Pin to Win: Create Your Own Artful Pinboard
Care to share your version of The Artful Life, this week's theme on Remodelista? Show us your favorite photos of artwork in interiors (paintings, installations, handmade furniture, you name it). The...
View ArticleDip-Dyed Picnic Flatware from Anthropologie
Not only do we like Anthropologie's new Two-Toned Wood Flatware but we can't help but think about how easy it would be to duplicate as a DIY project. Above: A set of four teak Two-Tone Wood Spoons is...
View ArticleHigh/Low: Test Tube Vase
Whenever I fill a test tube with flowers, the incongruity charms me. Here are two options to achieve the laboratory look: Above: For years, my favorite vase has been my Vase D'Avril by Tse-Tse. It's...
View ArticleSteal This Look: Modern Townhouse Garden on a Budget
A common dilemma after you renovate a house is there's little money left to fix up the garden, which the contractors left looking like a war zone. Here's a stylish—and frugal—plan for a sunny...
View ArticleCord Control: Ikea to the Rescue
Those of us who live in a tangle of electric cords and cables (self included) will be happy to hear about Ikea's foray into the consumer electronics world; a new entertainment center called the...
View ArticleAir Plants and Aeriums
An air plant suspended from a wall, growing without any visible evidence of soil, still seems like some kind of a magic trick to us. A charming one, though. Here are a few we find hard to resist:...
View ArticlePerfect Lamps from a Master Potter
I've been finding myself mesmerized by the purity of Jeff Nimeh’s sculptural ceramic lamps; a clarity borne from many years of perfecting his craft on the potter’s wheel. Ever since he discovered the...
View ArticleGardens in the Sky: Test Tube Chandeliers from Poland
Ever since I spotted the Maria SC Lamp on Design Milk, I've been dreaming about the many different ways I could create my own art with this simple test tube chandelier from Polish designer (and Etsy...
View ArticleHigh/Low Black Kitchen Faucet
Among the many details we admire (read: covet) in the Stockholm kitchen of photographer and interior designer Benedikte Ugland is the sleek black kitchen faucet; here are some sources for high/low...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Chef's Artful Dining Room in Denmark
At the top of our Copenhagen destination list is two-time Michelin starred restaurant Noma, with its spot-on deconstructed interior, the height of Nordic chic. It's no surprise that chef and co-owner...
View ArticleCandles as Still Life: Le Morandine
Italian painter Giorgio Morandi is the patron saint of the still life—we find ourselves aspiring to recreate his artistic tableaux whenever possible. To the rescue: Le Morandine candle series from...
View ArticleAt Home with Brian Ferry of the Blue Hour
On our radar for some time now: the atmospheric shots of Brooklyn-based photographer Brian W. Ferry, in particular his "home" series. When Brian Ferry photographs interiors, it is not so much the...
View ArticleThe Urban Garden: Low-Cost Solutions from Ikea
A friend who lives in an apartment with a single fern on the fire escape confided the other day she's getting desperate, desperate enough to turn a hanging shoe organizer into a vertical garden....
View Article5 Quick Fixes: New Ways to Hang Art
When I was in my mid-twenties, I lived in a Bauhaus-style apartment with plaster walls that crumbled the minute I put a nail to one. The owners were nice enough and installed rods which allowed me to...
View ArticleSeeing Different: The Artful Home Library with Diane Keaton
My library is alive. Yesterday I took my old photography book, The Waking Dream, and stood it up, so I could study the black-and-white cover of a woman's back, from the 18th century. As she faced her...
View ArticleOur New Obsession: The Black Drop Cloth
What do Remodelista and chimney sweeps have in common? Drop cloths, it turns out. We are forever waxing lyrical about the virtues of the utilitarian painter's drop cloth (see 5 Quick Fixes: Canvas...
View ArticleDIY: Wooden Bead Hangers at Garde
When Scotti Sitz opened her new shop in LA, Garde, she devised a clever hanging system using wooden beads and twisted sisal rope. Here's how she did it. We were so taken with the hangers, we asked...
View ArticleCoat Rails as Sculpture
I might be persuaded to hang up my clothes more often if I owned one of these geometrical clothing rails designed by Swedish stylist and design blogger Annaleena Karlsson. Hand-forged from iron, the...
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View ArticleA Quick Cup of Tea: The InSinkErator
SPONSORED POST Tea lovers know this: when time is of the essence, it's all about the quick fix. The InSinkErator Indulge Modern instant hot water dispenser is the essence of efficiency, offering...
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