At the Sunroom Café...

... we can wait out the winter.

"See? You can be messy on the inside, and no one knows."

Step inside a 400-square-foot apartment space , transformed by elaborate built-ins: The quote I've used for the post title appears about...

"The L.A. house, nestled between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills and blessed with terrific views, is by far his most modern creation..."

I love this Daniel Romualdez place: Source: online.wsj.com via Ann on Pinterest ADDED: I don't pin that much, but looking at the 4 thi...

"The Internet's most ostentatiously blissful women — the curators of domesticity on Pinterest, Tumblr, and thousands of female-driven blogs..."

"... occupy a sexless aspirational world, a modern Douglas Sirk fantasy of color-saturated feminine mystique." So-called “food por...

At the Bikes-in-the-Living-Room Café...

Are they still there? No! *** "Café," here at the Althouse blog, signifies an open thread in the comments. Write about what you li...

What TV show does Hillary Clinton love?

"Love It or List It"... ... in which a couple who are unhappy with their current residence gets to look at new houses while a deco...

"Who would willingly choose to live in something with the footprint of a parking space (8x10x16 feet)?"

"In cities where space is at a mind-boggling premium, McCormick’s idea of taking up residence in a parking space — in what he refers to...

At the Back-to-School Café...

... you'd better get to work.

"Allow for a mix of introverted and extroverted spaces when shaping an office space."

"It is important to have areas where employees can interact and communicate. It is equally important however to have space where employ...

At the Pool Table Café...

... you can call the shots. (The photograph was taken yesterday at The Raw Deal in Menomonie, Wisconsin.)

"Oakland, the Last Refuge of Radical America."

A long NYT Magazine article. In a sense, Oakland is the last place you would expect to find the most stubbornly active outpost of the Occupy...

"For the bridge [of 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin''], Phil experimented on the piano with a 'Hang On Sloopy' riff. It was brilliant."

That would be Phil Spector, as described by the songwriter Barry Mann , who says: I built a melody on the riff while Cynthia shouted out lyr...

The average rent in Manhattan is $3,778, up 9% in a year.

And for a studio, it's $2,569 — up 18.8% in the past year. Real-estate agent Josh Lichy, 27, appreciated the rental crunch first-hand wh...

At the Owl-Shop Café...

... you can get your 70s vibe. (You can talk about anything you want in the comments, as is the norm in an Althouse blog "café" po...

At the Home Office Café...

... we're keeping busy. (Info on the new furniture here .)

"Some of the stuff in [Sarah Jessica Parker's] house was shabby chic, and let’s just say, Anna [Wintour] wanted less shabby, and more chic."

This is completely mundane to me. Of course, a house that a real family lives in is different from the norm for a glamorous lunch party. Wh...

"Pink noise" — a remedy for the annoying noise of a cubicle workplace?

It's "a soft whooshing emitted over loudspeakers that sounds like a ventilation system but is specially formulated to match the fre...

"Those who have visited [the $1 billion house] speak of helipads, a vast library, extravagant dining areas... and even a snow room."

The most expensive house in the world — supposedly — is in Mumbai. It's strangely ugly from the outside. From the inside, it looks like...

"Podium teaching."

Have you seen this term? I'm not finding it on Google, but I'm hearing it used as if it's a standard term. It's a retronym ,...

"After Review of Grand Forks Olive Garden, Marilyn Hagerty, 85, Is Talk of Social Media."

"She felt fine about it." But she didn't care to scroll through the thousands of Twitter and Facebook comments on her writing ...