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Look! Green by Minimizing
From Re-nest: Our site that covers abundant design for green homes

If cleaning and organizing are on your list of resolutions, consider getting green by minimizing. For a bit of inspiration, see what Amber did with her office space. Also, 4 fun ways to reuse your 20...

From The Kitchn: Do You Let Your Pet Clean Your Plate?

Watching our dog lick up every crumb and smear from our dishes over the holidays, we started to wonder where others stand on this. Do you let your pet lick your dishes? Are there specific "do's" and "...

New from UO, Flor Online Outlet & Dachshund Coathanger
From Ohdeedoh: Our site that covers modern homelife with children

This week on Ohdeedoh, we took a look at some new furniture at Urban Outfitters. Perfect for a cool teen room, they could easily work in more grown-up surroundings. Also new this week: Flor launches ...

From The Kitchn: A Gallery of Orange Kitchens

Like it, love it, or hate it, orange has been a popular color in many homes we've seen on Apartment Therapy -- especially in the kitchen. Here is a gallery of some of the orange kitchens we've noticed...

Genius Idea of the Week: Lighting Up Dark Closets with Motion Sensor LEDs
From Unplggd: Our site that untangles your wires

Cheap and easy. We have seen these stick on spot lights at the local hardware store and have always thought they would be perfect for that dark closet, or kitchen pantry. Well, they are! Come on over ...

From The Kitchn: What Are Your Food Resolutions?

We make resolutions for things like keeping a clean house, biking to work, and spending less money - why not throw a few cooking resolutions into the mix? Hear a few of our food and cooking resolution...

From The Kitchn: Predictions for Home Cooking in 2009

What will 2009 bring to our tables? What will be the big stories, the hot new trends, the foods everyone is talking about? Here are a few ideas on what will be most tasty in the year to come. •...

Lili Lite, Art Bag, Sum Design, Glimmerglass & Infectious
NY Slinks

>>The Lili Lite - Thijs Smeets sent us his new design and I like it. Called Lili Lite, it's a reading light, a bookmark and a bookshelf all in one. This is a great solution for small bedrooms! Www...

From The Kitchn: 15 Really Useful Kitchen Gifts

Looking for a last-minute gift for a cook? Try one of these inexpensive classics. Almost everything is under $25, and yet each item is useful, practical, well-designed, and long-lasting. The best kin...

Reimagined Great Depression Posters (Free Downloads!)
From Re-nest: Our site that covers abundant design for green homes

ReadyMade magazine recently asked 5 artists to come up with their own updated twists on the popular poster art of the Great Depression. We're loving the designs and the greenish messages. All 5 poster...

From The Kitchn: Spice Gifts and Vintage Maps

Here's another homemade gift from The Kitchn and our Un-Gift Guide 2008: jars of fresh spices, covered with vintage map cut-outs. So what spices to choose? Here are a few suggestions, plus more ideas ...

Snowflakes by Plaksels, Teen Paint Picks and Playmobil
From Ohdeedoh: Our site that covers modern homelife with children

Perfect for your chalkboard painted wall! Both seasonally appropriate and festive, we found Plaksels this week. They are a Netherlands-based company that sell their wall decals on Etsy. We also looked...

From The Kitchn: Wrap Gifts in a Dishtowel

Furoshiki are Japanese cloths that are used to wrap gifts and other items, such as bento boxes. A dishtowel can be used furoshiki-style instead of wrapping paper. It's especially sweet when wrapping k...

Possibly The First 17th C. Swordfight on Google Maps
From Unplggd: Our site that untangles your wires

So you need to find an address in Google maps and to make sure you know what to look for when you get there you switch over to street view.....and see that it is the building behind the inverted chick...

From The Kitchn: An Alternative Christmas Stocking

As we get closer to the holidays we are scavenging our house for good little decorative touches. As it turns out, the kitchen has some pretty good resources for holiday decorations. Here's our favorit...

From The Kitchn: Fresh-Pressed Rum

Maybe it’s all the memories of rich rum cakes, hot buttered rum, and spiked eggnog, but this holiday season, we’re dreaming about rum. And we’ve been noticing an interesting new trend: rum made ...

From The Kitchn: 10 Modern, Pretty Tea Towels

We've been noticing a lot of fresh, pretty tea towels by independent designers. They're an inexpensive and often colorful way to spruce up your kitchen. Here's a gallery of ten favorite tea towels for...

Behind the Scenes: Adrian Grenier's Green Digs
From Re-nest: Our site that covers abundant design for green homes

Take a peek at Adrian Grenier's Alter Eco headquarters. The place is LEED Platinum Certified and now, thanks to the help of Domino contributing editor Nathan Turner, it's decked out with all sorts of...

From The Kitchn: 11 Salads for Winter Eating

It's cold and chilly outside, and while we're eating copious quantities of soup, we're also craving greens and fresh vegetables. There are plenty of vegetables at their peak this time of year, and man...

Family Portraits, Hello Kitty Hospital & Charley Harper
From Ohdeedoh: Our site that covers modern homelife with children

This week on Ohdeedoh, Carrie wrote: We've been thinking about making a family portrait for the holidays and while there's nothing wrong with the traditional studio portraits at places like JC Penney ...

From The Kitchn: 10 Holiday Uses for Wine Corks

Have you accumulated a supply of wine corks throughout the year? Possibly more rapidly now that holiday season is here? Here are ten festive – and green! – ways to reuse them. • Click here f...

DIY/ Re(al)view: Flatwire 5.1 Surround Sound Wiring Install, Part 3ish
From Unplggd: Our site that untangles your wires

Let's see how that little project called gluing flat speakers to your walls and covering them up with drywall compound in order to make it look like they were never there to begin with is going shall ...

From The Kitchn: Store Grains in Vintage Jars

Last summer I bought these vintage blue canning jars for the flowers at my wedding. They made very pretty centerpieces, but I also had a more functional use for them in mind. • Click here for f...

From The Kitchn: How To Make Hot Sauce

Did you know you can make your own hot sauce with little more than hot peppers, a blender, and some vinegar? The technique is simple - so simple, in fact, that we kept re-checking the instructions in ...

7 Bizarre Yet Wonderful Christmas Tree Alternatives
From Re-nest: Our site that covers abundant design for green homes

Due to pocketbook and environmental concerns, this might be the first year of our lives that we go without a real Christmas tree. Knowing that a substitute of some sort is absolutely crucial -- we sta...