Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 31, 2008
If you haven’t noticed that subway tile’s back, you haven’t picked up a shelter magazine in the last half-decade. Just about every magazine in the Home Snob’s desktop stack has a bathroom or kitchen that’s been done in the 3″x6″ rectangular tile.
Don’t believe it? Dig these out and take a look:
Domino, August 2008, pg. 93
Better [...]
Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 30, 2008
Whether you call it a passing fancy or a sign of the times, the public is waking up to the good vs. evil of neighborhood design. Good: neighborhoods that are lovable, flexible, livable, and alive. Bad: “What neighborhood? I’m still on the freeway, trying to get home.”
Today, The Home Snob brings you one of the [...]
Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 29, 2008
It’s a sign of the modern age when you’re too busy to read anything without hyperlinks. The Home Snob understands and aims to help. We’ll do our best to bring the wisdom of leading home snobs right to you, starting with these excerpts from Edith Wharton. Imagine her taking tea in your living room and [...]
Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 28, 2008
Wallpaper fans, beware! It’s not genteel to drool. But you’ll be sorely tempted to do so when you visit Historic New England’s online wallpaper resource.
It’s worth a visit for the list of conservators, reproduction wallpaper manufacturers, suppliers, and historic wallpaper archives. But that’s just the beginning.
There’s a reading list that will set you up for [...]
Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 27, 2008
Sometimes DIY doesn’t pay. The Home Snob learned this the hard way a few years back, when she attempted to make her own upholstered headboard.
She succeeded, alright, but she couldn’t open or close her hand for a week and now shivers at the sight of a manual staple gun.
She had been trying to save money, [...]
Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 26, 2008
The Home Snob would never advocate breaking the law. And yet, we do like to get away with things now and then. So, apparently, does Nick Olsen, who writes the Deal Hunter column and blog for Domino Magazine. He delights in telling readers how to get away with paying less for a given look.
Not only [...]
Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 25, 2008
“Simplicity is at home even in palaces.”
– Edith Wharton, The Decoration of Houses (1897)
You’ve heard the saying, “keeping up with the Joneses.” Though its origins have been attributed to a comic strip, Edith Wharton fans and others believe it was inspired by the family of George Frederic Jones, Wharton’s father. So it may surprise Home [...]
