Old electronics that have long since died their slow death are a household staple. I can't think of a home I've visited that hasn't featured at least two decade old computers, not to mention an average of five antique cell phones. When the proposition to expel such electronics arises (from me), the answer is invariably an inability to do so, or to take any action whatsoever, based upon insufficient knowledge of how to eradicate any ...

Labeling is a fantastic technique that not only allows for easy identification, but also helps to encourage the maintenance of organization. If it's marked with a big, fat label reading "CHOCOLATE," it's a lot less likely that you'll feel okay about shoving say, a pebble or a tin of shoe polish inside. Labels are most (and/or only) effective if you can see them. Don't laugh; such juicy tidbits aren't obvious to everyone. Especially as it ...

Everything has already been said. Every subject already written on. Every creation already made. One might argue such things, and certainly some have. There are no new ideas, some say. There is no new art. There is only observing, processing, and copying--reproducing with individual flair, an additional bent.   The exceptions are, well, so exceptional that they spawn no less than a revolution: Henry Ford and Alexander Graham Bell, Johann Gutenberg, and Levi Strauss, the Wright ...

Welcome to The Good Life. Don't go too crazy, but today on deck we have the designs of Hudson Interiors, the lovechild of Jill Goldberg. Her work feels appropriate, or rather, follows a trend; after last week's designer spotlight went and got all autumnal, I decided it was only right to follow that up and another take on an old classic. Or something. I'm a particular fan of the way Hudson channels a certain barn-house-by-the-lake vibe, but ...

If we could build the perfect room from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let's have ourselves a little daydream...I'm newly convinced that The Ideal Kitchen would feature under the sink drawers rather than a dark, cavernous, cupboard space. Why must it be like that, anyway? Isn't that the dumbest design idea that seems never to have been reevaluated? Organizational retailers may offer "glide out" cabinet shelves, but I'm remiss ...