Month: February 2008

  • HomeHero Fire Extinguishers – Save Your Stuff in Style

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    There’s nothing like a fire to do your decluttering for you, without your permission and consent.

    Take the HomeHero BC kitchen fire extinguisher for example. With this simple, stylish device, you can stop a simple kitchen fire from getting out of control and save your space.

    We credit our client for telling us about this handsome knockout.  So on Friday, we headed down the hill to Sunset Boulevard and picked up six of them for the client at the local Home Depot. 

    The design blogs have gone crazy– and for good reason.  These units promote safety while remaining stylish.

    • The unit sits stylishly on your kitchen counter.
    • The stylish design keeps it visible for rapid accessibility.
    • Design features ergonomic grip and one hand push button dispensing.
    • Innovative wall-mount bracket (they call it a docking station) included and is U/L Listed.

    Did you know there are two kinds of extinguishers?

    1. ABC extinguishers – fights wood, paper and cloth fires, plus flammable liquid and electrical fires.
    2. BC extinguishers – should only be used in kitchens because the chemical agent in ABC extinguishers may damage ovens and other kitchen surfaces. Good only for flammable liquids and electrical fires.

    Listen, if you’ve ever had to use a fire extinguisher, let us know your tips.  Do you think this stylish design would blend so well in your decor that you may not find it during that moment of panic?

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  • Angelica Huston Furnishes Her Venice Beach Office With “Crap”

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    It's always fascinating to observe some people's "possession proudness."

     

    Feeling like their genetic footprint has to amount to a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records, they're leaving behind a legacy for their friends and family members to deal with. For example take our favorite actress and style-icon Angelica Huston.
    Huston surrounds herself with recollections, a lot of them, in her
    famous home in Venice Beach, Calif. and her new adjacent office.

     

    The view Huston paints nowadays is wildly different than the images we saw in Architectural Digest (below) in 1996 of a neat, carefully edited beach residence.

     

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    Today's Sunday London Independent (see cover, below) has an excerpt of AnOther Magazine
    article due out on February 14th 2008.  For better or for worse, Huston now
    surrounds herself with memories of her life, memories that she doesn't
    necessarily want to be reminded of.  

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    Here's a quote from the piece, "Angelica's
    Secrets":

     

    "I clutter my life with things….Huston and her husband, sculptor Robert Graham, famously live in a fortress-like structure in western Los Angeles' Venice Beach.


    They've just put up a building next to the house for his studio and her offices. "When [my husband, Robert] walks into my space, his face just registers horror and confusion at the amount of crap, things that assistants framed 20 years ago, stuff I don't even like – I put it all back up on the wall relentlessly," she admits. While she was moving, she found a box of possessions she'd inherited from a dear friend. "It was his entire life in something the size of a milk crate. Anyone who's expecting that from me has a different story coming. I've got house-loads." Inevitable, with all the lives she's lived."

     

    So readers, we ask you.  Why do you think some people are so proud of their possessions? Tweet us at @johntrosko or leave a comment below.

     

    [update March 2013] – Ms. Huston was featured on the cover of the Saturday evening post in the March issue. While she has nothign to do with the piece other than being featured on the cover, there is an interesting article about the link between clutter and depression.

     

    Images courtesy Independent, eBay and the London Telegraph.

     

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  • Delta Burke Steps Forward About Her Struggle with OCD and Hoarding

    Delta_burke_2There was big news today for victims and families dealing with obsessive-compulsive hoarding disorder.  A big Hollywood Star is sharing her personal struggle.

    TMZ reports today that Delta Burke checked herself into a Los Angeles-area psychiatric hospital for severe depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and "hoarding."

    In an interview that aired today (and bound to hit the Internet any moment), the Designing Women star and wife of actor Gerald McRaney, says the disorder ruined her life, and she’s starting to work through it under medical supervision.

    Wait, there is more if you click through…

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