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Raised Home Design – Renovated Guest Homes at Russian Resort

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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As part of a total resort reconstruction, which invited some of Russia’s top architects to flex their muscles, so to speak, most of the buildings here are designed by architect Totan Kuzembaev – including Red Guest Houses. Located in Moskovskaya Oblast, Russia, this unusual raised home design took center stage and even picked up a [...]



Progressive Architecture – Timber and Stone Two-homes-in-one Design

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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Slovenian architecture firm Superform, known for their progressive architecture, furniture and interior design, has delivered on all these expectations (and then some!) with a progressive timber home design in the town of Ljubno ob Savinji, about 70 kilometers from Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana. A combination of two houses, this unusual house separates the living and [...]



Natural Eye, Neutral Eye!!

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Fashion & Beauty, Featured, Style Trend Forcasting

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This all-inclusive kit From Two Faced includes nine essential shadows for all-over lid color, highlighting, smudging, and more. The kit’s contents were formulated and hand-selected by Too Faced Creative Director, Jerrod Blandino, to create the most universally flattering eyeshadow look for any woman and for almost any occasion. The pure-pigmented eyeshadow [...]



NEW YORK INTERLUDE

By Ty Wenzel • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Featured, General, Videos

Was feeling blue, so I took a couple of buses to get away for a few days, first from East Hampton, NY to Montvale, NJ, to Manhattan back to East Hampton, NY in the course of three days. Decided to film it, star in it and and share it. Although it seems that I look [...]



FLICKER FILES: family room entryway area

By Ty Wenzel • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Featured, Flickr Files, Interiors Exteriors

family room entryway area, originally uploaded by revolutionarygirl.
The muted colors and the interesting retro details really make this simple composition quite stylish.

NEW Eames Chair Leather Recliner Lounger and ottoman

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Flickr Files: Rooms that Make Me Drool

By Ty Wenzel • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Featured, Flickr Files, Home & Room Tours, Interiors Exteriors, Retro Modern
Cheery REtro

Peter Hvidt AX Chair Danish Modern Eames Era

7 Bids
US $230.00
28m

MID CENTURY DANISH MODERN Dining Chairs [...]



OVERSTOCK.com still has the BEST Mid-Century-Modern Knockoffs…

By Ty Wenzel • Jan 7th, 2010 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors, Product & Merch, Retro Modern, Style for Less Dough

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Whether it’s Eames, Saarinen, or Bertoia, you can find a direct knock-off to their most famous pieces, particularly in the chairs, dining chairs and seating departments.  I have the Saarinen tulip chair knock-off and I LOVE IT.  It’s very obvious with these pieces exactly who they are shamelessly knocking off, but really, if you want [...]



25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Portfolio Sites

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Resources, Website Design
Awesome Tutorial Portfolio Design

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Designing a quality portfolio website is a must for any aspiring designer. In this post we’ll look at 25 tutorials that will lead you through the process of designing a portfolio site in Photoshop. Hopefully these tutorials will teach you some new tricks and techniques that will be useful to [...]



Home Tour: 497 greenwich St

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Featured, Home & Room Tours, Interiors Exteriors

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Plycraft Leather Lounger Eames Style Retro Vintage look

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US $99.69
18h 20m

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MCM lighting by rejuvenation

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors

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Fresh and futuristic, these handcrafted aluminum fixtures are an elegant addition to a wide array of interiors. Their iconic status stems from widespread use in the 1950’s and 1960’s in commercial settings: hotels, office buildings and even churches, making them easily recognizable to enthusiasts and those who lived through the era. Today [...]



Home Tour: shadywood residence via BlueAntStudio

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Featured, Home & Room Tours, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting

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8 Brand NEW HardCover MODERN Architecture Books GEHRY

US $299.00
2h 47m

ATOMIC [...]



Built In Book Cases

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: DIY Junkies, Featured

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For this project, we needed built-in book cases for a long wall. By using pre-drilled melamine laminated boards and pre-built cabinets from the local home store, we were able to build them with a minimum of tools, and get a perfect fit to the room. Materials The book cases are made [...]



