Side Table on Shine

Would you do board game decor?

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Knowing my ongoing obsession with Scrabble (and no, I do not mean Scrabulous, which is completely different and inferior!), a sweet friend sent me the link to Los Angeles designer/artist Clare Graham's amazing Scrabble tile- and board-based constructions. (Graham also dabbles in collecting and stacking up and gluing together buttons, bottle caps, yardsticks, and paint-by-numbers art, which I happen to love and a lot of you happen to hate.) If you have a few minutes you were planning on procrastinating through anyway, spend them clicking through Graham's site—it's like a museum of childhood detritus-turned-sculpture, and some of the pieces will really surprise you if you let them.

6 perfect side tables

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You don't know how handy a good side table is until you're living without one. As a new-apartment dweller, I have reached dire straights when it comes to the stuff I have knocked over and spilled because I don't have a great little table to place my cold drink or my stack of magazines. If you need to get stuff off the floor (like me), these little guys are braced and ready to hold even the heaviest of summer reads.

The fluted sides of VivaTerra's glazed ceramic stool are inspired by a lotus blossom. $269, 13"D x 17.5"H

I Want This Movie Room: Something's Gotta Give

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The luminescent, light-washed interiors from the Hollywood set of Something's Gotta Give have been some of the most requested inspirational interiors for creating a crisp, summer look. The set's design was based on a home in the Hamptons designed by Victoria Hagan—but you don't need professional help to get the style in your own place.

What's The Re-Purpose of It All

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Had he not already had a side table, I would have gotten this for my son's nautically inspired room. It would also be chic in my tasting room...if I had a tasting room. I feel like writing about the reuse of wine barrels could be a little cliche, but if you like slightly rustic wood, this could be just the table you are searching for. After a couple years doing its job of imparting complexities unto fermenting grapes, these barrels generally find themselves tossed in landfills. This side table, handmade in Georgia, is a great example of finding a creative way to get the most out of something valuable - oak. What results is a well-crafted, salvage piece that honors the curvature of its predecessor