showin’ off: our new pbteen bean bag (a.k.a. groovy dog bed)
I’ve been thinking about getting a Furlicious bean bag from PB Teen for ages… and finally bit the bullet the other week. I was worried that it would make our living room seem too dormy or juvenile. But then I realized that with a four-year old and a puppy in the house, it was nearly impossible to have “mature” decor anyhow! Actually, it was Isadora who tipped the scale towards buying the bean bag. There’s a bookstore in our neighborhood that has one tucked in the kids’ corner, and whenever we go there we get so cozy reading that it’s hard to leave. Sure, she wou
How to Use a Jigsaw to Cut Hardwood Flooring
Cuts on hardwood flooring planks range from straight cuts for shortening the length, to detailed cutouts and notches to accommodate door trim, floor vents and other obstacles. A circular or miter saw makes quick work of simple straight cuts, but a jigsaw is better for the smaller cuts that require more precision. The blade choice for the jigsaw affects how well the cuts turn out.
Marvelous Mud Rooms
You are always free to hang your hat in your home but then, you should resist the temptation of dropping everything right in your home’s entryway. This is where the mud room comes in, a place where you can conveniently keep those things that tend to clutter homes, a place that helps you create a path to your door that is not only clear but clean. The mudroom serves as a kind of storage unit that is designed in such a way that both the adults and kids in the home can easily access it. With the bench that is always included, it makes wearing and pulling off boots and shoes very easy. Even more convenient are the cubes found underneath the bench which creates individual spaces for every member of the family to keep his or her shoes.
Ultra Long Distance Wheelchair is the Grand Tourer of racing wheelchairs
Unlike racing bicycles, touring bicycles aren’t as stripped back and thus allow cyclists to sustain performance over a period of time. In the same way, Grand Touring cars provide long-term performance insight that helps engineers design race-worthy cars for the road. The same principles of performance and sturdiness are used in the design of the Ultra Long Distance Wheelchair by designer Andrew Mitchell. The wheelchair has been designed specifically to accommodate rough usage by professionals over ultra long distances.
Ultra Long Distance Wheelchair
Comfort for the user and optimal performance were some of the main priorities in its design, though it is created more as a stylistic experiment for racing wheelchairs. T
Boijmans Education Tables & Trestles by Makkink & Bey
From Studio Makkink & Bey, tables that can be tipped up and used as a chalkboard. Originally created for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the tables and trestles can easily be transformed into easels and collapsed for storage.(via)
“Larger tabletops can be joined with small study tables and drawing tables to make a table with a desired composition. The design was developed from a basic trestle and is in fact an extended trestle that is wide enough to be a table. One or two trestle tables can be assembled with a larger tabletop to form a bigger table. T
How to look after indoor plants
This needs a resting period in early spring, when it should be kept somewhere cool and dry. In the summer, the pot can go outside for the stems to ripen. In September, return the pot indoors to a cool room. From late autumn, give it a warmer site and a fortnightly liquid feed. Don’t move the pot and avoid over/under watering or else developing buds may start to drop before they open.
House plant azaleas
These flourish in the short term only if kept in a cool room and regularly watered with room-temperature rain water. A