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My cat, Judy. She's too playful. For once, i want to come home after a hard days work and have her greet me like a normal cat. But she doesnt. She's waiting for me, just like a tiger...ready to POUNCE on its prey. As soon as I unlock my apartment door... Read More »
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I understand restaurant real estate is expensive but is it cool to pack people in like sardines? How close is too close when it comes to breaking bread? Read More »
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Susan Serra's been raising a lot of interesting issues re: the kitchen renovation. And she did this drawing. Think you can click here to see it full size.
She said:
When I look at the picture toward the window, what I get is a long/narrow/confined feeling. What I want to feel is the room more squared off, more wide. To give that feeling, I thought of a bench, and this IKEA one has storage in it.
Then, you could get a white table, narrow...maybe only 28" wide. Like this (paint the legs white) or this one, which you don't have to paint the legs white.
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Unveiling contemporary, custom furnishings, the Moe Design Studio in New Mexico has taken what was once probably slated for landfill and turned it into timeless possessions for the home. Talk about extending the life! From such obscure places as a tobacco barn in Tennessee and an old textile mill in Massachusetts, discarded architectural elements are reshaped with non-toxic, eco-friendly adhesives and finishing materials mostly sourced through a local company, BioShield. I've got my eye on the Olathe Table; available with a variety of insertable tops (glass, stone or wood) and reclaimed hickory or oak; it's a table that's amenable to your personal tastes, available from Vivavi. Read More »
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In spite of the fact that one of the last times I went bowling, I embarrassed myself tremendously by leaving the bowling alley in the rental shoes after pinch-hitting on a media league team I didn't even quite belong to, and the bowling alley's bouncer (yes, there was a bouncer—this is New... Read More »
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Studio 1a.m. in Chicago is both eco-innovative and conceptually imaginative. Take the post-modern This Table Will Self-Destruct. Each time this table is constructed an additional "pixel" is removed from the design, where the tabletop is considered the "grid." And they'll... Read More »
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Talk about procrastination. I have had these pictures of these wood
carvers in Tanzania sitting on my desktop for almost a year. I've been
stalling because I lost the piece of paper with their names and the
name of the company on it, and I didn't want to post about them without
it. But... Read More »
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The creation of Environment Furniture, a company who uses sustainable products and environmentally responsible processes is based on the philosophy that style was born from nature. Environment Furniture exploits the possibilities, without exploiting the world around them. Pieces evoke a sense of... Read More »
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