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September 8, 2009

Affordable Luxury, Pt. 2: Everyone with a tiny kitchen ought to have a kitchen rack.

I have wanted a kitchen rack for a long long time.  I don't know why I considered it to be so prohibitive.  I guess I never had the motivation to get one until I moved into this tiny mouse-hole apartment with its tinier mouse-hole kitchen.  You don't know how depressed it makes me to have such a tiny kitchen, with all the cooking I do (and all the appliances that need storage space!).

Enter: the IKEA kitchen rack.  I got this baby for a mere $15 at my local IKEA, plus $2.99 per pack of 5 hooks (I got two packs).  And, it was pretty easy to install.  I needed exactly 4 screws plus 4 plastic wall anchors.  Oh, and a drill.  We drilled four holes, hammered in the anchors, and then screwed the rack to the wall.  The whole process took 10-15 minutes.

I can now enjoy my cookery-as-wall-art, I have this stuff out of the way, and I don't even have to store my cookware in the oven like I was doing before this went up.  I even hang some of my cooking utensils!

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September 7, 2009

Dilemmas: Should I buy this dining table, or should I make a kickass "found door" dining table?

I need to answer this question by tomorrow to take advantage of their no-sales-tax sale.  So if you have an opinion, lemme know!

Today I saw a dining table at Therapy SF that I fell in love with.  It also happened to be a great deal.  "Make no mistake," I told Garry.  "That table is a great deal."  It was a solid wood square slab with rounded corners and a metalwork base kind of like the Eames Eiffel chair.  It was $150 down from $300, and with no sales tax.  Even at IKEA, a piece-of-crap dining table set costs $100 or more.  And a single Eames Eiffel chair from DWR costs $250!  So I consider this a very good buy.
   
The only thing is, I don't know if I can fit it in my new apartment.  It's not big, but my apt is v. v. small.

Then, I was poking around archived posts at Design Sponge and saw this totally awesome DIY project that actually looks kind of easy: an old door + pretty paper or paint + table legs = beautiful large dining table.  It has a totally different feel to it, but I think the idea is absolutely brilliant -- check out the full DIY document.  What to do!?

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August 27, 2009

Cool Design: Half Pint Milk Glass from U.O.

via urbanoutfitters.com

Saw this first on apartmenttherapy.com of course, but I absolutely love the design of this piece. It's perfectly ghostly and takes me straight back to elementary school.

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August 22, 2009

DIY: Paper flower ornament

Hat tip to The Butter Flying for the idea, but as tempted as I was to buy one of these, I'm struck by how ridiculously easy this looks to make myself.  Cut different flower shapes, string together, and hang!  Three or four of these, in different sizes, are definitely going in either my bathroom or kitchen.

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July 22, 2009

Very cool upcycled chandelier from Laura Pregger Design

I am a sucker for chandeliers made out of old cups. I love it.
via designspongeonline.com

Posted simultaneously to homing.posterous.com.

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July 16, 2009

On sale: "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster

SFgirlbybay, one of the many awesome home design blogs that are filling that large Domino-sized hole in my heart, got a mention in NYTimes and is celebrating by offering all her "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters at 20% off.  These posters have become rather ubiquitous, kind of like the rabid popularity the "For Like Ever" poster from vllg.com enjoyed a couple years ago.  


I like the poster a lot, and the only reason I hesitated was because of its very ubiquity, and also because I'm a bit of an anglo-phobe (maybe a more accurate term is imperialist-phobe).  I calmed down a bit after reading the history of the original poster (developed as a propaganda slogan during WWII Britain) here.

At any rate, you can't deny the ingenious, appealing graphic design and the pop of color.  My problem is I can't decide which color to get!

You can get a poster for yourself at SFgirlbybay's etsy shop.

Posted simultaneously to homing.posterous.com.

         

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July 15, 2009

Definitely the most pimp-my-vintage-Airstream I've ever seen.

And it's going for a pretty penny ($30K) on eBay.  Totally custom refurbished with cherry wood paneling and plush modern amenities.  Retire and road-trip in s-t-y-l-e!  Someday Garry and I will own one of these and putter about the country taking pictures of moose and things.

Check out the full auction listing here.

         

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July 15, 2009

This weekend: 2nd Annual Renegade Craft Fair - SF

I missed it last year.  This year I'm definitely going!  How funny, it's sponsored by both Etsy.com and Venus Zine, two organizations I wholeheartedly support!

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June 26, 2009

This wedding venue is the bomb diggety.

I'm here in Boston this weekend for a dear childhood friend's wedding (I'm a bridesmaid).  This is hands down one of the most stunning wedding venues I've ever seen, very minimalist modern with floor to ceiling windows and grand views of the waterfront/harbor and much of downtown Boston.  So excited to see the space (and my beautiful friend) decked out tomorrow for the big day!

     

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May 1, 2009

Meet: My blue pumpkin.

My coworker Sangeetha is taking a ceramics class with her husband.  She brought all these little pieces he made to work and a bunch of us got to take our pick.  This was one of the last ones left (I assume because it's not "useful" like some of the cups and saucers that other people took), but I love it.  It is so weird and fantastic, like something out of a Tim Burton film.  


It's got a wonderful heft, and I think it will make a nice desk denizen, paperweight, or random objet.

Posted simultaneously to: homing.posterous.com (I'm now a contributor to my friend Jena's home design blog)

       

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