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Modern Small Space Design

January 10, 2011
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Are you ready for this: At first glance I said to myself, I’m not ready for that. I guess it was like a little introspective moment because the more I thought about, the more I thought… well maybe. Whoknew? I’ve known for quite some time that I could be converted to the dark side, er. [...]

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5 Mediocre Storage Ideas For Small Spaces

February 28, 2010
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5 almost great ways of using every nook and cranny for efficient and beautiful storage. Here’s the deal — I live in a really small house. If you’ve been to my blog before you know the story. We were going to add-on, life happened, budget flew out the window, addition plans change. So I live [...]

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Banquette, Booth, or Built-In? Cool Kitchen Table Seating

December 28, 2009
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I’ve built-up quite the backlog in the “to-read” stack. I’m speaking metaphorically, of course, because there is no actual stack, we’re talking a cyber-stack here. Maybe what I’m missing is a great place to read my stack. And since it’s so big, and I’ll be there so long, maybe I also need a table nearby. [...]

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A Perfect Space Saving Kitchen Window Seat

November 8, 2009
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This one is a perfect 10 if you ask me. I found the picture at one of my favorite haunts Houzz.com, and the kitchen is by Valerie Pedersen who works in the SF Bay Area. Wow! I love, love, love it! I was searching for window seats and I came across this shot. I really [...]

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3 Beautiful Bathrooms

October 4, 2009
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I wrote a quick post this weekend about towel warmers, which I would say are a “luxury” component of a bathroom. And… I’ve had pretty bathrooms on my brain ever since. So I dug-up some pictures (or am I supposed to call them “images” now?). 3 Beautiful Bathrooms Clean, Cool, Traditional I found this bathroom [...]

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Creative Ideas – Home Electronics

February 1, 2009

Watch the Big Game in Style In honor of the Superbowl, I went out in search of some great creative ways of working the TV and related paraphanalia into a good design. Anyone who’s ever arranged a living room before can tell you that it’s not always that easy! Especially with the older TV’s which [...]

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Make the Most of Small Spaces

January 18, 2009

I’ve been thinking a great deal about small spaces lately. That surprises me given that I’ve made most of my living by making houses larger! Family of Four in 1000 sf? It might have to do with the fact that my family has recently moved from a house of about 3000 sf to one of [...]

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