Recent Posts Tagged With 'furniture'

• Furniture Lab Experiment with Facelifts

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 09:00 in repair, business, design, furniture, eco, green, decor, paint, lamps, small businesses, recycle, modern art

  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

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 08:00 in home, design, remodel, Paper, furniture, eco, magazines, gourmet, apartments, decor, accessories, broadcasting

  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...

• Junktion: If They Can’t Upcycle It, Nobody Can

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 09:00 in art, design, furniture, sustainable, recycling, decor, trash, junk, chairs, tables, sofas

  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&#...

• Spot On Eco Carpet Cleaning

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 11:07 in Natural, Cancer, shoes, water, furniture, cleaning, carpet, rugs, decor, chemicals, vinegar, wool

  The sad truth is the carpets that hold up best to traffic are the ones coated with toxins. And we don’t want those in a place where humans dwell. If you do have a healthy wool carpet in your home, you can still clean it without harsh chemicals ...

• Fall Color? Still Seeing Purple!

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 10:00 in furniture, wallpaper, organic, rugs, decor, bedding, felt, pillows, purple, wool, cotton, chairs

  The color purple ruled last fall and it’s still raining plums, eggplants and violets in the interior world. From chairs to carpets, pillows and bedding, the deep wine country shade is being harvested in cool pads everywhere. Here are some ripe ...

• The Look of Refurbished Lockers (Without the Hassles of High School)

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 15:00 in furniture, storage, decor, refurbished, reclaimed, creative reuse

  My memories of high school are not what you’d call nostalgic. In fact, you couldn’t bribe me with eco-gifts and organic treats to return and relive the nonsense of it all. Despite the oodles of teen angst, I did manage to graduate with a stro...

• Ad Urges Consumers Who Can’t Buy a House to Refill the One They Got

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 10:00 in housing, design, Marketing, sweepstakes, Advertising, ads, furniture, north carolina, decor, las vegas, recession, chairs

  “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...