Urban Suburban Antiques

Two spectacular examples of vintage items as part of everyday life. First, from the New York Times, American Rustic, with must-see slideshow. Second, from re-nest, Emily's home. Note the walls!

Rebecca and Derek's bicycle wedding. Crazy hipsters.

Photos from a 1958 Oxford boat race

Photographer Wijnanda Deroo. All sets are amazing but be sure to check out Mexico and Puerto Rico for the colors.

Tour a Sears kit home full of great decor in California. Be sure to click the 'House Tour' link for lots of photos.

New York girl moves to a tiny apartment and finds peace and happiness

In Madrid, an old garage becomes a fabulous office

People and their decorating: (1) Sosser (US), (2) Cosifanlips (Sweden), (3) LoriMarsha (southern California), (4) SolutionSoap (Japan), (5) Fine Diving (US)

Great photography from Daniel Lyle Thompson, especially the Ace Hotel sets.

Design to Inspire visits Hacienda San Angel: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.

ClosetVisit is more than just the closets of stylish, creative, successful women. You get to see their homes, their clothing, their creations, and their chickens, too.

A young couple documenting the renovation of an old house in Seattle, doing all the work themselves: Chezerbey

Houzz is full of design ideas for any taste. You can browse by space/room on the left.

Photography by Frederic Vasseur

The home of Christina Aguilera is a wild mix of the gaudy, the tasteless, and, yes, the cool.

Irritating interface but cool photos from James Plumb in the UK

Interview with Chris Benz, with showroom photos

NYSD visits with Mario Buatta

Photographer Nicolas Matheus. (Each book scrolls right and left).

Interiors of private jets. Proving yet again that you cannot buy taste.

Auburn University has a new Industrial Design History website. Kudos! Very well done.

Airstream as work space, living space. Sure beats those private jets.

A MONUMENTAL collection! Kyle Supley's Virtual Museum of Mid-Century, Mod, and Kitsch Design is on flickr

Wrecked Metals in Boise is "a hotrod and chopper shop". Lots of cool photos off the Current and Past Projects links.

Freunde von Freunden has a couple of new house visits with Jenna Brinning and Christiane and Marcus

The Kansas City Public Library has covered one wall of their parking deck with the Community Bookshelf. Larger photos can be found here.

How to clean brass using lemon juice and baking soda

From the old Boy's Life magazine, scans of Scouts in Action

Modernica Blog interviewed Lori Andrews

Felt and Wire is a blog devoted to design, paper, and printing

ACL declared J'Antiques in Tokyo to be the best vintage store in the world! Make up your own mind after viewing the photos.

Marie Claire visits a house in South Africa. (The button labeled "suivant" is the "Next" button for the slideshow.)

A fashion blog to make you think: Of Another Fashion

Martha Stewart alumna Margaret Roach retired to a 2+ acre garden, bordering the Berkshires in Massachusetts in 2007. Her blog is A Way to Garden. Her book blog is and I shall find some peace there and the video promoting the book makes it clear this is not another hippy chick - she's shown riding a very larger mower-tractor.

Married Martha Stewart alumni Stephen Antonson and Kathleen Hackett are profiled in this New York Times article and slideshow. Enjoy the mittens and the robot.

Beauty in the broken

Faces everyplace. 2011 TED Prize Winner is anonymous artist JR. This video of his work will absolutely astonish you.

Interior photography by Roland Bello and please note that there are many pages to go to (upper left has page list)

Animals and people, by Robin Schwartz. All sets have a Slide Show link down on the bottom left. A set, and another , and another. Do not miss any of the other photo sets on her site.

Theatrical homes

People, places, interiors, and architecture from photographer Dominique Vorillon. Check out all images and portfolios.

The Doors visit the Morrison Hotel and the original Hard Rock Cafe in this photoset from the Selvedge Yard

Hazel Thompson's photographs of women, at work and at home, in Bahrain and Qatar. "I want you to see they're just like you. They're moms. They worry the same way we do.". More photos at Thompson's website

Life magazine's gallery of VW Bus photos through the years

Frank Hurley's color photos from Shackleton's nightmare Antarctic trip

Gauguin slideshow from the Smithsonian

In Copenhagen, a colorful potato row house

Gene Kelly was pure class and grace and here's a tumblr devoted just to him

A classy new cat tumblr starts up

It is art and it is functional in more ways than one. If you strike a woman, you strike a rock.

Don't skip the House Tour link! Young people on a budget still have a great little apartment in California. If the top picture doesn't grab you, what does?

Shorpy has a photo from the French Quarter in 1903. Click the View Full Size link for unbelievable detail.

Tiny and stylish in Singapore. Background here

Shelter Island House in the Hamptons: (1) story and (2) slideshow

Cool loft

New favorite: A blog that actually credits all its photos properly. A nice mix of fashion and decorating from No. 21

Bookshelf Porn editor's favorites

Panoramic/long exposure photos of Paris

A Berlin visit with Raul Walch from Freunde von Freunden

What $520000 gets you. Check out the funky New Orleans decor!

Funky place, complete with plastic vulture. More photos.

Longman and Eagle is in Chicago. Check out the slideshows on the Sleep and More pages.

The blog of stylist Emily Henson, who shows you how things are set up to look perfect

A peaceful video to watch

Bohemian decor in Marietta, GA.

