I wanted to point out the blog The Steampunk Home. Writer Sara has an extensive chronicle of interesting commercial spaces and both vintage and steampunk styled home design.
The image to the left is the Bradbury building in LA, the building used in Bladerunner. Steampunk Home has more pictures in the post about the Bradbury.
Some other [...]

Britsteiner at Instructibles posted this useful DIY for creating vinyl wall art using black contact paper. All of the step by step instructions are in the project at Instructibles. The basis of this project could be used for just about any theme. Architectural element, words, repeating patterns, gears, scrollwork etc.

Want some really high quality good looking furniture but your short on cash? Look for hotel furniture liquidators. Not the Motel 6 variety liquidators, the ones that liquidate places like the St. Regis in NYC or the Four Seasons in Chicago.
The right places sell some really nice furniture for $10 to a few hundred for [...]

This high impact designer room looks expensive and very pulled together. The room is based on two complimentary colors done in multiple ways and is relatively easy to do if you break it down. The fabrics used are striped, toile, two color jaquard and single color jaquard. The trims used are simple tassels, braid and [...]

The hot part of the summer is winding down but these fans are still available. I found this uber cool Hunter brand vintage styled fan at Target earlier this summer. They had an end cap display full of them one weekend I stopped in, by the next weekend they were all gone. Luckily I found [...]

This hand painted reproduction of a 1900’s era tile bakery sign from France is now up on Etsy.
It is currently unmounted so it could be installed in a backsplash or other tile installation. The tiles are a 2×2 standard commercial tile and the artwork is fully fired to the tiles.
More information and close up images [...]