Whether you are hoping to employ a few feng shui methods to improve the flow of your home, or are considering hiring a feng shui consultant to give your home a complete energy makeover, learning more about this ancient art is sure to improve your life at home. Join us and discover a few of… Continue reading Decorate With Intention: A Crash Course in Feng Shui

You have your place. After the first excitement disappears, the enormity of furnishing an entire flat on a next-to-nothing budget may seem pretty intimidating. Fortunately, we are here in order to assist. Read on for 19 ways to stretch your dollars and generate a cute and comfy pad that you can be proud of. Annie… Continue reading Produce a Chic First Apartment on a Dorm Room Budget

Gone is the day of everyday hooks and hooks; designers are approaching hardware with fresh style, visual interest along with smart practicality. See a few of the latest options from this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair get inspired by a roundup of smart hooks and hangers used by fellow ers. Beech Wood Hook – $70… Continue reading Get Hooked on Unusual Wall Hangers

Contemporary design is distinguished by simple and clean lines — an inherent minimalism that may be represented in a home’s floor plan, in the furniture and even in the smallest of details. A modern home is never thick with decoration; its own beauty lies in the simplicity and clean lines of your items. A candelabra… Continue reading This Modern DIY Candelabra Is the Block's Envy

It’s easy to love recycling whenever the outcome is pure eye candy — such as these eco-friendly tiles. Sustainable tile choices to the kitchen backsplash boil down to 3 chief types: glass, ceramic or metal, all included in part of recycled material. We create a lot of waste In the United States: 210 million tons… Continue reading Kitchen: Recycled Tile for Backsplashes

Developer Brian Mendelssohn says his Pennsylvania loft looked like a “1980s office building with lousy fall ceilings everywhere” when he first purchased it. To cozy up the area, which is placed within a 130-year-old building which was once home to Arsenal Bank, he spent a year renovating, adding thick wood trim, reproduction light fixtures, a… Continue reading Reclaimed Design in an 1880s Loft

It’s hip to square foot, at least in regards to lampshades. The perfect lampshade polishes the look of a lamp, so much in the way a necklace can make or break a great outfit. (I hear Michael Kors in my mind speaking about styling runway hair so!) Many lampshades are some version of round, while… Continue reading Fast Update: Give Your Lampshades an Edge

Still trying to find the perfect holiday present for your creative friends? Gift a signed book by San Francisco architect Anne Fougeron or the creators of New York’s beloved High Line. If you are in the mood to experience a true winter wonderland, reserve a space at Quebec’s ice hotel, Hôtel de Glace. If you’re… Continue reading 5 Best Design Events: Dec. 9-Jan. 13

Peek inside the Brooklyn style boutique Jumelle, and you’re going to find this amazing classic background on an accent wall. The oversized floral pattern and moody color palette make this background as hip as the clothes inside the shop. Read on for some background selections that catch that flowery style, and some simple ways to… Continue reading Street Style: Florals Done Right

The draw of life on the coast is at its summit in the hot summer, as soon as a dip into trendy blue waters is on everybody’s minds. It’s the season of impromptu escapes into the shore and weekends spent at the lake — preferably on a ship with the wind whipping through your hair.… Continue reading Idea of the Week: Sailing Hardware at the House