Chatteau de Moissac in France. Tons of photos.

Detailed before and after photos of a bathroom remodel

Lots of brick and open space

The St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, restored after half a century. Slideshow here.

It is not possible to ever get too much of Louise Brooks

Furniture made from old anti-submarine mines. More at the artist's website

Smithsonian Magazine covers the history of Sweetheart candies

Alexandre Farto chips away at walls to create faces

Check out the beautiful louver house from the Leroy Street Studio, then look through all their other projects

The Selby visits the home of Ben Ospital

The Bhamarchitect's Blog covers a house in Austin, Texas converted into a chic lounge. Here is the complete set of before and after photos

Yes, it is a tattoo parlor but it has great ambiance

Is that an I Dream of Jeannie bottle on that table?

Some great old photos of moms and mothers, with backstories

Belgian designer Alex Vervoordt: profile, home, works

Lots of interior brick walls. Be sure to click 'Enter House Tour' for all the photos.

Create a lamp and recycle, too

Chicago Bungalow renovation

Multi-part and on-going Hollywood renovation, each with photos

Vintage cheese labels: essay, slideshow. The Laughing Cow is not that scary.

Check out the decor in these igloos (which you can rent at this European ski resort)

This Swedish real estate broker lets you see inside all kinds of cool Malmo apartments

In Mexico, the urbanization of Monterrey is captured in photographs by Alejandro Cartagena

Streisand talks about her house and then shows it off

TOGETHER! A family of four in a very small but well-appointed townhouse in Stockholm

Museum of Modern Snowglobes

Photography by Heidi Lender. Check out the decor in 'Once Upon' and then enjoy the beauty in all the other sets

Photography by Didier Delmas. Note the long scroll across the bottom of the screen.

New York Social Diary visits the home of "dandified" blogger/interior designer James Andrew

Cement Factory becomes a cathedral-like workspace and home

Bookshelves

The New York Times visits Catherine Sloss Crenshaw and Pepper Place

From Hermes themselves, a PDF showing all the ways to tie a Hermes scarf on your head or body

Black, white, and motorcycle

Bohemian LA

Mostly black and white. The Anouk B website is here.

Flickr group devoted to 1970s architecture and design. Once in, you won't come back out.

Monocle visits a community of craftspeople on a Swedish island

Apartment Therapy does vanities

Carriage house, with lots of photos

Commitment to recycling/reuse results in a beautiful home

A parking garage as a wedding venue

Apartment Therapy profiles a home in Vestavia! More background and photos here.

Yellow

Vienna home in a police station. With slideshow

Clothespins. Is there anything that they cannot do?

Cool decor in this London men's clothing shop

Adler and Sullivan's architecture

Looks cozy. Very cozy.

Indian Street Graphics. Story and slideshow

Apartment of a single man in an Athens suburb. He seems to be a very tidy person.

First project for a budding interior decorator

National Geographic photo set from the Paris catacombs

A visit to a Moroccan importer in New York City

Attic studio, Stockholm

In Berkeley, a zero-net energy backyard cottage

What happens to our cast-off clothing? Afrigadget has a story

A photographer's home

How to decorate like a socialite, y'all

New York loft of fashion designer Lisa Perry

Tiny story of a Craigslist find

Tiny places with great design in all parts of the world. Change photos with the arrows in the upper right corner of the story.

London in 1883

FIFTY vintage beer cans

Possibly more than you wanted to know about indoor (clothes) drying racks

A rumination on armoires

Photosets from Morocco

Elevated swimming pool

Andrea Brugi makes things out of wood. The entire website is a large slideshow so hover you mouse to the left or right until it becomes an arrow, then click.

An interior design project that took a lifetime: the home of Khadambi Asalache, who donated his amazing work to The National Trust in Britain. He passed away in 2006. Even more info here. [Thanks, things magazine]

The home of Lulu and Bunny. But you probably want to know more, right? Henault's upscale portfolio is here. He even designed for a yacht.

A remodeled small apartment in Mumbai, India

A home in Marrakesh, Morocco

Strong opinion here and all the links are worth clicking to get at the details: Most Arrogant Designer Ever?

A southern French country home

Salt and pepper shakers

Scars on the landscape, and do not skip the slideshow

Pantone color of the year for 2011 is Honeysuckle

Tour a craftsman apartment

A couple of gypsy-style decorating posts: one and two, both from Espacio Vita

The Museum of the City of New York has put a lot of its old photographs online

DigsDigs selects the most colorful living spaces of 2010 and it is hard to argue with their choices

Architectural Digest shows you a rustic beach house in Brazil. Rustic is a matter of opinion.

The Guardian asks celebrity gardeners for their favorite walking spots. Links to their favorites are all worth exploring; The Lost Gardens of Heligan is quite nice, as is the very Wordsworthian Fountains Abbey ruins.

The home of ceramics maker Reiko Kaneko

William Waldron interiors portfolio

The National Media Museums has an extensive Flickr photostream

The history of a farmhouse on Broadway in New York City. Here's the Google street view.

Gold in the home, for those so inclined

Aqua-Velvet lists the Top 15 posts of 2010. The Japanese postcards are very cool.

