Happy New Year from everyone at Design Public! We are looking forward to spending more time with you in 2010. While I received a pretty good cocktail guide from Gwynnie over at GOOP, my favorite is the Mad Men one on amc.com:

image from amc.com

OK, I went to get started on the project inspired by the post below, but I hit a snag early on. First of all, I need a bigger inspiration board. I’d like to cover it in fabric and perhaps use upholstery nails around the edges. Or maybe fill some huge frame with cork somehow? Has anyone seen any good D.I.Y. directions for a project like this? What do you use for the middle? A large canvas maybe? I was thinking maybe acoustic ceiling tiles but they aren’t really big enough. The big one at Ballard Designs (53″x80″) is tempting, but it’s $499!

(From flickr member Art Thrift Craft.)

Now I’m enjoying the most recent interview over at Balustrade and Bitters with Kishani Perera. I love the way she uses color!

OK, as soon as this laptop battery dies, I’m going to go clean out my desk and reorganize my inspiration board!

Does anyone have big plans? I think I will wind up whooping at midnight with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. However, in anticipation, I’ve been thinking about bars and bar carts. Here are a few nice ones from around the web:

from Amy Lau Design via Houzz

from flickr member kellylj

from flickr member Hoot and Heart Company

from flickr member coco + kelley

from flickr member Habitually Chic (I think this was originally in Domino magazine)

from flickr member lookiloos

from flickr member lotuslily

from Style Redux (follow that link for a glamorous round-up of bar carts)

I am suffering from holiday A.D.D. I’m surfing around from twitter to a Scrabble game (“Porcinis” – 95 points!); from tumblr to Houzz, from Garnet Hill Orla Keily bargains ($49 bags!!!) to Remodelista, etc. etc.! I figured I’d share some of my favorites throughout the day as I go along.

So, a little known fact about people who don’t have kids is that we don’t care about nurseries. We avoid ToysRUs, we send Pottery Barn Kids catalogs straight to the recycling bin and we think finding poop on an upholstered chair in the living room on Christmas morning is disgusting (true story). So it takes an extra special, truly bedazzling nursery for us to give it a second look, and a total superstar for us to actually like it. I present this nursery by Insidesign that I just spied over at Remodelista. OF COURSE it is Dutch. It almost makes me believe I could live with all the poop:

If this got you in the mood to shop for modern nursery goods, this is what Design Public has for your hip baby.

photo via Remodelista, though I think they may have found it via desiretoinspire