It's most convenient when one blog post begets another. So, you can imagine my good fortune when, tracking down images for yesterday's post, I happened upon the work of Urban Grace Interiors, which I decided on the spot had to be hustled through the pipeline and featured today. Urban Grace's work isn't going to wake you up from out of a stupor. It isn't going to bedazzle your senses. It doesn't yell out with color ...

There's a reason why people commonly collect, sell, and display old photos--whether or not they know the people captured in the photographs. It's because old photographs are really cool. They're a window into the past, their sepia genuinely earned. And when you actually know the people in the pictures, when they're your grandparents, your great-grandparents, and on and on, then the precious archival factor only increases. Only, not many people feel inclined to actually display ...

The matter of a closet-less bedroom has been thoroughly unpacked around here. The culinary equivalent, however, that of a kitchen lacking a proper pantry, has received scant attention in comparison. I was in the midst of a whirlwind move-in last week, and about halfway through unpacking the contents of my client's kitchen it dawned on me: "Hey, turns out there's no pantry." (It's a little like discovering the naked emperor.) The pantry-less kitchen is a ...

On the island of Santorini, there is a famous bookstore called Atlantis Books. The fact that it's the only one there lends it an air of importance, but I'm convinced it would still easily outshine any number of nearby others. Atlantis Books is tiny, its shape recalling that of a Hogwarts dorm. The bookshelves are arranged in a kind of topsy-turvy manner, and seem to extend into the mural-painted domed ceiling. In fact, there are ...

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… If there's one thing you nor I need it's a shower with two shower heads. I mean, really. For starters, it isn't that difficult to coordinate a shower-share with one or a couple of other people. At least, it's not impossible for bathers to try to speed up their cleansing ...