Top of the Town 2012

Raina Cox, the Denver tastemaker behind ifthelampshadefits.blogspot.com, a popular interior design blog, makes us feel like we’re part of the cool kids club. Her tone is snarky but informed and silly but sharp, and her Bohemian-contemporary, midcentury-modern finds have us dreaming up house projects that are legitimately worthy of Pinterest. Cox moved to Denver in 2009, and she’s been passing along meaty local design tidbits ever since (one of her favorite spots to shop is Joy’s Consigned Furnishings on East Hampden). She turns up good stuff—and we have to agree with her blog’s tagline: “Life is too short to live ugly.” ifthelampshadefits.blogspot.com