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DIY: Ikea Hack: Spray-Painted Foto Pendant Lamps
Another genius idea from IKEA's home inspiration blog Livet Hemma (alas, the posts are only in Swedish): Take inexpensive spun-aluminum Foto Lamps and give them a candy-colored coating. They come to...
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10 Strategies for Hiding the Microwave
When I embarked on a kitchen remodel a few years ago, one of my main obsessions was to hide the microwave (Jerome, remember?). My kitchen is tiny, and it proved a challenge to find an unoccupied...
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Design Sleuth: Copper Pot Hooks
Sarah has a thing for S hooks; she'll love this version in copper, spotted in the kitchen of Varpunen. Here are a couple of sources: Above: One of our favorite Scandi bloggers uses copper S hooks in...
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10 Favorites: Exposed Copper Pipes as Decor
Is copper having a moment? With its heat-conductive properties and oxidation potential (and with scrap prices at an all-time high), copper is synonymous with luxury. Here are five examples of exposed...
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10 Easy Pieces: Table and Desk Fans
If you've ever worked out of a cubicle or a tiny home office, you understand the value of quality air flow, especially during the spring and summer months. We're thinking ahead and sizing up this set...
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Rehab Diaries: An Artist's NYC Kitchen Renovation
After relocating from London to New York, Angela A'Court and her family spent several years searching for a home. What they found was a five-story townhouse, measuring a mere 16 feet wide, that...
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Design Sleuth: Tonal Eames Chairs
Admired in this Plain English kitchen: a suite of Eames chairs in spring-like shades of blue and white. Above: A London Villa kitchen by Plain English. Above: The white Molded Plastic Dowel Eames...
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10 Tips for Keeping Tech in Check, Family Edition
Did you participate in the National Day of Unplugging last month? Designed to "help hyper-connected people embrace the ancient ritual of a day of rest, the Sabbath Manifesto aims to slow down lives in...
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DIY: Instant Hallway Hooks Made from Blocks
Here's a clever DIY hook idea from German design studio Snug, using an unexpected material—wood children's blocks. Snug, a Hannover-based design studio founded by interior designer Kerstin Reilmann...
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An Architect's Playhouse in Finland
A house of one’s own is one of the perks that comes with being the child of an architect (or at least that’s what the Bach children believed when they asked their parents for one). Barcelona...
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A Tiny Garden Cabin in the Netherlands
Yet another contribution to the "Only in Europe" file: an architect-designed family cabin sited in the middle of a public park. Spotted on Desire to Inspire: The Poplar Garden House is a small cabin...
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Design Sleuth: Swedish Botanicals as Decor
It wasn't until I took a class in botanical illustration that I truly understood the skill that goes into detailing each dissection: the rare meeting of visual arts and science. Lately we've been...
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5 Favorites: Dip-Dyed Canvas Tablecloths
A DIY project to add to the list: dip-dyed tablecloths (we'd use canvas painter's drop cloths). Here's a roundup of some recent finds. Above: A swath of canvas in an artist studio (tablecloth idea?);...
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Color Pop at Poketo in LA
When LA dwellers Angie Myung and Ted Vadakan found their business space overrun with boxes, they knew it was time to move. The couple had begun an online business working with artists and designers to...
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Cabinet Knobs in Splashy Colors
Spotted on SF Girl by Bay: Cheerful knobs, good for adding a dash of color to a child's dresser or affixed to the wall and used as coat hooks. London-based designer Margarita Lorenzo of Chocolate...
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5 Favorites: Minty Green Bathrooms, Retro Edition
Until very recently, if I had moved into a house or an apartment with a fifties-style mint green sink I would have shrieked in horror and called the plumber. Lately, though, I've been noticing...
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The Coolest Flat in Buenos Aires
Remember the cool girl in school whose outfits always made you think, “I couldn’t pull that together in a million years”? That’s how we feel about this personality-laden Buenos Aires flat, which...
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Vibrant Wallpaper for Spring
With the launch of her wallpaper collection, Kiran Ravilious block prints (by hand) toward an English spring; one with muted gray skies on the river bank where the wind blows through the willow....
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Rehab Diaries: Christine Spins the Color Wheel
SPONSORED POST Ever since I finished architecture school, I have been actively committed to painting everything white; both in my life and in those of anyone who sought my opinion, clients included....
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DIY: Freehand Two-Tone Painted Wall
Blurring the lines: We like this informal two-tone wall (good for the non-perfectionists among us), spotted on the Norwegian company Lady Premium Paint & Colors blog. All that's needed: a roller,...
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