The beloved and I are both busy professionals who love to work. We have a pact - whenever possible we take the whole of Sunday as " 'jamas day ". Yep, we stay in our pjs all day long, in a deliciou...
Cosabeth, firstly, your living room has some charming details -nice wood floor and interesting windows! I design space for a living (my company, Lifestyle Space Design, focusses on renovations of M...
I'm an interior designer in Manhattan, specializing in apartment renos - a couple of comments: 1. a bathroom renovation, like a kitchen renovation, is always going to improve resale value, especial...
Hi, avianmission!
My midtown NY studio is a miniscule 10 x 17, and it is both my living space and work space (I have an interior design company specializing in NY apartment renovations). It's...
While I wouldn't say the first pic looked like porn (except for the poor quality of the image...er, I imagine, teehee) I thought it was weirdly irrelevant and slightly creepy, and wondered why it w...
Looking through the door into the further room, it looks like you have an aqua/primary colour palette. Your lovely high glass cabinets are therefore begging "please, please give me one piece of fie...
ick - I agree with K T G! If that's what it takes to be comfortable working in the kitchen, I'd just buy take-out at Grand Central Market and use the time I'd have spent standing on my puky mat sit...
robbin, try csnrugs.com - huge selection, FREE shipping (in the US, don't know where you are!), and you can search by colour, size, material etc. I use them a lot for my interior design clients.
My company, Lifestyle Space Design, focusses on designing and renovating small Manhattan apartments to fit my clients' lifestyles. Our words-to-live-by are:
"Have nothing in your hous...
jhon, try homedecorators.com - affordable, nice styling for the money, pretty good selection. I have a 4-door glass door credenza from them which has held up well. All require assembly, but at the ...
Here is my design company's philosophy:
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"
William Morris, 1882
I specialize in Manhattan...
Kimber, you're welcome - wishing you happy organizing! So gratifying not to have to search through a tangle of crap to find what you want (but one less excuse to be cranky, sigh)
sooo true, Haunted-Studio - The Beloved is pretty well trained, as long as I arrange the place for his things, and take him by the hand to show him where it is (usually grabbing his chin and saying...
Heather - two words: Space Bags. Put clothes in, suck air out with vacuum hose, shove now-flattened bags under bed. I once took a whole queen size bedset including comforter, in a spacebag, to Engl...
In my miniscule NY studio (200sf!), EVERYTHING has to have a place, and non-visible at that. My Beloved couldn't find his bottom with a map, so whatever he might need has to have it's own little lo...
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The beloved and I are both busy professionals who love to work. We have a pact - whenever possible we take the whole of Sunday as " 'jamas day ". Yep, we stay in our pjs all day long, in a deliciou...
Cosabeth, firstly, your living room has some charming details -nice wood floor and interesting windows! I design space for a living (my company, Lifestyle Space Design, focusses on renovations of M...
csnrugs.com - they've got thousands, great advanced search feature, no tax and no shipping. I use them all the time for my interior design clients!
I'm an interior designer in Manhattan, specializing in apartment renos - a couple of comments: 1. a bathroom renovation, like a kitchen renovation, is always going to improve resale value, especial...
Hi, avianmission! My midtown NY studio is a miniscule 10 x 17, and it is both my living space and work space (I have an interior design company specializing in NY apartment renovations). It's...
While I wouldn't say the first pic looked like porn (except for the poor quality of the image...er, I imagine, teehee) I thought it was weirdly irrelevant and slightly creepy, and wondered why it w...
Looking through the door into the further room, it looks like you have an aqua/primary colour palette. Your lovely high glass cabinets are therefore begging "please, please give me one piece of fie...
ick - I agree with K T G! If that's what it takes to be comfortable working in the kitchen, I'd just buy take-out at Grand Central Market and use the time I'd have spent standing on my puky mat sit...
robbin, try csnrugs.com - huge selection, FREE shipping (in the US, don't know where you are!), and you can search by colour, size, material etc. I use them a lot for my interior design clients.
My company, Lifestyle Space Design, focusses on designing and renovating small Manhattan apartments to fit my clients' lifestyles. Our words-to-live-by are: "Have nothing in your hous...
love kitties, but the expression "herding cats" comes forcibly to mind...heehee
jhon, try homedecorators.com - affordable, nice styling for the money, pretty good selection. I have a 4-door glass door credenza from them which has held up well. All require assembly, but at the ...
Here is my design company's philosophy: "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful" William Morris, 1882 I specialize in Manhattan...
Go all the way, baby!
Kimber, you're welcome - wishing you happy organizing! So gratifying not to have to search through a tangle of crap to find what you want (but one less excuse to be cranky, sigh)
Apparently I have forgotten how to use the second parenthese-thingy. Idiot.
sooo true, Haunted-Studio - The Beloved is pretty well trained, as long as I arrange the place for his things, and take him by the hand to show him where it is (usually grabbing his chin and saying...
Heather - two words: Space Bags. Put clothes in, suck air out with vacuum hose, shove now-flattened bags under bed. I once took a whole queen size bedset including comforter, in a spacebag, to Engl...
In my miniscule NY studio (200sf!), EVERYTHING has to have a place, and non-visible at that. My Beloved couldn't find his bottom with a map, so whatever he might need has to have it's own little lo...
Kimber, I had a tangle of wires behind my office electronics stuff - cable box, splitter (whatever THAT is), wireless router, Vongo phone thingy, printer, scanner & extension strips (think snakes ...