Goodbye, TV — Hi, Fireplace

Many great rooms, living rooms, living rooms and bedrooms may actually become better when their layout does not focus on the television. If you have decided to place your TV above the fireplace, think about keeping it hidden so that your room revolves around your fireplace instead. Whether you employ art, mirrors or pocket doors […]

Get the Story of Wonderful Windows From Either Side

Glass is easily one of the most amazing inventions in human history. In design the substance physically divides inside and outside yet provides views from 1 side to another. This quality alone leaves glass exceptional in buildings, and also in the 20th century it made the substance ubiquitous, such that many buildings because century appear […]

Retro Video Games Score Big in Homes

Before cellular phone–established matches, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Portable, and prior to the Atari 2600, playing a video game price a quarter. In 1972, Atari unleashed a gambling revolution with Pong, the first widely distributed digital arcade game. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, a series of new arcade games came out: Space Invaders, […]

California Gardener's January Checklist

With cheer-bringing blossoms on bare stems from the dead of the winter, the flowering quince is an ancient Chinese symbol of an auspicious New Year. At least as cheering to me would be visiting a Big 10 soccer team lose the Rose Bowl into a California group (go Stanford), and I will think of other […]

A Peek at 2 Prettily Dressed Fall Porches

Good friends Charlene Miller and Merry Munk enjoy sharing and showing off their salvage style on their fundamental Ohio porches. These two could often be found scouring flea markets, auctions and garage sales in search of their next paintings. Their finds eventually succumb to the intense Midwestern weather, however the resulting patina a part of […]

The Case of the Disappearing Clutter in Toronto

Architect Tony Round admits that there is nothing romantic about a home renovation, especially if you’re an architect. “I revived with my spouse, who is alsoan architect — you could say that that was one of the biggest challenges that we faced,” says Round with a laugh. He and his wife, Andrea Kordos, worked on […]

Mid-Atlantic Gardener's November Checklist

November from the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. is a time to wrap up gardening for a while, finish those up lingering to-dos and start enjoying hot fires and seed catalogs indoors. It’s also time to start thinking ahead and prepping for next year. Chores that are not completed this month might need to wait […]

Curtains Are Long on Design

You do not often see café curtains in interiors these days, but they used to be anywhere — or at least that is how it seemed when I was a child. Luckily, they appear to be inching back to the radar. Recently I’ve spotted café curtains in the most unlikely settings, from an industrial loft […]