1. Whether or not it was a gift 2. How much it cost 3. Where it came from 4. How long you've had it 5. What it entailed to get it 6. How many times you've used it 7. How much it may be worth to others 8. How much you could get or not get for selling it 9. Its potential utility 10. Your caring for the environment 11. How much you love the idea ...

If there's one thing people are perpetually in need of it's shoe racks. This is hardly because shoe racks are hard to come by; in fact, the interwebs and the home goods stores are stocked to high heavens with the things. Only, the majority of them are about as appealing in looks and quality as something very, very unappealing. So I set out to find a bunch of shoe racks that are wholly unobjectionable in ...

The more I think about, the more I believe there is no one straightforward definition of productivity. Productivity in the traditional sense means working; producing. It means cranking out the materials that earn you the dollars with a focus that makes it obvious to anyone what you're engaged in. But productivity also means "giving rise to." Just as the spring is the result of all that has occurred in winter, sometimes productivity doesn't announce itself ...

Hey, hi! It's Thursday and you know what that means right? It's almost--oh, wait it already is!--your life! Cheers to that, huh? Here's another stumper: What do you get when you combine the decorating sensibilities of the creative director of Australian Home Beautiful Magazine with her husband's endlessly talented construction firm, Create Construction? Oh, well, you get a custom-built home that's perfectly suited to a family of five, what with the four bedrooms and all, ...

I don't know if you are aware, but wire and metal storage vessels are having quite the moment. Whether your aesthetic is rustic-farmhouse-feed-the-chickens or downtown-loft-industrial, there's a basket out there for you. I don't typically encourage the buying of a storage container, singular--as in one at a time-- as doing so has the tendency to result in a mish-mash that can look a great deal like clutter on its own (instead I recommend the purchasing ...