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CB2 is who?

Filed under: Haute Home, Stores We Love, Accessories, Steals and Deals


Every day is a picnic.Sale! CB2.com has some gorgeous dinnerware on sale, such as the green chrysanthemum plates you see at right. $2.95-$4.95 apiece, people!

CB2 has a lot of chic, reasonably-priced stuff. Some of it's just on the cool edge of crazy. Look at this vase. Who would think that CB2 is actually Crate and Barrel?

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Brighten up your kitchen

Filed under: Haute Home


Sometimes you spend so much time in a room that you stop seeing it -- like your kitchen. You don't notice you dishtowels fraying, or your once pink sponge disintegrating into a gray bacteria sink creature. Then one day you look around and realize the heart of your home is drab.


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That holiday known as Autumn?

Filed under: Haute Home, Fashionable Food, Style in the News

After feeling the consumer backlash of one too many unappreciated Christmases in October, some retail stores have been scaling back the pre-December mistletoe in favor of autumn-inspired themes.

Instead of just letting consumers maintain the normal cycle of the slow fall and the buy winter buying season, companies are trying to sell harvest foods and autumn furniture, much in the way the fashion industry has insisted upon separating out fall clothes from their wintry counterparts.

What do I mean? Well, have you visited Crate and Barrel lately? They now have promotion dubbed "Layer in the New Warmth." Same with Pier 1 Imports and Bath & Body Works's promotion "Happy Fallidays".

Autumn....apparently, it's the new Christmas.




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