Trendspotter Springwise has an interesting holiday story about renting….Christmas trees. For all the traditional merriment they embody, Christmas trees are a) awkward to transport and b) terribly depressing when they’re discarded in January. No longer if Los Angeles landscape architect Scott Martin has his way; he founded The Living Christmas Company, which gives Los Angeles […]
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Lansing State Journal: Barb Sharp had talked for so many years about wanting to open a home accessories store that it had become a joke in her family. “We’d go into a store and I would say, ‘That place was nice, but I would do it like this,’ ” Sharp said. “My kids would finish
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The two-century-old technique of preserving food–or “putting up,” in canning-speak–is making a big comeback reports The Wall Street Journal. The worst recession in decades and a trend toward healthier eating are inspiring many Americans to grow their own food. Now the harvest season is turning many of these gardeners into canners looking to stretch the
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Kevin Morley and business partner Dean Eggers are busy trying to promote and raise capital for their invention, the Dish Trapper reports The Las Vegas Business Press. The device is a stretchable nylon net that can be attached to a dishwasher rack to keep plastic containers in place, thus preventing water from splashing onto the
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Montreal Gazette: There’s really no need for it, but North Americans now are in the habit of replacing their pillows every two or three years. Which suits Nino Saad just fine. Saad is the head of Les Accessoires Sleep Comfort Inc., a small family business that has found a niche making and stuffing pillows. Its
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photo credit: werkunz1 When people start thinking about starting their own business, they wonder where to find a great business idea that will be as profitable as they would like. Many don’t realize there are about a dozen business ideas around their own home and property! Take your garage for example, there are several different
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Fast Company: Lots of companies gab about design thinking, but Chef’n lives it–and it has proven just how fast a startup can rise on the power of a few brilliant ideas. Chef’n focuses on kitchen tools, which are ripe for redesign because of all the fiddly tasks involved. Like Oxo, one of its specialties has
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Springwise: On even the most tastefully appointed of houses, garage doors tend to be drab and monochrome eyesores, designed apparently without even the smallest nod to aesthetics. A German company aims to change all that, however, with large-scale posters that transform the doors through highly realistic 3D images. Style-your-garage.com‘s photo tarpaulins are available with a
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photo credit: Travis Isaacs Home based businesses are one of the most rapid growing in our nation today. Many people all over the nation are switching to working from home, and over time are adding employees to their home based office providing jobs to those who are out of work. U.S. rep Charles Gonzalez is
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Springwise: Consumers who lack the time, energy or skills to prepare delicious home-cooked meals themselves already have semi-cooking options to help them along–including shopping and delivery services, as well as meal prep stores, with or without instruction. When even those are too much, BookOfCooks is a new online marketplace that can help consumers find local
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