More About Feng Shui

Here's a follow-up to a post Feng Shui Made Simple:Feng Shui Flow and ColorsThere are basically nine different aspects each of which has specific colors and materials associated with it that the Chinese believed were important and influenced by your surroundings.Those aspects included: Prosperity which relies on the color purple and uses wood or water as its primary textures.

Furnish

Like furniture porn, the new book Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century is over 200 pages of full-color photos of design objects made by the world's brightest furniture stars. With work by emerging designers such as Jason Miller, Joris Laarman, &made and Jamie Hayon, as well as by more established names like Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and Hella Jongerius, the images will look

HGTV Design Star

Sunday, July 22 begins the second season of HGTV Design Star.The die is cast, the expert judging panel is back and 11 finalists have been selected to compete during the second season of the original interior design competition, "HGTV Design Star." It's anyone's guess which finalist will walk away with the coveted prize - his or her own show on HGTV... (emphasis added)[...]As with the series'

Portable lighting

Courtney Mueller writes in Casual Living,Outdoor lighting has evolved over the past five years, resulting in the creation of more elegant, sophisticated tabletop lamps for outdoor. Weatherproof shades, cords and bases combine to round out the outdoor living experience.One Company singled out is this lamp from Frederick Cooper, a vendor supplying Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery. The Thatcher

In Step & In Style

Don't miss this article by Erin Hoover Barnett in "inPORTLAND": Uptown style, downtown address/Victoria Taylor keeps The Mercantile fashion-forward amid change, including an impending move.At Christmas time all the presents were wrapped for the family, Mike's Mom and Dad, our daughters and the grandkids, my Mom and Dad and my brothers and sisters. Now it was our time. We went downtown and the

Kitchen Remodel in Dolph Park

Ruth Mullen has an article about how Caryn Urata of Arciform worked with Peter and Mary Osterberg, inspired by Art Deco graphics, to update a 50s kitchen in Dolph Park. Mary and Peter Osterberg lived with their functional but oh-so-'50s kitchen for four years before they felt ready to remodel. Then, it seemed, everything just fell into place; their prized Art Deco table and chairs, for instance,

Bridget A Otto: Sliding Into Loft Design

Bridgett A Otto has an interesting article about Gary Lee and Jack Messick founders of ConstructaVision and the use sliding barnlike doors in lofts to solve the problem of privacy for their clients.Ann Laman of Soderberg Laman Designers came to them asking for a sliding barnlike door that would make a bedroom area private...[...](Lee and Messick) found that making the sliders out of frosted glass

Bridget Otto Thursday on Saturday

On Bridget A Otto Thursday, our friend Julie DeJardin was featured in Otto's Going With The Flow.David Hyser and Nancy Werner sought a lifestyle change and "engineered" a move to Portland from Chicago in 2004.Their realtor was "horrified" at their choice of house to purchase due to its "issues":There was no flow between the kitchen and the living/dining room. Homemade built-in shelving crowded

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Storage Beds

We received a call the other day from a woman seeking a bed with drawers underneath, a storage bed. This article by Amanda Somers caught my eye:Talking of beds, there are times we all crave for more space to store everyday bedroom articles. You know, those heavy blankets, matching curtains, cushions and the like. Storage beds fit the practical ideals of viability and functionality and serve the

Floors and furniture... made from cow manure

We are all for "Green", however I'm a little concerned if this gets wet!Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure.That's no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in fiberboard, which is

Haunted Furniture

I was checking out furniture blogs and came across this chair, perfect for Halloween. I thought I'd seen about everything!I don't know if they will accept COM. Hat tip to Cool And Modern Furniture.Bev & MikeLandfair Furniture + Design Gallery

Hot products in High Point

Courtney Mueller in Casual Living outlines some of the hot products at High Point:This month marks the first early start for the High Point Market, held March 26-April 1 in High Point, N.C. The change doesn't have any effect on the variety of outdoor products featured at the show. From outdoor lighting to full-scale casual furniture collections, there will be plenty to see in the Furniture