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Posts tagged “living room”

Inspiration: Garden Table for Indoor Winter Plants

Now that the night temperatures have dropped to around the freezing mark, all of the container plants from our front steps and deck have moved in. We've got pots on the floor next to the sofa, on o...

Using Coffee Table OVER Ottoman

We love our large, tufted secondhand ottoman (that we reupholstered) but sometimes using a tray on top of the ottoman just doesn't serve enough of the hard surface function that we miss by not havin...

Survey: Do You Suffer From Sectional Sofa Regret Syndrome?

I work with a lot of clients who have recently purchased a sectional sofa, only to discover that it either doesn't fit in the space or it severely limits the arrangement options. Fortunately, I al...

Vintage Library Style
Roundup

The photographs of the Providence Athenaeum that we posted yesterday made us pine for a vintage library-inspired reading nook at home to curl up in during the chilly months ahead. Here are some furn...

Faith's 'Tomato in the Sky' Living Room
Room for Color - East #17

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Faith Location: Malden, Massachusetts Type of Home: one bedroom condo Color Inspiration: Months ago, I saw a pillow that caught my eye &mdas...

Amy's Deep Sea Living Room
Room for Color - East #15

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Amy Location: Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Type of Home: rental apartment Color Inspiration: I wanted a saturated color that was calming yet...

Mismatched Curtains

With no one blinking anymore at chairs that don't match, or mixing decorating styles.. would you draw the line at mismatched curtains?...

Bathyscafocus Rotating Fireplace by Dominique Imbert

A girl needs to dream big. And this one dreams of falling into some unexpected resources and getting one of these magical rotating orb fireplaces from Focus Fireplaces, so that she can be cozy from...

Window Inspiration: Pelmet Boxes

We're big fans of simple window treatments like white shades and roller blinds, but occasionally they need a little something-something to hide the hardware at the top, and to look more finished. A...

Garden Level Living Room Gets a Second Chance
Before & After

Over a year ago, Kayla’s sister discovered that her 5-year-old son was severely allergic to their home. The culprit was a white mold infestation that had quietly consumed the lower half of their r...

Hot or Not? Obelisk Chairs & Sofas by Allermuir

While we are definitely intrigued by these askew sofas and chairs by Allermuir, they also disturb our equilibrium. We'll blame it on our proclivity for motion sickness. How about you?......

Rope Benches & Stools by Madshome

We loved to waterski when we were younger, which might explain our fascination with these colorful wood benches which are made with the same poly-rope typically used for waterskiing ropes! Handmad...

Media Furniture with Fold-Out Bed!

People who live in small spaces sometimes need creative solutions for where to sleep overnight guests. We thought we'd seen it all until we spotted this Poppi Theatre system from Resource Furnitur...

Help! Can This 80s Faux Marble Coffee Table Be Modernized?

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 ...

Interior Landscape: Consolación Hotel

Being outdoor month here at Apartment Therapy we are interested in exterior spaces and bringing the outdoors in but what really struck us about this space is that it feels as though it has been trea...

Cafe Collection from Ballard Designs

This time of year outdoor furniture starts cropping up everywhere. We're always thinking about using outdoor furniture, like these fun cafe tables and chairs from Ballard Designs, indoors too......

Living Room Makeover: Un-Color Coordinating The Books

Our living room has been undergoing a rather prolonged makeover. It all began with the desire to paint an aubergine wall. Then we had to swap out the curtains, and to finish things off, we're finall...

Bemz Now Selling Daybed Covers — Over 100 Styles!

We're big fans of daybeds but it's not always easy to find stylish off-the-shelf daybed covers. So we were excited to learn this morning that Bemz, the Swedish company that sells reasonably priced s...

Decorating for the Sexes: Aubergine for Men

“Purple” probably ranks close to the top of controversial home décor colors, right up there with “pink,” and “black.". We put these color names in quotations because the right shade of an...

Rattan Pouf from Urban Outfitters

We have people over a lot so we're always on the lookout for flexible, affordable seating/surfaces for our living room. (We were happy to see Susie's post yesterday on AT San Francisco about extra s...

Bisecting A Hoosier Cabinet to Make Media Stand AND Console Table

AT Boston readers Molly and Adam were searching high and low for an attractive media stand, when they stumbled across this vintage hoosier cabinet and brilliantly turned one piece of furniture into ...

Affordable Reclaimed Wood Tables from Broyhill Furniture

It's easy to covet furniture made from reclaimed wood but it's often prohibitively expensive. And Broyhill Furniture isn't a brand that's referenced too often on AT - they're not quite known for hi...

Layers Table: Combining 4 Pieces to Create One Coffee Table!

This lovely coffee table, inspired by ice floes, from Council Design prompted us to think about using a grouping of smaller coffee tables to create the sense of one big table, divided only by small ...

Bookcase Divider with Curtain

We've certainly seen the bookcase-as-divider idea plenty of times on Apartment Therapy. And for good reason: it's the perfect way to create zones in a small space or open floor plan. Interior desi...

Secret Dining Table!

We spotted this ingenious, submerged dining table in the current issue of Natural Home Magazine. Aaron and Meghan Powers, the designers, builders, and owners of this 836 square foot, passive solar,...