Last summer when the fan motor on my air conditioning unit kicked the bucket, I didnt notice anything was wrong until I opened my freezer and realized my food was thawing. The kitchen was really hot, and my poor refrigerator was working overtime. And you could hear it. Coincidentally, my dad (and appliance savant) swung [...]
Ask yourself, of all the kitchens you’ve ever graced with your presence, how many stand out in your memory as flat-out amazing? One, five? None!? The truth is that even beautiful, well-designed, and expertly crafted kitchens often aren’t outstanding enough to make them permanently memorable. Let’s put a stop to that right now! Here’s a [...]
Our book report series covers the design books that inspire and engage us, these are the books that get us up in the morning ready to save the world from ugly. Enjoy… Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered by Pierluigi Serraino, $29.95 Published by Taschen This is it, the mac-daddy of architectural photography books. Shulman captured buildings [...]
On a recent trip to the movies, I expected to be transported for a couple of hours by a great story. What I did not expect was to think, “I have got to blog about this house!” Tree of Life, the newest film from director Terrence Malick, centers around a family in a small Texas town and [...]
Every once in a while, we enjoy tossing out a good challenge to those who are new at cutting a swath in design. What better venue to host said task than a college like the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM)? Ten class members from the Interior Design program at the Los Angeles and [...]