Dear Readers,
Yee-haw! We're doing another book, and I'm hoping we can feature a number of your amazing homes.
This time we're specifically focusing on small and creative uses of space. It's all going to be professionally photographed, and we need homes that no one's seen before in either the New York or Los Angeles area.
We're looking for 25 homes in which we can professionally photograph at least 1-2 remarkable, small, beautiful and creative rooms of the following sort...
Polls close tonight at 8pm.
>> Vote on Children's Design here.
Today's the last day to vote for your favorite home blogs, check out ones you've never seen and spread some link love. Click on any of the five links below. Trouble logging in or voting. Sorry! We're working on it and we have some fixes below the jump.
A hutch in the bedroom? Why not? It's a great use of space for displaying vintage or breakable items, a few books, a stuffed friend or artwork. You could also use small bins on the shelves for additional storage. Oeuf's Shaker-inspired furniture is decidedly modern, but we love how the rich walnut and birch woods they use here add warmth and integrity.
Do you and your family make New Year's Resolutions? Are you vowing to clean out that closet or get the playroom organized? Or do you prefer goal setting all year round? Tell us your take on resolutions below...
We're fans of Sweet Fine Day, the blog created by Jenna (a designer) and Mark (a pastry chef). Recently, they participated in a photo shoot for a Japanese magazine featuring their wonderful Brooklyn home and we got to see some shots of their daughters' rooms.
If one of your new year's resolutions is to de-clutter and organize your entryway (perhaps something along the lines of Ginger's Bargain Foyer For Four) then Haseform's Dachshund Coathanger might be perfect for your entryway plans.
Visakha has question: Our son will be 1 year old in a month, and we're looking for ideas on how to celebrate his birthday. We'd like to invite some friends and family, and there will be a few children of all ages. We'd like the event to be memorable and fun for kids and adults, but we're at a loss for cold-weather party ideas...(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first.
Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to:
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Friends of ours are architects and most years their firm participates in Canstruction. What is Canstruction you're wondering? It's a traveling design/build competition where teams of architects, engineers and students create all kinds of structures out of canned food which is later donated to food pantries and soup kitchens. We're thinking it might also be a fun activity to try at home with your own kids and cans.
We had seen this pretty chandelier from Pottery Barn in a magazine, but it's even prettier in person. We got to check it out over the holiday weekend and decided it would make a lovely centerpiece for a simple, but elegant nursery.
We're still drooling over the incredible creativity of our readers when it comes to play kitchens. So many of you have hacked different furniture pieces, toys and household items to put together a fun kitchen any one would be happy to cook in. The latest creation was submitted by Ohdeedoh reader Kathy. She writes We were so inspired by the play kitchens we saw on your blog that we made one for our little Julia. She loves it! We made it from an old dresser and found some of the accessories at thrift stores. We used many of the ideas we read from the other viewers. My husband did all the building and I found or made the rest. We had a blast. Thanks for all the tips.
We spied these new items at UO, and loved the muted tones and nice lines of several pieces. If your teen has a bedroom makeover in store for the new year, perhaps one of these items may fit the look they have in mind.
With each image in this "House Voyeur" tour on More Ways to Waste Time we were increasingly inspired by the wonderful color choices and combinations the inhabitants made (even the exterior colors are exceptional).
Get out the vote! This time it's for the top prize and lots of link love.
Thanks to all of you who sent in nominations for this year's best Kid's Design Blog. We received 23 excellent nominations (which all deserve a looksee) and whittled the field down to six based on your comments and a few other factors including how often they posted, if they were a standalone blog, how new long they'd been around and/or how closely they spoke to kid's design as a category. It was very hard to choose, and our apologies for not being able to choose more than six for the finals (yours didn't make it this year? There's always next year). You can check out all the nominations below the jump and then vote on your favorite of the top six here. Voting closes next Tuesday at 8pm Eastern. Nominations post here. All prizes & info here.
• bkids.typepad.com (Bloesem Kids)
• Inhabitots.com
• Minordetails.typepad.com
• Coolmompicks.com
• Weebabystuff.com
• Oh-c-chou.blogspot.com
One of the first things many people renovate when they buy a new home is the dated kitchen. The same, it would seem, holds true for play kitchens. Valerie sent us some photos of the amazing conversion she did on a past-its-prime Hollie Hobbie kitchen, pictured above, that she scored for $50. Check out the "after" photos below the jump.
If you're looking to get organized in 2009, Real Simple has a nice list of tips to go through for managing your home this year. The checklist is divided up month by month so you'll find things like testing your home for radon in January, and examining your outdoor play equipment in April. See more tips below...
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