5 Home Maintenance Repairs For the Pros...

Earlier today, I offered you recommendations for five quick fixes that you should try to get to this Autumn. While home maintenance is certainly the farthest thing from glamorous living, it is a necessary part of home ownership. It’s also rewarding: A well-maintained home will be healthier, cozier, and longer lasting than its poorly repaired counterpart. This list of repairs will often require a professional,...

Love It or Hate It? Paperback Partition...

UK designer and artist Lucy Norman often uses recycled objects for her work, and that’s definitely the case with this Paperback Partition . Norman writes , “More books are printed every year, read and discarded. Even though many are taken to charity shops, they mostly go unsold and the charities have to pay for the books to be sent to landfill. For example 10,000 books a week from one charity will go to...

The Manifesto House: A Pop-Up Book for Grown-Ups?...

An energy-smart shipping crate home In Curacavi, Chile, the reclaimed-shipping-pallet Manifesto House is an example of how beauty and social consciousness have merged to take us into the future of design. Designed by architects Jaime Gaztelu and Mauricio Geleano of Infiniski in 2009, and stacked tall and proud beneath Chile’s electric blue skies, the place looks like a swanky, modern pop-up book. The Manifesto...

Color Theory: Key Lime and Periwinkle...

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a cool color palette as perfect as the key lime and periwinkle pairing in this living room by Cobbold Du Pont Interiors . The yellowish green is a color I’ve long adored - in fact I painted the walls of my old studio the same shade . But never in my wildest dreams would I have thought to pair it with periwinkle. The large-scale area rug brings in most of that purplish...

Luxurious Hydraulic Underground Garage Parking...

Underground parking just got a new meaning! UK based firm, Cardock , has come up with this great idea for a world where people are constantly searching for more space. This underground garage accomplishes two important things: you can safely park your car with the push of a button saving space at the same time. Cars can even be parked on top of each other thus offering an efficient system for urban areas too.Cardok is...

Nice and New: West Elm Holiday Collection!...

West Elm ‘s new holiday assortment is here and I couldn’t be more thrilled with the offerings. Ever since the brand relaunched in June , it’s been churning out some very fabulous things. The new aesthetic resonates with the part of me that loves to collect things simply because they’re beautiful. It’s a reminder that modernity doesn’t need to equate sterile, shapeless, monochrome,...

Home Library: Crafting a Meaningful Home...

Designer, writer, and illustrator Meg Mateo Ilasco certainly knows how to keep busy. Not only is she the owner of Mateo Ilasco , a design studio in the San Francisco Bay Area that creates paper and home goods, she’s also written several books, including Craft, Inc. Along with Anh-Minh Le, she’s also launching the design and lifestyle magazine Anthology , which comes out in October. Ilasco’s latest book,...

Inspiring Small Apartment with Vintage Details...

Here is a two room apartment (60 square meters) with quite a few inspiring elements. We think some of them could really help when planning on decorating a similar crib. This two room apartment is located in Sweden and joins together modern elements with classic ones and even vintage details. The living room features a generous sofa, a TV cabinet and a reading area. With its few wooden additions, a fireplace and classic oak...

Do You Garden For a Pet?...

A good friend of mine plants catnip for her kitty Sylvester. Apparently the calico goes crazy for the harvested plant – unlike the kitty in the picture, he’s an indoors cat who rarely makes it to the garden patch to pick his own catnip. While not exactly a pet, other friends have planted specific flowering plants to change the quality of the honey produced by their beehives. How about you? Have you ever planted...

Exclusive Interview With Founders of Serena & ...

While Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter, the founders of the fabulously successful and stylish Serena and Lily , began their company as a baby and children’s line, it’s since expanded to include gorgeous pieces for the adult home. Their new Fall catalog glitters with gorgeous pieces and textiles (one of which I’m giving away to a lucky reader). Recently, the two women sat down to answer some questions about...