Happy Father’s Day! I know it’s a little late for me to be posting gift ideas, but I just saw these and had to share. GeeZees Custom Canvas Art lets you put any photo with any words on a canvas. I have such a hard time shopping for the men in my life that I’m [...]
One advantage to writing a house blog is that people start sending you “house stuff” to check out. This week I got a copy of the new magazine from Reader’s Digest called Fresh Home. Have you seen it yet? Its tagline is “Easy Ideas for Hands-On People,” and it’s filled with project ideas for DIYers. [...]
Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things we love. Today I’m hooked on the bright and vibrant artwork of Fifi Flowers. Her paintings are so happy that it’s hard not to smile when you look at them. I bought a couple of [...]
I got such a kick out of John Pour Home’s Typography line of rugs, including this Little Black Rug, that I had to show them to you. On his website, the British designer writes: “I’m challenging the way we think of rugs.”
The rugs are made from felt and cut by hand. They start at $199 [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
Welcome to my first Hooked on Fridays blog party of 2009! One of my goals for the new year is to finish some of the hundreds of projects that I started around the house in 2008. I’m a good starter–not such a good finisher. I get bored or frustrated or just distracted [...]
I‘ve been in the process of changing over to a new computer for the last few days, and there were a few glitches along the way. Turns out my new computer objected to uploading photos. Which, you know, wouldn’t be a problem if I decided to never use pictures here on the blog again. But [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
{Pottery Barn Kids: Kayla Nursery}
I love baby furniture (and baby clothes and baby toys). One of the best parts of being pregnant was that I finally had an excuse to shop for a nursery.
I spent years trying to have a baby and being told by doctors that it was “going to take [...]
Today my husband Handy Dave and I set out to shop for dining room furniture with high hopes that we were going to find exactly what we needed. We spent the afternoon wading through four different national home furnishings stores and found nothing but fugly (furniture that was, you know, ugly).
I found myself asking, out [...]
Can you imagine a mall in America without a Linens ‘n Things in it? A world in which Bed, Bath & Beyond doesn’t have to issue coupons in the Sunday papers because they have no real competition to worry about?
Well, it could be a reality someday. Apparently Linens ‘n Things is in serious financial quicksand [...]
Just for fun, I thought we’d take a look at some unusual, clever, and downright bizarre bookshelves. The Skew Bookcase shown here, for example, was created by Swedish designers Smånsk. They’re like giant Lego pieces.
I wonder how they’d look with real books on them? (Via The World of M.)
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Check out these staircase bookshelves, which must’ve [...]
