One of my favorite bloggers, Grace, over at Design Sponge has posted two great gift guides lately. One focuses on affordable modern art, and includes everything from photographs to prints to books, all of which look great but won’t cost you a fortune. Also as you are gearing up to do some serious [...]

Here is a decent looking stool table from one of our favorite local stores, Target. The price is right at $55, but who knows about the quality. My wife and I bought some bookcases from Target about a year ago, and while they looked nice at a glance, they were really pretty cheap. [...]

Can I just tell you what a pain it is to try and get a new construction loan. It absolutely amazes me how much time, effort and money you have to put into it before you are even ready to apply. We are currently racing the weather clock to try and see if [...]

While I am sure there are lots of great mid-century homes for sale in Colorado, this one is close to my heart. That’s because it belongs to my Grandparents. I spent many enjoyable summers in this home learning to appreciate the classic contemporary design. The home was designed by an architect friend [...]

I posted about the affordable modern platform bed I made for our good friends a while ago. Some of you wanted a little more information about how I built it. I finally got around to giving a somewhat better description of the process today, complete with some sketch-up renderings that are not even [...]

It seems like everyone is trying to come up with some super trick modern design these days and throw it on a pillow or canvas and charge a lot of money for it. Well, let me just say, Avalisa does modern art right. Its been a while since I’ve looked at some nice [...]

If you haven’t heard of curbly yet, you are seriously missing out, but don’t feel bad, I just found out a couple of days ago. Curbly is a community of people who, well love where they live, and want to help other people out. The website has a great modern design, and an [...]

Let me just say, yesterday was a good day. The stars aligned over our little 700 square foot house, and the results were great. Not only did we finally get our drawings completed and stamped by the architect and engineer, we were also able to get out building permit! It was the [...]

While I have heard extensive arguments on whether or not one should by a knock off of an original piece of furniture, I have to admit I am split. Some times its the history of the piece that is personally most important to me, and sometimes it is the design. All debates aside, [...]

I came across this site a while ago, and thought that it looked interesting. Solar power is something I have always wanted for my home, but the start up cost is usually pretty prohibitive. Home Depot recently started doing solar installation, but it’s not available where we live. This program from Citizenre [...]