One of the best things about running this Blog has been the chance it gives me to meet all sorts of like minded people. It’s really through sharing ideas that we can make good design more affordable. David, one of our regular readers sent me a link to some flikr photos of a [...]

I’ve always been a fan of Mid-Century Modern design. It was the classic designs of Charles and Ray Eames that made me fall in love. This Portland End Table by Adesso has a great MCM design to it. At $135 and free shipping the price is right too. It says that [...]

The Wee house isn’t exactly a newcomer in the prefab game. In fact, it is one of the first modern prefab houses that I ever heard of being built. What is new is their website. They have given it a pretty thorough redesign since I last visited. They have a gallery [...]

The Wee house isn’t exactly a newcomer in the prefab game. In fact, it is one of the first modern prefab houses that I ever heard of being built. What is new is their website. They have given it a pretty thorough redesign since I last visited. They have a gallery [...]

When my wife was a kid she had a little red bird watching book that she carried around with her everywhere. This book might be blank inside, but it’s so good looking that you might want to carry it around with you, or at least put it on a shelf where everyone can [...]

With our new Ikea couch in our living room we had only one more wall where we wanted some good seating. Our challenge was it had a low window right in the middle of the wall so a sofa was pretty much out of the question. We ended up going with this nice [...]

While I’m not personally a huge fan of coffee, there are those that can’t go a day without their fix. For those of you that are on the road a lot, there is a small travel coffee maker that looks as good as your favorite cup of brew tastes. The Brisk Brew has [...]

As we have remodeled our kitchen I have had to do quite a bit of rearranging electrical. Since we moved everything to the opposite walls there are spots were we had power, that we no longer need it. For example we had a fan above our stove, and a light above our sink. [...]

I love wooden kids toys. They just seem so much better than all the plastic ones that you find in the stores these days. The problem is, they aren’t as easy to find, and are sometimes a lot more expensive. My wife found a couple of great websites that have a good [...]

I came across this post over at Tree Hugger a couple of days ago, and have been thinking about it since. From the three person design group 101 comes this great looking lamp made from old wire cloths hangers and a compact florescent bulb. Of course it’s not really presented as a DIY [...]