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Etsy Find: Decorative Adhesive Labels
For those of you who don't find organizing traditionally fun, I bring you Remake Decorative Adhesive Labels ($5 for 16). Filing away your utility bills? Organizing your pantry?
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Before and After: J Paige's Amazing Kitchen Transformation
Su Casa member and artist J Paige bought her house six years ago, and while it was, as she notes, "dirt cheap," it also hadn't been updated in over 40 years. "The bedrooms had shag carpet and the kitchen had indoor/outdoor carpet (eck!) and ugly cabinets and plain laminate counters and matching laminate backplashes," she reports.
Instead of lamenting over the ugly, outdated look of her new house, J Paige set about remaking it into her dream home.
Great Design Ideas From 2009's Emmy Nominees: Weeds
In the past season of Weeds, the Botwins moved from their gated community of Agrestic, CA, to a beach town on the border of California and Mexico. Hunkering down in Nancy's mother-in-law's house, the family set about remaking their lives. The grandma-style design of this house delighted me last season.
Top Design, Episode Four: "Bachelor Pads"
Poor bachelors. They never get a break it seems, especially when it comes to interior design. There's a reason for that of course, and this week's episode of Top Design exploits the belief that bachelor pads are "gross" as Shazia so succinctly expressed.
Roundup: Needlepoint
Historically, needlepoint may be thought of as women's work, but needlepoint was practiced by some totally fierce women. My favorite mythological needleworker is Penelope, who, in Homer's The Odyssey, fooled all of the men around her for three years with her needlework. Penelope's husband Odysseus was out on various adventures and presumed dead, and her new suitors were put off by Penelope's promise that she'd choose one of them after she finished stitching her father's death shroud.
Summer Style: An English Cottage Garden
Do you need some inspiration for remaking your home's garden or outdoor space? Susi has developed a beautiful English cottage garden across the pond from us, and the results are rather awe inspiring. From a kitchen garden to a pond to an outdoor dining area, I am absolutely in love with her beautiful outdoor space in Hampshire, England.
Crave Worthy: Time Occasional Table
Designed by Prospero Rasulo in 2006, the Time Occasional Table ($1459) comes in a variety of glossy lacquer finishes, but I'm partial to this candy apple red shade. I'd love to see these flanked by black chairs in front of some gorgeously designed Parisian cafe. There's just something so compellingly cinematic about this table's eye-catching ruby shade and elegant, willowy stem.
Old Furniture Given Inspired New Life
The Chair Couture line features singular furniture re-imagined by designer Margaret Elman. The inspired Ms. Elman remakes French vintage pieces by reupholstering them in nature-inspired modern prints, often taken directly from photographs.
Coveted Crib: San Francisco Ex-Brothel Rowhouse
This Italianate townhouse, featured in This Old House was for years a brothel in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood, then sliced into seven poorly-constructed apartments, and has now been returned to its original form as a single-family dwelling, built in 1878. The current owners, the Wynnes, recently hired "architectural designer Amy Hall McNamara and general contractor Eric Maykranz, a specialist in old-home restoration" to remake the building to meet their family's needs.
Along the way they uncovered and restored many wonderful, original treasures like an intricate floor medallion, a once gas-lit light fixture, an ornate mahogany staircase, walnut-inlayed maple floors, several stained glass windows, and a trio of magnificently cased, tally bay windows.
Designer Spotlight: Palo Samko
Brooklyn designer Palo Samko is profoundly gifted at marrying modern design with a rustic sensibility. His environmentally friendly products, which are made of recycled materials, are simply stunning, and absolutely crave worthy. Palo, a gifted woodworker, has started the eco-friendly Walnut Line of furniture, which is composed of chairs, cabinets, and tables made of walnut wood.
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