I really like these shelves made by designer Anki Gneib. Inspired by Persian calligraphy, these shelves are a fantastic, colorful addition to your home that can stand as pieces of art if you choose not to use them as shelves. Check out more of Anki’s great designs at her site.

For other readers who like to give old objects new lives through their decorating endeavors, you should check out the blog for the business maydecemberhome (they buy people’s old stuff and refurbishes it into awesome new home accessories and furniture). I like their idea for a cheap, easy to make coat rack made out of […]

Something beautiful for your Saturday. Just sit back and enjoy its staircase splendor. Check out other phenomenal pictures that feel like a vacation at Mediterranean-lifestyles.com. This site might just inspire you as it has me.

This is an AMAZING tool to help you plan where you’re going to place your furniture and get a view of the room from above…which never really happens. The Icovia Space Planner program, offered by UK site housetohome, lets you set the room size to that of your room, and populate it all types […]

So some of you may be looking at this fixtures and groaning, remembering how wrong they seemed to look in your home back in the day. But I think thats because they were one of the many (sometimes tacky) signature looks of the 1950s, and when you put many of those elements together, it could […]

Some people never grow up…and by people I mean guys. JUST KIDDING (maybe). Anyways, this bowl is the perfect item for that big kid or bachelor in your life. Made out of melted down toy soldiers (yes, now you have an excuse for melting down those little plastic men) this is a great fruit bowl […]

Built in bookcases bring warmth, sophistication, and extra storage to any room, and can be not only an architectural element but a decorative one as well. I found this bookcase on the web and love it for its unique take on book storage which makes the books look like a design element. The team at […]

Tree hugger Jess here again. Here’s another cool way to help save our Earth while being chic. Fish Lips Paper Designs offers eco friendly wrapping paper made out of recycled paper. The designs are awesome, in a range of colors with a modern flare. They’re great for gift giving but would also make […]

I absolutely love this bed I found on the decorating blog, An Indian Summer. Inspired, I began searching online places where I could find such beds and stumbled onto the some great Indian decorative elements sites, such as Rajasthan Art. This site features the art of Jodhpur, and there are many other sites that sell […]

So if you haven’t realized it by now, I’m a bit of a tree hugger and I love the big move towards becoming green seen in design industries. I saw this on one of my favorite sites, bouf.com, and although I kind of have my doubts as to how well it works, it seems […]

More found objects yay! If you want your lighting fixtures to just blend right into your kitchen, then this fixture is what you’re looking for. Made out of wire mesh strainers and coat hooks, it takes a 40 watt bulb, so you might want to get a couple of these and line them up for […]

Dreams do come true. One of my all time favorite movies is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and in one scene the kids get to experience Mr.Wonka’s candy wallpaper…it smells and tastes like the flavor featured. Though this wallpaper doesn’t taste like the real thing, it does smell like it, combining two of my […]

Plastic grocery bags are the bain of my existence so I love it when I can find a cool reusable sturdy grocery bag like this one by Sally Walton. Made out of recycled fabrics (like this one featuring a vintage veggie print) for the trim and organic fabrics, these bags are lightweight, collapsible, and […]

As I’ve mentioned before, I love to use found objects in decorating and for other uses outside of the box. I think we all remember using a card catalog at some point in our lives, and as technology has taken over, the card catalog has been banished to antique stores (They aren’t really antiques are […]