Topic: Decor

Creative Ways To Use Gift Wrap (For More Than Presents)

Creative Ways To Use Gift Wrap (For More Than Presents)
DIY invitations or thank you cards
Make a bowtie
Gift wrap your walls
Or with fish!
Put ribbons in your hair

Remember all the excitement and fervor you had on your birthdays as a kid, using all your strength to destroy the careful wrapping work of adults? Then using the remnants as costume material or ribbon to choke your siblings? Now that we’re older and have to practice restraint when it’s time to open gifts (either to impress the in-laws with our self control skills or because we have lost sight of all things fun), the wrapping paper ends up perfectly folded and sitting in the closet. But all that un-ripped, untainted paper, ribbons, and boxes are more than trash or just reusable wrapping: they are a gift of their own.

With Midori’s actually awesome collection of printed wrapping paper, patterned boxes and colorful ribbons, you can bring that excitement of being a destructive kid back by dressing up your home, hair and wardrobe with all those leftover supplies. Here are a few easy ways to use their fancy printed paper and ribbons for more than wrapping presents, and feel like that creative kid you once were. More »

Airbnb In Sweden Used As “Temporary Brothel”

Airbnb In Sweden Used As "Temporary Brothel"

Look, I just thought you guys should know.

The next time you use Airbnb to sublet your apartment when you’re out of town, just remember to ask if whoever is renting will be using it as a brothel for a few weeks. I mean, also ask them if they’re a meth user, but incorporate “enterprising brothel owner” into your questions if that would trouble you. Or people will run a brothel out of your home, and you will only find out about it via police note upon your return. According to The Kernel: More »

Justin Timberlake Designs A Home Line

Justin Timberlake Designs A Home Line

Justin Timberlake has designed a line of home decor because OF FUCKING COURSE HE HAS. The collection–for HomeMint–was designed in collaboration with stylist and designer Estee Stanley. As for Justin’s storied design background, ElleDecor ominously describes his role in both a design and “curatorial” capacity. Did you guys know the word curate doesn’t fucking mean anything anymore? Sorry, people who work in museums. Let’s look at Timberlake’s designed/curated plates. More »

How To Style Your Home As If You’re A French Empress

How To Style Your Home As If You're A French Empress
An elaborate entrance
Own an exotic animal
A fashionable salon for receiving guests
Excessive flowers
Gold kitchenware

In my readings this morning, I discovered that on this day in 1796 Joséphine de Beauharnais married the famous general Napoléon Bonaparte. Although Beauharnais had been known as “Rose” in her life before Napoléon, it was when he crowned her the First Empress of France that he decided to call her Joséphine instead. From then on, Joséphine referred to herself as such, as did everyone else. More »

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