Your faithful Stylehound just came across this great wedding blog, Style Me Pretty. Really crisp photos, interesting posts on all kinds of wedding designs. Check it out here:
http://www.stylemepretty.com/
…and scroll down for a post on a wedding with a bird motif—adorable and innovative.

The current post is on the party the author created for her daughter’s first [...]

Have you been stuck at home, wondering what’s going on in design in the world beyond your little corner? Or maybe you’ve just come back from your summer holidays, and your appetite for new ideas is whetted. Either way, you should check out the new Designer Monthly that just went up today, with features on [...]

Wow, thanks for all the votes on the pretty glass drawer pulls. It appears red is the winner, with green coming in a close second. I’m going to order the reds and then I’ll re-photograph and let you know how it looks.

I found the drawer pulls! Online, at a place called House of Antique Hardware, which, by the way, also has all kinds of old-fashioned door knobs and door hardware, those little things that people used to make so they’d be pretty as well as practical.
So, I may be able to Save the Cabinet after all. [...]

How do we measure the passage of time? digital numbers changing, hands on a clock turning, shadow on a sundial?
How about ink spilling forth from a bottle?
Get a load of this “Ink Calendar” by Oscar Diaz. He is really one of the most inventive, interesting designer/artists we’ve encountered lately. He’s in London.
Here is his own [...]

I’m sick of my front hall. And I know better than to have a lousy front hall. The little I know about Feng Shui includes the idea that the entrance to a home is of utmost importance—another lesson from Feng Shui that also squares with basic design sense and basic good sense.
So. From the front [...]

We just found this very cool interactive color site. You can see how color changes a Van Gogh painting, see how colors interact with each other, and generally learn about how color theory works. http://poynterextra.org/cp/index.html

We love it when someone who knows a lot admits to needing help. And we also love Heather Clawson’s  design sense as exhibited on her blog, http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/
Today, she’s asking for help from readers. She has a client who’s fallen in love with the wallcovering shown here, which is from the Roger Arlington showroom, which has, sadly, [...]

In nosing around for wallpaper ideas, your faithful Stylehound found that the Janovic website has before and after photos of “success stories.” Here’s the current one:
http://janovic.com/inspiration/successstory/

Summertime and a designer’s thoughts turn to….green design! here on the East Coast of the U.S. the problem of global warming hasn’t seemed terribly apparent, as temps stay low, but we have to remember it isn’t simply the planet heating up we’re worried about—it’s climate CHANGE. And change isn’t always for the best.

And what can [...]