Subway tile: it's classic, it's cheap, it's ubiquitous. If you love the look (and the price!) of subway tile but want to try something more out of the ordinary, consider one of these seven creative ways to lay those standard 3" by 6" tiles that will have your kitchen (or bathroom) looking just a little different.
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Earlier this year I decided to stop drinking. I was never much of a drinker in the first place, but after seeing an allergist I realized that all the things I felt when I drank even the tiniest bit of something alcoholic were signs of an alcohol intolerance. Nothing was severe enough to send me to the emergency room, but every time I had the occasional beer, my nose would immediately stuff up, my throat would start itching and my skin would get flushed so much that I felt like something was wrong with me. It turns out there was something wrong and that, shockingly, this wasn’t something that everyone else was feeling. So I decided to cut it out of my life and haven’t looked back since. That said, I still enjoy the act of having a festive “drink” when I’m out with friends celebrating something. So instead of drinking what everyone else is having, I have learned to ask bartenders about mocktails or anything they can make easily without adding alcohol. Those requests have led to some of the most delicious drinks I’ve ever had (the blood orange mocktail at Lola in Cleveland is amazing), so I decided to share some of my favorite non-alcoholic drink recipes for anyone looking to mix up something special for end-of-the-summer celebrations. Served in a punch bowl, these can be great drinks for anyone at a party (including younger guests) but you can easily dress them up in a fancy coupe with a garnish for older guests who want something that looks a little more sophisticated. I hope you’ll enjoy these drinks as much as I do! xo, grace
Image above: Chelsea Fuss’ Elderflower Drink is as summery as it gets. The post includes a version you can add alcohol to, but it is not required for the recipe.
Click through for all of my favorite mocktails after the jump!
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People who use public transit aren't getting that much more exercise than people who drive. But apparently it's enough for some big changes.
It's not surprising that commuting to work on foot or by bike is likely to make someone more fit. But the same is also true for those who ride public transit, according to a new study. People who don't drive to work--no matter how much or how little they otherwise exercise--are likely to weigh an average of five to seven pounds less than someone in a car.
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What Spotify and Echo Nest know about listener behavior is about to change the music industry.
Music's shift to an all-you-can-stream model is convenient for listeners, tough for many artists, and potentially lucrative for the tech companies involved. It also has a hidden perk that could benefit all of them: Data. Lots of it.
With every purchase, Target will donate blankets, meals, and shoes to charities like the American Red Cross.
On Friday, the innovative do-gooders at TOMS shoes announced a new partnership with Target. Beginning November 16, the shoe company known for its canvas slip-ons and its widely mimicked "one for one" program will launch "TOMS for Target," a collection of clothes, shoes, and home goods. Nothing is supposed to cost more than $50.
The launch of the Apple Watch this week has raised questions about its impact on the Swiss watch industry. Contrary to Apple designer Jony Ive’s remarks that the Swiss watch could be in trouble, there are several reasons why the Swiss have nothing to fear from Apple’s success.
First, the Apple Watch makes wearing a watch relevant to a new generation of future watch collectors. I often ask other professors around the world how many of their students wear watches. The answer is always the same: “very few.” For many young adults who have grown up using their cell phone to tell time, the idea of wearing a watch is the equivalent of sending a telegraph or storing data on a floppy disk.
The Apple Watch introduces the concept of wearing a watch to many of Apple’s 18 to 35 target market. If it takes off, it is likely that these buyers will eventually consider purchasing other types of watches for events later in life. Talk to any Swiss watch executive today and they will tell you many of their best clients started out collecting Swatches in the 1980s, but eventually started purchasing more expensive brands such as Rolex, Blancpain, Breguet, or Audemars Piguet later in life. Like the Swatch, it is quite possible that the Apple Watch could spark a new generation of watch aficionados and collectors.
A similar phenomenon has recently occurred in the book industry. When Amazon introduced its Kindle eBook reader in 2007, many analysts predicted it marked the end of traditional bookselling. However, over the last five years independent bookstores have seen a resurgence in sales and in the number of stores, all the while selling traditional printed books. One of many reasons for this revival is that booksellers have benefited from continued demand for children’s books, which remain near the top of the fastest growing segments in the publishing industry. When parents and grandparents buy books to read to children at bedtime, they introduce the printed book to a new generation of potential users. As these children have grown up, data show they have been less likely to abandon the printed book in favor of the Kindle. In fact, most readers are happy to read both.