The Big Picture continues to add photos as 2011 rolls in all over the world

Wacky old photos of celebrating

Colorful!

Nice use of midcentury modern furniture here

The colorful portfolio of Miles Redd. Love the blue floor.

The House of Honey portfolio. Check out the Altadena residence.

Tiny kitchens

Sting and Trudie's place in Tuscany

Christmas trees, Christmas decorations, Christmas white, Christmas movies

Good tips on preserving old photographs and documents

The street photography of Helen Levitt

This blog is full of very serene photos

Escape to North Dakota

Very mod kitchen makeover

Christmas at the mansion. Obviously.

Swedish Christmas

Modern home in Atlanta

Old, new, and cat mix nicely

Decorating that is ridiculously awesome. Keep scrolling down.

Lots of pretty turquoise

Small loft decorating in Seattle

The architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. You may recognize his work.

Miss Mustard Seed shows off her dining room table

Trouvais profiles the book Stealing Magnolias.

Nice snowy photos from Norway

Visit a place where they make bamboo, rattan, and cane furniture

Flickr set by rubyellen

Tour of the home of interior designer Rafael de Cardenas

Maximalist Jessica Thomas, profiled here. This is her website

Gypsy purple surveys Christmas tables

Nice entryway decorations and a mildly amusing Google translation

Heather Bullard decorates for Christmas

Sweet Paul decorates for Christmas

Hector Sanchez food and interiors photography

Two beards, great designs from the Haslegrave brothers. On their website you can see their stylings and furniture designs.

Preserving the decay in Selma. Background here. Many more photos of the Harmony club in this dedicated site and in this flickr set.

One piece of very beautiful and very expensive furniture

Cia Wedin has several portfolios on her website and they are all good

Christmas decorations: one, two.

Pets at home

Tinseling the apartment house lobby, from the NY Times

Placid set of BW photos of Lyon, France. The snowy ones are the best.

For those with lots of surplus energy and time, a massive mantle garland thing

Warm and dark interiors from Moodboard

The home of Tatjana Sprick contains many unusual antique and vintage pieces. It all comes together to create a really livable home.

Christmas, stylishly done, in Norway

When it comes to Christmas decorating, saying "my process is a little labor-intensive" is an understatement for this guy

Why, yes, it does look both spacious and colorful

Interior photography by Heidi Lerkenfeldt

Discovered another new photo blog called You are the River, which lead to discovering the minimal apartment of Barbara Hill and this cool apartment

A real person, not a professional stylist, decorates for Christmas and it looks fabulous

Christmas decorations 1 of 3

Christmas decorations 2 of 3

Christmas decorations 3 of 3

Remodeling over ten years leads to a nice modern home in rural Pennsylvania

Ridiculously beautiful and functional: antique radio tuning dials

Wow is a good word for the interior photography of Anders Schonnemann. Also check out the other sets. If you're tired of the cold, look at the travel collection.

Stylings by Lili Diallo. A brief review of her new book.

Another set of old Kodachromes to enjoy

Interior photography by Magnus Marding

The New York Social Diary visits the home of architect/designer Campion Platt

Stylings by Joe Maer

Architectural photography by Alina Gozina

Tasteful and tiny apartment in China

Found a new blog, from an island in Finland

Andrew Grinton photography

Menorahs and Calendars

Christmas photography by Sandra Aslaksen. Be sure to check out all the other photo sets.

Google translates this article as "Complete Raw Family Residence" but it probably should be cozy family home with industrial decor

For a change, a modern, understated approach to decorating for Christmas

Yard sales (called boot sales) in England are not much different from the ones over here

Interior photography of Mikkel Adsbol. Click 'View Gallery' to see more.

For goodness sakes, make your pets some of these treats for Christmas

Santa Cruz cottage tour

The blog Raining Sheep has a couple of nice posts of holiday decorations. She's in Alberta, Canada and it has been -21C there. Also, check out her flickr photos.

A house you have to see, in Siberia

Dos Family visits a very tiny, vintage-draped place in Stokholm

Mixr.se visits artist Hartmut Bosbach in Marseilles (Google translation)

The Weld House takes old cars and trucks to create furniture, scultpure, and other useful items

Wanderlust Hotel in Singapore. Unique is not a strong enough word.

When you have read this and seen the photos you'll realize (1) no one can compete with this guy and (2) that there's a website for everything, including sheds.

Nice collectio of museum photos from Aqua-Velvet

Fold napkins any way you like

Andy Barnes has two wonderful photo galleries

Katie Lydon Interiors. This is the Park Avenue photoset, so be sure to check out all the other sets in her portfolio.

Fiber artist Kay Sekimachi is profiled. There are six photos, too.

Architecture of Antoni Gaudi must be seen to be believed

Martha teaches you how to make blackboard paint in any freaking color you want

Pets on furniture. That is all.

Photography of Jean-Francois Jaussaud.

Inside the 1950s beach cottage of Real Living editor Deborah Bibby, in Australia

Proper preparation for a pomegranate is presented. Step 1: Be sure to have the appropriate shade of nail polish.

Everything makes a kind of sense until you realize he lives with his mother

Insider photos from a Swedish wreath-making party. Bonus: another Scandinavian home laced with greenery and frost-covered greenery

Winter retreat with pale wooden floors and consistent colors throughout

Blogs worth catching up on and bookmarking: The House that Lars Built from Denmark and Mod Vintage Life from Oklahoma City

Architectural Digest answers style questions. Be sure to scroll the answers on each page.

