Big-box store lumber gets the job done, but when raw material comes with a story, the finished product is that much sweeter.
An estate sale is not IKEA, a maze of cheap in three colors. It's not West Elm, assembly-line style you can call your own. And it isn't Restoration Hardware, five-figure, eight-seater sofas for that room "we never go in."
Minted’s latest art competition just wrapped, the Make a Statement Large Format Art Challenge. In addition to submitting seven prints I enlisted the help of Minted’s polling feature for the first time.
In 2013 I spent the better part of six weeks in and around Zürich, Switzerland. Inspired by a tune and a town, this piece of nostalgia keeps getting better with age.
I swept out the shop, tuned up the table saw, and built a pair of tables, one for business and one for pleasure.
It’s been a few years now since this story unfolded, but we like to think this little guy comes back for a visit now and again.
Our move to Austin in 2014 came at the expense of our first home in San Antonio, where Kathryn and I fell in love and together fell in love with design.
Steven Spielberg’s Hook is my favorite movie, I’m not ashamed to say. It has something to do with watching it as a kid, home sick from school eating rigatoni off my fingers.
I tinkered with m'pappy's old record player for a month, trying to get it up to speed, literally. I had it repaired professionally but still it played a beat slow.
I'm consistently dumbfounded at how many grown adults just love Halloween. Apart from pumpkin carving, I don't care for it—I've never had a reason to.