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Distressed wooden desk with three drawers and hairpin legs on a hardwood floor.

Before & After: The Early Bird Gets The Hairpin Desk

I found myself in the vicinity of my favorite thrift store just before the doors opened recently, and while I wasn’t hardcore enough to stand in the sub-zero cold with the other bargain hunters, I made it in early enough to find this lovely hairpin Frankenstein-ish desk. I saw it in the back of the store and immediately scooped it up! I didn’t really have a need for (or a place to put) it, but I’ve never had the strength to pass up hairpin legs.

Ashley Poskin

Mar 4, 2015

Beata & Gerrit’s Dutch Rowhouse

Name: Beata & Gerrit Location: Almere, near Amsterdam, The Netherlands We love the modern Bauhaus-type square block of our non-traditional Dutch row-house in Almere, right near Amsterdam. It’s a two-bedroom bungalow with a small enclosed patio. Gerrit grew up near here and my original home is Duesseldorf, Germany, which is only a 2-hour drive away. After having lived in the U.S.

Janel Laban

Mar 4, 2015

Happy Evenings at Home: 5 Things to Do the Moment Work’s Over

How you spend your days, as the saying goes, is how you spend your life. And because work takes up such a huge chunk of many of our lives, it’s worth examining the other chunks — the small moments in the evenings after work — to see how one might improve that time so you’re not just living for the weekends.

Adrienne Breaux

Mar 4, 2015

Are You Ready for Open Kitchen Shelves? 3 Questions to Ask Yourself

The Kitchn Editors

Mar 4, 2015