I think benches as well. Also, if you're trying to marry two styles, I wouldn't go with a traditional chandelier over that table - with modern chairs and a rug it would look like someone dressed in...

Hey I just wanted to chime in as a dog person...first, your dog is really cute. Second, your crate looks like the perfect size for him. If you spend the money on a nice crate, he will probably just...

Wow. I never realized people were so callous towards architectural history. You can't recreate this stuff, kids. Once it's gone, no one will ever see it again. And for those of you tha...

Does anyone have advice on getting underneath and behind clawfoot tubs? We have dogs and their hair and dirt and detritus love to live back there...

It depends on your style and the style of the house. If you're more eclectic, leave the cabinets, replace the countertop and floor with Morroccan tile, and draw a wall color from that. If you're mo...

ummm this isn't a new idea...they are all over europe and the middle east, as far as i know.

Be careful with the colors you use. I live in Seattle too and my bedroom is painted ballet slipper pink. Some days it appears to be true pink, but most days it looks like light lavender. That doesn...

This post scares me because I live in Seattle, where the new library designed by Rem Koolhaus (could he have been anything other than an architect) takes up an entire city block. Now, Koolhaus took...

I would hang a curtain rod across the whole wall, and then hang lined curtains that can either cover the windows, or hand next to them. Floor to ceiling, to match the drama of those windows. Congra...

I would mount planters flush on the top of the walls, and plant something that has a trailing habit (no vines), so it drifted down the wall. Then I'd put in some teak furniture, or adirondacks.

Just an FYI on the "paint is reversable" comment...when we moved into out 1927 house, we set out to remove some of the many many layers of paint in order to make the surfaces more even. It's really...

There's this product called "Bitter Apple". It's a spray that apparently tastes pretty bad and it helps discourage puppies from chewing on things they aren't supposed to be knawing on. The spray sm...

They started using these at the coffee shop I used to work at. They do tend to break down with wet materials, but we solved that by putting a regular trash bag in first. It really wasn't worth it, ...

I'd just add that leaving a dog in a room by itself is a really bad idea. We had a dog that not only destroyed a pressboard door, but ate her way through the garage door. If a dog doesn't want to b...

IIn my opinion, if you have a small bathroom I'd stick to either marble or glass mosaic. Together they remind me of all of those HGTV bathroom renovation shows. It looks really cool when an ...

This sushi restaurant my family used to go to in LA had this stuff all over the ceiling and walls. It was a tiny, funky space anyway, but there's something about Japanese people and their ability t...

Oh, and the peeing is HYSTERICAL. Sorry. And the puppy looks like trouble on four legs. Our puppy has an affinity for shoes, if it makes you feel better. The count is at 4 pairs in 2 months.

We just got a puppy, and our two older dogs aren't happy about it either. The big thing is making sure you don't yell at the older dog when he disciplines the puppy. And I mean snapping, growling, ...

I went to a club once where the bathrooms had glass similar to that of Bar 89 above. Only in this bathroom, it was smoked glass, and it was behind the toilet, and it didn't go opaque, I think it wa...

If you're going for luxe, I think that gray velvet would be beautiful. If you want more of a contrast, I think wool in either a gray like you mentioned, or even something more saturated like red or...