Mirador Chosen for Design Gallery

From Home Accents Today, Design Gallery focal point for trendy looks in VegasThe Design Gallery, a juried exhibit area featuring stylish products and displays of up-and-coming trends, was created as the centerpiece of the temporary venue at this week's Las Vegas Market. The Design Gallery will be located in a dedicated section of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and will feature a broad

Flat Screen for Super Bowl XL

From the SacBee (registration required), The new dilemma in home decor: Finding the right spot for flat screensThe 55-inch plasma screen at Joe and Patty Caldero's house in Elk Grove found a home over the fireplace. Increasingly, new houses are being built to accommodate both flat-screen TVs and the hidden wiring they require. Sacramento Bee/ Lezlie SterlingBefore opting for over the fireplace,

Eight Questions to Ask Before Hiring an Interior Designer

It seems that every day a new magazine comes in the mail detailing home decorating ideas. I'm having trouble keeping up with my reading! Home, in their January 26th issue has an article entitled Hire It Out: Interior Designer. The lead paragraph asks a great question:If you're a regular Home reader, you may be thinking, "Interior designer? Why?" After all, each month our editors work to give

It's Bridget Otto Thursday!

Thursday is becoming "Bridget A. Otto Thursday". Today via The Oregonian's Homes & Garden section, Otto captures our attention with the article Color vision, Forecasters home in on future trends.Color is big business.Steve Noble, with the Luxury Marketing Council, told people at a 2004 interior design seminar in Seattle that accurate forecasting translates to fortunes. He talked about an ad

Online Spending in 2005 Up 22%!

Here's some very heartening news for our on-line furniture and accessories store, Landfair Furniture Annex, from comScore Networks. comScore Networks just released holiday season and annual online spending figures for full year 2005, concluding that total Internet spending for the full year, including travel, reached $143.2 billion, up 22 percent over the $117.2 billion spent online in 2004.

New Items: Sonoma Large Urn with lid

New Items: Sonoma Large Urn with lid Originally uploaded by gily122000.Yipes Stripes!Absolutely stunning color. If you need a punch for your room, this is it.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: Three Vases

New Items: Three Vases Originally uploaded by gily122000.16" orange orangeand two 20" one is orange orange and the other is orange red.These vases would be great in any setting from mid-century to now.Notice the colors, Orange, light blue and Chocolate are the latest interior colors.

New Items: Three Vases

New Items: Three Vases Originally uploaded by gily122000.16" orange orangeand two 20" one is orange orange and the other is orange red.These vases would be great in any setting from mid-century to now.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: Two Ceramic Canisters

New Items: Two Ceramic Canisters Originally uploaded by gily122000.One is 22 Inches high with lidSecond is 16 Inches high with lidColor: CaramelThe lids are cool and impressive.Lamp can be used with Asian or Transitional. Ask for details.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: 22" Ceramic Charger with Stand

New Items: 22" Ceramic Charger with Stand Originally uploaded by gily122000.Caramel in color on stand, 22 inches in diameter.Great large accessory for transitional to European environment.

Do you send enough "Thank You" notes?

I was impressed recently, by my brother's fiance. She held Christmas dinner at her house for the whole family of about 30 people. She asked me to bring a salad. Three days after the dinner, I received a thank you note in the mail for bringing salad. Now here's a woman with three girls, she's an emergency room nurse, she's planning her wedding on January 1st, hosting a large dinner, and she

New Items: Empire eliptical bowl

Empire eliptical bowl Originally uploaded by gily122000.Exotic wood inside, hammered finish outsideThis would make a dramatic transitional to contempory statement.29 inches longBev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: Sonoma Collection Box with Lid

Sonoma Collection Box with Lid Originally uploaded by gily122000.Yipes Stripes!Keep your secrets here.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: Large Orange Orange Bowl

Large Orange Orange Bowl Originally uploaded by gily122000.19 1/2 inches in diameter, 4 1/2 inches high.You can see light through this big bowl.Forget football. This is the real Orange Bowl!Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: Lorenzo Collection:Two Candalabras and Table lamp

Lorenzo Collection:Two Candalabras and Table lamp Originally uploaded by gily122000.20 inch and 16 inch Candalabras and Table Lamp, color is champagne goldGreat way to unite a theme in one room.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

New Items: Nambia Charger with Metal Stand

Nambia Charger with Metal Stand9 Originally uploaded by gily122000.Target this!Black and cream in opaque ceramic.Use in contempory loft space or setting or update your accessories.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

Decor8, the Blog

We discovered a new blog, Decor8, written by Holly from Boston, Mass. It's a very interesting blog with lots of great ideas and interesting pictures. We were struck by this photo of a poster:The poster, "The Illustrated History of Rocking Chairs", is available from Design Boom for $10. Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery has to have it.Bev & Mike

California Olive Oil?

January 18, 2006From MercuryNews.com, Golden State's olive presses yield bottles on par with world's best.For the most part, California olive oils aim for the high end of the market. The best -- handpicked, cold-pressed and unfiltered -- compare favorably to the most respected in the world, taking top honors in international competitions.California's production is still small, about 400,000

DailyCandy

January 17, 2006Are you going to be traveling to one of these cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco or Washington D.C.? Check out DailyCandy!We first learned about Daily Candy as most do: from a friend who was traveling to New York and wanted to know where to find those hidden treasures only insiders know about. The web site is filled with tips

Bridget A. Otto on Furniture Folly

Jan 5, 2006Bridget A. Otto has an article in The Oregonian of Thursday Jan. 5th, about buying furniture, Furniture follyDon't sit down on a costly mistakeJennifer Litwin's frustration drove her to write a book.Even though Litwin is an antiques expert who trained at Sotheby's and reports on furniture for Consumers Digest, the Chicago-based author discovered the pitfalls of furniture shopping while

Link Requests

We get "link requests" from time to time and we actively solicit links to our blog. On our right side or sidebar you can see the web sites we link to. Links drive traffic to your web site or blog. There may be 25,000,000 blogs, but only a few hundred are getting large amounts of visitors. For instance: #1 Daily Kos: State of the Nation averages 445,240 visits/day; #50 BTF's Baseball Primer

Placing Ads in Surprising Places

Brian Carroll, e-business editor for Furniture|Today in his blog Tecnology Today writes in Placing Ads in Surprising Places...advertising on blogs is a a huge growth category, giving advertisers a laser-like ability to target certain readerships that traditional mass media cannot provide. One example is Budget, the car rental company, which at last count is advertising on 177 blogs.Budget says