Since Wedding Belle, wedding advisor to the whacky, asked for exteme wedding ideas in her post a couple of days ago, I figured I’d chime in here with two words sure to strike fear in the hearts of wedding guests everywhere: Renaissance Wedding.

It was my cousin who did it. Some people, including the bride, her [...]

It’s easy to find great design—I mean, all you have to do is flip through a copy of Architectural Digest at the dentist’s office. Or go to a really fancy benefit party in someone’s fancy home. Or, one way that is cheaper than the dentist or the benefit, and that doesn’t require knowing anyone with [...]

Apparently a couple in Alaska recently hosted their wedding at a swimming pool. Not just AT the pool, but actually IN the pool. Instead of a walk down the aisle, the bride slid down a 136 foot slide into the water to meet her groom.
Alaska + March + Swimming pool = Wedding?
 
Thankfully, the pool [...]

Whenever I visit one of these home design shows, I’m always on the lookout for the unusual, for the bold design, and for something functional also. After all, when you live in a space-challenged city apartment, you want furniture pieces to multi-task too! I wandered around the recent Architectural Digest Home Design Show with a [...]

A McDonald’s restaurant in Southern California has taken the bold step of getting a Feng Shui makeover, a move which at first glace may seem a little like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear—or in this case, a silk purse out of a cow’s ear.
Feng Shui is based partly on [...]

At this weekend’s wedding I experienced something I never expected…well really a few things I never expected, but here’s just one of them. Adam was quite surly all evening. Suzy wanted a massive dance party that went on all night. When it was time to do the chair dance and the Hora the (Jewish) groom [...]

I’ve got tile on my mind.

I know, many people may have more pressing concerns—global climate change, the presidential elections, what to do on Saturday night. And it isn’t like tile has been on my mind long. I mean, this isn’t a life-long obsession.
Here’s what happened. I went to an Open House on Sunday. That was [...]