Abstract painting? Cave art? Woodgrain? Nope. It's a marble called Stone Wood. Saw it at Youngstone yesterday while looking at remnants. I can't imagine making a countertop out of it, but it'd make an interesting coffee table or piece of [...]
Love. Might have to rework Phoebe's room in order to incorporate one of these puppies. Disclosure Notice: Robin Callan is a paid blogger for PB Teen's parent company Williams-Sonoma, but she still thinks these pendant lights are rad. [...]
Austinite Heather is a finalist in Making it Lovely's contest to win 150,000 AMEX Membership points and a makeover plan for her front porch. Heather's a fellow Fu For Thought reader like yourself, so please take a moment to go [...]
After hearing this story a few weeks ago, I begged Room Fu designer Claire Patrick to do a guest blog post about her recent do-it-yourself (DIY) project gone wrong. If you've ever accidentally glued your fingers together with SuperGlue (or [...]
I haven't been all that prolific a blogger since the beginning of the year when business suddenly blew up (in a good way) but I really dropped off the planet in the last couple of weeks, didn't I! Unfortunately, it [...]
Remember way back during the dot-com boom, when it wasn't unusual to see foosball tables and lounge spaces in offices around town? The companies I worked for had basketball courts, volleyball courts, walking trails, picnic tables...and a nap room. Ahhh, [...]
Last week's Christmas Crawl continues with my fave holiday wrapping:
Still on vacation, but have a few announcements regarding the folks associated with Design Star for you HGTV diehards out there: MATT LOCKE, Season 3 Finalist My buddy Matt Locke has spent the past few months creating a curated collection [...]
We're still on vacation, we Callans...and happily so. Last week we stopped in Colorado Springs so we could take our little Christmas fanatic to the North Pole, where I promptly made a total fool of myself screaming like a banshee [...]
We Callans are on vacation, which is something that hasn't happened since our trip to Marfa two years ago. (Read about our initial shock followed by awe of that trip here and here.) This year, we're road tripping to my [...]