Interior design by M. Design Interiors. Lots of color. Be sure to check out the Laurel Canyon set in the "Residential" section.

The portfolio of stylist Denis Bjerregaard. Each photo leads to a portfolio.

Anna Kern photography

Lonny Magazine does mantels

Vermont farm wedding with dog as ringbearer

Fur-wearing rich ladies with small dogs have always been with us. Photos from the early 1900s by Albert Kahn, with part two here

New York Times gets a first look at the Bergdorf holiday window displays. Best in full screen mode!

Paul Joseph Hopper's stylings

A photoset of bicycles in Iran with some beautiful surroundings

The stylings of Glen Proebstel. An interview and his company, which rents props to other stylists.

Stylist Sibella Court

Stylist Christine Rudolph

Lotta Jansdotter's studio in Brooklyn

Short slideshow about Gloria Vanderbilt before she was known as Anderson Cooper's mom

Ignore, if you want, his attire and look at his collection of bronzes

Pleasant photo tour of several blogs, from Gypsy Purple

Artist loft

Minimal Loft

Hey Home in Denmark. Go to the Features link to see lots of their projects. Color abounds.

Nostalgic for your bygone ship-building days? Here are lots of photos, then.

Dwell lists several free Google books worth a look

100 abandoned houses

MCK Architects has a large portfolio

The Selby has a new visit up with Eileen and Mark in Venice Beach

Colorful photos by Mikael Beckman

Home of Heather Gratton, with links to more photos

Home of Sara Tuttle, with more here

Flag series by Sara Rahbar

Art judged degenerate by the Nazis rediscovered, with slideshow

How they do those portraits in the Wall Street Journal

Minimal with a consistent color palette

Those are very large knitting needles and a very cozy home. (This is the Google translation.)

Bright! with slideshow

Waking from the American Dream - it is always nice to see a lot of these works of art again, with some context from Tony Thomas

Beautiful, colorful photographs show a tattoo parlor in Egypt

Upscale design by Smith Design Studio

Another way to clean silver? Can it really be this easy? More detail here with a chemical equation!

Photos by Magdalena Bjornsdotter

Lots of photos from Brazil (multiple pages)

Hardware for your castle or moat

Tiny apartment in London that belongs to Pippa Holt

Home and workspace of Elvira Bach

Family room makeover by Tobi Fairley

A lot of the images are not hers but she collects some good ones at Sanctuary, a blog

Be sure to look through all the portfolios and all the images at Dominique Vorillon photography. Do not miss Cuba or Gardens.

Mini house in Toronto, with slideshow

Video of sliding house in Suffolk. Supply your own adjectives.

Office design that remembers the history of the building by Medusa Group in Poland

Boho Luxe in Marietta, from Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles

200 square meter cabin located in the ski resort of Kvitfjell in southwestern Norway

Awesome and cheap way to display art

Story of an epic motorcycle trip in the past, with photos here

Philippe Starck redesigns a Paris hotel

Nice room makeover for a grownup ten-year-old

Sounds like a good book on New Orleans

For fans of more spartan living quarters

Waste your day going through the portfolios of a large set of Scandinavian photo stylists at Svenska Stylistgruppen

Three designers create three model apartments, all based on movies, for a hotel in New York. The three apartments have slideshows here. All in collaboration with three Hearst magazines, to make it even harder to explain.

Watercolor landscapes by ZL Feng

"One day we will wake up and think ’I don’t actually want to eat somewhere that looks like my Grandma’s living room.“" T Magazine from the NY Times looks at London hedonism. A couple of places covered by the article that deserve a closer look are Rough Luxe (use the Imagery link) and 40 Winks.

Sergio Rodrigues, mid-century designer and architect is still going strong at 83. His website is a little disappointing, but his famous pieces are there.

From RUM in Denmark, Cool (home) offices

S&M club to Motorcycle club to the family home of the couple behind Sixx Design, covered in the NY Times in May 2009. Recent Coco+Kelley interview with the couple. The Sixx Design website is here.

The online magazine Covet Garden goes inside real people's homes and finds out what they think and do.

The home of producer Robert Evans in California

Latin modern in Venezuela

Glamour and chaos

From France, an old farm house remodeled with lots of green and rose. Watch out for the purple bathtub.

Lots of chocolate-colored walls adorned with paintings.

The styling of Erin Martin fall just a little on the rustic side. Nice and comfy looking. The painted tire in the showroom is not something you see very often.

New Fall/Winter Tine K Home catalog is out. The settings they create for their products (in the first pages of the catalog) are very, very distinctive.

The House of Turquoise blog has a nice photo set up from John Willey Design. The photos were taken by David Jacquot, who has several nice interior photo sets on his website. The Willey website has many nice sets photos, with a before-and-after viewer.

How Moroccan carpets are made, with story and video

Decorating with dark colors. Also: Decorating with dark colors. 2011 color trends.

Swedish stylist Louise Svensson has a company called Guts. Black, white, and natural wood tones dominate.

Oddly awesome

Designs of Lo Bjurulf. The shy horse picture is nice.