Second, the Apple Watch is likely to be a complement rather than a competitor to the Swiss watch. The Apple Watch is chock full of technological wonders that would be the envy of Dick Tracy, while Swiss watches are primarily luxury goods and status symbols. Apple is confident it will be able to reinvent its core technology every 6 to 12 months before competitors like Samsung attempt to render it obsolete. Swiss watchmakers, on the other hand, see themselves as craftspeople producing wearable art meant to be passed down from generation to generation.
The Swiss stopped competing for technological watchmaking supremacy in the 1980s when Japanese watch manufacturers like Casio and Seiko began producing far cheaper and more accurate quartz watches compared to their handmade mechanical timepieces. Within a decade of inventing the first quartz watch, the Swiss saw their export volume decrease from 45% to 10% of watches produced globally. By 1983, two-thirds of all watch industry jobs in Switzerland had vanished and over half of all watchmaking companies in Switzerland had gone bankrupt.
Thanks to the efforts of individuals like former Swatch Group chairman Nicolas G. Hayek and LVMH watch president Jean-Claude Biver (who oversees Hublot, Tag Heuer and Zenith), the Swiss watch industry cleverly repositioned its mechanical wonders as luxury goods. Unlike the $350 price tag suggested for a new Apple Watch, most of the Swiss watch industry’s meteoric growth over the last two decades has come from watches priced well over $10,000. The Swiss watch industry no longer competes on the same dimensions that will drive Apple Watch sales.
Third, Apple and Swiss watchmakers have this in common: they are deeply committed to connecting their product with the consumer on a personal level. During Tuesday’s launch event, Apple CEO Tim Cook touted the Apple Watch as the “most personal device we’ve ever created.” The beauty of the Apple Watch is that it can track people’s micro-movements and provide instant data to help wearers make sense of how they engage with the world around them. Similarly, while conducting research on the re-emergence of the Swiss watch industry, I interviewed a prominent Swiss watch CEO who said, “Your watch is part of you. The watch is you. It shows the type of personality you have: Are you elegant?, unique?, rich?, arrogant?, sporty?… all these elements are transmitted through your watch.”
The Swiss watch industry can be confident that a sufficient number of well-to-do and tech-savvy Apple Watch wearers will continue to pine for the highest end handmade timepieces.
The Apple Watch may keep perfect time, but it is not timeless.
In the last few weeks, Paris has opened access to the first forest ever to be planted within the city itself. Covering a narrow strip less than half a kilometre long, and currently home to mere saplings, will it ever feel like a wild woodland? After visiting the transiant landscape of this creation in progress in 2013, I was curious to see what the final result would be. Final is an impossible word though for a living organism, and the city of Paris itself is quick to point out that this is very much an ongoing project. Indeed, it is expected that at least 15 years of growth will be necessary before this project actually begins to feel like a forest.
Already though it is not without interest. The forêt linéaire covers a strip of land between a metalic wall of new-build offices and the concrete ribbon of the mostly invisible périphérique motorway, providing a necessary green breathing space. The trees are slight and unsteady, but, as we might do for our children, we will be able to slowly measure their growth against colourful posts in the coming months and years.
At one end the forest spills out onto the Canal Saint Denis, a forgotten waterway now being reawakened from its industrial past by out-of-town shopping centres. This is a good spot to enter, offering a more rustic perspective than the mammoth multiplex cinema complex that sits at the other end of the wood.
This may be a theoretical forest, the planting respecting natural growth principles, but currently it is more of a winding footpath leading from nowhere in particular to nowhere in particular. This is not necessarily a bad thing as walking without purpose and destination is an activity that should be encouraged in cities.
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A survey of booking portal Hotel.info's 6 million users has determined which cities have the cleanest and dirtiest hotel rooms. Tokyo topped the clean list, with a score of 8.93 of 10, with Warsaw coming in second. For dirtiest, Rio de Janeiro was the worst with 7.29 of 10, followed by London at 7.52.
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Under its new director, the Louvre is about to undergo its most ambitious facelift since the unveiling of the iconic pyramid in 1993. This September, work is due to start on the space below the pyramid entrance. The permanent collection will also be entirely rehung, the information labels to be updated and replaced, and a new exhibition space dedicated to the Louvre’s history is in the works.
Lindsaycdavisoni totally did this and am not ashamed. i mean, of course it's kid inspired (more so than this room is), but the chevron rug? for me... :)
Having spent the better part of the past nine months searching for, ogling, and pinning inspiration pictures for nursery decor, I’ve come to one conclusion: It’s okay for the nursery decor to be all about you.
