My wife and I will be in Phoenix this weekend. We should be rolling into town Friday sometime, and not leaving until Monday. We plan on trying to cross the border down into rocky point to get some good mexican food and walk on the beach. Besides that what are some other [...]

Here is a little eye candy for you to watch. It’s a video exploration of a Soho loft designed by Azin Valy & Suzan Wines of I-Beam Design in New York City. My guess is that the actual project probably has nothing at all to do with affordable, but hey, it doesn’t cost anything [...]

I know that the holiday season is wrapping up, but I couldn’t help but share this great wreath with you. It’s stylish enough that you don’t even need the holidays as an excuse to hang it up. Available from San Francisco based Kenneth Wingard, this powder coated steel wreath would look good on [...]

What do you do when you fall in love with a wallpaper for your accent wall, and then find out it will cost over $800? DIY of course. That’s exactly what happened over at Modern Self, and the results are better than you can imagine. Instead of $800 worth of wallpaper, the [...]

While it may be too late to buy any great wrapping papers online for this Christmas, it still isn’t too late to start buying thank you cards. Either way Luxe Paperie is the place to go. They have a large assortment of very nice cards, stationary and wrapping paper. I particularly liked [...]

Here is a simple and affordable 4 piece dinner set that anyone can love. The style rests somewhere between classic asian and clean modern and it is available only in white. For a scant $29 you get a dinner plate, salad plate, soup bowl and a mug. Just about everything you need [...]

Pablo Pardo is a Venezualan-born industrial designer, who now lives in California. He has a wide array of products that he has designed, but my favorites are his work with lighting. The Bella Lumina teardrop table lamp is a great example of his work. The beautiful hand finished aluminum base supports the [...]

Hopefully no one is getting sick of all the little stuffed animal things I have been blogging about lately. You can imagine that is the general frame of mind around our house these days.
This brave little lion comes from Anthropologie (know by my friend as Anthrax for their normally insane prices) and sits 13″ [...]

After some discussion on our forums here, we decided to go ahead and buy a real Christmas tree this year. Just down the road from us there was a Christmas tree farm called Robinsons Christmas trees, so we decided to check it out. They had a whole bunch of different kinds and sizes, [...]

I’m not sure what it is, but overstock.com has had a lot of nice mid-century modern furniture for great prices. This weeks find is this simple retro kiwi sofa. Nice simple lines, and great texture at a price that is hard to beat, only $299. They even have a matching chair for [...]