If you want to get the look of Zoe and Eric's Cashmere Mafia bedroom in your home, you'll need some lamps to light up the modern bed and nightstands I've hunted down for you. Production Designer Stephen Hendrickson chose table lamps with drum shades and slim lamp bases in a tone that coordinates well with the room's color palette. So, I've rounded up some similar options for you below. Stay tuned for more posts focusing on other elements of the room.
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Even if you're a coffee person, the Viva Terra Porcelain Branch Teapot ($34, reduced from $69) is so woodsy and whimsically beautiful, I'd endorse using it just for decoration. Or, you can cut the stems of your favorite bouquet short, and fill it for a fresh, Spring-y centerpiece. It's true, the cream and sugar set is sold out, but I think the Michael Aram Twig Sugar and Creamer Set ($40) would work marvelously with it. I think maybe this is what Charlotte Moss was referring to when she said that, "Decorating a table is one of life's basic pleasures."
Who doesn't need a little backyard bungalow? A prefab modern escape hatch? With the Kithaus K3 ($44,900) you can have just that. The KitHaus was designed by Tom Sandonato and Martin Wehmann, and can be quickly constructed anywhere, without heavy equipment, thanks to its ingenious clamping construction system The Kithaus is built with eco-friendly components, is fully insulated, prewired, includes decks, canopies, and louvers, and has an optional solar component. The bad news, however, is that the price of the full-bling Kithaus package (which only measures in at 9-x-13 square feet) comes out to about $380 per square foot. That's over $250 more per square foot than what most US houses take to build. Still, if I had the cash, I'd welcome one of these little prefab wonders into my yard. How about you?
Here's a cute little blue-tiled kitchen that seems functional enough, but isn't anything too spectacular.
To see what it looked like after renovations, just read more
I get it. I know that the book Porn For Women, which came out in 2007 from Chronicle Books, is a joke. Still, it rubs me the wrong way. If you're not familiar with this little book of photos, here's a synopsis:
Prepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where clothes get folded just so, delicious dinners await, and flatulence is just not that funny. Give the fairer sex what they really want: beautiful PG photos of hunky men cooking, listening, asking for directions, accompanied by steamy captions: "I love a clean house!" or "As long as I have two legs to walk on, you'll never take out the trash." Now this is porn that will leave women begging for more!
I have a problem with this book for a few reasons (and believe me, I have a well-developed if dorky sense of humor, just ask GiggleSugar). One of these is the idea that what makes women hot isn't happening between the sheets with her man, but it's getting her sheets ironed by her man. And equally alarming, I think, is the idea that men still don't do their share of housework. At my house, my fiancé does at least 50% of the housework (and nobody gets the white kitchen countertops as sparkling as he does; really, he's some kind of countertop genius). Even when I was growing up, my dad was down in the trenches on Saturdays, our family's official housecleaning day, holding his own with the broom and the dustcloth. So tell me, Casa readers, has this been your experience with men and housecleaning, or is my experience the exception to the rule? And also, what's your take on the book? Tell me when you leave a comment below.
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