I caught wind of Superfront from Remodelista today and boy am I glad I did. The Swedish company creates special cabinet fronts, handles, and legs that you can use with IKEA products like Bestå sideboards, Pax wardrobes, and even some kitchen cabinetry.

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Upgrade Your IKEA with Superfront

Remember when your stereo came in a beautiful wooden console cabinet? (Am I dating myself?) German-Danish designer Gesa Hansen, of The Hansen Family , has designed a two-piece collection for Tivoli Audio that brings the furniture back to your sound system. Radio Rack (above) - holds a Tivoli Audio radio and your favorite magazines below. Perfect piece to have next to a reading chair or in any room’s corner

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Hansen for Tivoli Audio: An Audio Furniture Collection

Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz ‘s latest project is called Bordus , a coffee table with some seriously aerodynamic lines. Inspired by angular Stealth fighter jets, the complex angles give the table a twisted look.

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Bordus Table by Ola Giertz

Lately I’ve got the urge to paint some walls a subtle pale pink. I don’t know what room it would be for, although I am longing for an office space of my own. But it would be of my own because I’m not sure my fiance would go for a pale pink bedroom, living room or kitchen.

Taking a look at the three images above, each room is painted a pale pink, but none of them are bedrooms or nurseries or offices that might belong to a little girl or a woman. There are two living rooms and a kitchen. Maybe it’s a single woman’s house – or maybe the men don’t care about the pale pink.

Trust me when I saw that I’m not trying to be sexist by any means, but light pink is a very feminine color. I never really had the pale pink urge until now, now that my house is entirely painted, but if I did, I don’t know how my fiance would react. I can’t imagine he would mind too much – he did let me have the ruffly shower curtain I wanted!

What are your thoughts on pale pink? What about pale pink and the man/men in your life?

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Workspaces have been going through a huge shift in recent years with more people collaborating and working in open concept offices, making it necessary for multifunctional and adaptive furnishings. Knoll partnered with Antenna Design to create a new product line called Activity Spaces that let’s you customize your own flexible work environment. I love the Toboggan Chairs (image above) where the raised surface can be used as a desk, armrest, or backrest. Refuge They believe that there are five “go to” spaces that are places, “for temporary group and individual work” that include Refuge, Enclave, Team Meeting, Assembly, and Community. Refuge In addition to Knoll’s already iconic line of office staples, they’ve added some additional products to the repertoire that work in conjunction with the old favorites.

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Activity Spaces by Knoll and Antenna Design

Who says a chair has to have legs? Even a rocker doesn’t need them thanks to two narrow skids that allow for rocking back and forth, right on the ground. The FEDRO Floor Rocker, by Lorenza Bozzoli for DEDON , sports the skids that make it rock while keeping it super lightweight, portable and stackable. Colibri The Milanese Bozzoli brings her fashion and textile background to the design with its woven bands of colors that were inspired by the chair’s bird-like form

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FEDRO Floor Rocker by Lorenza Bozzoli for DEDON

Bram Burger and Stijn van der Vleuten are the duo that make up bram/stijn , and their introduction into the furniture world is a series of flat pack, easy-to-assemble designs called Seats and Stripes . The stools, benches, and cabinets are made of minimal pieces of wood that assemble together in a matter of minutes. The furniture is then held together with colorful straps. The straps can be mixed up to change the look of the piece or the wood can be painted or stained to achieve a new look as well. These are pretty smart designs, especially for people who might move a lot, as you release the straps and the furniture comes apart

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Seats and Stripes: Flat Pack Furniture from bram/stijn

Happy Monday! Can you believe it’s April already? Hopefully you’ve got some good pranks going on for April Fool’s Day!

Today, I’m sharing the instructions how to make the chocolate covered pretzels above. I made them this past weekend to take with me for Easter brunch and then dinner. They weren’t hard to make, just a bit time consuming.

To get started, I went to Michael’s and picked up some Wilton’s melting chocolates in dark chocolate and light chocolate and then a bag of pink and green for the drizzle. I also grabbed a pair of plastic bottles, like these here, to apply the drizzle to the pretzels. You can use the bottles, decorating bags or even a Ziploc bag with the corner cut off! You could also use chocolate from the grocery store, including white chocolate with food coloring for whatever colors you need. You’ll also need pretzels of your choice, of course!

Once I had all of my supplies, I made a psuedo double boiler by putting an inch of water in a saucepan and a glass bowl on top, so that the water was not touching the bowl. I let the water warm up and placed the chocolate in the bowl, stirring until melted. As the chocolate is melting, lay out wax paper for the pretzels to dry on, either on your countertops or on top of cookie sheets for mobility.

Once the chocolate was melted, I brought the pan off of the burner and closer to my wax paper. Next, I put the pretzels in the melted chocolate and covered them completely using a regular fork, which I then used to fish the pretzel out and place on the wax paper to dry. Repeat this step until the pretzels are covered, or you need to melt more chocolate. Occasionally I put three pretzels in at once to speed up the process.

After all of the pretzels were covered and sitting to dry, I melted the colored chocolates and poured them into the bottles. Then I went back and forth over the pretzels to create the drizzle. In the morning, once the pretzels had sat over night, I removed the excess chocolate and packaged the pretzels up to take.

Simple to do, nice to look at and delicious to eat!

Have you made chocolate covered pretzels before? What’s your method?

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Québec-based Romacieri Soligo creates high-end tile and bathroom fixtures and their latest line of porcelain tile called Azulej is designed by the one-and-only Patricia Urquiola . Purposefully made with differing aesthetics and various orientations, the tiles are made to be mix-and-matched to your heart’s content. The Azulej collection uses an innovative digital printing process to infuse geometric, linear, and floral patterns onto the tiles. Available in, two sizes of tile, three color schemes, Bianco (whites), Grigio (grays), and Nero (blacks), and 27 patterns for each, making the design possibilities endless.

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Azulej Tile Collection by Patricia Urquiola for Romacieri Soligo

Signe Hytte just graduated from the Danish design school TEKO and is pursuing furniture design. Recently exhibited at Greenhouse in Stockholm, the Little Giant chair is a simple design with Japanese inspiration. Made of ash wood with a simple wool cushion, the chair does not try to hide its construction. According to the designer, the design itself is based on a tight and conceptual principle that stems from the Japanese Tatami patterns. I like how you can put the cushion over different areas, depending on how you’re using the chair

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Little Giant Chair by Signe Hytte