Our post last week about the grand dining rooms of the Newport mansions got an interesting response both from readers who like the idea (if only the idea) of ornate dining room décor and those who ...
During a time of recession, money is generally tighter, but the sales are steeper. What's a design-lover to do? We create a list of wants on a Google doc, prioritize, and spend when we can &mdash or...
Some of our favorite paint colors are Milk Moustache, Salt Water and Vintage. We've also used Chit Chat and Old Pickup Blue. And one of our friends recently picked out C2's Final Straw for a room i...
I grew up with three older brothers and as the only girl I never had to share a bedroom with one of "my boys", as I preferred to call them. (Not to say that boys and girls don't share bedrooms, but ...
On a recent road trip to Michigan, we spotted two lawn sculptures: an orange tree and a pair of carved hands. Would we ever have a lawn sculpture? we wondered. Would you? If so, what's creative and ...
We were talking with friends the other night about dinner parties and how even the most formal of events seemed to have gone casual in our houses. Our friend Jen talked about never ever using her w...
Photo: House Tour: S and S's Live/Work Bungalow We have always lived in apartments small enough that a single audio setup would provide music to the entire home — until now. Our home is a large...
For Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn’s latest project, Significant Objects, they find inexpensive collectibles at thrift stores and garage sales and match them with writers who write a fictional story ...
Apartment Therapy has posted before about the concept of house swapping but we're wondering how many people have actually taken the leap. We're nervous nellies at heart so the idea of doing a swap, ...
This past weekend was our first beach trip of the season and while packing up to leave we discovered that most of our beach towels had been appropriated for everyday use by members of our household ...
Do you remember the good ole' days of summer when that bright ball in the sky would shine down on New England and warm our bodies and spirits? This current, ridiculous weather borders on apocalypti...
Like many a great craigslist purchase, it was quite an adventure picking up this 80s faux marble Roche Bobois coffee table. After some white-knuckle driving through the Hollywood Hills and catching ...
Like many urban dwellers we live in a densely packed neighborhood where our three family home is right on top of our neighbors' homes. We're having a party tonight which always brings up the issue ...
We're gearing up for a multi-seller yard sale this weekend and one of the questions up for debate is whether to price each item or not. What do you do when you have a yard sale? When you're a yard...
Treetrunk Bench High Table, Jurgen Bey for Droog Design, Atlanta High Museum of Art While visiting family in Atlanta, we popped into Renzo Piano's lovely addition at the High Museum of Art and Droog'...
We own a lot of chairs — many more than our two behinds will ever use in a standard week. And although technically there's enough space to leave them all on the ground, we're contemplating hoi...
We have a special place in our hearts for canopy beds which we attribute to growing up with one. For example, when we spotted this red canopy bed, designed by Charles Ramberg, in the April 2009 iss...
Many of us here at AT Boston are serial rearrangers — we simply can't leave well enough alone when it comes to our homes. We like to think we're just keeping our options open, especially given...
Hi AT! I inherited a nice 6-person dining table and have no chairs! Since I'm buying from scratch, I'm seriously contemplating buying "head" chairs for the ends — would that be weird? I'm worr...
Last year you helped us give thousands of dollars to Habitat for Humanity, your non-profit of choice. This year we're asking you to help again. For three years Apartment Therapy has been teaming up wi...
Apartment Therapy has done plenty of posts about using black paint (some links below the jump) but we want to know how many of you are actually being so bold as to take this step and more importantl...
Looking around the apartment, we see examples of all different types of wood — a teak dining table, oak floors, maple plywood shelves, and a walnut veneer Eames chair. Some people we know need...
We've talked about the love affair with our Blu Dot Bonnie & Clyde sectionals before, but our sofa duo is in desperate need of a third piece to complete the look: a coffee table. We bought the s...
click thumbnails for larger pics At the end of his famous Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats leaves us with the quote, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." We recently went clicking through Small Cool entries f...
We get to see a lot of rarely discussed storage secrets through our professional organizing business. And porches in the off-season are a favorite spot for overflow storage for those who live in ti...
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