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Good Quotes: The Battle with Our Own Stuff

Apart from being an interesting and insightful breakdown of the most recent episode of Mad Men that has the decor set in a dizzy tizzy, former Domino magazine executive editor Kate Bolick notes: ".....

Martha Stewart Throughout the Years

Oh Martha, can you forgive us for forgetting your birthday last month? You've been on our mind lately, as we just finished redecorating our living room with your Faux Bois pattern FLOR carpet tiles ...

Good Quotes: Throw Pillows

"Oh, and by the way, I threw away all your little throw pillows. Yea. Cuz throw pillows suck. They serve no purpose. They're purely decorative." – Ben Stiller as Reuben Feffer in Along Came Polly...

Apartment Therapy on Preventing Clutter

My grandmother's thriftiness is the stuff of family legend. While some of the stories seem incredible (like the time she mentioned that she switched her sneakers from one foot to the other to preve...

Good Quotes: Life is Like IKEA Furniture

"Life is like IKEA furniture. Sometimes you have to take it apart so you can put it back together the right way" – Chris Blake...

Good Quotes: Letting Nature Speak

“I do not believe architecture should speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind speak.” – Tadao Ando, architect (photo from House Call: Hidden Ho...

Good Quotes: Living Minimally

"We were taught in this society that we must have ownership of so much. But this has just caused clutter in our lives and this is a reflection of our spiritual clutter. Just give your unnecessary stuf...

Good Quotes: The Way People Live

"I've always had a fascination with the way that people live, and so for me there's nothing more exciting than being invited into a person's home. I believe that seeing how people choose to exist behi...

Good Quotes: The Glory of Traveling

"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than t...

Good Quotes: Creating a Lived-in Feel
Los Angeles Times

"Salvaged columns, urns, railings and finials are among the one-of-a-kind (and often affordable) castoffs that lend age to a new garden. While you're waiting for the plants to mature, the vintage shap...

Good Quotes: Lessons to be Learned in the Garden
Los Angeles

"Gardens instruct us in the particularities of place. They lessen our dependence on distant sources of energy, technology, food, and, for that matter, interest. For if lawn mowing feels like copying t...

Good Quotes: The Delights of Gardening
Los Angeles

click for more pics "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." Thomas Jefferson...

Good Quotes: Considering the Larger Context
Los Angeles

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." –Eliel Saarinen Photo from Ho...

Good Quotes: Juxtaposition
Los Angeles

"Sometimes people think of modern as machine-made and very cold, and I think natural elements are a nice juxtaposition. I like raw with refined. I like shiny with matte. I like having that yin and yan...

Good Quotes: Keeping House
Los Angeles

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house." – Zsa Zsa Gabor (via Abby)...

Good Quotes: My House Is Small
Los Angeles

An irrelevant cube; Absurdity Sucked by gravity Against immensity; Walled by diversity; Roofed by infinity. -My House Is Small by May Williams Ward, from her collection of poetry, Seesaw (Atlan...

Good Quotes: The Dangers of Housework
Los Angeles

Housework can kill you if done right. -Erma Bombeck [Image from 10 Ways To Make Vacuuming Fun (or least Fun-er)] ...

Good Quotes: Small Space Ideas from Boats and RVs
Los Angeles

"Before tackling any small-space building or remodeling project, take a look at the interiors of boats and RVs. Make note of their space-saving design features—like underbed storage, dual-purpose fu...

Good Quotes: Small Space Living
Los Angeles

"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it." – Leonardo Da Vinci Be sure to enter this year's Smallest Coolest contest before the 13th and check out our daily entries to v...

Good Quotes: On Arranging Books by Color
Los Angeles

"...organizing his books by color allows him to discover new and unexpected relationships between books he knows well already. When two unrelated books are forced to occupy the same shelf simply becau...

Good Quotes: Yearning for Beauty
Los Angeles

"Which raises an important question about design and redesign: not to denigrate the importance of function (or even to suggest that what things look like and how they perform are mutually exclusive) ...

Good Quotes: Saving Up For the Real Thing
Los Angeles

"There are some things in life - like Herman Miller's Eames Lounge Chair, Levi's Jeans, Porsche's 911, springtime in Paris and diving off the Great Barrier Reef - where there is no substitute for the ...

Good Quotes: Jumpin' Onto the Bandwagon
Los Angeles

"I don't mind jumping on a bandwagon if it's a good band! Style isn't about being first." – AT Los Angeles reader, quiltmaster, Roundup: Garden Stools...

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Dieter Rams' Ten Commandments of Good Design

Did you know there exists Ten Commandments for "good design"? German industrial designer Dieter Rams is primarily known for his work with consumer products company Braun and his quotable, "Weniger, ab...

Good Quotes: Returning Home From Vacation
Los Angeles

“No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.” - Unknown [Creative Common Photo: Phineas H]...

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