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HomeGoods StyleScope Quiz

Deborah Needleman (also known as the former editor of Domino, but you already knew that) recently teamed up with HomeGoods to create StyleScope, an online quiz to help you get a better sense of your...

Orchid Troubles? The Doctor is In!

Dracula vampira orchid at the Conservatory of Flowers, just in time for halloween! I love to decorate with orchids, but to say that I love to "grow" them might be a stretch. Truthfully, I haven't had...

Synesthesia and Color

one synestheste's calendar of months Synesthesia ("joined sensation") is a rare mixing of senses that occurs in approximately one of every 25,000 people. Sounds might have shapes, colors might have s...

Favorite Design Magazine?

Is it Dwell, with its modern emphasis? House Beautiful with its short, useful articles? Elle Decor, with the longer features you can read over coffee? Or Living, Etc., that British stronghold? The l...

The House Book by Terence Conran
Great Finds

At the library's Big Book Sale this weekend, my friend Anne (of the Appealing Abode) unearthed a copy of this treasure: Terence Conran's 1974 The House Book. Of course Conran's had many books since, b...

Roundup: 15 iPhone Apps For Home Design

Seems like there's an iPhone app for just about everything these days, including quite a few geared to help eager DIY home designers. Several of these we've covered here before, but we thought it migh...

Color Palette Generators

Inspiration for decorating your space can come from unlikely places. Maybe it's the sun hitting the leaves of a tree or a piece of art seen on a favorite blog, but we often take a picture or save an i...

Simple Escape: Better Off

Living a simpler life without the everyday technologies upon which most of us are reliant is an escape we've probably all considered. That's what Better Off author Eric Brende and his wife, Mary, did...

Pictorial Webster's
A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

Objectology

We were initially drawn to this book because of the imagery. Silhouettes are one of our major trend addictions, and this seemed to be a new play on the traditional silhouette. Upon further inspection,...

What Do Your Color Choices Say About You?
Paper Source Colorscope

Whenever I've got cards or invitations to send, I love to while away time at Paper Source, picking out stationery from their vast array of colors, but it's never occurred to me to wonder why, among al...

What Are Your Coffee Table Books?

Coffee table books, while sometimes frowned upon by the minimalist crowd, are one of our favorite means of decorative expression in our home. We think the coffee table books one chooses to display say...

Voet Cranf ∞ color synthAxis

Call me easily entertained. I'm still trying to get a grasp of it, but a minute of playing around with voet cranf ∞ color synthAxis has me completely immersed. The free software generates complime...

Just for Fun: Numerology of House Numbers
(or Apartment Numbers)

We recently stumbled onto something that's never crossed our minds: the numerology of house numbers. While we've always paid some attention to our house numbers, we've never looked at them in this w...

Design Magazines at Kinokuniya

The loss of so many great shelter magazines in the last year has got us seriously hurtin' for our monthly glossy fix. Elle Decor helps, but those pricey interiors can only hold our attention for so lo...

Flickr Finds: Cookbook Storage Ideas

click thumbnails for larger pics Cookbooks can present a bit of an organizational challenge. In general it seems that the least complicated solution is to store like with like, but in the case of bo...

Book Signing: Tiny Houses by Mimi Zieger

We like to believe that living in a small space is somewhat of an art. Often times space is considered luxury, but a lot of side effects have come with the larger spaces we've lived in. More space lea...

Mid-Century Modern Flashcards

Know a Bellini from a Bertoia? How about a Poul Henningsen from a Poul Kjaerholm? If your MCM knowledge needs a little brush up or your kid is a budding Corbusier, perhaps these flashcards are in orde...

Yarn Bombers' Knit Graffiti

These two Vancouver knitters, Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain, are up to making their mark on their city. Much like your typical graffiti, the two speak of "tagging" signs, poles and trees in their urb...

Shopping Bonanza at Bonanzle

Loveseat found using search term "mid-century modern" Deep in the comments of our post on Doing Without we found mention of a website called Bonanzle, followed by a glowing review from a first-time bu...

More from Jer Thorp

We loved Jer Thorp's charts he created for Ouno Design. They're at once beautiful and informative, conveying in an instant the shifts and changes in our language and lives. When Ouno Design tipped u...

"How Much is That Chair Worth?"
The Value of Vintage Treasures

Even the particularly design-savvy among us might not know the going rate for certain models of Wegner or van der Rohe, but it might be worth your while to find out. Here are 10 vintage chairs that ca...

What "Design" or "Home" Words Would You Compare?

"retro" VS "vintage" As you may have seen earlier this week, Jer Thorp has created visualizations depicting the rise and fall of certain design terms used in the NY Times over the last 25 years. He's...

NYT Design Buzz Words by Jer Thorp at Ouno Design

These graphs, created by Jer Thorp of Ouno Design, are visualizations of design lingo used in the New York Times from 1984 to 2009. The one up top, for instance, shows frequency of use for the words...