I feel like I've been cheating on my blog.

I haven't posted here lately because I've been blogging for someone else, a website called Core77.com. They've graciously allowed me to re-post entries here two weeks after they originally "air."

For the current posts, go to Core.

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I'm going to tell you why your bedroom is an unholy mess: because of a lack of design, and because of your clothes.

What do you do with clothes you've worn once? They're not quite dirty, so you can't put them in the hamper, but they're not quite clean, so you can't put them back in the dresser. So you end up throwing them on a chair, your bed, or a slow-moving pet. And since you're not going to wear the same thing tomorrow that you did today, the pile soon grows (and if you've gone with option three, your pet dies).

People have been designing beds, dressers and endtables for hundreds of years; now someone needs to design a new piece of furniture for the bedroom, something that will air out several days worth of clothes without looking like some monster that sweatshop workers have nightmares about. You could call it a Clotheshorse or something like that. (To the Core higher-ups reading this, you guys feel like sponsoring a design competition?)

Until this piece of furniture is willed into existence, apartmenttherapy readers have come up with some solutions here. But c'mon, with all the useless crap being designed, here's an opportunity to actually design something truly new and useful.