Tiny House Design in the Australian Outback

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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A tiny treasure in the Australian outback, this cool, tiny house design by Australia architects Casey Brown Architecture brings a bit of the unexpected into its natural surroundings. This prefab cottage measures only 10 by 10 ft., clad in copper with a glass-enclosed lower level revealed when the shades are drawn. This rustic house style [...]



Sustainable Urban Architecture in Kansas City

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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Architects Lauren and Eric Wendlandt with Kansas City based Framework Design architecture firm are the brains behind this 6,500-sq.-ft. sustainable home that encompasses residential, commercial and workshop space in one. This Kansas City urban architecture has character, inside and out. The wood clad house combines a natural appeal with industrial-chic elements, artfully blending a home [...]



Recycled Copper Sinks – new contemporary sink range by Native Trails

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors
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Having just enjoyed a successful release this year, these recycled copper sinks from Native Trails have predicted the trends. Hot for 2010 is anything eco-conscious, putting this new contemporary sink range on the must-have lists of trend-seekers and trend-setters alike. The eco collection includes a variety of sink styles in different shapes and dimensions, all [...]



Wood Country Home with a Centrifugal Layout in New York

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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OBRA Architects had some circular logic for their stunning wood country home design in Southampton, New York. Among the grass and trees of this five-acre property, this wonderful wood clad house features an unusual floor plan with a hollow center, “as if the heart of the house had somehow fallen outside its body,” according to [...]



Innovative Forest Architecture enables constant contact with the forest!

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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When Netherlands architecture firm Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten designed this striking forest home in Teteringen, near Breda, they took into account some important must-haves for the homeowners, namely an eco house design. The move toward sustainable architectural design sets the tone for this project among the trees; a wood clad house that is “green” [...]



Amazing Modern Lamps by Roger Borg

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors, Style Trend Forcasting

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RADIAL STACKED SERIES
it’s always interesting to see where work leads.  more than one great artist has stated that work begets work, that by continually addressing problems and pursuing solutions in the studio, by this ongoing conversation with materials and ideas, we are led to places that otherwise [...]



The Most Gorgeous Blank Greeting Cards ever: D*P*S

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Design & Graphics, Featured, Green Me Baby!, Product & Merch
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What started in 2005 as a hobby with a hand-drawn Christmas card sent out to friends and family members has proved too fun to not do as an enterprise.  Based in Minneapolis MN, D*P*S consistently proves to be a trendsetting design studio publishing the absolutely coolest blank greeting cards.
We begin with the always fun and [...]



SLIM HANGING FIREPLACE | CREATES NEW FIRE OPTIONS

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors, Product & Merch
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(Bethel, CT, November 2009)  Spark Modern Fires, award winning manufacturer of modern, clean, and elegant gas fireplaces announces a totally new direct vent “slim” fireplace designed to hang on the wall.  With a viewing area of 46” X 12”, this striking new fireplace provides substantial visual impact; while its depth [...]



How To: Carve a Tin Can Pumpkin Guest Post from Wary Meyers

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: DIY Junkies, Featured, Interiors Exteriors
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For times when you don’t feel like dealing with all the goop, or just as an extra bit of spookiness.
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MODERN PENDANT LAMP CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE – WHOLESALE

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Moody kitchen.

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors

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Richard emailed me yesterday to tell me about this kitchen that he fell in love with:
He says: “It’s by a Milanese design firm called Dimore. They’re a gay couple, Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci, who own it together, and it’s the kitchen of their residence. I looked online and found some pics, but [...]



Compact House with Unusual Shape in Columbia

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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Designed by architect Alberto Gonzalez, Manuel Villa is a compact house that you wouldn’t expect to see on your stroll through the suburbs of Bogota, Columbia. This unusual house stands out for its unconventional shape and contemporary take on family living. The compact house design features a polyhedron shape, clad in a black exterior with [...]



