Arriving home after a long workday, you like to plant yourself in a lounge position and stay there. Some may call you lazy (so what?), but you prefer another moniker: Relaxation Practitioner. If you’re going to claim expert status, then…
From: Lei Chic (mail@leichic.com) To: feedback@evite.com Re: Account Cancellation Dear Evite, Sure, we had a good thing going, for a while. You were there for me during the Bad Sweater Party of 2006, when somehow I invited more than 500…
You scrub. And mop. And spray, wipe and swiff to keep your place sparkling. But many of the detergents that keep your house clean can dirty the environment with toxic chemicals and pollutants. Leave it to a Hawai‘i company to…
After months of getting lost on the yellow brick road of interior design, you finally found a straight path from your empty room, past design books, to your very own Room in a Book. Everything was crystal-ball clear until deciding…
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then to see lovely things everywhere all you need to do is fine-tune your perspective. So try viewing life through the lens of Kenn Briner, a Maui photographer who challenges viewers…
These days, everything old is becoming fashionably new again (but not the Bedazzler, no matter what anyone says). Just ask Deb Mascia of Mu‘umu‘u Heaven, who brought tutu’s mu‘umu‘us into the 21st century by sewing them into stylish tops, dresses…
It doesn’t matter if no one else sees them. Part of the pleasure of sliding into bed is pulling up a duvet cover that perfectly matches your personality and your décor. After all, you worked hard mixing that custom eggplant-hued…
You’ve never been an early person—you know, the kind who gets up at five to exercise before work and makes vacation plans a year in advance. But all that rushing around has also made you mistress of the last-minute style…
The fabric of your life shouldn’t be a stained and faded poly-blend. And that’s doubly true if it’s also the fabric of your favorite lanai chaise, where you read the morning paper and wind down with a sunset cocktail. But…
The best thing about leaving Hawai‘i is coming back – and it’s never more true than the moment you step off the airplane and smell the sweet scent of flowers wafting from a nearby lei stand or planter. Ahh. Home…
So you like to reinvent your style. Big deal. It’s not like you’re a commitment-phobe or anything. As if. You totally committed to those attention-getting Noelani Designs shell earrings, and every night you’re married to one side of the reversible…
How do we break this to you? The ceiling fan light – you know, the only thing illuminating your living room – is not really a lamp. Yes, it emits light. Yes, when it’s on, it’s not dark. But this…
There’s the dining room you’ve never eaten in. The garage you’ve never parked in. And the storage unit that costs nearly as much as your rent – and unlike your house, it’s air conditioned. You really have nowhere else to…
How many HGTV shows have you watched where the interior designer makes a dull condo into House Beautiful in just 30 minutes? A half hour at your place won’t even get the hall closet cleaned out, let alone a whole…
Last year’s hit design book Hawai‘i: A Sense of Place is still a fixture on your coffee table. But staring at that photo of an oversize pune‘e on a spacious lanai hasn’t sparked any grand ideas for your considerably cozier…
