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Flickr Find: Mizrobot's Vintage Bottles

Browsing our favorite Flickr images we came across Mizrobot's collection of vintage bottles and had to share. We love the colors and shapes of her well-appointed selection, and they're set off so nice...

Illustrations by Claire Scully

We love the portfolio of London based artist, Claire Scully. Her site features a great variety of drawings and paintings as well as some of her three dimensional work. Check out more examples after th...

Bug Under Glass' Beetle Dioramas

Created by San Francisco biologist and artist Kevin Clarke, these odd little beetle dioramas are in a world of their own......

Bug Collections

Ewwweee! These specimens would have seriously freaked me out as a child - I screamed at the sight of anything with wings, antennae, or six-to-eight legs. But I'm a big girl now, and even like these ...

Collections on Windowsills

Casual collections often seem to migrate to windowsills. It seems they're a natural display space: Is it because abundant natural light highlights their surfaces? Because they're at window openings ...

Display Ideas: Polaroid on a String & More

Our father recently sent us a batch of the "best of" Polaroid photographs from our childhood. Spawned by our current love for the format and a vague memory of a shot with ours truly and He-Man (we're ...

Clock Collections

Clocks are generally functional and often visually appealing, making them fine specimens for collecting. Here, we gather a few examples of clocks in collections......

Storing a Collection in a Lamp

Oh, we've always wanted to do this! We don't have a collection of matchbooks like Shauna and Stephen from Something's Hiding in Here, but filling this lamp with Pez dispensers, plastic toys, or any sm...

One Man's Collections

Tony's largest collection, cartoon character figurines Displayed throughout his home, Tony's collections are at once overwhelming and inspiring. Overwhelming, because of their size (that's the most ...

Fabulous Photo & Artwork Collections
From San Francisco House Tours

We just can't get enough of how others display their artwork (as you might have guessed by now). Looking at the perfectly placed work of others not only inspires us to rearrange our own, but to hav...

Flickr Find: Crazy House Of Collections In Seattle

An ex-Boeing engineer collects anything and everything at his home in Seattle. His walls are packed with taxidermy (real and fake), toasters, electronics, vintage prints and paintings, plus all sor...

Creative Downspout Gardens
The Seattle Times

There's nothing more appealing to us than functional design. We ran across these downspout gardens in Seattle that had us wishing we had the ability to transform the side of our own living space! N...

Look!: Lisa Congdon's New Mobile

Lisa, we love you, but your new mobile at Rare Device makes us feel a bit like anxious parents...you know, "be careful, dear, around that mobile... are you sure the strings are secure enough?"...

Blogging the Oregonian: Unexpected Ranch

We wonder if the unexpected-ness of this home, featured in the Oregonian last week, comes from its situation behind a screen of bamboo and Japanese maples. Or it might be the hidden potential of the...