Categories: Home, Interiors, Kitchen, Clippings

LG isn’t the only home appliances company that is making appliances visually arresting: check out this Screenfridge from European appliance maker Electrolux:

From MoCo Loco: WoW Screenfridges

Categories: Home, Interiors, Housekeeping

Laundry is my favorite household chore. There’s something almost magical about running dirty clothes through the washer and dryer and having them come out clean and smelling nice.

Floor plans of newer homes are taking washers and dryers out of a corner of the basement and putting them in open areas. Laundry, which had been a solitary activity, is becoming a communal activity once again. We’ve seen the same thing happen with kitchens and cooking. It should be no surprise that washers and dryers are getting a makeover as a design element.

Sears created a lot of buzz with its Kenmore HE4t washer and dryer, which comes in fashion colors such as Pacific Blue, Sedona (orange spice), and Champagne. Now LG, the Korean appliances company, has upped the ante with its Steam Direct Drive Washing Machine that comes in prints (source: Treehugger):

Korean companies like LG and Samsung are no longer content to manufacture market appliances and consumer electronics cheaply … they want to be innovators like the Japanese companies that came before them. View LG’s Digital Multimedia Side-By-Side Fridge Freezer with LCD Display.

Categories: Home, Interiors, Accessories, Vases

I love the design and green and maroon color of this vase from India. At a distance, I thought that it was ceramic, but it’s really brass.

Floral Etched Brass Vase
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Found at Cost Plus/World Market. See other great vases here.

Categories: Miscellany

I had been using Bloglet as an option for people who wanted to get updates to The Style Page blog via email, but now Monsur of Bloglet has announced that he plans to phase out the service in the next several weeks.

For that reason, I have migrated the existing email subscriptions from Bloglet to FeedBlitz. Those readers who would like to get updates via email are encouraged to enter their email addresses in the sidebar at left.

For those readers who like to get updates via news aggregators, there are buttons to subscribe to The Style Page blog via Newsgator, My Yahoo!, and Bloglines. Our feed URL is http://thestylepage.blogspot.com/atom.xml.

Today is Flag Day in the United States. Long may she wave!

American flag (or variants thereof) is the most popular search phrase that leads visitors to this blog.

Categories: Bookstand, Stationery

These days, it’s not enough to be a print magazine. A magazine must have a Web presence. Some are even getting their own TV shows and branded products.

Time Warner’s Real Simple has a Web site, its own TV show on PBS, and now branded products.

I’m a sucker for gimmicks for organizing my desk – see my past articles on the File-It Calendar, bookmark flags, and Pro-Con pads – so I was curious to check out the new line of Real Simple Organizing Products.

Project box

I found many of the products overpriced, rather cheesy, and/or more gimmicky than useful. I did, however, like the Dual Notebook, which is two spiral-bound notebooks in one. I use one side for capturing ideas related to my job and the other side for capturing ideas not related to my work (including The Style Page). I also like the Project Box. I use the individual file boxes for storing ideas for different parts of The Style Page.

You may find Real Simple Organizing Products at Target stores.

What do you think of the organizing products branded by Real Simple? Vote at Quimble.

Categories: Home, Interiors

Hard to believe that three weeks have passed since my last article!

I have just completed updating the Home and Design on The Style Page website.

Object of desire: Drum stool from Room & Board

For those of you who find this blog by searching on “interior design,” check out our new links for Bath, Walls and floors, Furnitiure, Home Accessories, Kitchen, Lighting, Tabletop, and Youth. I’ve greatly expanded the use of del.icio.us link rolls to direct you to relevant posts on this blog and external sites. Also check out my wish list on the front page of the Home and Design section.

Categories: Fashion, Updates, Promotion, Jewelry, 2006, 2006-05, 2006-05-15

It’s been a while, but The Style Page has updated the Fashion pages on its website. We’ve expanded the use of linkrolls to the Fashion pages, so check our pages often for new items that might not be posted on this blog.

Necklace by Elizabeth Gillett, offered by Stylism

To kick off the update of the Fashion pages, we’re partnering with Stylism to offer a 10% discount off any order from their website. Stylism offers a wide variety of jewelry from designers such as Ayala Bar, Ben-Amun, Elizabeth Gillett (better known for her sweaters and other knitwear sold at Anthropologie), Liz Palacios, R.J. Graziano, and Sorrelli. To take advantage of this offer, please go to Stylism and enter coupon code TSP10 on the order page. This offer is good through May 15, 2006.

Categories: Bookstand, Books

Not only is this week National Library Week, the entire month of April is National Poetry Month.

Commemorative poster for National Poetry Month, April 2006

Some ways to recognize National Poetry Month:

1. Read the Poet’s Choice column from the Washington Post. Every week, Robert Pinsky, who served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (sometimes informally referred to as Poet Laureate of the U.S.) from 1997 to 2000, selects a poem for analysis. You can track updates through the linkroll on The Style Page > Bookstand > Books. The 10th anniversary of Poet’s Choice will be marked in the April 16 issue of Washington Post’s Book World supplement.

2. Subscribe to the American Academy of Poets’s Poem-a-Day service, in which you will receive a new poem in your inbox everyday.

3. Listen to audio from The Poetry Archive, which features readings of poems by their authors, both those who are living and those who have passed on. Readings by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (died 1892) and Robert Browning (died 1889) are featured.

4. Has a poem affected you in a certain way? Are there some lines which have been a source of comfort or solace to you? Find out what poems mean to others through the Favorite Poem Project, founded by Robert Pinsky, and Life Lines, from Poets.org. Also listen to the poem beginning “Death, thy servant is at my door” by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, as read by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, who lost her mother, her father Johnny Cash, and her stepmother June Carter Cash in the same year (you will need to browse or search the page for “Her Favorite Prayer”).

Links to Poets.org, The Poetry Archive, and Favorite Poem Project may be found through The Style Page > Bookstand > Books

Categories: Fashion, Bags, Promotion

The Style Page has an ongoing promotion with Renée Davide Handbags. Take 15% discount any of their regular priced handbags (which also include totes, day bags, and clutches). To take advantage of this offer, visit their online shop at http://www.reneedavide.com and enter discount code StylePage15 in the comments section on checkout (NOTE: Your discount will not show up at checkout, but will be taken when your order is actually processed).

Only seven days left! This promotion is in effect until Saturday, April 8, 2006. To learn more about Renée Davide, please see our previous post Renée Davide Handbags.