Bookshelves

Here's a terrific way to create storage and a focal point using less than 12 inches of floor space. A wall of bookshelves stretches up t...

Style With a Triple Life

(Click on the pictures for a larger version.) Source: American Hairdresser, April 1943

You Can Wear Bangs...

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958

Unexpected Alphabet No.11

Trying to hide in a Northamptonshire field at Wakerley, the final resting place of an Atlas Express Carriers articulated wagon. 'Atlas...

Hurricane preparedness: Lessons learned, or lesson lost?

Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina tore through the U.S. Gulf Coast with a fierceness that shocked the nation. It claimed the lives of 1,800...

Re: Cycling

Is it just me ( yes- Ed .) or has cycling changed beyond all recognition? I know we've progressed from velocipedes and Dursley-Pedersens...

The Boyish Bob

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: Practice and Science of Standard Barbering, ⓒ 1938-1958

1965 Modern Beauty Shop on Jezebel

There is a post on Jezebel with images from the February 1965 Modern Beauty Shop Magazine. Check it out.

Curtains design ideas 2011

Curtains - a detail that could "warm" home and create faster and lesnouyut and good humor. Probably until they match never thought...

A Modern View Living

Simple, geometric shapes combine in this living room for a modern design that is both stylish and functional. A gridded entertainment center...

Find The Fault No 18

We've been here before I fear. Still, it is No.18, so the artist must be getting tired. But I do like the picture, with that alien creat...

Pandemic flu summit challenges Americans to get prepared, make a video

With the end of summer creeping up on us (already? boooo!), the annual seasonal flu season is also right around the corner. So what happens ...

What's Your Hair Problem

Can I cut my own Hair? How do I choose a hair-do? I wear glasses. What hair-do is right for me? How should I brush my hair? (Clicky Clicky o...

Jolly Hollyhocks

Is this the Unmitigated England Garden Flower? Or should it be old roses round bargeboarded porches, foxgloves towering against tarred sheds...

Modern Hair Cutting

(Click on the image to enlarge.) Source: The Journeyman Barber, September 1940

Romantic... the Word For Our New Kind of Ponytail

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958

Fire safety season

Stop, drop and roll. For many of us, these fire safety tips are nearly as familiar as our ABCs. But as important as these instructions are, ...

Brushed-Under Bob

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958

A Leicester Couple

Two more favourites from 'Less Tar', as many of the locals say. First up is the Pork Pie Chapel. Any building in Leicester that'...