New Blog Shows You How to Spruce Up Your Listings

By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR Magazine It's time to get those listings styled, staged and sold! ... ' Show in Las Vegas, including design forecasts, new home product innovations, and inside looks ... , remodeling, staging, and design psychology. If you have something to say about home & design in real [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:40:29

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Solaleya Makes Weird Houses Feel Normal

Solaleya Dome Home Photo Solaleya makes highly efficient homes. They showed off their designs at West Coast Green last week. The thing is, they look a bit like landed UFOs. Not that dome houses are exactly new, but they also aren't the most common of house forms. Even so, I have to admit I totally wanted to live [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 16:51:22

Make Your Listing Beautiful, Make it Sell: New Blog!

How can you get those listings styled, staged and sold? ... " home and remodeling trends, strategies for using design psychology, and more. This week the blog unveils the latest home product innovations and design trends from the 2009 International Builders' Show [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:35:39

Modern Garden Designs

With the South African borders opening up to international trends and styles, you can now have a garden that speaks of international influence ... in a magazine or on a television show and you want it incorporated in modern garden designs, let Kingfisher ... gardens for home owners, estates and corporate clients we are perfectly placed to make modern gard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 07:51:01

Larson Recliner swings your body in style

Recliner chairs are not items of luxury but of necessity, and manufacturers from all around the world keep us showing new designs every now and then. The “ ... differentiate it from the traditional home recliners. A channeled pillow back offers your neck a firm [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:54:50

Tuesday Links of Love

I have to apologize for the lack of “industry news” or late night links of love but I have been glued to the television at various friends’ homes ... as I am finally home and watching CNN. Bookstream aspired to provide an independent distribution source ... to really appreciate the technology that Phillips Design Probe is showing. The Electronic Tattoo [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:14:01

Chinatown's 'grandchildren' celebrate

Ron Louie has successfully designed high-end homes from Santa Monica to San Marino for four decades ... sacrifice, we wouldn’t be where we are today.” Organizers will show historic photographs, a swing band ... outlining the roof lines of his three buildings — an ornament that long distinguished Central Plaza [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 23:22:10

The Passion of the Obama?! 'CNN Newsroom' Showcases Obama Iconography

Shortly before noon today, CNN anchor Tony Harris turned to producer Tyson Wheatley for a look at the latest from CNN's "iReport" desk. Wheatley proceeded to show Harris and the viewers at home some of the art work done by CNN's ... design student at Georgia State University. This is a topography project, and the concept was inspired [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:26:59

MTM: MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2008

Cowboy reading. 2008 Michigan Notable Books(Congrats to WSU for their fine showing).Does every state have Notable Books for the year? What were yours?Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern, by Diane Maddex (Alden B. Dow Home & Studio, distributed by W.W. ... (1904-1983) celebrates his creative and innovative designs for homes, churches, schools and government [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:00:00

Next Target Home Designer (Fab!), Another Gossip Girl Cover

Happy Thursday everyone, we hope today is going swimmingly for you! ... than the brights we adore, and the designs do not carry motifs associated with a ‘prep style.’ ... about a Gossip Girl spinoff; word now that the new show is moving forward. The details are in this story [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:30:57

The 9 best products DVICE saw at CES 2009 (and 9 we wish we'd seen)

It's a given that in the giant-size cornucopia of technology that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show, ... the charger to power your iPod for a picnic on a perfect summer day. It's a hardy, functional design ... remote controllers available for your home entertainment systems, lighting and so on. But what would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:34:37

Home Heist

While surfing around for images of craftsman bungalow homes (my dream home style), I came upon the HGTV Canada site (what is it with me and Canadian design these days?). They have a show called Colin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:18:00

Obsessed.

