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Light Switch Rack by Paul Koh

Apartment Therapy readers are always looking for organizing solutions for their landing strip areas. This clever one by Paul Koh may do the trick....

New Home To Do List: Which Projects Do You Tackle First?

Wes & Kayla’s admission in yesterday’s wonderful house tour that getting their apartment looking just right took a lot longer than they expected really hit home for us. It’s been over two mont...

Upcycled Recipe Card Boxes by Karen Malcolm

Recipe card boxes may seem like a quaint idea in the Internet age, but these Joseph Cornell-inspired upcycled boxes by Karen Malcolm make me start to rethink my recipe (non) organization system....

Marrying Spaces: Two Small Cools Become One

We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary but our physical belongings had a 6 month jump on the actual marriage — slowly merging and flexing two former Small Cool Entries into a new sta...

Look! Vintage Toolboxes to Organize Makeup

We've never had enough sink real-estate in the bathroom to store makeup. While we look wistfully in magazines at spacious double sinks with room for extra towels and lotions, the reality is that we...

Moveable Magnet Calendar

Ever see that Sarah Jessica Parker movie, If Lucy Fell, where she and her roommate had a giant, painted calendar on their apartment wall and would prime over and re-paint the whole thing on the firs...

Confidence Boosting Hangers

It never can hurt to get an extra dose of self-validation when you're getting dressed in the morning. These ego-supportive hangers would make nice companions to the self-esteem boosting mirror we b...

Covertense by Izzy Cruz

Last week we showed you some beautiful examples of books being displayed cover-side-out and industrial designer Izzy Cruz responded, sending us pictures of a great shelving system that he designed f...

Displaying Books Cover-Side-Out

We’re total book junkies here at Apartment Therapy, but it often makes us sad to hide their beautiful covers deep in the shelf while their spines get all the glory. ...

DIY Coat Rack by Jen French

Artist Jen French, whose incredible gothic bungalow we toured a few weeks ago, came up with this super simple, yet fantastic-looking idea for an entryway coat rack by screwing some vintage hooks int...

How Do You Use the Awkward Spaces in Your Home?

The fun (and sometimes infuriating) part of setting up a new home is figuring out how to utilize the unique nooks and crannies of your space — in our case the greatest puzzle is this narrow 1-...

10 Tips: A Grown-Up Home (For Less!)

You don't have a lot of coins to toss around, but you want your apartment to look more like a grown-up's with taste than a mish-mash of free stuff &mdash isn't that what Apartment Therapy is all abo...

Moving Tip: Haul Your Dishes in Restaurant Racks

Carefully wrapping all of our glassware in bubble wrap and newspaper only to drive it ten minutes to our new house and unwrap it was making us a little bonkers so we came up with an idea....

Freeform Accordion Hook from Urban Outfitters

We're always on the lookout for hook-type storage solutions so this novel one from Urban Outfitters grabbed our attention. We love that it's a play on the traditional age-old accordion hook. Chock...

Cloud 9 Organize & Redesign: Affordable Design Service

Cloud 9 Before (Left) & After (Right) Apartment Therapy is, in part, a community of design-savvy do-it-yourselfers. But for those of you who crave a little extra support when it comes to sprucing...

Using Curtain Wire for Magazines!

This may be more than you need to know, but we're big fans of reading in the loo. So we're always interested to see new ways that people corral their reading material, in the bathroom and otherwis...

Hyde Wall Mounted Cabinets from CB2

We work with a lot of people who live in small spaces and need to take advantage of vertical wall space, above existing furniture, for extra storage. The typical solution includes all kinds of wall...

Lining Shelf Edge with Clothespins for Desktop Papers
Better Homes & Gardens

We spotted this photo in the June issue of Better Homes and Gardens. It was the opening image for an article about using numbers and letters to decorate your space. But we're drawn to the brillian...

Adding Chain to Closet Rod for Extra Closet Storage

Many small space dwellers are short on closet space. We spotted this simple, clever solution for beefing up your hanging storage space on the Instructables blog. It's a variation on another chain ...

Using Ironing Board Cupboard for Spice Rack

Apartment Therapy has posted before about converting an old ironing board cupboard into a spice rack. But we were drawn to the concept of the "stay bars" used for this particular example, from a ho...

Sneakers as Art at the Achilles Project

We’ll admit to a mild (ok, ok, full-blown) shoe obsession and we’re firmly of the opinion that there are quite a few sneakers out there qualifying as art, so why not treat them that way? We’ve...

Survey: Do You Use Your Oven for Storage?

Our grandparents used to store Cheerios and Raisin Bran in their oven. Rational or not, when we were little it always made us nervous, worrying that the boxes would ignite in the middle of the nigh...

Before & After: Living Room Corner

One of our favorite assignments for our redesign business is to help someone redo a photo wall. For this particular job, we also tackled the bookshelf below the artwork......

How To: Organize More Efficiently

We've worked with hundreds of clients for our organizing and redesign business. And from that experience, we've learned that the most common thing people do to decrease their chances of an effectiv...

Chrome Shower Basket Storage

We've finally had it with those bathroom storage shelves with suction cups that just don't stay up! Ok, so yes we do put some heavy things in them, but after re-suctioning our lilting corner wire b...

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