This guy loves mid-century modern! Joel's Miami house tour. Be sure to check out the slideshow.

Inside a Chicago tannery. Surprisingly photogenic place.

A couple of nice interior photo tumblrs: Let's Find a Beautiful Place to get Lost and The Beautiful Soup

Trunk/suitcase as table

Art that makes you think

1010. Be sure to read the About 1010 page, then enjoy the photos.

One to bookmark: I Lay my Hat and Wish to Stay

Nice place to stay in Bali. The Panchoran Retreat's website has photos for each accomodation there.

Wedding photo set with some very nice, darker, muted floral arrangements and nice use of antiques

Tobi Fairley's portfolio. The Glenwood house is colorful.

Fall project and photos

Michael Partenio photography

Wonderful restoration of an 1890 home on the Greek island of Nisyros

Architectural photography of Charlie Bennet

Interior photography by Greek photographer Vangelis Paterakis. The portfolio is huge: go to Portfolio, then Interiors. You'll see a long scrolling list of homes. 103 is quite regal; 026 looks like a nice place to live.

Think knitted jewelry is just hippie-wear? Read this, watch the slideshow, and see if your opinion changes.

That isn't L.A. in those photos! Landscape Architect firm Tom Leader Studio has Birmingham's Railroad Park front and center on their website, as pointed out on the Bhamarchitect Blog

Dave Coote Interiors

Browse the book The Irish Country House. Easy to navigate with the > (next page button) in the top center of the screen.

Fall flower arrangements. #4 really does look like a painting.

Auto-play slideshow of Bill Kingston photography. His website: here

Atlanta bungalow, complete with rescue pug.

Richard Powers photography. Don't miss: the Blom house in Denmark or Lunuganga in Sri Lanka

Now you regret throwing out all those old prescription bottles, don't you?

The portfolio of Arren Williams. He has an Ask Arren page, too.

The Swedish magazine Elle Interior has a Completely Incomplete article (this is the imperfect Google translation), highlighting things that reveal underlying structures we usually don't see.

In the early 1960s, Alexander Girard designed a mural for John Deere that was a "3-by-8-by-180-foot long multi-media timeline of biographical, industrial and agricultural artifacts." Here is the south portion and the north portion

Freunden von Freunden visits illustrator Olaf Hajek in the heart of Berlin. Google translation of the interview.

Janis Nicolay Photography. Her blog has a lot of photos and recipes. Today's pretzel recipe looks awesome.

The apartment of Sarah Caniot and Nicolas Grandmaison. And, more photos.

No, it is not too early to discuss on-trend white shades for Christmas

The work of interior stylist Stella Nicolaisen

How did we come up with our color scheme? Darling, it was all the parakeets' idea.

The late Cora Ginsburg is remembered in this blog post from Interior Design Magazine. Her NY Times obituary makes her importance clear. You can get lost looking at the costumes and textiles on the company site and be sure to check the Ginsburg company's long list of costume- and textile-related links to discover things like the Royal School of Needlework and the Shoe Icons Virtual Museum. Titi Halle now runs Ginsburg's old company.

ONE BILLION DOLLAR HOME. Yes, all caps seems called for in this case.

Some of the Digital Photographer of the Year shortlisters. (That jackal was apparently attacking the puff adder, not the other way around.)

The Library of Congress on Flickr is a great way to see clothing, people, and objects from our past.

The photography of Candida Hofer. A google search for her photography is here

Halloween cranked up to 11 in a 1908 California Craftsman home

Country kitchens in France

Photography by Frederic Lezmi

10 kitchens, a very unusual home, and a gorgeous, comfortable house, all from Swedish site mixr.se.

There are paintings covering even the windows in the home of designers Dick Ridge and Rod Denault

All the same and not. Be sure to read the related article.

A rumination on Billy Reid. (Most of these photos came from Country Living.) Interview with Reid from January of this year. Reid lives in Florence, Alabama.

Dwell visits Peter Zumthor's chapel in the Alps. Don't miss the slideshow or this extra photo from Wikipedia

Vogue photographs of model Coco Rocha's apartment in Manhattan

Just a few cool, classic vintage motorcycle racing photos

Autumn

The Interiors portfolio of photographer Hotze Eisma. Hover over a name or click a name. If you click a name, you can download a PDF with lots of photos. The Maarten Spruyt PDF is very interesting.

Nice blog The Beautiful Soup does what so few blogs do: each photo is credited and, when clicked, takes you to the web site it came from.

Elizabeth Roberts architecture. Too bad the photos are not bigger.

Secret Gardens of Spitalfields, a London neighborhood.

The Hoffers take great photos. There's nothing else to say. Here's Erin and Tim's wedding. Be sure to visit their blog and view the rest of their portfolio.

Lonny Magazine, an online magazine, has a new issue out.

The photos are gorgeous but you have to wonder what it is like living with all that orange.

And, from the same New York Social Diary site, the home of John Woodrow Kelley

The Byblos Art Hotel in Italy

The art of Scott Waterman

At least you don't have to knock and ask if anyone is in there

Real person deardaisycottage and her colorful decor via decomyplace.

