Current Obsessions: Signs of Spring

The temperature might be low in most of the Northern Hemisphere, but blooming magnolia and plum trees don’t lie. Here’s what we’ve been reading, watching, and making this past week:

• Admiring the pivoting blinds of Pitsou Kedem Architects’ latest project in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Alexa appreciates the transformative power of paint (like her coffee table salvaged off the street, then painted white). She’s checking out these different paint project ideas.
• Sarah’s enjoying the first print issue of a Handful of Salt, with its mix of craft and design, available online.
• After Jackie’s advice in this week’s 10 Secrets for Happy Housekeeping, we’re fixated on domestic science solutions, like How to Shorten Cleaning Time.

• Enjoying Sight Unseen‘s look at Brian Ferry’s Brooklyn apartment. For more of Ferry’s work, see his blog, The Blue Hour, and in A Designer’s Haunt in Greenwich Village.
• Heading into Bath & Spa week, Alexa has been noticing some smart DIY ideas, like a clothing hanger manipulated as a toilet paper holder.
• Christine was happily reminded of Le Grand Project of Renovations that began it all—the complete transformation of 18th century townhouse to Parisian industrial chic in 1928.
• Hosting friends for Oscars watching this evening? Here are 16 Fresh Ways to Dress Up a Table.

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