Probably too expensive for me, I thought when I spotted this black leather chair in my friend B.’s home office. Not so! It’s from Ikea, and it’s not leather (read: very cleanable). Other things learned from hanging with the ever-stylish B.? 1) Have a ...
Even after getting all of your great advice about what to hang above my couch (I especially liked design snob’s recommendation of going for the “big gesture”), I wasn’t able to find a print I love. Usually I’d keep scouring fabric stores, but this time ...
I just threw a baby shower for my friends L. and M. and am reporting back with tidbits and a request for your baby-shower-giving tips and stories. Some background: the baby’s sex is a surprise and the shower was co-ed. Re: the latter, I Googled “co-ed ...
I love the patterns at my local fabric shop, and made the pillows shown above with their cotton prints (the pink one is vintage). I’d like to use their fabrics as art above our couch as well. My plan is to stretch a piece of material over a rectangular ...
The wall space over our living room couch is currently occupied by a boring framed landscape poster. So when I went to my friend Cheryl’s gallery opening in Chelsea last week, I was hoping one of her paintings might be a good replacement. I loved her ...
Last weekend, I covered the chair shown above with a rose-print fabric from Brooklyn General. This was my first reupholstering attempt. A friend found the abandoned chair down the block from my apartment and lugged it over, assuming I’d like its lines ...
This year I’m hosting Thanksgiving for 12 people and wanted to make place cards. At Joann fabric store, I found a pretty skein of gold-and-brown mohair yarn; difficult to knit with, but easy to wrap around a cardboard template (from the November issue ...
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