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• Perfect pillow for gray days

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:25 am

  Tags: Gloomy, Heart On Sleeve, Heartonsleeve, Home Style, Homestyle, Interior Decor, Interiordecor, Pillow, Sad

  Filed under: Home style, AccessoriesEven though you're all grown up, and don't rock out to emo like you did back in high school, that doesn't mean that you don't get a little blue from time to time -- right? And, especially now that grunge is back in fashion, I'm sure we'll once again experience melancholia as the epitome of cool. So, for the days

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• Ellips shelves scientifically proven to make rooms awesome

  Published: July 29, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Ellips, Home, Home Decor, Interior Design, Shelves, Storage

  Filed under: Home styleOkay, so maybe the Ellips shelves aren't really scientifically proven to make rooms awesome, but if you take a look around the website, you should get proof enough and be able to fully embrace the awesomeness.These shelves are assembled from specially cut pieces of wood to play tricks on the eye, adding extra fluidity to a

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• IKEA opens free hostel so shoppers never have to leave

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Furniture, Home Style, Homestyle, Ikea, Interior Decor, Interiordecor, Shopping

  Filed under: Home style, On locationAre you into pseudo-cheap modern furniture created by hip Scandinavians? Then, chances are, you're into Ikea. Those of you lucky enough to live within striking distance of an Ikea location have probably noticed (even if you haven't been inside) that the stores are shockingly enormous. So big, in fact, that I

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• Nursey chic: soft touch light dimmers

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: Essential Wall Dimmers, Essentialwalldimmers, Home Style, Homestyle, Interior Decor, Interiordecor, Kids Room, Kidsroom, Nursey, Wall Dimmers, Walldimmers

  Filed under: Home style, Kids and BabiesIf you have a kid, you've inevitably experienced (or are about to experience) the light-switch infatuation stage. For months, my daughter had to flick every switch in the house at least a dozen times -- always completely amazed by the fact that her actions might the lights go on and off. Sound familiar? As

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• Nursey chic: soft touch light dimmers

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: Home Style, Homestyle, Interior Decor, Interiordecor, Essential Wall Dimmers, Essentialwalldimmers, Kids Room, Kidsroom, Nursey, Wall Dimmers, Walldimmers

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• Volkswagen conjuring up adaptive sunshade

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Design, Interior, Invention, Sun Screen, Sun Visor, Sunscreen, Sunshade, Sunvisor, Vehicle, Volkswagen, Windsheild

  Filed under: Transportation Just a day after a clever Jetta owner figured out how to chart his joyrides with a Wiimote, it looks like Volkswagen has a trick up its own sleeve, too. Reportedly, the automaker is developing an "adaptive sun visor" that recognizes the position of the sun and darkens the areas that require it in order to make your

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• Light up your room with a personal moon

  Published: August 4, 2007, 7:31 am

  Tags: Home Style, Homestyle, Interior Decor, Interior Design, Interiordecor, Interiordesign, Lighting

  Filed under: Home styleUsually I'm not a fan of kitschy, gimmicky home decor items -- mostly because they're expensive, and they'll undoubtedly go out of style in about 15 minutes. However, there are always exceptions.Take this "Personal Moon," for instance. It's nothing fancy -- just a giant light box in the shape of a moon -- but, especially if

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• Light up your room with a personal moon

  Published: August 4, 2007, 7:31 am

  Tags: Lighting, Interior Design, Interiordesign, Home Style, Homestyle, Interior Decor, Interiordecor

  Tags: lighting interior design InteriorDesign home style HomeStyle interior decor InteriorDecor

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• Invisible shelving looks like magic

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:35 pm

  Tags: Home Style, Homestyle, Interior Decor, Interior Design, Interiordecor, Interiordesign, Invisible Shelving, Invisibleshelving, Shelving, Storage

  Filed under: Home styleDespite our best attempts at living in a sleek, minimalist home, my girlfriend and I have finally accepted that we live amongst an obnoxious pile of clutter. It's become so bad, that we're about to purge a bunch of our stuff -- even, I'm embarrassed to admit, our books. Not only do they look sloppy crammed into our

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• Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams Talk Home, Family, Coming Out

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Interior Design, Mitchell Gold, New York, News, Real Estate

  The NYT today runs a Joyce Wadler profile of Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams, the successful furniture designers who "divorced" five years ago after being together for 14 years. The article takes a look at their Jim Bartholomew-designed Manhattan apartment and the view Gold says it took him "30 years to get," and it also navigates the ins and outs

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• INTERIOR DESIGNING AS A COUPLE'S THERAPY?

  Published: August 11, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: Interior Designing As Couple's Therapy

  To work as a couple is usually pretty difficult, especially when you try to satisfy the tastes and desires of both parties. Each one has his or her own carrier, she has her tastes, he has his, and together they must find a solution to a compromise they never managed to make.

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• Lancers and Mateus - Representing a Nation of Wine

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:44 am

  Tags: Alentejo, Arruda, Tempranillo Ull De Llebre, Tinta Barroca, Alenquer, Beira Interior, Portuguese Doc S, Bodega Profile, Podcast, Tour, Portugal, Tasting Note, Established, The, Port, Wine, Right, Cellar, Rest, Portugal, Equal

  Portugal equals Port wine, right?! This statement is dead on for so many of you, but this wasn’t the case if we go back a few generations. In the 1940s, there were two brands that epitomized Portuguese wine to the global market: Mateus and Lancers. Both wines were presented in uniquely shaped bottles that appeared to be created for one

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• Design store Moss opens in LA

  Published: August 15, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Design, Design Stores, Furniture, Home Decor, Interior Decor, Lighting, Los Angeles, Moss, Mossonline, Seating, Tables

  Filed under: Home style, StoresIf you're a design and decor freak and you happen to live in Los Angeles, you'll be happy to know that the NYC-based Moss has made its way out here. The new store opened last week at 8444 Melrose Avenue at North Croft.Not familiar with Moss? To get a feel for what kind of cool, beautifully and well-designed stuff

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• For the modern children's room

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Babies, Home Decor, Home Style, Homedecor, Homestyle, Interior Design, Interiordesign, Kids

  Filed under: Home style, Kids and BabiesFor the hipster parents among you, working hard to raise your self-aware yet self-assured, eco-conscious, TV-free vegetarian child in an environment filled with ironic onesies, good design and old Pixies albums, here's some lights you might like.Contemporary Heaven has tons of cute little critters to

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• Street Visions

  Published: April 22, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Fiberglass, Speakers, Speaker Boxes, Custom Paints, Paint, Custom Interior, Lowriders

  Are you tired of boring wood speaker boxes?? Are you wanting that “custom” look, but aren’t ready to dish out the thousands of dollars those local shops charge?? Well look no further, Street Visions has the solution. Our “universal fiberglass subwoofer enclosures” are just what you’re looking for. They are

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