Humlebaek House designed by NORM.Architecture in Denmark

Paintings become bags

Wallpaper appropriate for any home

Flickr groups to waste time on: (1) Vintage Bathrooms, (2) Vintage (and pretty chaste) Calendar Art, (3) Vintage Science

The portfolio of designer Sibella Court (wish the photos were bigger). If you start with the "Inside Out" set, you can cycle through all the photos. Ms. Court is well-known in Australia.

Adore Magazine of Australia. The Australian spring has everyone down there excited! Click the "Read" tab to thumb through the issue online.

The portfolio of decorator Laura Day

Archinect Magazine has a continuing series called "In Focus" that profiles various photographers of architecture

Nothing to do with antiques or decorating, everything to do with life: a young lady goes to the shooting gallery in 1936 and...

Some blogs to put on your watch list: (1) Covenger + Kester, (2) Sit and Read. (3) antikmodern. (4) Beauty Everyday

London florist Nikki Tibbles's website has four amazing galleries

The Brick House is an interesting blog with a $100 rule an attitude, and lots of photos. Be sure to read the FAQ to get the details. Here's an interview and house tour.

Amazing man, amazing home. Be sure to read the main article

Inside the eccentric house at 1430 W. Berwyn in Chicago. Background here

Fall in the foyer from Birmingham blog Southern Hospitality

We're a little late to the party but here's intriguing blog A Collection a Day, 2010

In France, the home of bag-makers Isabelle Puech and Benoit Jamin, via Marie Claire Maison

In Baton Rouge, a house that gets modern, affordable, and liveable just right: Southern Greens, in Dwell.

Photourbanist

Birmingham artist Walton Creel deweponizes the gun by using it to make art

Global photography from Iwan Bann

Design by Tim Clarke. No need to use links - just use your browser's long right-left scroll

Galleries at Australian site Homelife

Collections at Lost Found Art

An introduction to Soojin Kang's dressed-up furniture. Her website is here here

Apartment design by Lotta Agaton. This is Lotta's portfolio.

Introduction to David Hicks in Australia. His website link is this but it is easier to see his work in the article.

White and Pink and also lots of shelves

Photography by Olga Bennett (use small navigator buttons above the photos): (1) her environments project, (2) her spaces portfolio, and (3) her blog

Welcome Beyond hand-picks unique vacation homes all over the world. Be sure to do searches on Italy/Tuscany or Brazil or India. Once you find an interesting place in the search results, click it to get lots of detail and more photos.

Rosie Brown does everything. Here's her online boutique: Papastour, in Scotland. Look at her home in Scotland (just keep scrolling down).

The home of photographer Corbin Lee Gurkin. Those same photos with text. Her blog is here.

Restored 500-year-old cloister in Barcelona

Lifestyle photography by Mikkel Adsbol. The Travel photos are worth your time, too.

NY Times profile from earlier this year, an antique dealer undergoes change. Background article here

A song more suited to Prince than Billy Idol: purple wedding

Just a nice set of photos from Deco My Place. The Deco My Place main site is here

Just another nice set of photos from Style-Files

Hope you're not tired of nice photo sets. Yet another from mixr.se

From New York, Nightwood furniture. Background here and a tour of their (old?) home here

The art of Olaf Breuning. Warning: look hard enough and you'll find dogs made out of gloves, cats in bikinis, and some nudity.

A Japanese restaurant in Ukraine, designed by Belenko, who have a very nice portfolio.

Click on the "book" links at Twig Hutchinson

Mixing vintage and your family

Click the Photo Gallery link at Vicki Archer

Salon-style gallery is the phrase of the day. Be sure to view the slideshow, too.

Another nice photo blog to add to the list of favorites: Trouvais

Profile of a wood stacker

Interior Design in Ireland

Details and photos from ten New York Design Stores

Inspiration photosets from Dutch site vtwonen. Once you drill down to a specific set of photos, you may need to scroll down a bit to see the next and back buttons.

Photoset of the Selby's visit to the home of documentary film maker Albert Maysles and his wife Gillian

All about windsor chairs

Go here and watch the slideshow, then visit the 'Residential' and other photosets. They're all nice.

Intricate and delicate art from Margarita Fick

Old gas station becomes cinema. Be sure to read the INFO link at the top.

Check out the "Features" link at heyhome. Just click the first photo in the Features set, then you'll get a slideshow. The next button is a little slow so be patient.

Cote de Texas covers itaglios.

Nuevo Estilo covers bedrooms. Click ampliar to enlarge and cerrar to return to the slideshow.

Photo blog from Petra Bindel

French magazine Marie Clair visits a small but charming apartment

Simply defies classification but it is interesting

Mural Locator documents murals around the world. Use their map to zero in on a particular city.

Jake Curtis takes good photos. Be sure to look at all the Interiors.

A boutique trailer park in Capetown, South Africa. And, check out the totally unrelated Cricket Trailer

Camera Quest offers up classic camera profiles. If nothing else, check out the 1922 Wooden Swiss Pre-Leica 35mm or the Gold Argus A

My 2nd Life is another very nice Scandinavian photo blog

Miss Retro Modern's flickr sets. Check out Vintage Christmas and Your Swingin' Pad.

