There are loads of organizing products that you see around, and which you dismiss the usefulness of until you try them for yourself. Such was my relationship with the magazine file up until a year or so ago. At first glance magazine files appear as nothing more than a poorly constructed box, perhaps a piece that was halfway through its process to become the home for a bag of cereal, but which was diverted before ...

A while ago, the folks at Storables kindly gifted me these white storage boxes. Since then, I've been happily employing them in my home-- storing gift wrap, DVDs, and the like. They were doing their job splendidly and would have continued to, only, well, please don't excommunicate me for saying so given how many times I've professed my white-session to you-- they were really white. Like stark. And sort of plain? So I did what ...

A garden, or rather the attention and maintenance a garden requires in order to prosper, in order to not die, seems an apt metaphor for so many things (indeed, when Seth Godin recently drew a parallel between gardens and business endeavors it felt fitting). I've recently taken an interest in gardening, which is to say that, having finally expended considerable effort and money on my little garden, I ousted myself from the roost of indifference towards ...

Another summer Friday, another coastal abode. This time it's c/o Landing Design & Development, a Portland, Maine firm (sidenote: isn't it strange that there are multiples of location names? I was pretty sure Oregon had proprietary rights to P-land up until I discovered its cross-country counterpart. Which may or may not have been when I discovered the designers featured today. No.). Landing handles both renovations and new construction. I'm unclear on which camp these interiors belong to, ...

It was in high school that my friend initiated me into the world of return policies. Up until that point I hadn't ever given them much thought--some stores were very lenient and accommodating, others were...less than accommodating. But when my BFF uttered those magic words, "I hate shopping at stores with bad return policies," my previously latent regard for retailer's shopping terms surfaced. I was all, "O.M.G! Those are the worst!" And, "where's my pretty ...