like writing and home decor? we’re hiring!
Here at Shelterrific we delight in sharing about our homes and we’re looking to add a few fresh faces to our list of regular contributors. If you enjoy cooking, crafting, finding neat products or raising a family in a happy home and have some ideas to share, we’d love to hear from you. Interested? Send an e-mail with writing samples to letters@shelterrific.com and tell us a little bit about yourself for an opportunity to contribute to our little community. – Sarah C.
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a few things we learned last week
1) Fall is your favorite. Asking in the height of the season may make us biased, but fall has a lot of fans. Chelsea says: “I didn’t used to be a fall girl, but I gotta say — I’m getting on the autumn train these days! I love it when the boots can come out and play, and you can toss a scarf on and be just the right temperature. And let us not forget: the pumpkin spice latte makes its long-awaited return!†Which season is your favorite?
2) Steampunk literature is a genre worth exploring. When Louise mentioned she’s reading only steampunk for the month of October, many of you wanted to know more. Megan says: “Steampunk is a genre of art, literature, and film that encompasses an alternate reality, typically set in a Victorian-esque era, where there is technology similar to what we have today, but it is all highly mechanized (so instead of airplanes, dirigibles, and instead of digital night-goggles, they’ll have sprockets and gears, etc…). For a good example of steampunk in movies, watch “The City of Lost Children.†To get an idea of a Steampunk aesthetic, go here.†Interested? What are you reading?
3) Pin-tuck bedding isn’t a problem for many of you. Sarah C. explained her duvet dilemma and you responded with mostly positive reviews of pin-tuck bedding sets. Stephanie says: “I have the West Elm pintuck in cream, from about 2 1/2 years ago. I do hear a rip occasionally if we tug the duvet too hard, but I don’t actually see any damage ever. I wash mine every few weeks (because we have a big labradoodle who has free reign of our bed) and it’s held up great. The only downside if you’re picky about wrinkles is it’s hard to iron. But that wouldn’t be enough reason for me to change to a different one – I love it.†The rule seems to be to keep the stitching in mind when tucking the end in to a footboard or a wall. Noted!
blogwatch: where we’ve been clicking this week
Treehugger introduces Bus Roots: a groovy green roof system for public busses to increase the green space in New York.
Unclutterrer throws down some helpful hints for creating a mail center in your home.
Over at the New York Times, there’s an enlightening (and sad) article with a possible explanation of the colony collapse disorder affecting the world’s bee population. It’s not cell phone towers…
We get a detailed look into the iconic drawers of French designer Charlotte Perriand over at Dinosaurs and Robots. And yes, we’re talking drawers for storage, not underpants.
Wanna win $250? Like to cook? Well, enter the Readymade recipe contest for their new community cookbook, and you’ll get a chance to win some extra holiday spending money!
More milk carton costume fun : how to make a stormtrooper helmet from a milk jug, at Make.
Everything Jonathan Adler touches turns to gold! See his Midas touch applied to “happy chic” folding screens, at CasaSugar.
site we’re psyched about: the brick house
The Brick House was an accidental discovery for me: I stumbled across an Apartment Therapy house tour of Morgan Satterfield’s Hemet, California home and was inspired and delighted. Hemet, you see, is where I spent a great deal of my time growing up, as my grandmother lives there. I’ve always viewed it as a hot, mobile home-laden wasteland — not the young, vital, and cool desert vibe that the Brick House portrays. “The House” is packed full of wittily-written DIY tutorials for fabulous, doable projects, like this Ace Hotel-inspired pipe shelving unit and this brass chandelier. Morgan’s motto is to never spend more than $100 on anything, which is hard to believe considering the quality of furnishings and decor in her home. I, for one, have been inspired by so many things on the site I’m considering hiring Morgan to consult on some of my own home projects, a service we can all utilize thanks to her new venture Brick House Design. –Megan B.
fall is here: what are you reading?
After a one massive heat wave of a summer here on the East Coast, there’s finally a nip in the air and I for one am diving into our sudden autumn with wild abandon. One of my favorite fall past times? Burying my nose in a good read. I’m in a book club, and we’ve just finished Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played With Fire, the second book in his page-turning trilogy, and we’re breaking before the third to read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, which has been adapted for the big screen. How about you readers? What is on your book list for fall? – Sarah C.
image via Bookshelf Porn