Antique phones at Old Phone Works. Need an orange phone? look here

A home in France

1907 Alice in Wonderland illustrations by Arthur Rankham

A page of walls

"Before it disappeared the Duquettes' created an enclave of pagodas, pavilions, studios, and houses on which they lavished their many talents, collections, decorations, and magic." The story and unbelievable photos of The Empire above Malibu. More of Tony Duquettes' projects can be found here. Also, biographies, NY Times obituary , Google images.

Pamina, a view of the San Andreas fault, Frank Gehry and Ikea chairs living together peacefully. The home of Leonard Koren. Slide show.

Ruminations on the French magazine Maisons Cote Sud. The Cote Maison website is here.

Great photo blog from Paris, with lots of cats. You can never have too many cats. Neest

The story of the Grand Letar and more photos here

Intricate collage art from Colin Johnson

Knitting with an attitude

No idea how the interface works but click a photo, click again, and you get another set of photos. From photographer Morten Holtum

Modern villa in Brazil

Note her shoes if nothing else in this cute home.

Be sure to check out all the interiors from Kelly Wearstler, not just this one and this one

The home of the founder of Dwell magazine

Among all the others, check out the Bahama Saltbox here and the Paris townhouse here

Renoir's later works were controversial. Photo set here

Martha Stewart Living's creative director Eric Pike's home

Nice small house in Pennsylvania

More interesting than you might think: Blog devoted entirely to wine packaging

Abandoned Japanese army headquarters building in Shanghai becomes a hotel

Circus photos from over 100 years ago

Big roundup of dorm rooms over the years

Quirky and cute.

Nice alternative bedside tables

Interior styling by Susanna Vento in Finland

Hemmingway's Home

Warning: a photo on a wall of this loft contains nudity. Spanish loft that mixes modern and retro

Oddity: Polo shirts made of porcelain commissioned by LaCoste

If you don't mind downloading this PDF catalog (fairly small), the settings for the products is unbelievable. Living Divani (Italy)

Interior photosets by Maira Acayaba are here. Residencial set #08 is very interesting.

Property rentals in France let you see how Europeans decorate. Use the properties menu to see different lists, then mouse-hover or click for larger photo. This house in Tuscany is nice.

A nice photoset of a home in Berlin

Style and workspace in 1500 square feet (Click photo to view short slideshow)

Big set of Scandinavian blogs with lots of photos: Sweden, Finland 1, Finland 2, Finland 3, Finland 4, Finland 5,

Picture of old Cushmans and background info here

Robert Whitaker Beatles Portfolio

Really nice one room apartment (the kitchen doesn't count?)

Herman Leonard Jazz Portfolio

From the New York Times, the tough side of design

A few new photos from Ditte Isager that focus on food

From flickr user katinthecupboard, a massive set of scans from old children's books (note all the sets on the right)

The Guardian has visited lots of (mostly Brit) writers' rooms

Emily Gilbert's interior photography

Commune Design's residential interiors

Kara Mann's interiors

Cool examples of excess

A controversial art exhibition at the palace in Versailles features the cartoon art of Takashi Murakimi amidst all the stately excess. Coverage from PRI's The World and Huh Magazine show you what you need to know.

Profile of the work of Carolyn Quartermaine: part one and part two

Looks like a nice place to live [freshome.com]

Library of Japanese woodblock prints devoted to medical issues [asian.library.ucsf.edu]

Neat old set of kodachromes of a fishing trip [acontinuouslean.com]

Life on a houseboat in Louisiana in the 1970s: photos, background from NPR, an article Gwen wrote for Mother Earth News back in 1982, and her Facebook page

Designs by Lars Bolander [cotedetexas.blogspot.com] (Bolanders' own website is here but is somewhat difficult to navigate.)

Some history lessons: (1) notebooks of famous men ; (2) back when the road trip required very careful planning [nytimes.com]

Interesting info on J Morgan Puett [finderskeepersmarketinc]. Much more about her in this New York Times article and on her own website

Interesting scrap and/or recycled furniture from Scandinavia and New Zealand [recreate.za.net and pietheineek.nl]

Old car brochures for car lovers [lov2xlr8.no]

From the UK, great antiques arrangements by Alex MacArthur here and here [alexmacarthur.co.uk] Click the first photo in a set and note the navigators at the very top of your screen.

Art from Peggy Wolf [peggywolf.com]

Town and Country portfolios from S.R. Gambrel [srgambrel.com]

Collecting...taken too far? [snoreandguzzle.com]

Great photo blog: Hilda Grahnat (from Sweden). (Her Flickr set loads a little faster than her blog.) [blog.grahnat.se]

Something new and contemporary just for a change. [contemporist.com]

Two wonderful portfolios from Hamilton Design Associates [hdanyc.com]

Click Portfolio, then click Interiors for an auto-play slideshow of the work of Emma Thomas [emma-thomas.com]

If you like hats here is heaven, I guess. [chapeauxbibitop.blogspot.com]

The work of photographer Stratis Vogiatzis is profiled here [yatzer.com] (Vogiatzis' website)

Victoria Montoro Zamorano's images of Cuba [escapeintolife.com]

You can do a lot with only two or three colors [plaza.fi]

Two great home slideshows from the New York Times: one and two [nytimes.com]

Pia Ulin has some new photos at the start of her "interiors" photoset [piaulin.com]

In Austin, a building goes from firehouse to saddlery to Palazzo Lavaca [statesman.com] (background article and Facebook page)

