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Add This To Your Blog Roll: ReDesign Diva

From old dresser drawers to new stylin' night tables. Maxwell, this has your name all over it! We don't drink coffee, but boy do we miss that morning jolt. We got it this morning. Not because we a...

Green Gift Idea: Kor Limited Edition Water Vessel

Here's a gift we'd happily receive this holiday season: A limited edition BPA-free Kor water vessel. Proceeds from the sales of the bottles go to nonprofits working to protect the environment....

Family of Three, 380 Square Feet
Los Angeles Times

It's one thing to live in a 140-square-foot house. It's another thing to live in a 380-square-foot house with your partner and your 9-month old son (and a dog). But that's what Kelly Breslin, Ryan...

Room in a Wardrobe: Second Skin by Rene Siebum

We love furniture that is multi-functional and space saving. This beautiful wardrobe designed by Rene Siebum not only functions as a light fixture, bookcase, closet and room divider, but with the doo...

Candle Centerpiece from Plastic Utensils
ReadyMade Magazine

We've shared our love of Readymade Magazine's MacGyver Challenges before. This recent one's no different and the timing is perfect; construct a few of these to light your Thanksgiving table. You co...

No Impact Week, Again
What's Stopping You?

It's not too late to participate in another No Impact Week, inspired by Colin Beaven, the No Impact Man. We pointed it out last month but didn't hear much back from readers, so either the idea for par...

Cosmic Muffin: A Plane That's Now a Boat

As an resident of Los Angeles, seeing 2012, the latest end-of-the-world disaster film, last night was a little...well...it's kinda disturbing to watch as the city you live in and know intimately crum...

Inspiration: A Ladder Bookshelf

We've outgrown our two bookshelves, and have been looking for another one. We'd love to try out this solution....

Dreamgate Wallband: Lightweight Cork Headboard Solution

Studio 1a.m. is comprised of the combined talents and designs of Donna Piacenza and Jody Work. You might remember their, This Table Will Self Destruct that we featured previously. They're back agai...

Living Without Electricity in Normandy
Dwell

Jean-Baptiste Barache's home in a small Normandy town two hours northwest of Paris was an architecture experiment "seeking to integrate us with, not isolate us from, the elements," and the house app...

A Different Tree House: Whole Tree Architecture
Natural Home Magazine

This striking home is a refreshing take on a "tree house," utilizing whole, unmilled trees (and not the strong ones in the forest, either, but the weak and diseased ones) to create an environmentally-...

Before & After: An $80 Rental Kitchen Makeover

BEFORE: Particleboard cabinets, dingy backsplash, colorless. My husband and I moved into our current rental apartment one year ago, and while we loved the fact that the kitchen was separate, roomy an...

Gift Black List: What We Won't Give This Holiday Season
Most Popular Posts

We know it's not even Thanksgiving yet, but some of you may already be getting a jump on holiday shopping. So sorry to go all Bah! Humbug! on everyone, but we thought this was a very appropriate topic...

Farmhouse Chic: Rugged & Elegant Inspiration

The words themselves are not a natural fit. Farmhouse being a rugged, rustic, utilitarian term. Chic being elegant, stylish and fashionable. But somehow when combined it's a match made in design hea...

Life in 140 Square Feet
Natural Home

Gregory Paul Johnson lives in a tiny, off-the-grid house. But, instead of telling us about the environmental benefits (and there are plenty), he's focused on how moving into a 140-sq-foot house has ...

Dragging Your Feet: Making Green Compromises

Right after we made the choice to switch our bulbs from incandescents to CFLs, a very opinionated friend of ours came by. "Ugh," he said, "I hate CFLs. The light they give off is so awful." We agr...

Thankgiving Tables from Flickr

In search of inspiration for setting our table this year, I turned to Flickr and found a good mix of traditional, modern, colorful and crafty tables! ...

The Green X-Ray House
South San Francisco

A home remodel in and of itself is a daunting task, but tack on making the home green as well and it can quickly seem too overwhelming to bear. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be. The City of South ...

Restored Church Converted Into Home

High ceilings, dramatic rooms, period details and stained glass are just some of the benefits of living in a recently restored church. This one was recently restored by a couple in Kyloe, Northumber...

LED Spark Light Sculptures by Daniel Becker

We're big fans of atmospheric lighting (we rely on lamps in our living room and never use the overhead lights). So we're right on board with Daniel Becker's Spark system, a series of energy-efficie...

Living Without a Fridge: Could You Do It?
Most Popular Posts

Can you live without a fridge? Some people do. The New York Times wrote an article about a number of people who are choosing to ditch their energy consumption —even Energy Star consumption&md...

Green Extreme: Mark Boyle Living Without Cash

Move over No Impact Man, Mark Boyle is living in a solar RV on an organic farm ... and he's given up cash. Take that! (Just kidding, Mr. Beavan. There's more than enough room for both of you!)...

A Ribbon Apartment in Manhattan

Young designer Alan YL Chan took on the difficult task of personally renovating his 400 square feet dark, cramped and deteriorating Manhattan apartment – all while living in it and only 3 years ou...

Inspiration: Crate Bookshelf by 20.87 EStudio

Cross the re-purposed milk crate trend with the "boxes into shelving" trend and you come up with this bookshelf by 20.87 Estudio... ...

Casa Familia: Eco-Tech Coastal Living

Name: Casa Familia Location: San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma) Type: 1950 home Kevin wrote in to share this this "reinterpretation of quintessential Southern California courtyard houses", a coastal r...