This apartment in Paris’ 1st arrondissement, just around the corner from the Louvre, is home to a+b kasha designer Ida, Pierre-Edouard, a motion designer and director, and their black cat, Alfred. Ida is Swedish and is strongly influenced by Scandinavian design (she even blogs about the topic). The apartment is tiny and doesn’t have much…
This colorful abode belongs to London-based interior product designer Michelle Mason, her husband, Bill (a photographer), and their daughter, Marni. The family lives in a two-bedroom flat in a Victorian building east of the city. I love the combination of blue, magenta and black seen throughout their home. Painting the living room floor white makes the…
Thanks so much to the LA Times for featuring Design*Sponge at Home in their September 16th edition. The online version is here.
I’m 100% certain that if the education charts in my junior high science class looked like those found in this book, I would have gotten a much better grade. A few years ago, I hunted down a chart of sea plants in Paris found at the most magical of natural history stores, Deyrolle. It is…
Good morning guys! Amy and I are home from the first leg of the book tour and feeling both excited and exhausted at the same time. But I’m so happy to be back at work and diving into great design again. This simple-but-genius idea was in my inbox last week and I’m just getting a…
After two years of hard work, editing, photoshoots, endless all-nighters, Design*Sponge at Home is officially out! I thought writing that sentence would knock me off my feet, but to be honest I don’t think it’s hit me yet. It’s hard to describe what it’s like to work on something so consistently for two years and…
The D*S Book Tour is just getting started (thank you to everyone who came out to the NYC and Boston events!), and I’m so happy to be heading into a weekend of more crafting and fun. Amy and I are in Philly today for our Terrain event (we have a few tickets left if you…
Another week has passed, which means it’s time to talk furniture! Today’s Before & After Basics is all about using tape to create custom designs on furniture. I am super excited about how this piece turned out, and even though I used a very simple technique, there are many ways that you can add to…
A big thank you to the Washington Post for their print story on D*S founder Grace Bonney and the new book Design*Sponge at Home. The print edition runs the weekend of September 16-18th, 2011.
Thank you to Bon Appetit for their feature on Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney and the book Design*Sponge at Home.
Thank you to the Philadelphia Inquirer for their kind review of Design*Sponge at Home. The story ran in the September 16th, 2011 issue of the paper but the digital version is here.
Thanks so much to Heather at Dooce for her kind mention of Design*Sponge at Home. The full post is online here.
Did someone say neon? There’s something about a little pop of neon that just makes me happy. Vané Broussard of Brooklyn Bride must feel the same way because she created a neon-inspired wedding for this photoshoot. Everything is DIY, with artist tape playing a starring role. I love the idea of incorporating a little neon…
My life with doughnuts: When I was little, my aunt used to make beignets and doughnuts for me. There was something a little magical about it, as I’d only been used to Fox’s Donut Den. Of course, I had eaten those small “donettes” with the waxy chocolate or dense powdered-sugar coating, and the occasional Krispy…
There is something extra tasty about melon balls when you’re a child. Perhaps it’s because melon balls are only ever made from the best bits of the melon (whoever heard of a melon rind ball?), or maybe it’s because they remind us of cool, refreshing snacks on long summer days. Whatever the reason, I could…
I’m always so thrilled to see students and designers go on to produce and sell collections they’ve shown or prototyped on Design*Sponge. Last week, I heard from Jason Jones who was our first-place winner in the D*S Font Contest last November. His design, Skunkling, was once an entry in the contest but is now a…
I’m a little torn on this new line of posters that just came out. I’ve seen them pop up in a few places but without much commentary on their message. Aesthetically, I love this clean new line of posters from Hu2, designed by Antoine Tesquier Tedeschi. Part of me gets the joke/comment being made and…
When I finally finished writing the manuscript of Design*Sponge at Home the first thing I thought about was a fun contest to celebrate the launch. I’m always bummed that I can’t travel and meet people face-to-face more often, so my favorite idea involved being able to fly some of our readers out to NYC to…
I’ll never forget my first trip to Texas. I was visiting a friend in Lubbock, driving in a huge Ford pickup truck on the way to a steakhouse, and an actual tumbleweed rolled across the highway. It was the most Texas moment I could imagine at that time, and I fell in love with the…
I’ll bet that whether you’re at work or home, you’re willing to linger a little longer if your seat is soft. There’s no telling what you found while stripping your piece of furniture. How about some horse hair, pig hair, hay, even old t-shirts to pad your seat? I kid you not . . ….
