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Old and New: Subway Tile

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
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Old and New: Wicker with Tropical Barkcloth Prints

Posted by: thehomesnob on: October 24, 2008

While preparing Wednesday’s post on canopy beds, the Home Snob discovered a curious thing:  Wicker and rattan furniture with tropical upholstery looks equally at home in the Victorian Molly Brown House and the Domino “bedroom on a budget.” This would be one of those trends that the Home Snob promised to cover (see The Home [...]