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On Friday, interior designer and blogger Courtney Lake highlighted trends from High Point Market. Today he's back to share the most covetable products from the show. My first trip to High Point proved to be an invigorating experience that not only stirred my design juices but also my shopping addiction. After spending two days hitting the pavement and visiting over 50 showrooms, here are my Read more
Based in Florida, Luna Bella creates gorgeous lighting, furniture, and decor inspired by founders and designers Nicolas Trujillo and Teresa Costa's artistic backgrounds. With a nod to art nouveau and classical eras, their designs possess an innate grace that's completely compelling. I also love that this design team keeps its manufacturing in the United States — an increasingly rare occurrence Read more
This morning, I had the pleasure of attending a press breakfast at High Point Market featuring keynote speaker Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, whom we've featured several times on the site for his decor work, fabulous role on Million Dollar Decorators, and new book Live, Love & Decorate. This morning, Martyn told some fantastic decorating stories about some of his celebrity clients, including Ozzy Read more
Interior designer and blogger Courtney Lake just attended Spring High Point Market. Today, he's sharing some of the trends he spotted at the showrooms. Imagine an entire city dedicated to home furnishings and decor. No, this isn't nirvana but High Point, NC, home of the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world that brings together more than 80,000 people and 2,000 vendors. Twice a Read more
The tablet market is crowded, and with seemingly no slowdown to the quick pace that manufacturers churn out new gadgets, it's a confusing space to know where you're getting the most for your money. Hitting store shelves April 22, Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is an almost perfect solution for a mix of Internet browsing, video watching, reading, and home entertainment control hub. For $250, the Read more
We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Ozy Frantz explains the difference between fear and hatred of women, and the more common fear and hatred of anything feminine. When I was a freshman in high school, I and my friends were Cool Chicks. We weren't like those other girls, the ones who were passive and weak and giggled and watched romantic Read more
We all face different money issues at every life stage, so figure out what you need to save for with this helpful Wise Bread guide. The recession has pushed almost all of us, regardless of age, a decade behind in building personal wealth. Don’t beat yourself up if you’re in your 20s and haven’t paid off student loans, or in your late 30s or early 40s and still paying off debt or saving up Read more
Searching for a home? Here are some great tactics for apartment hunting on Craigslist from Business Insider. Believe it or not, I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. And I've never paid a broker's fee once. I've always resented the notion of a one-month (or more) broker's fee, since in my experience, the real estate brokers showing my apartment were just making appointments. RELATED: Read more
In The Lucky One, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's novel, Zac Efron stars as Logan, a former marine who moves to a North Carolina town to look for a woman he only knows from a photograph. When he tracks single mom Beth (Taylor Schilling) down, he has a hard time confessing that her picture was his lucky charm during combat, but finds himself falling for her. I got to visit the set of the Read more
This week, the White House announced a framework to protect consumer privacy in the digital age of smartphones and constant Internet access. The voluntary corporate guidelines called the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights "give consumers clear guidance on what they should expect from those who handle their personal information, and set expectations for companies that use personal data." For now, Read more
