How To Take Care of Antique Wood Furniture

Many people own antique wood furniture. However, not everyone actually knows how to take care of their belongings. Today, I decided to feature two articles that provides some tips on how to take care of an antique chair and other wood furniture. I personally believe that preserving the life of things with value such as […]

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The Fun in Taking a Yacht Vacation

  I usually take about things that I love and most interested in such as antiques and furniture items. However, today I decided to feature something that I and probably most people love, and it is called vacation. I have always loved vacations ! I actually find myself lucky to be in Singapore, and this […]

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Framework and Ellen’s Design Challenge: Furniture-Making as Spectator Sport

This is an interesting read about the show:

Craacck. There is nothing like the sound of splintering wood
to make you jump up out of your chair. For Rahil Taj, a contestant on
the Spike TV show Framework, the jolt was especially intense.
When one of the show’s judges sat on the rocking chair he’d scrambled to
make in 24 hours, “it f—ing broke,” as Taj put it. “That’s the worst
thing that can happen.” Somehow, he wasn’t eliminated: Another
competitor built a very boring stool.

Framework, airing on Tuesdays at 10 p.m., is one of two new
shows seeking to dramatize the making of furniture. The other, backed
and hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, is Ellen’s Design Challenge,
playing Mondays at 9 p.m. on HGTV. Together, they represent the latest
evolution of the you-make-it-we-watch-it lifestyle competition show, a
genre that’s proliferated in the decade since Project Runway and Top Chef
turned the making of dresses and meals into popular entertainment. It’s
somewhat amazing that, Bob Vila aside, trendy furniture builders have
gone untelevised this long.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/furniture-making-on-tv-framework-and-ellen-s-design-challenge

Here is also an interesting article: http://551eastdesign.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-smorgasbord.html