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Easel as Television Stand
Metropolitan Home

Last month Apartment Therapy featured a great roundup of easels as home decor, but this has taken it one step further. Check out this use of an easel as a television stand in what we think is a stran...

Good Finds: Qlocktwo for the iPhone!

We recently blogged about Qlocktwo, an amazing and inspired alternative timepiece that utilized san serif words telling the time. Unfortunately, this beautiful piece of design is not something we have...

Inspiration: Outdoor Shadow-Boxes
Canadian House & Home

Outdoor artwork is an intriguing idea to us; our inside artwork is often geared towards bringing the outside in, so what's the point if you're already outside? But if these shadow boxes are easy to ...

DIY Installation: Flat Panel TV With Hidden Wiring

AT:SF Reader John sent us in his fantastic chandelier re-do last year and now he has started his own blog about the renovation of his SF victorian. One of his recent......

Tips for Hanging a Flat Screen TV Over a Fireplace

We know that folks are pretty divided over the concept of a flatscreen over the fireplace - there are concerns about the aesthetics of this location, as well as proper viewing angles and the impact he...

4 Things We Like at Park Life

There's more to the Richmond than good Dim Sum and boba. Park Life, the independent retail and gallery space, has been at Clement and 3rd for a couple years now, and continues to offer of-the-moment a...

How To: Turn an Ikea Lack Shelf into a Media Console

It's time for this to come full circle. We first saw this clever Ikea hack (the alteration of an Ikea Lack unit into a sliding-doored media cabinet) on a NY Flickr Find: the apartment tour of Portland...

Buy Me CD Rack

Yeah, we know CDs are on the fast track to becoming obsolete. And, those of us still hanging on to our CDs have collections far more vast that what this rack can hold. Nonetheless, we thought the ...

Vintage-style Radios from the Sundance Catalog

Radios are fast becoming quaint throwbacks to a simpler time -- who wants to sit through commercials when our favorite song is always on our iPod? -- but a small one to play news radio in the kitche...

Best Flat Screen Setups on AT

Inside Out: Avery and Cortney's Learning Curve How do you watch TV? Maybe a flat screen TV is on your shopping list today. Or maybe you have one already, and you're planning on spending the upcoming...

Good Questions: Toddler-Proof Media Centers?

Hi AT:SF, Where can I find a media center, ideally in a dark wood, that is childproof and under $1K? My baby girl is obsessed with our DVD player and would hit the buttons all day. What we would li...

Good Questions: De-cluttering the computer desk

Hi AT:SF- I'm on my computer all the time, so I want to keep it in the living room. The only thing is - I hate the look of a desk there. It takes up too much space, clutters up the room, and is j...

Porcupine CD Rack

If you're an audiophile with a large music library, imagine how great it would be to have a CD storage system that integrated the look-up ease of a card catalogue with the browse-ability of the stacks...

Late-Breaking Event: Clean City - Free Electronic Waste Collection Event

Just in time for spring cleaning: Clean City is sponsoring a drop-off this Saturday for all those pesky outdated or broken electronics that need to stay clear of landfill. Here are all the details, fr...

Outdoor Entertainment Set

It's time to take things outside. Years ago, friends of ours hosted a film festival in their Noe Valley backyard. And, ever since, we've toyed with the idea of setting up outdoor screenings of our o...

On Sale: Todd Oldham's La-Z-Boy's Bamboo Collection

A few renegade pieces from Todd Oldham's Bamboo Collection for La-Z-Boy seem to have high-tailed it over to Overstock.com, and the prices are really good:...

Bench with Circle

Bench with Circle is a strange product, but one that we can see filling a void just perfectly in a home with wireless Internet. ...

Lightascope

Lightascope is a fitting product with which to wrap up Art Month. It's a thin sheet of plastic that attaches (temporarily) to the face of your flat panel TV. The plastic is mostly opaque, stamped w...

How To: Make your own dual purpose TV-Mirror

(Welcome again to Ann, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) I love the moment on the decorating makeover shows when they bring out the 40”...

JBL's On Time

(Welcome to Martina, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Given the ubiquity of the iPod these days (I'm seeing them in the pockets of Gran...

Belkin's Cable-Free USB Hub

(Welcome to Julie, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) No matter how many wireless products you use, you probably still have several wir...

Suissa Computers

(Welcome to Ann, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Computers are central to most people’s lives and take a prominent place in our living...

Slingbox: Have TV Shows, Will Travel

(Welcome to Katie, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Gone are the days of not being able to take your TV with you wherever you go: no m...

The Evo System

Out with that ungainly TV cabinet, in with all manner of clever flat-panel mounting systems that usher the flat-panel revolution into your home without the slicing up of your walls. We thought we'd...

Home Tech Tour: Ryan and Joy's Livingroom

(Welcome again to Ryan, one of the finalists vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Name: Joy and Ryan Location: Burnaby Canada Favorites: The big window….and t...