Daily Find
Channel-surf on a rainy Sunday and you are bound to come across a dozen home décor shows with jaw-dropping before and after shots of Ikea-heavy dorm rooms turned into palatial, Architectural Digest-worthy parlors. More often than not, the designer is able to make this transformation with a meager allowance and a few buckets of paint. But without the benefit of the HGTV production squad and a celebrity designer, turning your own home into a design masterpiece is a major challenge.
By Natalie Bow | April 16, 2007
Convergence Zone
What's the first thing you do when you start organizing a room (or garage, or kitchen)? You shop for all those cool organizer drawers, racks, hooks, baskets, etc. Right? Wrong! You pick up Laura Leist's book, "Eliminate Chaos" ($19.95, published by Sasquatch Books, May 2006) and take a step-by-step...
By Kathy Schultz | May 24, 2006
Seattle Style File
We've found great new places where you can shop to enlarge your wardrobe (or your waistline!); plus a sample sale for a good cause; nipple concealers for slinky dresses (another good cause!); custom jeans embellishments; Lincoln Square's new Container Store and more.
By Kathy Schultz | November 9, 2005