With the rave reviews of Gehry's work on Louis Vuitton's Paris museum, the fashion house invited the starchitect to design their New York City windows. The displays are filled with a Gehry classic, the metal sail, which he referred to in Architectural Digest as "wind wings."
Only Philippe Starck can make helmet hair cool. The star designer created S+arckbike helmet, made in collaboration with California-based Giro Sports Design. It's made of sustainable cork, and the aluminum shell can be recycled. Last month, his line of e-bikes for German company Mustache Bikes debuted.
Artist Jane Perkins does more with plastic than toss it in a blue bin. She uses everything from buttons to action figures to recreate famous portraits and works of art using the found objects' original colors.
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Lindsaycdavisonignore the post that looks eerily like my hand writing! and i use those post-its for my to do list at work...weired
Barring no major breaking news, I’m scheduled to appear live on Today Show’s Kathie Lee & Hoda hour on Thursday morning!!!
Here is my to-do list from last night…..had to get this all finished before an early bedtime and ridiculously early flight to NYC…in time to arrive on set for rehearsals, recipe run through and meeting with food stylist!
Set your DVRs or Tune In!!!
Someone pinch me!!!
(And yes, will share a link once it’s available!)
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Of all the things I didn't expect to happen online last week, one of them had to be that a post singing the praises for the long-gone LEGO vacuum cleaner would've turned into a heated debate over whether or not little ones pick up after themselves. If a kid can play with it, should they also have to be able to clean it up?
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If you’re into street art you can go on a self-guided tour of the murals commissioned by the local town hall, or stop by the Galerie Itinerrance which represents some of the world’s most prominent street artists including C215 and El Seed (they were the ones who brought together 108 street artists for the wildly popular La Tour Paris 13, which was demolished in April). And it’s not in the 13th, but nearby in the 5th arrondissement is another excellent gallery and bookshop featuring graffiti artists, Nunc! Their next vernissage is September 13th from 2-7pm with the artist Baubô. The Espace Dali is hosting a new street art exhibition Dali Fait le Mur starting tomorrow (through March 15th), bringing together twenty “urban artists” (including beloved Parisian street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Speedy Graphito) who have created their own interpretations of Dali’s surrealist artworks in painting, stencil, design, light, sound and installation (you can also see a fresco created for the event along the Rue Poulbot, just around the corner).
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Up until recently, the only reason people passed through Porte de Clignancourt, on the outskirts of the 18th arrondissement, was for the famous Marché aux puces antique market in St. Ouen. The creation of Les Jardins du Ruisseau, a community garden located on the abandoned platforms of the city’s former commuter rail system, increased the appeal of this rough-around-the-edges area, attracting urban explorers and city picnickers since the gardens opened their doors almost ten years ago. 
The abandoned train station overlooking the gardens is now home to the neighborhood’s newest addition, La REcyclerie. Headed up by the team behind Le Comptoir Général, the cafeteria-style restaurant and bar has co-opted the spirit of the quartier and created an open, airy space that is host to group gatherings and informative workshops. 
Often based on the theme of recycling, to which its name pays homage, recent events focused on subjects like DIY cosmetics creation, repairing household appliances, and birdhouse making. 
An eclectic food menu ranges from foreign (Finnish-inspired fare, couscous, etc.) to traditional French (beef tartare), with cocktails (7 euro), beer (6 euro a pint) and bulk natural wine (3.50 a glass, 16 euro a bottle) from the 18th’s own En Vrac. 
Ordering is done at the bar, making it easy to enjoy a leisurely self-service evening, either in the spacious dining room or on the picnic tables scattered around the platforms opposite the community garden. 
Le REcyclerie promises many things to come, including a chicken coop, a shop, and an urban garden. Exciting upcoming projects such as these make La REcyclerie, which is quickly becoming a popular spot to eat, drink, and upcycle, an address to keep an eye on. 
La REcyclerie – 83 boulevard Ornano, 75018 Paris. Tel: +33 (0)1 42 57 58 49
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Written by Emily Dilling for the HiP Paris Blog. Images by Isabel Miller-Bottome. Looking for a fabulous vacation rental in Paris, London, Provence, or Tuscany? Check out Haven in Paris.
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The days are getting shorter, my hydrangeas are fading and autumn coffee drinks are already popping up on menus. Yup, these are sure signs that summer is winding to a close. So let's first journey to the Caribbean where summer never ends and see how we can incorporate elements of the island retreat into our homes for year-round tropical bliss!
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We live on a planet, next to a star that's part of galaxy that's part of ... ah, here comes the new discovery. We are at the very tip of a giant galactic "supercluster." Take a look.
