Make Yourself Happy-Cheaply!

5:30 PM – by 0
The New York Magazine has a great article on 50 ways to make yourself happy.  And we're not talking about taking an expensive vacation, getting stoned- or drunken stupid...anything like that.  We're talking utterly simple things you can do to feel good.


Image from the New York Magazine

Some of the gems:

-Say yes everytime your partner wants to have sex.
-Eat dark chocolate everyday.
-Get a poor's man massage.
-Put down the Blackberry.
-Make your bed.

and more...

Click here to see the entire article. You'll love it.  We promise!

Designer Profile-Garry Hutton

1:16 AM – by 0
San Francisco Chronicle has a profile today on Gary Hutton, a Bay Area designer.  Even though we never heard of him, his portfolio just blows us away.  The man is a genius! 

Seriously.  Take, for example, his design of a bookcase.

Images from GaryHutton.com



Now, doesn't that look like an idea worth stealing?



You can get this barstool here.




The dining chairs are available on our site.  It's slightly different but the looks are similiar.


If you visit his web site, you'll see some really creative ideas as well.  For the full article from the SF Chronicle, click here.

A Dreamy Bedroom of Soft Colors

3:00 PM – by 0
We were working on a new bedroom project today for a client and we thought we'd share some of the items we are considering with you.   We wanted to do something soft and pretty, with colors and textures that look warm and inviting...

What do you think? 
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This bed is a custom-upholstered bed.  It shows here in a cream fabric but you can  have it upholstered with your own fabric.  It runs about $2800-3200 for a queen/king.  We like the fact that it doesn't require a boxspring.


We like this armoire for the TV or to store clothing.  It's so chic in person....

We just love this rug from Candice Olson.  We recently put this on sale.


And to add some colors, we love, love this flower arrangement.  It looks so incredibly real in person.


For bedding, this looks like it would be a great fit...
P.S. All of these items can be found at our home decor store.

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Hollywood Regency Mirrors

9:05 PM – by 0
A while back we saw these mirrors at the Las Vegas home show and we thought they were really cool.  They are a group of individual mirrors hung together.  By themselves they are not that unique, but as a group, well, as a group they just POP!

Take this group of mirrors, for example. 



It actually consists of 12 of these:


These are 12 x12 and runs about $150 each. 

Here  is another one:




These are actually four of these:



These are 32 x 32 and costs about $360 each.

Our favorite is this one:




Which actually consists of this one, which costs about $280

and this one, which costs about $150 or so


As you can see, these can be made as into any size that you want. We like them big--the bigger the better.  The impact is more dramatic that way.

The mirrors are made of lacquer and take about 4-6 weeks. You can find them in our decorative mirror section.

Decorative Pillows from Caroline Cole

5:02 PM – by 0
We just picked up this new line of decorative pillows and we're really excited about it. It's pretty, it's fresh, it's colorful, but do you know what we are excited about the most? They make the pillows here in the US and can ship in 2-3 days! That's like, really amazing...For some mysterious reasons that we never understand, many vendors take 4-8 weeks to make a pillow!  Think about it.  Dell can build a computer in 1-2 days!  Don't you think that is rather strange?

Here are some previews. We'll be posting these up in our decorative pillows section this weekend so please check back soon to see the rest.






















The pillows are made with very nice designer fabrics from F Schumacher and the likes.  They are filled with down/feather.  The sizes range between 22x22 to 24x24.  Prices run between $200-300 per pillows.
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