This post in Apartment Therapy on How to Prep your Bathroom for Company has made me rethink my powder room arrangement for next year.

Adding a faux floral arrangement would be an easy-to-care-for addition.   

Updating our bathroom hardware could definitely enrich the setting.

A more thoughtful display of candles would be nice. A platter of these chestnut scented candles might be the perfect seasonal accent. 

More Apartment Therapy...The Grand Tour - In Baltimore, WBAL-TV co-anchor Donna Hamilton writes about decorating her daughter's new apartment using (among other things) one of our Moderne table lamps.  

At-At Walker Lamp - if you're a Star Wars fan you'll get this fun prototype lamp by design group Lifegoods. Thanks to the blog designmilk.

LED Lights Made for Squeezing - oddly disturbing squeezable LED lights by Dianna Lin. Thanks to blog Gizmodo.

Under $100 Bookends - our cute cast iron Owl bookends were included in a Design*Sponge post.

Glory in Green: It's a Color Too! - Blogger Nicolet muses on the color green and features a Babette Holland Tiger Green table lamp.

Designer Candice Olson writes about decorating a basement family room in this Seattle Times article: Candice Olson takes a room from frightful to delightful.

The project was for a busy family with two young children. Candice notes that, "...the space was so scary the kids wouldn't even go down there alone." See below for the scary before look.

Her solution? "...the perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy. So this whole project was about taking one very cold room and wrapping it in layers of warmth."

For more warm and cozy looks, check out the entire Candice Olson lighting collection.

Photo thanks to The Seattle Times.