Circular Concrete Home Plan

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured, Home & Room Tours
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Designed by Toyo Ito & Associates, this concrete home in Marbella, Chile makes for a marvelous weekend retreat. Named for its unusual floor plan and crisp, stand-out color, this contemporary home dubbed “White O House” takes the form of a huge O, with a central circular courtyard at its heart. This modern concrete home plan [...]



osler house

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors

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8 Brand NEW HardCover MODERN Architecture Books GEHRY

US $299.00
2h 47m

ATOMIC [...]



My wall of clocks is finished… for now… (!)

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors

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Finally, highbrowfurniture came to the rescue and sent me the last piece of the puzzle: The Nelson Steering wheel clock by Vitra.
I can sleep now. (or for now!) Let’s see what’s next. Probably a Cherner chair to be added to the collection!
-joel

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Prefab Country Homes – Cedar Home Design in Norfolk, UK

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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Fusing nature’s simplest pleasures with modern technology, the prefab Cedar House by Hudson Architects was designed to blend with its Norfolk, UK surroundings, while at the same time standing out for its innovative design. From the inside out, this fabulous country home screams “nature!” through and through. This modern prefab design is clad in 15,000 [...]



Sick of being screwed over by the douches at AT&T with their “Unlimited” Data plan when using IM?

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Cool Websites, Featured, Gadget Garage, Mama Ty's Personal Baggage

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I was not-so-pleasantly surprised that AT&T yet again raped me by charging me extra for using my MSN IM and Yahoo IM for business… which is supposed to be covered in the $99 I pay every month for UNLIMITED DATA… not so… the douchebags at AT&T decided to go for the de rigeur [...]



Chaotic shelves, quick and dirty

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: DIY Junkies, Featured

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A very quick way to make a chaotic looking array of shelves.
This one is made of surplus pieces of hardboard + tie-wraps, but the concept can be used with many (scrap) materials.
Get your materials
The strength of this structure comes from the shape that the sheets make to each other. One shelf …
By: Jiskar



Tag Twitter Users in Your Facebook Status Updates With SocialToo

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Techie News

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Yesterday Facebook launched its @mentions feature. As we’ve previously noted, this has the potential to take on some of Twitter’s heart and soul head-to-head. But what about users who often use their Twitter and Facebook accounts in tandem?
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the new SocialToo Status addition to the SocialToo Facebook app [...]



My new obsession: Shipping container Homes (Cargotechture)

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured, Interiors Exteriors

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This latest container home is designed by Christopher Robertson and built by Numan Construction and is a 1,858 square-foot home with three bedrooms and three bathrooms. In addition to many green features, apparently the construction waste was able to be contained within ten contractor trash bags.

This latest container home is designed by Christopher Robertson [...]



3 Eclectic Homes, IKEA Classics & DIY Desks New York Hot Posts

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors
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• Brussels House Tour: Leenda & Anthony Build Their Own Set
• Gramercy House Call: Max’s Eclectic Salon Style
• Julianne Moore’s West Village Townhouse
• Before & After: Rita Konig’s Sofa
• Best IKEA Classics 2009
• 4 Desks Made from Hollow Core Doors

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Sustainable Residential Architecture Surpasses LEED and Style Standards

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Featured
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Architect Robert M. Cain has wearing his Green thinking cap when he came up with this fabulous, sustainable residential architecture design in Decatur, Georgia. The modern two-storey, 2,800-sq.-ft. RainShine House was named for its innovative design feature, a “butterfly” roof suspended over continuous clerestories that allow for sun-drenched interiors. This unique feature’s inverted winged [...]



Funky Faucets – colorful bathroom ideas by GSG

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors, Product & Merch
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Are they art? Are the fixtures? They’re both, but one thing is certain – they’re so cool! These funky faucets by GSG bring a splash of vibrant color into the bath while delivering function and fashion by the boatful. Inspiring your own colorful bathroom ideas, modern Italian company GSG created the Touch ceramic faucets [...]



Itty Bitty Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 21st, 2009 • Category: Fashion & Beauty, Featured

Bathing suit season is only 2 weeks away and Victoria’s Secret has an awesome selection of swimwear at pretty good prices. I love that you buy the tops and bottoms separately so you can choose your best fit. Also, for smaller built ladies like me, many of their tops offer light push up padding to [...]



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