Before you sklathe off to your T-giving tables, I thought I'd share a little client project recently completed. My clients (understandably) prefer not to have to deal with all the boxes and bags of varying materials and sizes in which snacks are packaged. The solution is to decant said snacks into food storage containers that are uniform in nature. While conformity is for the sheep, uniformity is for the Live Simplys. Uniformity in container creates ...

Everyone's focus has shifted overnight to the holidays, and with it, travel plans, entertaining, and cooking for large crews. This time of year--the time right before the big bonanza-- always feels as though it were meant for stocking up on things like loaf pans and oven mitts, the way the autumn makes Joe Fox think of bouquets of sharpened pencils and such. And now, following that totally-wasn't-an-explanation explanation, I give you a random assemblage of ...

Oxford Dictionaries recently announced that the word of the year is selfie. Sorry, let me run that by you again: The word of the year is selfie. If you aren't familiar with this example of colloquialism first of all, mazel tov. For the purposes of clarification, "selfie" has become the term used to describe a picture of oneself, taken by oneself, posted by oneself on myriad social media platforms. According to Oxford, the noble origins ...

Ore Studios is another one that I stumbled upon through Instagram. They're always posting these pictures of ridiculously peaceful waters and shores and I was immediately intrigued, like "who are these people??" Turns out, they're my neighbors. Well, officially, one half of Ore is in Seattle, the other half in Santa Fe, and cohesively they produce some dang good design. This is their studio so you can imagine. It follows that anyone capable of designing ...

Seeing as how the first 10 Totally Ingenious, Ridiculously Stylish IKEA Hacks post I wrote was such a massive hit on the interwebs--seriously, records were broken, the people came a'swarming, it was virtual mayhem- I decided to give you what you seem to be wanting and follow it up with another roundup. Consider this the second graduating class of IKEA hacks. 1. The folks at Livet Hemma are evidently out to teach the world that chic is only ...