The Selby has a new photoset up from the home of Erica Wilson, embroidery designer, and Vladimir Kagan, furniture designer [theselby.com]

Click once to enter, then go to the "selected images" link at Tim Walker Photography to see lots of interesting interiors amidst all the whimsy [timwalkerphotography.com]

Love or hate Ikea, they do create interesting room designs [digsdigs.com]

See how others decorate and live in the Flick group In Residence [flickr.com]

Two blogs worth visiting: colourmethree.blogg.se; sweetpaul.typepad.com

Jonas Ingerstedt interiors click the slider line above the photos to move around [ingerstedt.se]

Two slideshows with a heavy emphasis on design: the iconic from mid-20th-century and the brand new Love the mixed couches in the second slideshow? [dwell.com]

Amy's condo and a short interview with Amy [apartmenttherapy.com]

Go to the Interiors photo set. Keep moving through the slide show and watch the personality of the rooms change. Peden and Munk [pedenmunk.com]

A New York condo that's full of art [nyspacesmagazine.com]

Tidy minimalism and not-so-minimal in Scandinavia [boligmagasinet.dk] click photos to advance

You don't have to agree with her decorating opinions to enjoy the photos she includes. Top Ten Design Elements [cotedetexas.blogspot.com]

Nice bright blog from Norway: ifralahell [ifralahell.blogspot.com]

They're all great and from Houston, TX. Just pick one of the categories in the light gray bar (Lighting is a nice one) and sit back. Chateau Dominque [chateaudomingue.com]

Beautiful and singular, from Australia. Scroll through her blog for all her creations. A Mark in Time [amarkintime.blogspot.com]

One of those amazing Flickr finds: slideshow (awesome colors and decor) of Mattie and Den's home sweet home somewhere out west. If you want to skip around, remember there is a slider when you move your mouse to the bottom of the screen. [flickr.com]

Pia Ulin's peaceful interiors [piaulin.com]

Check out all the photosets of designs by Emily Henson [emilyhensoninteriors.com]

Found a new blog Fish Food by Teri Lyn Fisher that has a nice mix of food, recipes, and interiors [fishfoodblog.com]

Classic and classy interiors from Janet Simon [janetsimoninc.com]

Swedish interior photographery from Patric Johansson and Magnus Anesund [soderbergagentur.com]

Design Sponge looks over playrooms [designspongeonline.com]

From Australia, lush distressed interiors: Debra Cronin Design [debracronindesign.com]

Inspiration photoset from Scandinavia: Mimou [mimou.se]

Workspace photoset from Lonny Magazine [lonnymag.com]

Nice tumblr with lots of cool interiors and architecture: The Things [things.konradolsson.se]

Interior photoset from Chris Everard [sarahkay.com] Note: the slideshow is **way** too fast, so you probably want to cycle through all 189 photos on your own.

Nice collection of home office photos [finderskeepersmarketinc.blogspot.com]

You keep asking yourself if this is really a catalog [tinekhome.dk]. If the catalog loads slowly for you, you can get a taste here [greigedesign.blogspot.com]

Displaying a collection [dwell.com] or a collection [livinginside.it] or a collection [livinginside.it]

Photographers: Otto Greule Portfolios-Architecture-Classical is very nice [ottogreule.com]; Quintin Lake's Iran portfolio [quintinlake.com]; Candypop's Home Sweet Home flickr set [flickr.com];

New favorite photographer: Simon Watson [simonwatson.com]

Ruminate on white [finderskeepersmarketinc.blogspot.com]

Old doors as room dividers [re-nest.com]

Blue everywhere [mixr.se]

Something different: Pink Fiction [livinginside.it]

Food/life photography by Aran Goyoaga [arangoyoaga.com]. Also visit her blog, where this photoset of the Basque countryside can be found. [cannelle-vanille.blogspot]

Bloom Magazine (from Europe) has a large photo archive online. Page 19 has something for everyone [bloom-magazine.eu].

Nice (neglected) blog by Karen Mordechai [karenmordechai.blogspot.com]. She seems to be doing some amazing photography at Sunday Suppers, like this set [sunday-suppers.com]

Nice interior design by Andrea Willson [freundevonfreunden.com]

Make your own Anthropologie table [designspongeonline.com]

Little house in rural New York [designspongeonline.com]

Blogs devoted entirely to turquois [houseofturquoise.com] and gray [greigedesign.blogspot.com]

Living in a Mini House [dwell.com]

A quilt of mercury glass links: one [homeworkshop.com], two [southernaspirations.blogspot.com], three [cococozy.com], Martha [marthastewart.com]

Vintage metal lockers! [re-nest.com]

Photography from Philip Ficks [philipficks.com]

Danish mix of vintage and modern [rumid.dk]

Decorating with giant clam shells is about to hit big [willowdecor]

Take panel, add mirror [tineskreativehjorne]

$944/month, 178 square feet: Niche Design Love photo #6! [nytimes.com]

Photosets: Mirrors and consoles [eclecticrevisited]; Outside inspiration [aperfectgray]; Red [designlabyrinth]

Old farmhouse in Italy's boot [chicprovence]

Nice photoset from JadeBlade on DECOmyplace [decomyplace]

Vignette photo set from