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Got Mortar? Along with the Pestle It Makes the Kitchen Grind Greener
My best friend got the holiday bonus gift she dreamed of from her dentist employer this year: A new food processor. It replaces the worn out one that came with her husband when she got married 20 years ago. Susan is a great cook, but so much of what...
Furniture Lab Experiment with Facelifts
It’s the kind of lab I wish they offered in school instead of chemistry. Meet Chroma Lab, a collaboration of two furniture doctors, Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua, who merged their fine art skills and history backgrounds to transform ̶...
Met Home Is Where the Heart Was
Metropolitan Home is being put to bed for good. I suffered reflux trying to digest the death of Gourmet, one of four Condé Nast publications closed recently. I didn’t sample the food bible much but felt nostalgic about it as an American insti...
Sink or Whim? Either Way They Bowl Us Over
Porcelained out? Carve your niche with an alternative sink for soaking up greener materials like certified teak, bamboo, recycled metal and glass and friendly painted ceramics. You can even experiment with poured concrete with 50% recycled fly ash, ...
Autumn Cabbage: Pretty and Edible Outdoor Decor
Organic, textural and highly ornamental, cabbage is an ideal crop to plant in your garden during those fall and winter months when falling leaves can be the only color abundant in the garden. Planting rows of the cabbage was a great solution for my ...
Junktion: If They Can’t Upcycle It, Nobody Can
There’s a sad sight. After they’ve lugged your belongings from one corner of the world to the other and obviously won’t last another mile, the final stop for your careworn companions is the trash. There’s no alternative. It&#...
Snuggie: Wrap Yourself in the Toasty Toxic Warmth!
“When you watch the commercials you can tell they’re made of cheap stuff,” says my astute oldest daughter about the fleece blanket sensation known as the Snuggie™. “The people wearing them are just so cheesy, like the man i...
Rub-a-Dub: Paint That Clawfoot Tub
Nothing goes together like a recession and a paint brush. If you can’t afford to remodel (and who can?) and are stuck with a peeling, fiberglass clawfoot tub, tap into some ingenuity and resource non-toxic paints and supplies, pure shower curt...
Amy Butler Bucharest Bedding Give-Away
We have long sung the praises of Midwestern textile designer, Amy Butler, who introduced an exotic, Indian-inspired organic bedding collection of five designs this year. She even rolled out rugs to match! The lovely and much needed bedding (still ca...
Cool Design Converts the Car-Addicted
I live in Los Angeles and yes, I love my car. Not because it’s a symbol of my status or a prized possession, but because I’d get nowhere without it. In a city known for traffic jams and empty carpool lanes, you’d think locals would be begging f...
Harvest the Feel of Fall in Your Home for (Practically) Free
They’re already talking about their costumes, those candy-crazy girls of mine. That’s how I know fall is here, just a wink and a nod after packing them up for summer camp. Design-wise, it’s one of the easiest seasons for stylists si...
Green Gourmet Cupcakes on the Rise with the Vegan Wise
If you haven’t heard, fancy-shmancy cupcakes are stealing the hearts of America as we downsize our celebrations with treats that fill us up, not out. For a growing number of sweet teeth, four bites and one candle do the trick as we replace the ...
DIY Designer Fabric: How to Block Print Anything from Curtains to Duvet Covers
Whenever I go shopping for linens, I always have a very specific idea in mind of what I want – flowers just so, or the perfect teal green. The problem is that even after scouring every store in the county, nothing I find ever really matches my ...
Ad Urges Consumers Who Can’t Buy a House to Refill the One They Got
“It’s funny how new furniture has a way of restoring people,” says the sweet, pastel-coated spread (above) appearing in online and print magazines. Why the reminder to hug a couch today? It’s all part of a $20 million ad campa...
Butler Rolls Out Red Carpet and Other Hot Summer Rugs
She’s pushing petals again, that Amy Butler, introducing fabulously feminine and bold wool carpets that are blooming in late August. These are great handcrafted picks for perking up an existing space. You got the sofa, you got the pillows, you ...
