What Makes a Great Party?
We like to celebrate our birthday in the most unassuming way possible: nice quiet dinner with only the closest friends. This year, however, we've unwittingly agreed to a full-on bash. It started out ...
Posts tagged “entertaining”
Tic-Tac-Toe Board by Peleg Design
Chess has always seemed to us to be the only board game embraced by designers. There are so many cool sets out there - it seems we see a new take on one at every museum store or design boutique we ent...
I Am Not a Paper Towel Towel Set
It always feels so posh when we visit people's houses and they've got a stack of cloth towels in the bathroom for guests to use, like in a fancy restaurant. Not so much when those are monogrammed a...
Aalto Ice Cube Trays
We use our Aalto ice cubes more than any of our other ones (hearts from IKEA!). Every time we look down to take a sip we get happy. We've noticed that stores have stopped restocking them (or perhaps...
Drapeless Round Table Cloths
One of our favorite bloggers, Maryam in Marrakesh, is of the "if you can't find what you want, don't settle for less, design it yourself" school. The latest example? Colorful custom-made round table c...
Polish Paper Chandelier
We're not huge fans of lavish parties, we're more the casual dinner party types...just a candle or two here and a bunch of flowers there and we're ready for a simple get-together. But every once in ...
The Lost Art of Towel Origami by Alison Jenkins
When we check into a hotel and come upon a little towel sculpture — a swan or accordion flower, typically — at the foot of the bed, we must admit we're charmed. Until we learned about Alison...
Bamboo Candlesticks from Sears
Even though we own an original vintage set of teak candlesticks in the style these are copying, the classic Danish momma-poppa-baby design never fails to get our attention....
Button Plates by Kiki van Eijk
This is a design that would have been a little wan if it weren't for the great variety in style, size and finish of this mundane household object, as rendered into tableware....
Twist Candlesticks from Red Envelope
With Valentines Day coming up tomorrow, perhaps some of you are planning a romantic dinner for two at home. As Hollywood and every daytime soap has taught us, such an evening necessarily involves di...
Pick Up Mug and Tray Set
Does it say something about us that we love snack time accessories that harken back to childhood? Probably, but we're too busy watching cartoons to care....
The Super Bowl Party: Lessons from the Holidays
No shiny decorations, no sit down dinners, no elaborate invitations, no fancy attire. But a Super Bowl party, marooned in the middle of the longest stretch of winter, may be the most festive thing ...
2D Vase from Tiny Living
2-dimensional means 2-dimensional in this cheeky take on the compact vase: it's a sheet of powder-coated metal to which you attach your own cup. ...
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...
Blogging Sunset: Decorate with Winter Greens
Maybe we're intimidated by a full-on Christmas tree, so what? The December issue of Sunset magazine comes through with some ideas on how to get that wonderful piney smell in our house without it....
Champagne Glasses by Welmadeproducts
Different. This New Year's Eve break out something new to hold the bubbly instead of those tired old flutes. A little bit science lab chic, their beaker-esque shape combined with condensation-fighti...
Who's Wine-ing System from Violet
Whose glass is it anyways? We became a fan of wine tags while at our parents' house, where lots of people means lots of glasses and even though we're family everyone would like their own drink, than...
How To: Create an Inviting Environment
Inviting is the word we'd most like our guests to use about our house. One of our fail safe tricks to achieving this around the holidays is to fill the air with the smells of the season. No toxic pl...
Aluminum Six Point Star Tree from Relish
We know it's Buy Nothing Day and all. But we can still get in the spirit of tree lightings and such on the official start of the holiday season with Relish's Six Point Star Tree without taking down ...
How To: Know Which Dish Is Yours At Dinner
This trick comes from the ever-resourceful Blueprint. Reading it provided the kind of ah-ha moment we havent had since we learned the little fork is for salad....
Setting the Table
postscript love's Thanksgiving table setting. Just one week until Thanksgiving. Sure, there are plenty of magazines on our desk with photo spreads of gorgeous table settings. But Martha Stewart we ar...
Blogging Sunset: Natural Thanksgiving Style
Are you hosting? We wish we were, so we could debut some of these beautiful and green tabletop ideas....
Top 10: Cloth Napkins
With the holidays fast approaching, we're keen on finding affordable goodies to help us beautify the dinner table. With our small space and smaller budget we don't have collections of fancy tablewar...
How to: Light an outdoor party, hassle-free
Battery-powered white paper lanterns saved our wedding reception. It was held outdoors in a Point Reyes Station garden patio, and, being city folk, we hadn't really anticipated just how dark it woul...
Cut-In-Half
We love the Cut-In-Half Cutting Board. We love it for its beauty, as well as its versatility, its practicality, and its compact size. See why below the jump. ...
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