Everyone loves a wide-open space until it comes time to furnishing one. Without walls to clearly define one room from another, a loft presents a unique design challenge. How do you make the place feel homey while maintaining that appealing visual flow?
A couple’s Northeast Portland bungalow gets a bit part in the hit TV comedy Portlandia.
We asked five people to share a few of their favorite things.
It’s time to make like a bear and hibernate. The nights are getting longer so we all get an extra hour of sleep on Nov. 6 when we turn back the clocks. The idea of Daylight Savings Time was first proposed in 1895 by a New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson.
Following up on their successful Pink Wishbone Project, SUITE New York has launched it’s second year benefit, The Pink Swan Project. SUITE got nineteen fabulous designers to put their own spin on the classic Swan Chair, and they are just so darn pretty.
She was beautiful, no question. She had great bones and an aura of elegance. But there was something romantically tragic about her past. She’d been neglected, fallen on hard times, an innocent victim of changing fashions who deserved better and stirred all my Dickensian rescue fantasies.
Historic buildings can do that.
Some gourmands recall every detail of a favorite meal. Listening to their descriptions can be a tad uncomfortable. Fair warning: This may be worse. I want to wallow for a moment in the memory of the perfect bath.
I remain eternally optimistic in my attempts at entertaining. Although chances of the meal tasting delicious are slim, the odds of the night being memorable are very high indeed. But after seeing the fantastic dining room creations this weekend at Serving Up Style I feel the need to up the ante in the decor department.
I develop furniture crushes. I’m rather promiscuous. For a while, I trolled furniture stores for sofas. A passion for six-foot-long seating is not the sort of thing one can surrender to very often so most of that period I spent simply ogling. The sales staff of a certain store came to recognize me and knew better than to ask if I needed help. Clearly, I needed help. Just not the kind they could offer.
Once every few years ombré makes its presence known and hits the fashion and design communities by storm, and Fall 2011 is that time. With ombré being shown all over the fashion runways, it is easy to see how home décor has picked up on this trend.
