Design Mecca, or a reasonably-priced facsimile thereof, opens next Wednesday in Austin (September 30th)! Our new West Elm store will be offering 10% off in-store purchases through October 4th. Stuff I'm eyeing: So thrilled [...]
Crazy steal on this bed from World Market: While you're at their website, check out WMRadio for a little dose of funky music.
PHOEBE (my 4.5-year old): Mommy, you wanna see a funny guy? ME: Of course! PHOEBE: There's a funny guy in this magazine. (Picks up Lumber Liquidators catalog.) ME: There's a funny guy in there? PHOEBE: Yeah, look!
I caught up with Eddie Ross (from Season 2 of now defunct Top Design) today on his way back to New York from a flea market shopping trip in Washington, DC. Now…Jason Champion set up this little phone chat on [...]
Hell is a cold, cold place since Sunday afternoon. Thanks to my BFF Karen, my client/friend Dana, and never-met-before-but-follows-my-blog Josef in Dallas, I have embraced Twitter. This is a line I swore I would never cross and actually thought the [...]
In this very special episode, we see Antonio Ballatore take his victory lap after winning Season 4 of HGTV's Design Star. Since Antonio's working on his own home, we get a peek at what he would do if there were [...]
Just noticed in my handy-dandy Costco coupon mailer that they are offering 15-30% off closet storage and organizational built-ins from Easy Closets, if you order online through Costco. Easy Closets is a great DIY resource...they offer free next-biz-day shipping (although [...]
Loving some new stuff down at Crate & Barrel:
Congratulations to Dan Vickery, who won the Design Star viewer vote and will be awarded his own online show, soon to come on hgtv.com!
As I’ve been transcribing yesterday’s interview with Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore, I’m having the hardest time not spelling out his dialogue phonetically. Between his New Yawk accent and my Texas Twang, this is one crazy audio file. [...]