Some times it’s the little things that are hard to find. A prime example is a coat hook. Seems like it should be easy to find an inexpensive nice looking coat hook right? Well not as easy as it sounds. David M from Seattle looked all over until he found this [...]

Well yesterday was our last day in NYC. We didn’t get everything done that we wanted to (thanks for all the great suggestions) but we did get a lot of it done. Picture posts straight from the iPhone were courtesy of iPhoneslide.com It’s a handy service, but posting times were totally erratic. [...]

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Today we went to MoMA and it was absolutely amazing. It was incredible to see all that great art up close and personal. Being the ID/Furniture geek that I am my favorite part was the design exhibition that featured my favorites like the classic Eames leg splint and chairs shown above. [...]

posted from iPhoneSlide.comToday was our first full day in New York. We arrived early in the morning after a sleepless night on the plane. In the spirit of being affordable we road the A train for around an hour (instead of just getting a cab) to our friends [...]

We are leaving to New York City tonight to visit some good friends. We are quite excited, as none of us have been to the big apple before. We have all sorts of things that we want to do and places we want to see, including the Apple Store and SoHo. We [...]

I love wooden toys, especially ones that force you to have a little bit of an imagination. The little bean race car from Nest is just abstract enough to capture the imagination of any kid. It’s not just made of wood either. It’s green wood, and I’m not talking about the color. [...]

In keeping with the holiday spirit I thought I would finish the week off with one more Christmas post. This one comes via treehugger. Designed by Australian Designer Buro North, the “X-Mas Tree” is the first contemporary artificial Christmas tree I have ever seen. Instead of trying to make it look like [...]

Making your Christmas tree look just as modern as the rest of your house just got a little bit easier. CB2 has some great modern Christmas tree ornaments this year at a great price. Most of them are priced between $2-$4 with the one big exception being the 8″ disco ball looking one [...]

OK do it yourselfers, get out your favorite scissors and construction paper, it’s time to get going. Everyone knows that the best kind of affordable is the free kind. Here are two great projects that you can do that will cost you almost nothing. I found the pop up Christmas card on Curbly [...]