TOP ROW:
1. A Solar-Powered Shipping Container House in Colorado
2. 25 Places to Donate Your Stuff
3. Book Sharing: Little Free Library
4. Gardening Without a Garden: 10 Ideas for Your Patio or Balcony
5. Helpful Links: Rain Barrel Roundup
BOTTOM ROW:
6. 4 Creative Reuse DIY Projects
7. The Pros and Cons of Switching to a Tankless Water Heater
8. A Teeny Tiny House in Just Two Days
9. DIY Black Tea Window Cleaner
10. Let There Be Recycled Light! 5 Upcycled Lamps
Welcome to Apartment Therapy's Best of 2012 roundup! From December 19 through January 1 we are rounding up our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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Before & After: Emily Henderson Transforms a Senior's Studio Space
Monica & Austin's Charming Bungalow
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
White Enamel Four-P...
How to Make Easy 3-Ingredient Energy Bars at Home
How To Make Classic Chicken Salad
An excellent list and an excellent concept - which fulfills both the needs to be ecologically conscious, and also to be creative and self-reliant in times of financial uncertainty.
Perhaps most of all this collection of articles serves the invaluable role of allowing one to make their home into a genuinely and practically rewarding part of their lives.