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Favorite Wine Accessories

We love the Mulholland Luxury Leather Collection wine carriers. Pictured above is their Two Bottle All Leather Carrier, but you can also get single-bottle, 4-bottle, and 6-bottle carriers. Carry your vino in style.

Favorite Coming Attraction

You can be Bringing Paris Home on October 7 when designer Penny Drue Baird's new book is released. Use Penny's French-inspired tips and inspirational photos to give your next decorating project extra flair. Pre-order the title on Amazon.

Favorite Books

Those would actually be the books that YOU create using our new Design2Share partnership with Blurb. Make your own bookstore-quality books tonight with Blurb's free BookSmart software. Buy just one or many; prices start at $12.95. Get Started Now!

Favorite Personalized Home Gift

Here's a clever gift for any homeowner from Eximious of London -- their Custom Enamel Box. Submit a photograph of any house, boat, or property and you can have it hand painted on the outer lid with a special inscription inside.

Favorite House of the Future

We're loving German architect Rolf Disch's Heliotrop House. The house is a great example of "sunflower" technology, rotating the house's solar-grabbing windows to the sun when the house needs heating in winter or rotating it away during the summer to keep the place cool. 

Favorite Mattress

There is hot debate about one mattress and its merits versus others. We're currently liking The Organic Mattress. Everything is pretty pure and organic in its careful manufacturing. Check them out, along with their special dust mite covers, too.

Favorite Spa Getaway

Send us to Winvian in Litchfield Hills, Connecticut! It's not that we didn't relax enough during the summer; this would be a preventative getaway to make sure we get rid of autumn stress. Check out their themed cottages, too.

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Favorite Book Series

Designer Todd Oldham has a new book series out called Place Space, all about quirky people and places. There are also fab essays written by folks like Amy Sedaris and Cindy Sherman.

Favorite Books

Those would actually be the books that YOU create using our new Design2Share partnership with Blurb. Make your own bookstore-quality books tonight with Blurb's free BookSmart software. Buy just one or many; prices start at $12.95. Get Started Now!

Favorite Desks

cb2's graph desk (above) is clean, white, and a great buy for the home office.

The Scriba desk from YCami (above) is a versatile, modularized desk designed by Claudio Bellini. Bella, bella.

P'kolino's adorable and space-saving Klick Desk (above) will let your child color and draw merrily beside you in the home office as you battle to get that PowerPoint presentation completed for the big board meeting in the morning.

Favorite Video

Thanks to designer Oskar Torres for tipping us off to the Hamptons Cottages & Gardens 2008 Idea House Video Tour; great work from everyone involved (and good job, Oskar!).

Favorite House Tours

Bucks County, Pennsylvania is close to major eastern cities and home to many beautiful residences. This house tour will show you six diverse examples of the Bucks County lifestyle, and we wanted to congratulate our creative director Irwin Weiner on having his home included in this year's tour (that's his living room and guest bedroom in the event poster above). Contact Tony Luna at tony@centralbuckschamber.com for more details.

Favorite Eco Tip for Kitchens

Are you a clean freak? The folks at Method put out Squeaky Green: The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home, and they note that disinfectants and antibacterials should not be used in kitchens. They may boast of killing bacteria, but viruses actually contribute to colds and illness, and it would take chlorine bleach 30 minutes to sit on a pre-cleaned surface in order to kill bacteria. Their recommendation? Clean kitchen surfaces often with natural products; that's all you need to minimize dirt and bacterial accumulation.