That is what a friend called me when I showed her the number of floor plans, furniture, designs, houses I have bookmarked on the web ... . I prefer to call it really longing for a house. :) We are actually looking for lot here ... about the future so Ill be more than happy to indulge in his plans. Schumacher Homes Press [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 02:19:24

CES 2009 home audio wrap-up

With its unique design, built-in BD-Live Blu-ray player, Netflix onboard, and Wi-Fi compatibility, the Samsung HT-BD7200 encapsulated cutting-edge home theater this year. (Credit: Samsung) The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is history. As far ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:42:39

Katherine Heigl Selling Starter Home

Okay children, Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter have finally winged our way back home ... floor plan. Stunning walls of glass to view city from downtown to ocean. Professionally designed ... and exuberantly beige day-core. Listing information shows that the house includes an open floor [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 13:03:22

Beautiful Decorative Ceramic Vessels From Etsy

This decorative vessel features an incised stylized lotus design ... fired for color and design. It has been surface-treated for ease of cleaning. It is - like all modern ... Beautiful Toilet Show and Some Tips For Choosing Toilet Calculating Your Home Resale Value Creative [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:51:18

Frazetta Caricatures Composition

Frank Frazetta became a master at composition and hierarchy - so much so that his work is almost a caricature of artistic control ... to show how the whole big picture is a blatant graphic design. If you click them and then look ... to say. Big budget movies look like expensive home movies to me these days. They just follow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:56:00

Cadillac Converj Concept: Electric-Hybrid Coupe Breaks Cover at Detroit Show

.fullpost{display:inline;}Combining a sexy fastback-coupe design with GM's Voltec electric propulsion system that is similar to the one found in the ... that operates much like a home generator to create electricity.The electric engine powers the front ... the Converj concept has production substance. "It's a logical extension of our plan to reinvent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:51:00

Joe’s Jeans giveaway: Winner #2!!

Congratulations to Terina, pictured here with her adorable kiddos, for being our second designer jean giveaway winner! ... on the bum.) Terina wrote: I have been a stay-at-home mom for 6 years and could really use a lift ... to show off my new figure. Most of the jeans I own are pre-baby and the styles are just not current [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 15:05:30

Photography DIY - How to Make a Panoramic Tripod Head for $10!

I, too, have been guilty of taking a lot of panoramic digital photos but none of them really came out “perfect” but here’s a great DIY that shows ... head for an SLR isn’t too hard or expensive. The parts for the design shown here cost about $10. Every part here is available at a store like Home Depot. Once you get past some of the misinformation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:44:02

Handmade By Heidi & Seek

My grandfather used to tell me, “Things aren’t made the way they used to be” ... ; Seek is a one-woman show that has me standing for an encore. Her name is Hayley Lau, her home base is Australia and her wares are eco-friendly, sweatshop free and totally affordable. She designs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:00:10

Show Off Your Work & Win Some Jewelry!

I'm a woman of questionable taste. I love LoLs, odd SNL skits and humor based on flatulence and falling down. { ... to Wordpress & custom theme by Sharp Wit Designs from the wonderful Green and Clean Mom. I am so excited to get a new home for my little blawg. I have some BIG plans for the site. Lots of new bells [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 18:49:11

Project Runway: Michael Kors And His Plain White Tees

Previously - No one was sent home. Well, they all were but it wasn't because any of them lost. The four remaining designers will create collections, bring them back and then ONE of them will be axed. Yes, this happened last season as well. Look, Bravo's losing the damn show. They don't care [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 21:15:06

A Cheeky Way to Put Product Description In Context

I’ve written before how showing products in context with product images can help increase conversion ... ) can be used in a simple, at-home comparison of corresponding stacks of TPR, helping you make an informed ... of twenty-one toilet paper rolls (TPRs), your imagination, and your design and rendering skills [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:29:39

Qore Episode 08 Tomorrow– Featuring Killzone 2, F.E.A.R. 2, and Heavy Rain

The Qore team’s put together a terrific show to kick off 2009 as Qore – Episode 08 hits the PlayStation Store tomorrow and features some of the ... their scare as well as some tricks they use to create really spooky sound design. From the San Francisco Bay ... , underground Street Fighter Club and take a spin with the legendary DJ Qbert at his home studio [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:02:45

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