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Category: Design
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Dieters Beware – Create a Kitchen You’ll Never Want to Leave
If there’s one place to be adventurous, it’s in the kitchen. Current designs are those pretty kitchens that follow a formula of white tile and stainless appliances that are so high tech, with a few clicks to your Smartphone they may be able to make you breakfast. For other tastes, kitchens are like summer and…
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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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Girly Gypsy Style – Think Couture Hippy
She’s earthy but would rather be pampered in a boutique hotel than zip up for the night in a tent. She’s a free-spirit with an edge. One part bohemian, one part glam, Girly Gypsy style has the color and hippy flare of a caravan without all the incense. Our Favorite Girly Gypsy Picks Pehr Design…
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The Notre Dame Fire Is a Sign to Safeguard All Great Churches
Notre Dame took a century to build. The thought is enough for a millennial to take up permanent residence in a hotel. In my town significant homes are a franchise, erected in less than a year. Thus relics of a time when craftsmanship was executed by artisans who had genius creator listed on their credentials…
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Florists Take Note – Handmade Paper Flowers Never Expire
Flowers have some competition. The paper variety made by Suzi McLaughlin has such artistry, gardens may start to overpopulate due to the handmade demand. They add impact without the depressing onset of wilting and come with the softness and color of the real version with a modern edge. In McLaughlin’s new book, The Paper Florist (Kyle Books; March 2019),…
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Living with Flowers, It’s a Necessity
March is that in between month that’s as transitional as a teen. Just because you’re ready for spring doesn’t mean winter is about to relinquish her season. This is why Margot Shaw’s new book, Living Floral, Entertaining and Decorating with Flowers, is the ideal salve for those who crave the nuances of nurturing weather. Create your own…
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Didn’t get What You Want for the Holidays? Make Wooden Letters
Forgot about the written word, how about the physical word? As we enter the season of nesting, creating handmade wooden letters is a great way to engage in mindful projects as gifts or for the home. Everything you need to know about this satisfying endeavor can be found in Krista Aasen’s book Creative Wood Letters.…