Furniture & Arrangement

Are You Ready To Kiss Your Books And Bookcases Goodbye?

September 12, 2011 Accessories

Over the last decade deep wall units that once held boxy televisions have become passé as people have switched to flat panel screens and smaller media cabinets. Many older entertainment centers with pocket doors have been converted to provide closed storage or adjusted to accommodate flat panel televisions on pedestals or on wall-mounts. This morning [...]

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Donating Unused Exercise Equipment: A Hot Idea From A Cool Client

August 24, 2011 Accessories

When TJ MacDermott, and I began working on his master bedroom after redecorating the rest his Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, it was clear to both of us that his elliptical exercise machine had to go. The behemoth was taking up way too much space since he hardly ever used it, so I suggested TJ [...]

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The Best Coffee Tables: Let’s Go Get Stoned

August 16, 2011 Accessories

If the constant maintenance your glass coffee table requires is making you think about buying stock in Windex or your wooden cocktail tabletop has seen better days, try one of my favorite tricks for making a high maintenance, fragile or older coffee table better looking and more practical: just add a new stone top. I [...]

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For Good Feng Shui: Bedrooms Without Desks

August 4, 2011 Feng Shui

When I founded Use What You Have Interiors my desk was set up in my bedroom. This was in 1981, a few years before Sarah Rossbach and Professor Lin Yun introduced Feng Shui (pronounced “Fung Shway”) to the West with their book, Interior Design with Feng Shui, and I learned that placing a workstation in [...]

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