Happy October! As is customary around here, I'm recapping my stand-out favorites of the past month (s). Here's the skinny on the 6 things that rocked my world the past several weeks:   1. Foldaway Dish Drying Rack Husband insists on the need for a drying rack; wife desperately doesn't want one to live on the counter. What do you do? You find the perfect compromise, a.k.a. this foldaway drying rack is what you do. ...

When you date someone, everyone in your life eventually starts to bug you about whether or not you're going to get married. When you get married, everyone wants to know when you're going to have kids. When you have the first kid, everyone asks if you're going to have another. When you have the second kid, everyone asks where you're going to send the first to preschool. When they reach the eleventh grade, everyone starts ...

Colorful, kitchen cabinetry has solidly established itself as being at the epicenter of design trends and it's no surprise why. In a modern, fresh kitchen a hit of sage green, cool mint, navy blue and even black seems to up the sophistication factor of the space. Gone is any potential predictability that an all-white room might possess, and in its place is the right sort of moodiness, or boldness, or patina. It dawns on me ...

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… When you spend every day of your life putting objects into cabinetry, your mind can't help but to wander over into the realm of cabinetry customization. As a result, there are dozens (I've never counted) of posts around here dedicated to the ingenious ways one might trick out one's cabinetry, ...