Tag: Honor Roll

Alex Papachristidis’ home is over the top and amazing. Those dining room window treatments got me like whoa. 😍

Thoughts on the loss of F.A.O. Schwartz.

“You know you have a good design when you show it to people and they say, ‘oh, yeah, of course,’ like the solution was obvious.”

Existential riddles.
“A woman running a marathon overtakes the person in second place. What place is she in now?
She is now in second place. She’s always in second place. Stephen was right.”

Aw, poor Rollie. All it wants to do is make some delicious egg tubes for you.

A desert in bloom with pink flowers!

A look at some of the children of Instagram with followers in the tens and hundreds of thousands.

The most amazing miniature worlds, creating in antique ring boxes, and a modern dollhouse that gets all the details right.

We do have some architectural gems in Oak Park. I love that you can walk by the FLW studio, and up and down the street will be people from all over the country. From all over the world.

“Now see heaah…”

There is a museum, in France, devoted to amazingly detailed miniature sets. I want very badly to visit.

Behind the scenes with a photographer who creates and shoots her own miniature sets.

“The comments around Ashley’s makeover were… spirited, to say the least.” Yep.

Did you catch Apartment Therapy’s new “Design School” series? Pretty vignettes in the first post, but readers weren’t into the overall room. It’s the front of a Victorian with double parlors: a tricky space to design a modern floor plan for.

I know, because it’s almost identical to my library! Picture the wall of books on their fireplace wall, then imagine their two windows are curved and you’ve got my room.

Heeeeey, watcha doin’ on Sunday? Silly, you’re checking out the Periscope Open House! We have a hashtag and everything. Can you guess what it is? #periscopeopenhouse

Every 15 minutes, starting at 10:00 Eastern, there will be a different house tour. Some (like mine) are old, historic homes, some are mid-century, and some are very much in-progress renovations. I’m slated for the 10:45 slot (find me @makingitlovely), but things may change between now and then. The best way to catch them all is to start with Erica (@vintagedesignme on Periscope). This is going to be fun!

Do trends change the way you feel about the items you own? Do you like something less, just because so many others like it now, too?

50 years of Mold-A-Rama at Brookfield Zoo. (Which reminds me — we don’t have one for Calvin yet! Eleanor has an elephant, and August has a gorilla.)

The meal delivery start-ups are coming for your dinner. To help you make dinner.

Blame Brandon for this one: the Toilet Sarlaac.

“Happy birthday to you” is in the public domain!

A little over a decade ago, Mayor Daley had GIANT Xs carved into Meigs Field under the cover of darkness, effectively closing the little airport on Lake Michigan.

It was kind of a dick move (do you guys remember this story outside of Chicago?), but he wanted a park, not an airstrip for private planes. And now, all these years later, we have Northerly Island Park.

p.s. 30 of Chicago’s most beautiful streets.

Happy Force Friday! I trust we’ll all be sleeping soundly in our Millennium Falcon beds tonight, yes?

Goodwill’s new boutiques are taking a page from Urban Outfitters in an effort to draw in new customers.

A kitchen “retrovated” into The Simpsons’ kitchen IRL.

The weather needs to change so I can dress my baby like a little pointy-headed cutie. Swedish gnome chic!

The parodies of high fashion ads by French photographer Nathalie Croquet are spot-on. I actually dig the look more on “the average woman” for some, but others highlight the absurdity of the original images. [via]

Instructions for a super cute DIY balloon animal plushie!

So looking forward to Mindy Kaling’s new book. Have you seen this excerpt yet?
“People’s reaction to me is sometimes “Uch, I just don’t like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great.” But it’s not that I think I’m so great. I just don’t hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don’t let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don’t hate themselves. “

The amount of thought that goes into costume design to create a believable character is always amazing, from the serious shows to the silly. Here’s a look at some of the decisions behind the outfits in Wet Hot American Summer.

Check out my entryway, switched up and reorganized for the start of the new school year! That new coat rack has been the most useful addition.