I ordered "abstract floral sheer" curtains in "mist" by phone after I saw them on Brocade Home online. They looked light blue on my monitor. They were dark green in person. They refused to return...

You could use tung oil instead of teak. Teak oil is mostly linseed oil which turns brown over time.

The Native Americans didn't embrace a belief system that included the ownership of the land. Therefore, the Dutch never purchased Manhattan!

Remember when the Dutch stole, uh I mean purchased the island of Manhattan for $24 worth of beads? I guess that was fair because I don't see the Donald Trumps or the coop boards figuring out...

One source of lost tax revenue in New York this year and for years to come are from the film companies that are going to Canada because the Govenor will not reinstate the tax incentive program unti...

For the people who are dead set against someone having a good deal because it isn't fair, I give you baseball players that make much more than scientific researchers, actors making more than nobel ...

I've been trying to come up with a striping teatment for my walls. he moldings are done so gorgeously, I'm inspired to adapt them to my designs. I wanted copper and now I see the possibilities of c...

"money makes the world go around" is from Cabaret, not Hejiranyc.

"Jelousy is such a hideous emotion". Supporting an extended family and a variety of strays including people over the years in New York on $175,000 does not make you a bad person. Bernie Madoff expe...

Poltrona Frau makes a similar style chair, designed in the 1930's. It's part of the historical collection and called "vanity Fair". Anyway, I think you could have a slip cover made wit...

Both she and her home is even more enticing if the viewer possesses a sense of humor.

A two burner. Miele makes a two with one super high btu and one normal burner. Additionally I'd put a microwave/convection oven/stove hood-fan combination over the burners and loose the standard ov...

A parchment kite over eack sconce and a large box kite or a tapeziodal kite on the ceiling or abstract wavy shapes.

a small parchment (kite shaped) shade over the sconces and a parchment box kite or trapezoidal kite on the ceiling.

Looks like a Barbie Playhouse.

I think you should take every short cut you can. Could you lightly steel wool (0000) the finish and just apply polyuerathane from a spray can? Test after steel wooling by wetting the wood with a ru...

There are places that rechrome things like faucets.

Art like books should be displayed for their content. There are people who display art for the way it goes with a room. It always looks silly if you second guess your choice in art. "We...

Unlike Anthropologie who will return everything without a time limit, Brocade Home does not return at all if it's on sale. I bought window panels that looked blue on my monitor, even spoke with a p...