Sometimes in life, people get what they deserve. Such was the case with today's Spotlighted designer, Jenn Feldman. It wasn't until after I had found her work, scrolled through every project in her portfolio, and subsequently--and telepathically--saluted her design genius that I made my cursor's way over to her About page. To her credit, it should be noted that the proceeding factoid is certainly not the first thing mentioned about Jenn. It doesn't even make ...

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… The vast majority of my clients are pet-owners (of the dog and cat variety). And, lately, the dogs are outweighing the cats by a landslide, which isn't bad news for my severe cat allergy. These dogs are doted upon, utterly adored, and generally considered to be four-legged children. Anyone with ...

When I was growing up, the silver lining of going back to school was the fact that new supplies would be required and procured. My passion in life--until the age of eleven or so--was office supplies. The annual trip to Office Depot was a scintillating expedition. The choosing of binders and folders and corresponding pens and pencils, a pleasure almost too great to bare. Back to school meant new penguin-adorned underwear and tragic tracksuitty bottoms ...

Amazon opened a bookstore in Seattle a couple of months ago, and I've been casually boycotting it ever since. After all, this is the company whose online impact and expediency contributed to so many local bookstores going out of business. This fact makes Amazon's brick and mortar bookstore feel a bit cruel, or at the least, insensitive. But then, there I was: in need of book, and there it was, right in front of me. ...

I haven't had a magazine subscription since, well, I can't remember, but I'm sure the publication contained mazes and those games where you compare two similar side-by-side pictures to spot all the differences. But for my last birthday (thank you T/A), I was given a subscription to House Beautiful. Turns out it's pretty rad to go to the mailbox and find something that you expressly requested be delivered there (as opposed to the onslaught of ...