Posts from — February 2009

Looking for unique, hand-painted decorative items as gifts or decor pieces for your home? You might want to take a look at what Painted Things have to offer. Painted Things was founded by Beck and Bern whilst they were on a journey of self-discovery (where their careers were concerned). Beck felt disconcerted whilst Bern’s career choice was beginning to click and make sense.

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The StyleFiles has been one of my favourite home blogs even before I began How’sHouse. The great thing about this blog is that it’s rich with images of beautiful homes, from simple to extravagant settings.

Here are two articles which have caught my eye – articles on how to dress up one’s bed. Most eastern families do not pay as much attention as our western friends in dressing up a bed simply because we do not really see the point in taking the effort to do the bed in the morning and pile up the extra teenie weenie throw pillows and layers of sheets only to take them all off at night before going to bed.

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Found this via DesigNova, the Blackboard Wallpaper. Yet another one of those creative and interactive wallpaper where form meets function. Great for leaving little messages, thinkers, reminders. Plastering a whole wall might be a tad overdo but if you have children who love scribbling and doodling, this is the perfect solution (except if they don’t get the idea that THIS is the only wall they can doodle on)

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This is a new feature in which I display a picture of a nice home or part of a nice home and tell you what I like about what the owners have done to it

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