"Home is where the heart is."
When you let someone into your home, in essence, you are showing that person a part of who you are. Everything from one's furniture to one's drinking glasses to the kinds of food in one's refrigerator tells something about that person. The following are links to some excellent web sites for browsing, purchasing and getting ideas and tips. These sites offer furniture and home products of elegance, high quality and style.
By Lori Kim
Links
This is a furniture and home products web site designed to give decorating ideas and helpful tips while also selling everything from an armchair to a lamp.
The web site of ABC Carpet and Home offers product viewing but unfortunately, does not offer purchasing online. However, this company is one of the most beautiful home furnishings store and shows great decorating ideas and does have phone order.
R 20th Century is an extremely modern and avant garde furniture maker based out of Brooklyn. They offer their exclusive furniture for purchase and viewing online.
Fish's Eddy is a unique houseware store that offers fun and different dishware and more. The stores are in New York but now, with its store online, anyone with access with a computer can purchase their special wares.
Banana Republic has very refined and minimal accessories for the home that, I think, is a better line of products than their line of clothing. Their home products are high in quality and look it.
Although Ikea is not the greatest in quality, Ikea furniture and housewares are perfect for college students and young professionals, and their products have style and are fun.
This furnishings company offers furniture with clean lines and modern-looking accessories. You can purchase the products online and request a catalog.