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Great post. In Manhattan we have Doyle and Christies... which can be affordable when they have their "house" sales. You can pick up a sofa for less than Crate and Barrel, for instance. The whole catalog is online so it doesn't hurt to look. It is also interesting to actually go - Christies has quite a unique space at the Rockerfeller Center. You can load up on Magnolia cupcakes and spot some celebrity interior designers (hello Miles Redd).

Note the buyers premium of 25%. Ouch.

I have the tivoli clock radio, and would not recommend it. Sure, it looks good, but for that is supposedly well designed, it has a lot of design problems, namely:

- To change the alarm time, you can only go backwards - ie, if it rang at 7am and you wanted to snooze for like, 30 minutes, and have it ring again at 7:30am, you would need to twist the dial around for 11 1/2 hours, instead of forward by 30 minutes.
- When you change the alarm time, it makes a pretty loud grinding noise, potentially waking up any bed-mates
- The volume button is sleek, but at a price - you never know what volume it's set to until you turn on your radio. There is no way of knowing if it's set to level 1, 2, 3, etc, since there are no markings.
- My dial cover fell off within the first 6 months

MattyG

You can always go IKEA cabinets and get the doors / drawer fronts from somewhere else.

FYI for those people looking to make furniture but live in an apartment (as I do) - I make furniture at Makeville in Brooklyn. $28 for 3 hours shop time.

FYI George Smith are having a sale from 16-23 of this month, which is a good thing, since their sofas are about 2-4 times as much as the chain stores like Restoration Hardware.

I agree.... this is not a new concept. I love my library - it feeds my voracious appetite for design books, and it has all the latest ones. It's like Borders for free.

You can woodwork in NYC at a number of places in Brooklyn:

3rd Ward
Makeville
Beagle and Pots
Treehouse

I've tried 3rd Ward and Makeville. Makeville runs a beginners class that takes you through the rudimentaries of running the machines in the shop. They have other classes too, which you would probably want to do if you had never woodworked before. (The beginners class is just a few hours long). Then you can rent studio time for $35 for 3 hours, which is pretty decent. It's clean and the lady who runs it, Robyn, is really nice.

They have these in the bar of the Hudson Hotel in New York. People sit on them. Not too comfortable for long periods of time.

Yes. Fiddle leafed fig. I have one. Friend bought it for me from the Flower district - it's a lot cheaper there, although I believe still in a hundreds. They will deliver. Do not go to a fancy garden place because it will cost you twice as much.

Also, I have been rotating mine to give it even sunlight. Don't change it's general location though. They don't like that so much.

I would highly recommend AmericanFrame.com.

The shipping is extremely reasonable. I framed a picture that was probably 7 foot long by 2 feet down (sort of like yours) and it cost roughly around $100, from what I remember.

You must request that it is shipped to you in parts - ie, the frame is not assembled. Then you assemble it yourself, which is really very easy -> the frame comes with these plastic bowties that wedge into corner slots that are bowtie shaped holes.

After this, go to the frame shop and ask them to cut you the glass.

So yes, a little DIY, but it saved me $500, and probably took me 1 hour. So that's not too bad an hourly wage.