Modern Home Decoration

I just found this vintage Southwest-style chandelier in the new 2010 Maxim Lighting catalog, and although it is not posted on our website- www.affordablelamps.com, I believe I can rustle one up for you. This Maxim Desert Wind three-light chandelier has vintage amber droplets wrapped in a serpent like coil for an almost demonic look. Looking like it just came from the set of the new Jonah Hex film, this rustic chandelier measures 24″ wide by 24″ high, and uses three 100 watt bulbs, more than bright enough for frontier justice. Hur

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So many blogs to read, so little time.

With Google Reader helping me keep blog reading in an organized fashion, I’ve discovered an application on the iPad that offers another form of organizing my hobby of reading blogs.

Blogshelf is similar to eBooks in a format sense. As you can see in the photo, there are icons that represent each blog I read with an intro photo that helps you determine whether a particular blog has been updated.

When a blog has been updated, the first photo from the blog entry will be featured on the icon.

Although I lamented on Facebook last night how behind I am in blog-reading as well as keeping this site up-to-date, I have found Blogshelf to be an easy form of tracking my favorite blogs.

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Well, I showed you the most dated of the St. Elmo’s Fire sets, complete with a Rebel Yell mural. The rest of the sets, though 25 years old, could work with just a few tweaks.

First we have Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez’s man cave, complete with bottles of alcohol, a mess, lots of stereo equipment and albums, and a coffin for a coffee table. Man Cave design never changes much, it just gets better gaming systems. This one probably had Colecovision or Atari:

Next we have Mare Winningham’s parents’ traditional home, which looks like it was inspired by Dorothy Draper’s original design for The Greenbrier. Now they

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Are any of the rest of you as obsessed with Jeff Lewis as I am? I think Flipping Out is BY FAR the most entertaining design show on television, and he’s one of the most entertaining people on television. I just wanted to shoot out a quick reminder to you other Ben Lomand Valley Oak Commonwealth Zoila Jenny Jeff Chloe Ryan Monkey Jet Sarah fans that the new season starts on Bravo tonight, 9 p.m. on the east coast.

image via bravotv.com

Am I boring you with my current fascination with Detroit? I just think it’s going to be such an interesting city to follow, and I’ve been soaking in every article I come across about what people are doing to redesign it and help its recovery. The latest article I read was in The New York Times this week, and it chronicled what a community of artists are doing to help the city, including selling off square inches of property to help create a feeling of ownership, however small. When artists start to flock to an area, it’s always the first sign of improvement. There

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