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Category: Our Home
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Resist More – Edit Your Pieces for a Designed Result
Try going an entire day without buying something. While this is not a trendy celebrity challenge of the moment, the thought sheds light on our behavior as a consumer. During this East Hampton small cottage series, our team was confronted by an accumulation of so many belongings it had that overwhelming step-into-an amusement park feeling–and…
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Small Homes Are Trending, Here’s Why
Dissecting millennial traits has become popular sport for marketers, interpreting their love of Ubers and anathema to anything DIY, but this group can be quite practical despite the initiative. Take their preference for smaller homes, which maximizes square footage over superfluous space. The modifications to this 1950s East Hampton clapboard and how to unearth its inherent character…
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How to Determine Quality Items
There’s good retro, like worn out Levi’s and malted milk shakes sipped with the swivel of a soda fountain chair. Then we have bad retro—sideburns and pine tree air fresheners that make you want to vomit in the back seat of a cab. Currently I am packing for a new home, a process that has…
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What Makes Art Legitimate? Three Expert Perspectives
When HomeGoods is selling abstract pieces with artist bios beneath the cellophane, art has officially become mainstream. There are works that prompt the I can do that reaction. Questioning whether the pictures have the kind of symbolism you learned in art history or do they just look really good above a sofa. Any shift in the…
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The Paradox of British Tabletop Style – To Fuss or Not to Fuss?
Whether it’s a new royal baby, becoming reacquainted with granny china or there were actually moments of sunshine this week to pick flowers without having to wear a coating of rubber from all of the biblical East Coast rain–British style reigns. The English may be known to be fussy with their hats and hundred pound…
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Spring Clean without Chemicals to Safeguard Your Home
If you need to break out a chem book when reading the ingredients on your cleaning products, it’s time for a toxin-free treatment. Detoxes aren’t just for socialites with couture ambition, the process can work on the home. Many of our household products contain enough harmful ingredients to spawn a sci-fi nemesis but it’s hard to…
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Inspired Spring Tablescapes for Easter
It starts with crocuses, the garden waif that’s aggressive enough to break through thawing winter soil. Colors soon burst onto the scene. Garish Easter items take over candy aisles. Open your doors and it sounds like an aviary from the wail of birds. These are the notes to take to your Easter tablescape.
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Dressing in Layers — Styling for the In Between Seasons
Every month has a theme. For March it’s a time of transition. Consider its adage, “In like a lion, out like the lamb.” Though, from the past March’s I’ve experienced, the lion essentially mauled the lamb and took over. In the spirit of unpredictable weather, layers allow you to dress for flighty elements while still…
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No Recipe Healthy Banana Muffins – Yes, No Recipe!
Time to retire the measuring cups. When you have a home of baked goods enthusiasts, you can wing a recipe the way you do pasta and scrambled eggs. Banana muffins are always guaranteed to go straight from the pan to the tummy, so when you make them as much as we do you tend to…
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In a Christmas Decorating Slump? Look to the French!
In the bustle of holiday hoopla, let’s consider Charlie Brown and his timeless message, has Christmas become too commercial? Of course it has, this is why we need the French. Marketing the holiday commits a few offenses: It shrouds its intended biblical origin, ruffles environmentalists by cutting down trees while the fake ones inevitably retire…