Tag: For the Home

Façade Vase From Orcadesign

Going green is more than just a buzz word or marketing gimmick. It’s a practice that we should all try integrating into our lives and homes. A simple way of living a greener life is to try finding new uses for used items. Before you throw something into the garbage think if you can use that item as something else. For example, I use the cardboard tubes left over from a roll of paper towels as a container for unused extension cords. They keep the cords neat and untangled plus I can write the length of the cord on the tube.

Here is an interesting product that turns used water bottles into useful flower holders. It’s the Façade vase from Orcadesign. This simple yet ingenious item is made out of industrial wool felt and slips right over a plastic water bottle. Judging by the designer’s web site, the Façade vase is just a concept item right now but anyone with a sewing machine can easily make this on their own. Also, think about creating a larger version to cover wine bottles.

– Jeff

My Country Home: The Study

We are slowly but surely getting the study in order here at our new house. Eventually, this room will have a corner lined in book shelves and lots of heavy wood and leather chairs. For now, I’ve got my home office set up with a fire going and I just looked out the window to see that it’s snowing … again. It has been about four days since the last heavy snowfall so I guess I should have expected it. Thank god I bought a case of wine.

I’m not sure if you can see the snow in this picture but this is the view from my desk here in the study.

Uh-oh, I better throw another log on the fire.

– Jeff

Guest Blogger: CC’s Bargain Queen alert

I love a sale! Check out Pottery Barn’s latest 75% off sale. This is one of my favorite finds:
Natural cork is the perfect material for our new candle pot. Sustainable, easy to recycle and environmentally friendly, it’s also naturally beautiful. Our candle pot is filled with the calming scent of wild fern and wrapped with a monogrammable sleeve of genuine cork, combining aroma and texture into one sensory package. 3.5″ diam., 3″ h.
Monogrammed and $14.00…sold!
-CC

Pointless But Pretty, Hand-Blown Light Bulbs

Sculptor, Dylan Kehde Roelofs, is rebelling against the cold light of CFC bulbs with a new line of hand-blown light bulbs that are more interesting to look at than functional to use.


Each bulb, which ranges in price from $195 to $1295 and lasts for 25,000 hours, is a unique glass sculpture. At wattages of 12-24, these bulbs are really just big night lights but the filaments can be replaced when they burn out so they will last a long time.

For more information or to buy one, visit www.IncandescentSculpture.com