One of the foundational rules of color theory is that opposite shades on the color wheel intensify one another. While this bold contrast works beautifully on a canvas, it can easily overwhelm a home interior. Because of this, design purists often warn that yellow and purple ‘should never be seen together’. However, Pamela Shamshiri –…
Older TV furniture centered almost everything beneath the screen. Long entertainment centers, matching hutches, and bulky wall units stored electronics but often left the television feeling separate from the rest of the room. As screens became thinner, furniture began changing around them instead of simply supporting them. Today’s media units treat the entire wall as…
For decades, the standard dining set meant a table surrounded by matching chairs. Benches gradually disappeared from many homes, becoming associated with picnic tables, entryways, or casual breakfast nooks instead of formal dining rooms. Furniture collections tell a different story. Across modern dining displays, benches appear beside rectangular, oval, and even round tables, often replacing…
This summer has been defined by a number of major sports events, seeing the triumph of underdog players and teams along with some controversies. Though the somewhat fraught World Cup might have overshadowed the Wimbledon Championships, tennis has long been one of summer’s defining sports. Its distinctive visual language has long extended beyond the court….
New Africa/Shutterstock After deliberate consideration, you finally choose a dishwasher and bring it home. And like a strait-laced being, you continue using it to clean your dirty dishes as well as compatible cookware. But have you ever felt like the appliance is meant for more? Surely, it…
Price Latimer grew up in Texas and lived just a few doors down from the Amarillo Museum of Art. With pieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Larry Bell, and Louise Nevelson, the museum was a place that shaped her aesthetic sensibility. “Both of my grandmothers would frequently wheel me over in my pram before I could walk,…
Another day, another task as we continue preparing for Thanksgiving without overwhelm. If you are just joining our Countdown, here is what we have done already: Less than a week in, and you can see how we’ve already removed a lot of the stress by breaking this event into manageable steps. Today’s task: Place Settings…
Hello! We are one week into Countdown to Turkey Day, and if you want to see what we have covered so far, you’ll want to jump to the bottom of the post to play catch-up. When you ask someone who isn’t in charge of cleaning out the refrigerator regularly about their favorite part of Thanksgiving,…
Hi there! Today isn’t a task you have to do. It’s more of a discussion with some ideas you may want to try if they work for your Thanksgiving dinner plans. Catch up on everything we have covered so far in the Thanksgiving Countdown at the bottom of the page. If you have been saving…
Tunatura/Getty Images Generally, you wouldn’t want pests congregating in your yard and munching on your plants while attending their daily standup call. But you might be willing to make an exception for beneficial insects, like predatory beetles, centipedes, earwigs, and praying mantis, that help you manage garden…