The question is, why wouldn’t you want to add some metal to your petals and do a little “hardscaping” before the season’s in full swing and you haven’t the time, nor as many choices, to pepper your patio with the pretty and the practical (not always mutually exclusive, as you shall soon see!):
             
A dining set […]

   
Each day, you hear more and more about authenticity-this and authenticity-that. (It’s the new “express yourself.”) Heck, mea culpa for blogging about Seattle’s authenticity a couple of days ago. So it was with equal parts amusement and intrigue that I picked up Time magazine’s March 24th issue, with the cover story, 10 Ideas That Are […]

Still haven’t recovered from Spring Forward? Want a fresh face to look at in the morning? Seeking a new partner to help you hop to it before Easter arrives?
Chiasso has practically more choices than eggs on the White House lawn.
      
For starters, there are two versions of the blocks clock. One’s in color and the other’s […]

Yesterday afternoon, I deplaned into a space that, for me, was not unlike entering someone’s home—and a really cool home at that. I was in Seattle, in the new section of the SeaTac (Seattle-Tacoma) Airport.

Now, I’m a firm believer that you can judge a book by its cover. What better way to sell it (as […]

         
Today, as part of–oh, I don’t know…let’s call it some sort of ad hoc Spring Training-and-refresher-course-in-conservation, I happened across this little tidbit on page 127 of the New York Times Bestseller, The Little Green Book:

Get ceiling fans and use them instead of air conditioning. It costs just a penny an hour to […]

For those of you who have not had the pleasure of meeting her, or reading her regular commentaries on the hard copy pages of the Chiasso catalog, Nanette is the company’s CMO and CCO (chief merchandising and creative officer). She recently stopped by the Blogissimo virtual office for a chat.
Blogissimo: So you were recently in […]

I don’t know about you, but that’s all I needed to hear before I immediately started fantasizing on how I was going to spend the money. Up to twelve hundred dollars! What a great present. I’ve actually never been happier to be married in my life.

The first thing I thought of was making a donation […]

With spring—tee-hee—just three weeks away, who can resist the urge to go a little au naturel? I’m speaking only of color and motifs, don’tcha know. Lucky for us, Chiasso has all things flora to fawn over—and, better still, there’s no formula to follow. So let’s get ready to let our hair down everywhere, shall we?
You […]

Okay, so sometimes only drywall will do, but how ‘bout those other seminal moments when you have the urge to hide or separate a portion of your space? You know, when company’s coming and there’s about five loads of laundry and two bins of recycling to put away and you don’t have time to do […]

Okay, so let’s say this weekend, you’ve been inspired by thoughts of Spring (in most parts of the country arriving not a moment too soon), leafing through a catalog (Chiasso), seeing an actual in-home, turned on version of the Wave fireplace you saw in the Chiasso catalog (on a new episode of HGTV’s Divine Design), […]