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Interior Re-Design: IKEA's Furniture Swap Fun
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Over the past few years, swapping clothing, books, music and movies has taken off around the world, with groups meeting for swaps offline and online. Now, according to the kids at Springwise, flat-pack behemoth IKEA is organizing a furniture swap at its Amsterdam store: a husselmarkt. The swap, which will take place on February 9th,...
Housing Market Goes on a McMansion Diet
According to Iconoculture’s latest consumer observations newsletter, a backlash against Mansion Mania is taking place in America and is seeking to put the squeeze on house size. Here’s what they say is happening and their comments about what this means to business… WHAT’S HAPPENING More than 300 communities in 33 states have tried to limit...
Green Giving: Even More Eco-Starter Kits
In December and earlier this month we wrote about four US companies selling what we called eco-starter kits. Like gift baskets filled with cheese and fruit, the kits contain an assortment of items, all with a ‘green’ twist: reusable water bottles and grocery bags, energy-saving light bulbs and eco-friendly cleaning products. All of the kits...
Curb Appeal: 17 Tips to Get Them Moving In
You’ve all had that experience with a client where you drive up to a house and they don’t even want to go inside. It’s an immediate “un-appeal.” You may know the inside of the house shows much better, but you just can’t convince them to spend the time to even go inside. In today’s market...
Cleaning Green: More Eco Starter Kits for the Home
Back in December, we talked about a few companies that sell eco starter kits: (gift) boxes containing products like aluminium water bottles, energy-efficient light bulbs and low-flow shower heads, all aimed at helping jump-start a more environment-friendly lifestyle. Now, Springwise has alerted us to Eco-Me, which took the concept a step further by developing kits...
Interior Design Goes Social
Shopping has always been a social activity, but only recently have sites like Stylehive, Crowdstorm and ThisNext begun to make its social aspects explicit with ways to make recommendations, seek advice and discuss products online. Now, according to the folks at Springwise, Design My Room brings segmentation to the game with a site focused specifically...
Renewable Energy by the Neighborhood
Finding sustainable and affordable ways to power the world is clearly a substantial and increasingly urgent challenge. And according to Springwise, Dutch startup Qurrent is taking the notion a step further with technology to enable neighborhood-wide energy networks. Because of fluctuating patterns of consumption, homes with wind and solar energy generators can find themselves with...
Home Makeovers: The Right Upgrades for the Ages
We’ve all seen those fashion faux pas: muscle shirts that only accentuate middle-age spread, or tight, low-cut jeans that turn soccer moms into muffin-top casualties. According to MSN Real Estate and bankrate.com, you can make a home unfashionable in the same way by choosing the wrong pre-sale improvements. Few real-estate agents will object to any...
Living Off the Grid: "Power House" as a Teaching Tool
According to the folks over at Springwise, one day, many new full-sized homes may resemble the Power House. The $149.95 miniature model from science-kit distributor Thames & Kosmos comes with a working green house, solar panels, a wind mill and a desalinization system. The kit’s aim: teach children what it’s like to live off the...
Distinctive Dwelling: The Steel House
Jennifer Chait of OffBeatHomes points us to another distinctive dwelling worth a look….Mr. Bruno’s Steel House. Look how amazing the interior is. Another exterior look. See a great slide show of this home plus process photos at Robert Bruno’s website. Full Story
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