The move, yesterday, went surprisingly smooth and we are both so excited about our new place! I’m most excited about decorating, arranging and being able to have company over.

This article seems extremely useful. I’m looking forward to applying it!

A number of years ago a friend gave us a great tip that to this day has made picture hanging a simple, pleasurable task. The tip was to always hang your art at 57″ on center. “On center” means that the middle of the picture is at 57″ (obviously, the hook will be higher).

Interestingly, the 57″ standard represents the average human eye-height and is regularly used as a standard in many galleries and museums…

From Apartment Therapy

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I may have never been a “plant person,” but I’m very tempted to try this out. I love the mixture of rebellion, environmentalism and, in my opinion, art this is.

Jonathan noted today’s LA Times profile about militant gardening, with Angelenos looking to change the urban landscape one seed bomb at a time. Hidden in the article is a helpful photo instructional how-to, as shown above. Don’t mistake those seed “bombs” above for truffles…they’re the arsenal of the urban gardeners mentioned in today’s LA Times article.

Via Apartment Therapy

1. Caroline Kim takes us through the step-by-step process of making seed bombs that gardeners on the go drop into the soil of barren, forlorn spots. Start with organic earthworm castings. Then add clay soil. Mix dry.

2. Add wildflower seeds to the mixture of clay and earthworm castings.

3. Next, Caroline adds water and mixes together wildflower seeds, clay soil and earthworm castings into a mud pie-like consistency.

4. She scoops up little mounds of the mixture and rolls them into bombs, more like balls.

5. The seed bombs are left to dry for a day outside in a plastic container.

6. With the seed bombs stowed in her red bag, the stiletto-wearing Caroline takes off on her bike in search of vacant patches of public space. To plant the seed bombs, she digs holes with a trusty tool — the heel of her shoe. “Stilettos work really well,” she says, grinning.

Via LA Times

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I adore this cabinet/media center so much! I don’t think we have a single wall in our whole place that could fit this particular one, but this is so inspirational! The idea can be easily (and creatively) modified.

Made by designer Thomas Wold, the piece is a wall unit made for his client in order to house their A/V equipment and books. “We wanted to grab the entire wall with a graphical design,” Wold writes on his blog. “I suggested a design encompassing a series of separate boxes that would stack on top of each other so one could use the negative and positive for storage.”

Found on Apartment Therapy Unplugged

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Wow, i would love to to be the owner of one or two of these. Not only are they stunning, but they’re probably much much more effective at that whole heating thing, than our terrible tiny P.O.S. radiators.

The Heatwave Radiator is designed by Joris Laarman, a young designer from Utrecht. It is composed of heating pipe with fiberglass reinforced concrete and is manufactured and sold by Droog Design. Due to it’s design and enlarged surface area, the Heatwave conducts heat far better than a traditional metal radiator or floor heating. It’s so nice, we are worried we will want to touch it all the time.

Via Apartment Therapy

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