We love a good neighborhood hardware store. With superstores like Home Depot and Lowe's, the local hardware store can easily be overlooked. Honestly, when you have a question or if you aren't reall...
By some odd chance, we recently received a massive, 770-page catalog in the mail from C&H Distributors. "The Storage and Handling Leader" sells heavy duty equipment and industrial supplies. Metro-sh...
The Modern Estate magazine is hardly a beacon of small living. But the current issue, if you can get your hands on it, has an inspiring surface treatment featured in it. It's a wall in the Connecticu...
Marrakesh express... Aware of the growing hipness and attractiveness of the Chelsea Market, we were recently tipped off to yet another resident: Imports of Marrakesh, a wholesale and retail operation...
With lots of experience in NYC, Get Real Surfaces is the place to go for interior concrete finishes. They do thin concrete wall finishes or monolithic concrete tubs. Check out their standard produc...
Who knew buying spiral stairs was this simple? Certainly not us, but at The Iron Shop, it is. Are you building a loft in your apartment? With this shop, you have the option of intalling a sprial sta...
It's a metal wonderland. We've always gone to McNichols for whatever we need in metal. They offer perforated metal sheet, bar grates, stair treats, expanded metal and wire mesh sheets among lots m...
We've seen it used in spectacular ways in restaurants and retail spaces around the city. Cascade Coil Drapery makes a sort of chain maille drapery that is used in the home, too. Most commonly, it's s...
David B. Lytle's family-owned business, Magically Magnetic, sells everything magnetic. Many of the products were developed by Mr. Lytle himself....
Do you have old architectural detailing in your apartment that needs repair? Or do you just want to add some? Then try Dyke's Lumber. They're a fantastic local supplier of wood mouldings, among many ...
For outrageous surfaces and finishes, take a look at Alsa Corporation. They supply "the world's most exotic finishes", from Eclipse wall paint to FXSheeting. Eclipse is a heat-activated, color-changin...
Glass in any form. Headquartered in Brooklyn, Carvart has a delightful range of glass, glass tiles, and glass block. With a showroom on Varick Street you can simply stroll in to get an idea of their...
For a goldmine of paper supplies, Paper Presentation is the place to go. They carry a huge selection of stationary at good prices. They also have decorative papers, invitations, party supplies, ribbon...
While mailboxes are their specialty, Mahvelous Mailboxes also sells a wide variety of home accessories. Most of these are unnecessary for urban apartment dwellers, but I found the selection so intere...
(This is the second post from Regina!) With temperatures outside hitting the high 90’s lately, staying warm is probably the last thing on your mind. That said, Nuheat electric floor heating mats make...
"Plastics, son." Summing up what is good about Canal Plastics is easy, they have everything you need if you are building or fabricating out of plastic. A landmark for those wanting to install slid...
A far better word than plastic. We were having a discussion about room dividers and got the tip to look at 3-Form Ecoresin panels instead. Stephen says: They have some very innovative products, an...
Good wood. A few weeks ago we listed The Mountain Lumber Co., and heard about ...
Yule Log. Over at MUG, they found a good resource for all of you lucky stiffs that have a fireplace. It's called NYC Firewood and rather than say too much, we'll give you a teaser and let you read a...
Tile, tile, tile. A few weeks back we featured a small company that makes glass tiles for the NYC subways system, and a reader wrote in that the best mosiac tiles came from Bisazza. So, we checked t...
Save the trees. We have had a number of clients who have been looking for wood flooring and wanted the look of the old wood floors that are in so many older apartments. While new wood can be doctore...
As far as we are aware, this store is now closed. 8/18/08 - CB Want a piece of history? There are people out there who HATE riding the subway every morning and there are people out there who LOVE i...
Green acres is the place to be. Marston & Langinger opens their SoHo store today, and it should make for some delicious browsing, since it may be hard to take home a new greenhouse in a bag. The Eng...
Did you behave in high school lab? If you are sweating over what to use as a counter top material in your kitchen, here's something else to think about. You can consider marble, formica, butcher blo...
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