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A few new things to make your house a little homier.
Nate Berkus in your living room
This spring, interior designer Nate Berkus wants to help you update your home affordably. His new line of globally inspired home furnishings and accessories exclusively for the Home Shopping Network (hsn.com) boasts more than 100 home products that won't break the bank (love seats for $500; upholstered chairs for $300). We asked the creative cutie for his three best style tips.
[Photograph]: CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COURTESY OF SUBJECT (2), JOSHUA JANKE/STUDIO D, COURTESY OF MANUFACTURER.
Stay neutral. "Start with a classic modern or traditional sofa in a solid and neutral-colored, undetailed fabric. Then add or take away details via accessories -- it's a lot easier than reupholstering."
Find a focus. "The key to organizing and living well is to define what each area of a room is to be. So in a reading corner, I want a table that can accommodate a stack of books, a comfortable chair, and an adjustable floor or table lamp."
Be yourself. "A space without personality is miserable, so incorporate your interests, whether that's through artwork or the books on your coffee table. And I never buy everything in a room from the same source."
The perfect portion
Circulon Bakeware and Biggest Loser Family Cookbook author Devin Alexander have teamed up to make portion control simple with their new collection. The 12-cup muffin pan makes waist-friendly-size square muffins; the 3-cup loaf pan makes three small loaves out of one recipe, so you can dig into one now and save the rest for later. $17.99 each, circulon.com.
Supply and demand
We love OXO Good Grips for its reliable, quality-made kitchenware, and now OXO is getting ready to work it behind a desk too. Beginning in May, OXO's new line of office supplies -- ranging from pushpins and hole punchers to rulers and clipboards -- will be available exclusively at Staples. A few of our favorites: the stapler (its double-pivot motion means you can push down anywhere to make it staple); the 8-inch scissors, which transform into a box cutter with the push of a button; and the sleek staple remover, which easily slides under staples to pull them out.
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