote. (And check below the jump for some of her posts...

Wall House Wins Award
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Remember Chile's Wall House? We just read that it was one of three winners of the Architectural Reviews Awards for Emerging Architecture 2007. Via: dezeen...

Art House
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Pretty darn cool. This Cambridge house not only has an artist studio, zen garden, great storage grid niches, and a secret door -- it also has a copper-paneled bedroom, complete with 2-story climbing...

House Tour: Barry and Rosemary's Eichler Home
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Mid-century modern. With a touch of Japanese. Head on over to our sister site, where they've posted a house tour of an updated San Mateo Eichler, complete with bamboo cabinetry and slate floors. Vi...

Crafty Advent Calendar
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Anticipation in style. This take on an advent calendar was made from an old printer's drawer for type blocks, and photos printed from Flickr. We're jealous. Via: Modern Cottage ...

Faux Fireplace
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Cozy. We love the idea of a fireplace in the bedroom. Check out the one Ariana scored for just $50. (No, that's not a typo. Fifty bucks!) We agree with her — it is indeed better than a Big Blank...

Less or More: Scripted Rugs
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We usually gravitate towards the most expensive thing in a room, without fail. But somehow this 3-question quiz got the best of us. See how you do. Via: CasaSugar ...

Sliding Wall by Welter Wall
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Got something to hide? The inner workings of this sleek sliding wall are actually concealed from view, so no one need even know that you haven't actually gotten around to Curing your home office yet...

CH20 Elbow Chair by Hans Wegner
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Simple and elegant. Hans Wegner's CH20 Elbow Chair's being offered to the public for the first time this year. You might want to add it to your Christmas list. Via: Better Living Through Design...

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