Q: I'm in the process of potentially buying a new place. It'll take a lot of work, but most of the tune-ups I have figured out. What's most confounding, though, is the flocking in a bathroom. I apprec...
When perusing paint swatches, most of us wonder who really uses the deep black shades to encapsulate an entire room. Interior Designer Windsor Smith didn't just stop at black walls, she added black...
We spotted the striped bathroom in the first image while photographing a Massachusetts home for an upcoming house tour and were impressed by how some subdued stripes can make a small space feel like...
Dario Argento’s 1977 cult horror classic, Suspiria, is one of our Halloween DVD musts — not for the ridiculous amount of gore or the kooky plot line — but for the over-the-top color-sa...
We'd been curious about the idea of painting a ceiling — not just a tint of the wall color but the actual wall color for a while. And the bathroom seemed like a safe, small space to experimen...
For me, the answer is three, at least that’s how many times I’ve repainted my living room wall in the past month in my (seemingly endless) struggle to find the perfect color....
Dutch design group Platform21 (remember their IKEA hack contest?) recently held a remarkable repairs competition and posted a Repair Manifesto that opposes throwaway culture, encourages people to vi...
When we toured artist Jen French’s house a couple of months ago, we were in awe of her wonderful wall paintings, and here’s another sample of her handiwork. Though she liked the color of the oli...
We sure love when you send us before and after photos of your DIY projects. Apartment Therapy Boston reader Lindsay sent us makeover pictures of three storage pieces (two dressers and a cabinet) th...
We love seeing large, antique furniture get a facelift. This royal blue and white cabinet has a new lease on life thanks to the hard work of AT Boston reader Casey in Brighton, MA......
One of the things about lettered stencils is that they invoke random flashbacks like art school, industrial signs, even summer camp (pretty much everything was labelled there, even underwear). We'v...
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...
It was only a matter of time before an eco plumbing association cropped up and that time is now. Within the past year 3,000 plumbers have become certified under the auspices of GreenPlumbers USA....
We have officially decided that we plan to stay in our apartment for at least a couple more years. This might not sound like a big deal but for two serial movers, it's a milestone. We love this plac...
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...
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...
Bright blue walls have been on our minds ever since we saw pictures of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, and when we saw this particular peacock blue accent wall at Liberty of London on a recent trip t...
Our hat’s off to interior architect Greer Goodman who saw potential in the very, very, red staircase and hallway of her Providence, Rhode Island home. See what the staircase and hallway look like ...
I bought my house three years ago because it had a lot of potential (and back then I had a lot more energy). Since it needed so much work on the inside, I concentrated on that and hoped the neighbo...
On a recent house hunt we spotted tons of textured wallpaper that made us cringe, but when we saw this raised pattern paper painted all-over white we thought it looked, well … kind of good. What d...
We're revving up to paint the outside of our house so we're on the lookout for interesting accent and/or trim color placement. This house in Jamaica Plain caught our eye with its fresh and fun yello...
Our good friends, Laura & Keith, recently bought a 2+ bedroom condo in South Boston and are three months into a major remodel. This narrow non-bedroom was acting as wood shop / organizational ce...
We ran into painter Amy Wynne-Derry installing her large-scale panels in the downtown Providence Art Windows, and were excited to hear that she also does custom site-specific paintings for residenti...
We are working on a project renovating an 1850's New England colonial home and while we are putting many modern amenities in the home, we are trying to do it in an environmentally responsible way. L...
For those of you who are in the market for a magnetic surface, but want a quicker solution than applying magnetic paint, we found these Magnetic Peel & Stick Chalkboard panels from Magnamagic......
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