How To Design Your Room

Two terrible trends inward 1 kitchen: dearest woods as well as dark granite. E very yr closed to this time, interior designers declare which trends are the ones to spotter (and that nosotros should probably all redecorate our homes with, ASAP). This year, a few completely immature adult woman the mark — and volition invariably hold upwards met alongside "what were you lot thinking?" stares come upwards 2015.  Not-So-Hot Trend#1: Macrame Los Angeles designer Betsy Burnham late told the Wall Street Journa l (where everyone goes for decorating tips, obviously) that 2014 is going to hold upwards the yr of macrame. "We haven't seen it since the 70s," she said. "I intend it's time." I intend she's wrong. And, unfortunately, she's everywhere: In some other article, Burnham advised replacing accent walls alongside macrame fine art from Etsy. Sorry, but replacing 1 incorrect alongside some other incorrect doesn't brand a right

Crest Mint Chocolate Toothpaste I'm a Crest loyalist, but I direct maintain my doubts most chocolate-flavored toothpaste. If I genuinely wanted my breath to aroma similar chocolate, I'd consume a slice of — get this — chocolate. Yet Crest claims the "rich, creamy cocoa flavor" is a calorie-free means to indulge, although I ordinarily similar to swallow my chocolate, non spit it inwards the sink. Skepticism aside, I'll likely live on suckered into buying a tube, merely to tell I tried it. Or perhaps I'll become for ane of the other slightly to a greater extent than palatable-sounding flavors: Vanilla Mint Spark in addition to Lime Spearmint Zest. Cookie Dough Oreos Who, yous mightiness ask, buys all of the bizarre flavors of Oreos that direct maintain come upwardly out over the in conclusion few years? Me, that's who. I'm a sucker for novelty products, in addition to inwards this case, I'm legit excited, because 2 of my favorite flav

As I mentioned before, I'm inward a combat of a blueish phase . Unfortunately, it seems that the residue of the decorating basis is not. I get got an insanely hard fourth dimension finding blueish accessories for my living room! (Maybe I should get got that equally a sign...) But non to live deterred, I've resorted to making my ain blueish accent pieces. Several months back, I purchased this tray for $5 from a garage sale: It was originally red, in addition to I painted it orange. (I had some pillows of a similar color I wanted to match.) But when I realized the pillows didn't tally my living room, I was left alongside a tray that didn't expect right, either.  After months of staring at it alongside disgust, I lastly got around to redoing it. I had some leftover high-gloss regal blueish pigment from some other project, which, on overstep of the orangish (I was inward no mood to prime), came out closer to navy. The high-gloss looks great, almost similar a

Before & After Reupholstering a chair is expensive — like, upwards of $300 expensive. Of course, going the reupholstery road makes feel if you've invested inwards pricey furniture. But I've never been willing to accept the plunge, since most of the chairs I desire to modify are Goodwill cast-offs. It's difficult to justify dropping $300 to redo a $10 chair.  Most recently, I decided 1 of living room chairs needed a facelift. I purchased this 1 a few years back, too land it looked skilful inwards my lastly apartment's living room, it felt also modern inwards my electrical flow one, amongst its sleek dark legs too off-white fabric. My vision: Make this contemporary slice hold off similar an antique, but amongst a piddling colorful flair.  I chose a daffodil yellowish pigment for the upholstery (to fit a West Elm chair on the other side of the room), too gracefully curved wooden legs to supersede the contemporary ones.  Did I actually country PAINT an

Framingham, MA, is maybe most known for the Framingham Heart Study, a decades-long enquiry projection tracking the wellness of its residents. But the New England town is also the  heartbeat of  a society that millions of Americans love: TJX, which includes T.J. Maxx, Marshall's, in addition to my favorite, HomeGoods. The society dates dorsum to 1919, when ii brothers, Max in addition to Morris Feldberg, opened the New England Trading Company, based inwards Boston. H5N1 decade later, they opened their foremost retail store, which specialized inwards i item: women's hosiery. (Kind of weird, right?)  Fast-forward to the 1950s, when the Feldberg menage unit of measurement opened a discount division store chain, Zayre (which agency "very good" inwards Yiddish). It wasn't until 1977 that the foremost T.J. Maxx opened, in addition to from the beginning, the store specialized inwards "off-price" merchandise —a model that was passed onto HomeGoods, launc