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5 Favorites: Birds as Decor
Some of our favorite interior spaces feature birds perched in unlikely spots (above a dining table, in a stairwell, or soaring overhead in a hallway). Here are five spaces enlivened by an avian...
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5 Favorites: Plumbing Pipe Fixtures
We've admired the humble plumbing pipe reimagined as storage rails ever since we spotted designers Roman and Williams using the industrial piping in the bathrooms of the Ace Hotels. Indestructible...
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5 Quick Fixes: Collecting Rainwater with Style
Take note: the rainy season is well upon us in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere. To divert runoff and collect rainwater for irrigation and livestock, here are five attractive solutions: Above: A...
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5 Favorites: Plywood Ceilings
A quick (and inexpensive) way to add character to an otherwise austere space: plywood-faced ceilings. Here are five we like: Above: A photo from the Dwell House Tour, via Morgan Satterfield's The...
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5 Quick Fixes: Dried Foliage as Decor
As the holiday season looms, here are five easy ways to decorate in a seasonally appropriate way: using dried foliage. Even though I live in California, it seems counterintuitive to accent the house...
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5 Favorites: Color-Saturated Yellow Lamp Shades
Summer is a distant memory, but these interiors featuring bright yellow lamp shades help us remember what the sun looks like. Above: A cheerful bedside lamp in an interior by LA-based Reath Design....
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DIY: 5 Easy Paper Holiday Decor
Create your own indoor winter wonderland with our five favorite paper ornaments: Above: Create a festive note with the 11 feet long Gold Paper Garland, made in France, $35 from Alder & Co. Above:...
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Holiday Gift Guide: For the Children of Design Dictators
It's not that we Design Dictators are controlling or anything: It's just that we're convinced that the best toys for going the distance are the ones we want to play with as well. Here are five...
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5 Quick Fixes: Repurposed Doors as Decor
Old doors as decor? We've been noticing repurposed vintage doors used in a variety of ways; here are five examples we like: Above: A wall paneled in reclaimed doors via the master of reclamation Piet...
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5 Tips for Taking Care of Your Books
If you are a book lover and owner (like my husband, who collects fly-fishing tomes), you are, by default, a conservator. Here are five tools we use at home to protect our library. For more ideas, see...
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5 Quick Fixes: Inventive Toilet Paper Storage
Here are our latest additions in our long-running obsession with loo roll holders. Above: Add a dash of color to the bathroom with the Diabolo Holder, a simple rope and metal hub inspired by sailing...
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6 Solutions for the Children's Bathroom
It's the littlest ones who need the most assistance, and make the most mess in the bath. Here are six solutions for the children's bathroom to keep them safe and clean. Above: A sink with a built-in...
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5 Favorites: Warm Wood from Members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer...
We think most things look—and feel—better once they're worn in, wood included. Here are five favorite spaces with wood that flaunts the lived-in look; some of it centuries old, some brand new. For...
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5 Quick Fixes: Instant Burlap Decorating Solutions
Is there anything burlap can't do? It can cover windows, skylights, serve as a table runner, divide a room, and more. Here are five spaces that make clever use of this humble material. Above: A...
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Miracles Do Exist: 5 Ways to Banish Computer Cords from Your Home Office
I hate cords. Even the word "cords" is ugly. Yet they were everywhere in my life, snaking across the floor, tangled under my desk, draped over the nightstand, twining themselves around the headboard...
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7 Secrets for Living with a Flat-Screen TV, Cord Control Edition
I don't have anything against the idea of TV; in fact I consider TV to be the new novel. When I power-watch three or four—OK, five—episodes, I get the same woozy, drugged-out high as from being lost...
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5 Favorites: In-Counter Compost Solutions
Confession: I am a reluctant composter. I know, I know. My impulse is to scrape the dinner plates into the sink, whirl the disposal, and be done with it. I do have a stainless compost bucket under the...
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5 Favorites: Traditional Cast Iron Skillets
There’s little you can’t make (or bake) with a 10-inch cast iron skillet, and if you look after it properly (season it regularly), cast iron cookware will last you a lifetime and beyond. Here are five...
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5 Quick Fixes: Garden Hose Management
Beyond the standard issue hose hanger; five practical and innovative ideas to detangle the garden hose and keep it off the ground. Above: The galvanized Steel Hose Hanger from Swiss company Alba Krapf...
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5 Quick Fixes: Outdoor Lanterns
Candlelight was the first—and for centuries, only—truly reliable source of flattering illumination at outdoor dinner parties. No more. Here are five up-to-date lanterns, all of which use...
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