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Slate Vault has uncovered some drawings for an alternate vision of one of America’s greatest public spaces: New York City’s Central Park.

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Want to vacation like American fashion designer and icon Betsey Johnson? Well now you can — and it looks pretty fabulous. The 74 year-old Johnson is offering fans and vacationers alike the chance to live her whimsical lifestyle at her Mexican villa. Johnson’s pad, located in Zihuatanejo, Mexico is now available to rent on Airbnb for $618 per night. It’s a pretty reasonable alternative should Gwyneth Paltrow’s Mexican villa be out of reach at $8,000 a night.

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) From Kitchn → 3 Smart Ways to Make the Most of Kitchen Corners null

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Europeans have been doing the wine thing so well for so long that it’s no shocker they felt the need to take things up a notch. Dig deep and (literally) dive into these two wild new wine experiences.

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Last month, we announced that we’re partnering with Annie Selke for their first ever Rug Design Challenge, tasking fourteen design bloggers to create their very own rug designs. And here’s where you come in: Now is the time to vote for your favorites! To recap how it’s going to work: Your favorite bloggers and digital influencers will take part in a year long project to design a custom rug for the brand.

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Nostalgic for summer camp? It doesn’t get any more Troop Beverly Hills than these five accommodations, where you can relive your childhood heyday—but in a lot more style. If you’ve ever been to Oak Bluffs, then you know it’s pretty camp-like. If not, picture brightly-colored cookie cutter houses everywhere and you’re in the iconic OB.

Most people — particularly those who are just starting out in their careers — find the prospect of asking for a raise daunting. Talking about money is often uncomfortable, and having to talk about yourself and why you’re worth a certain amount of moola can push the awkwardness factor off the charts. But, as one of the badass creative women we spoke to for this story pointed out, “If you don’t ask for yourself, who will?

Americans collectively spend a whopping $2.7 billion dollars every year simply replacing the items they can't find.

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Many homeowners will tell you that securing their home is a top priority, however, that doesn’t mean home invasions aren’t a very real threat for Americans. According to a new survey by Eyewitness Surveillance—a commercial surveillance company based in Maryland—a burglary occurs every 13 seconds in the United States, resulting in a startling 2.5 million home intrusions reported every year.

(Image credit: Hayley Kessner) From Kitchn → Why I Don’t Worry About Keeping Things Neat and Tidy null

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That Amazon Prime membership may become even more valuable soon: IKEA just announced that it’s going to start selling its products on websites other than its own beginning in 2018.

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If you’ve ever moved from one home to another, smaller home, you know the realities of trying to make your new space work and having to get rid of some—or a lot—of your possessions. And in New York, a city known for its expensive-but-tiny apartments, downsizing can be an especially big challenge.

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Is there anything cuter than a tiny house? The answer is yes, and it’s a tiny bookstore. One pair of teeny home builders just made a structure that’s booking it across France—as a traveling book shop. How novel! The young couple behind tiny house company La Maison Qui Chemine just completed something a little different—a mobile book store.

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There are so many grocery delivery services available now, which makes it almost impossible to choose—especially if you’re totally new to them. I am for sure a procrastinator when it comes to physically going to the store, but I’m also big into planning my meals in advance, so switching to a delivery service seemed ideal to me.

(Image credit: Susanna Hopler) From Kitchn → I Cleaned My Kitchen with Lemon LaCroix and Here’s How It Went null

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(Image credit: Susanna Hopler) From Kitchn → I Tried Every Single Alcoholic Seltzer and Here’s What I Thought null

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(Image credit: Aimée Mazzenga) From Kitchn → 6 of the Most Gorgeous Kitchen Windows in the World null

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Dating can be a weird experience. Meeting people is a challenge, sometimes dates you’re excited for turn out to be duds, and every once in a while you meet someone and it’s love at first sight. Not unlike shopping for the perfect furniture for your home—sometimes you have to search the internet for your dream sofa, and other times you walk into a store and it’s right there waiting for you.

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Think about it: if you had an unlimited budget and could live anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would your dream home be like? For a little taste of opulence, we looked through listings for apartments and penthouses in Burj Khalifa, which stands at 160 stories, making it the world’s tallest building (maybe in your dreams you’re not afraid of heights either?) located in Downtown Dubai.

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With summer right around the corner, one of the cheaper times to fly is actually before Memorial Day kick-off weekend, not after. Consider one of these buzz-worthy cities for a quick jaunt and then you can get back to your regularly scheduled programming of pool parties, BBQs, and lazy beach days. Bon voyage!

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As much as we love spending time on social media, some of the unexpected burdens it brings kind of make us want to log off permanently. Just kidding – that probably won’t ever happen, but while we’re sharing, we shouldn’t allow ourselves to become so blinded by the likes that we stop prioritizing the need to protect ourselves online.

Last year I came across a video of a young woman repeatedly wrapping her hair into a specific bun style — a nautilus bun — and securing it with a single hair stick. It was transfixing, and it seemed to promise an old-fashioned solution to the modern-day I-don’t-have-a-hair-elastic problem, as well as a potential solution to the hair-elastics-have-been-tearing-my-hair-out-for-decades problem.

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