Magazine Horse

During my life growing up on a ranch, I wish I had thought of this idea. Our saddle horses didn't look this clean and glamorous, but they always served the function of holding the sweaty saddles after a long ride. This model will hold my own ass as well as my magazines: http://www.eosmexico.com/.

Burned Out? Recycle.

Your burned-out light bulbs don't belong to the waste basket anymore, they belong to the "Inkubator" and your ideas become terrific light objects. Bulbs Unlimited is a system, which transforms European standard light bulbs into various, spectacular light objects. Therefore light bulbs were linked together, like Lego® bricks, by simple snap buttons (press buttons). A custom-built positioning device, “the Inkubator” maintains to fix the snap buttons on defined positions on bulbs surfaces, by using a unique glue. The chance to locate snap buttons on several different positions on bulbs surfaces, guaranteed an unlimited number of potential light objects.

Keep Calm

Dramatic Attack

Living Small

Living in a small space, I couldn't pass this up. Tiny Living, everything on a small scale to fit your tiny place.

The Sofa | Before + After

It is quite amazing what kind of transformation can be made out of the discovery of fabric you may have hanging around the house. I had been shopping for fabric with thoughts of reupolstering this old couch for weeks, until one sleepless morning, I looked at my curtain-covered closet to discover the perfect material! Yes, it was in front of me all along...and I remembered that I had purchased two large panels of the canvas-like material which I tucked away for later use in my storage unit. Here's the most amazing detail; the total cost of the material was $12. Yes, $12. I challenge those of you on an upholstery mission to find such a great deal. Best of luck, and yes, send your stories...

Mary Veronica Sweeney

Mary Veronica Sweeney, MFA, is a visual artist, educator and curator based in NYC who is sought out for her sensitive, intimate images reflecting the sacred dimension of being. Her commissions have included images for PBS in Washington DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Her grants and awards include the Stobart foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust funded Vermont Studio School residency, the Thomas Eakins House Residency in Philadelphia and two Leeway Foundation grants. Her prints, portraiture and landscapes are in numerous private and public international collections. Sweeney’s work was featured in the 2006 traveling exhibition and book “Visions of the Susquehanna: 250 Years of American Masters”. Recently she was named Artist in Residence for the DenHoed Winery based in Eastern Washington for whom she has created a series of landscapes to be used an exlusive upcoming 2007 wine label depicting the breathtaking thousand-acre cliff winery affronting the Columbia Gorge as it faces Oregon.

The Three Dollar Wassily Chair

This is a story you must ask me about in person. I paid 3 dollars + tax for this chair. I had to follow (some would call it stalking) to find out where the truck was taking this piece. I knew it was getting dumped somewhere that it would not be respected. It was a Sunday, I had time on my hands and a triple iced latte in my cup holder.

PH Baird Design Box

PH Baird offers a room by room design option to ease new clients into their project in the form of a design box. The PH Baird design box, contains the necessary components to jump start a remodeling project. The design box option is ideal for those in need of conceptualizing their vision.

Clients decide how many rooms to design, from one powder room to an entire floor of rooms. Design fees are based on the average scope of design and the size of the room.

PH Baird is happy to offer full assistance with any questions our clients may have regarding their design box plans. At any time during the process, a design box client may decide to retain the full services of PH Baird to execute their remodeling project.