OrWa Designs  is a two-person team based in Vancouver, WA that builds solid wood furniture at an affordable price. (They also love finding vintage collectibles to help decorate homes.) All of the pieces can be customized to your size and color choice, and are available through the artisan site collective  CustomMade . Excited for their nightstand to be featured in this month’s  Deconstruction , they said, “Now people can see what a tiny furniture making business is like. We do it out of our two bedroom house, so things are tight, but we manage!” Let’s see how they do it. We start out with long, solid pine 3/4-inch boards, cutting the correct size for the sides, top, and bottom with our table saw, making sure the cuts are precise.

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OrWa Design’s Lime Zing Nightstand

Happy Hump Day!

For this week’s product pick, we’ve got a beautiful table lamp from Penta that is radiant and gorgeous. Also available in pendant lights, the Glo Table Lamp is made from chromed metal and borosilicate glass. It is offered in two different sizes and two different colors – either silver or gold.

The Glo Table Lamp somewhat reminds me of an oversized wine glass – which I absolutely love! It is also available as a floor lamp which would illuminate any room.

What are your thoughts on the Glo Table Lamp? Where would you put one in your home?

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We collaborated with  MSN  to profile four artists and designers we love who we think embody the same design, content and functional philosophies as the new MSN.com: design with fierce reductionism, sharing real-time trends, and being perfect for touch. We think you’ll love learning more about these four creatives. Experience their work below, and check out the all-new MSN  here . I could not be more excited to talk to Aurelie Tu. Not only do I admire what she’s doing with Craftedsystems , but I can’t get enough of the gorgeous texture of her designs, patterns and wall panels. Her soft, textured vessels beg to be touched and played with rather than just looked at

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From Tech to Texture: Aurelie Tu of Craftedsystems

While searching for some gorgeous spaces today, I rounded some favorites and noticed the similar tone of blue in the two images. The deep color must be calling to me today!

None of these images have much in common, aside that they’re pretty places. They are each from a different room – one the bathroom, another from the kitchen, the third from a seating area and the fourth an open living room. Back to the blue, I was really in the mood for some bright white rooms today, but I felt like I’ve covered that before so I went for some color and unintentionally went for the blue and threw in some seafoam green.

Blue is a color I have a lot of in my house, but the seafoam green – not so much. However, I love it in that bathroom! How about you? Are you a seafoam green kind of person?

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Tubelor Homme is a minimalist waste bin created by Osaka-based firm Ideaco . The re-introduction of the Tubelor in an even larger size gives testament to the on-going success of the red dot design winning trash can. The design has also won German’s iF product design award among others

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Tubelor Homme by Ideaco

Above: Hive Ottoman by atelier oï B&B Italia’s 2013 home collection was recently revealed in Milan with pieces for just about every area of the home. Featuring key designers like Naoto Fukasawa and Patricia Urquiola who have worked with B&B before and new designers like atelier oï, it delivers consistency and reinforces that the big Italian brands aren’t going anywhere. Tobi-ishi Table by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby Area Service Elements by Paolo Piva Andy ’13 Sofa by Paolo Piva Grande Papilio Abaca Armchair by Naoto Fukasawa Papilio bed by Naoto Fukasawa Husk Bed by Patricia Urquiola Husk Table by Patricia Urquiola Erik Bed by Antonio Citterio Alys Bed by Gabriele and Oscar Buratti Dado Service Element by Studio Kairos

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2013 Releases from B&B Italia

Inspired by children’s stacking games, Varia by Gaia Bottari is a set of tableware perfect for those who can’t make up their mind. Modular in nature, and just like a game, the pieces that make up Varia can be mixed and matched.

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Varia Tableware by Gaia Bottari

April is over now, but we didn’t really get all that many showers, so maybe we’re due for lots of rain in May.  reCOVER by Teracrea is a re-imagining of the typical coat stand into a miniature ecosystem. The base of the stand can be placed into any planter, so that your raincoats and drippy umbrellas can nourish the plant. What do you think of this design? Would you use it?

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reCOVER Coatrack Uses Rainwater to Water Plants

NYC designer/maker Daniel Moyer’s latest release is a series of wood tables. A year ago, Daniel made a table for the American Design Club Raw+Unfiltered exhibition and since then he’s been working to perfect the design.

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Workshop.Chic Side Table by Daniel Moyer

Going off of yesterday’s product pick and my previous weekend in Miami, now I want to give my backyard and outdoor space a makeover.

So, like any normal person would, I went on Pinterest for some inspiration and here are a few things my backyard now needs:

1 – A hot pink tufted lounge area over both sides of my pool.

2 – A gigantic fire place surrounded by modern outdoor sofas.

3 – A sunken dining area around an in-ground pool – so we can eat and swim and all be at the same level. This will make the hot pink lounge areas easier to implement as well.

4 – Outdoor mirrors. How come I’ve never seen this before? Have you seen this before? Love it!!

Which of these would you include in your backyard??

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