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We have an email shop here at work, and a coworker was selling some never used, JC Penney Home drapes w/ matching throw pillows, just what I need for the new family room! Now, if we can just close tonight... [Read More]

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Did you know that it's almost Mother's Day? A marketing opportunity like no other that is celebrated all around the world (albeit on different days)? Although I don't do Hallmark holidays, it seems everyone else does so here's a few ideas for gifts f [Read More]

Seen everywhere at the moment (including the HomeGoods store, the big box DIY warehouses and not forgetting the coral version in a href="http://www.modernemama.com/2009/04/coral-is-still-in.html"yesterday's pos/at), no one seems ready to declare cera [Read More]

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We are starting to toy around with some ideas for redoing our bedroom. The walls are pink and the carpet is beige, both from the prior owners. The walls are imperfect behind, covered with some 5 layers of wallpaper and below that is calcimine paint [Read More]

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Holiday Peace Light Prior to moving to Brooklyn, I lived in a western Massachusetts college town for a fairly long time.  It was a small house on a street that had been built and developed mostly in the 1970’s.  On that street I met a neig [Read More]

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Suddenly they are everywhere, Pixel designs. But remember where you saw them first - master bedroom October 2004The Pixel Couch. Designed by Cristian Zuzunaga for Kvadrat, July 2008Pixel by Habitat bed cover, London, UK, NYT Spring 2008Pixel by Habit [Read More]

We did it, we drank the Kool-Aid, followed the pack, joined the 21st century, whatever you want to call it - we bought a flat screen HDTV small enough to fit in the media center. In our fantasy world it looks something like this photo. In the real w [Read More]

There are hundreds of species of Iris and they one of the most recognised garden plants. Not only beautiful but useful too, the dried rhizomes, orris root, are used in medicine, perfume, gin and as an ingredient in the Moroccan spice mix Ras el hanou [Read More]

This French Restoration bedroom circa 1823 looks so modern it would fit right into my house today. Part of House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors From the Thaw Collection, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan. The ex [Read More]

I wanted my décor to reflect the era of the house and tell my story. I sorted through things I already had to find like items for grouping. In the living room I started with photographs of ancestors since genealogy and family history are two of my l [Read More]

Some people have tons of patience and some like to poke and push to get results. Guess which one I am?Modernemama: Honey, notice anything different?The Guy: You cut your hair?M: NoThirty minutes later:M: I bought another ball to go in the red bowlTG: [Read More]

For the past year or so I've been thinking about how to beautify the exterior of our house (it doesn't help when I watch Curb Appeal since I want to rip everything out and start anew).  We definitely need to do something about the red(ish) paint on [Read More]