Matthew Perry’s $13.5M Hollywood Hills Home Is for Sale
Friends fans, rejoice: Matthew Perry’s mid-century modern bachelor pad in LA is back on the market, and can be yours for the cool price of $13.5 million. You could even have your mail addressed to Chanandler Bong, if you wanted.
Melissa Massello
Jun 29, 2017
This Boston “Studio” Is A Glorified Dorm Room for $1295
In this week’s episode of “So You Think Your Place is Small?” we bring you this “renovated” studio in Boston’s tony exurb of Brookline, wedged just between all of the urban universities and the suburban ones in the city of 1,000 colleges.
Melissa Massello
Jun 26, 2017
Own a Piece of Camelot: Jackie O’s Childhood Home is Now For Sale
Paging America’s one percent: If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of Camelot, now is your chance. Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ childhood home is currently selling for a cool $49.5 million. Merrywood, a 23,000-square-foot Georgian-style estate sitting on the Potomac River in McLean, Virginia (a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Melissa Massello
Jun 23, 2017
Where to Get the Best Bang for Your Real Estate Bucks in America Right Now
You might think we’ve become slightly obsessed with the affordability of living in America right now — and you would be right. When the top three most expensive cities in the world for renters are all in the U.S., well… Houston, we have a problem (because even Houston has its pricey listings).
Melissa Massello
Jun 22, 2017
PSA: Your Old VHS Tapes Are Degrading Right Now
While the nostalgic look of vintage videotapes is turning up on everything from Instagram filters to entire digital video apps providing clips with the “camcorder treatment,” experts warn the reel deal is disintegrating forever in basements and attics everywhere, and right now. Because my dad was always a bleeding-edge adopter of technology, we were one of the first families on our block to own a VCR and camcorder back in the early 1980s.
Melissa Massello
Jun 13, 2017
Huge News: You Might Be Able to Amazon Your IKEA Starting in 2018
That Amazon Prime membership may become even more valuable soon: IKEA just announced that it’s going to start selling its products on websites other than its own beginning in 2018.
Melissa Massello
Jun 11, 2017
5 Famous Architects Who Loved Millennial Pink Before it was Cool
While Millennial Pink might feel like the color story du jour, paint choices ranging from coral to deep fuchsia are far from a recent design phenomenon. Turns out, renown architects ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright in the pre-war years to Ricardo Bofill in the get-weird 60s were huge fans of pink in all its incarnations, swathing some now-historic landmarks in its cheeky hue.
Melissa Massello
Jun 7, 2017
Airbnb’s Designing Furniture Now — And It’s Modular
Joe Gebbia, the co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb, is putting his degree from the Rhode Island School of Design to good use. His collegiate interest in furniture design led to the creation of a co-branded line of modular furniture for Airbnb and Bernhardt. Surprising to no one, Airbnb has moved its company office spaces several times in the last few years.
Melissa Massello
May 30, 2017
For Some Seniors, Tiny Houses Are The New RV
Picture this: a caravan of gypsy Grannies and Gramps cruising down Route 66, watering the planter boxes and waving from windows at passersby as they roam cross-country. A scene that may seem downright Lynchian could soon be very real as more and more retirees opt for tiny homes.
Melissa Massello
May 25, 2017
Collectible IKEA: Some Vintage Pieces Are Auctioning for Up to $50,000
When one thinks of IKEA, the questions of “collectible” and “resale value” aren’t generally ones that come to mind. More like, “Will this last?” But IKEA pieces dating back to catalogs as early as 1944 (yes, our stylist friends were just as shocked as you are RN) all of a sudden are generating major buzz on the auction and estate sale market.
Melissa Massello
May 16, 2017
The Future Is Now: MIT Is Printing Furniture In Westworld-Like Gel Vats
If the futuristic milk baths in Westworld’s underground lair-bratory really got your tech-powered design dreams going, then you’re going to love what MIT is doing right now for the future of furniture.
Melissa Massello
May 12, 2017
IKEA’s Flat Pack Shelter Gets a Redesign Amid Fire Concerns
Better Shelter, the award-winning refugee shelter design concept created as a partnership between the not-for-profit IKEA Foundation and the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), has announced a late 2017 redesign.
Melissa Massello
May 11, 2017