Q: What does the Apartment Therapy community think about modular pole-mounted shelving systems? In particular, I'm curious about the relative strengths and weaknesses of Elfa vs. Rakks vs. ISS? Elfa ...
What a great way to keep an office neat, tidy and organized! Designer Bertjan Pot has added a line of organizational tools to his popular metal Slim table. The metal table is covered in a thin oak v...
Lago, an Italian design company, recently launched a new line of fun, modular shelving available in a delicious array of colors....
Not long ago, we blogged about using IKEA kitchen cabinets for a DIY storage bench in our kitchen. We just spotted a kindred idea in the November issue of Better Homes & Gardens. Textile des...
This sleek collection of furniture from Lucie Koldova all performs a dual function. In addition to a table, a storage cabinet and shelving — it's also home exercise equipment....
This is an interesting concept — designer Maja Ganszyniec has morphed the idea of wallpaper, pegboard and storage pockets into a single product: Pocket Wall....
True, most of us don't live in homes with grand hallways like this. But the photo definitely got us thinking that passageways, at least wide enough ones, provide an under-utilized book storage opti...
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...
This design for a freestanding bookshelf could easily have been inspired by The Amazing Staircase from Veronika & Sebastian's Rooftop Victorian House Tour... ...
Toeing the line between interior fixture and fashion, Dutch designer Lotty Lindeman's new wall cupboard creation is a intriguing take on modular storage......
A friend of ours posted a link to this company on her Facebook page last night and we were instantly smitten. schubLaden, a German furniture making company finds old drawers and builds new casings ...
No matter how hard I try, I don't like to cook. So, in hopes of luring myself into the kitchen, I've created the atmosphere to feel more like an extension of my living space than a kitchen. In that...
Box shelves reoccur throughout a few of Boston designer Frank Roop's projects, and we can't blame him. These shelves, like floating shelves, have no visible fasteners or supports. And they provide a...
French designers Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz create fantastical furniture and wall decoration which seem a natural extension of the supremely creative graphic design work they’ve been churnin...
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...
A while ago we pined for a colorful kitchen island — but didn't want to spend a ton of money. So we decided to stack two IKEA LACK side tables to create our own kitchen island....
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...
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...
We are natural light fiends. We hate blocking even a smidgen of light from coming through windows. Yet, we're enchanted by this photo of window shelves from Metropolitan home......
This amazing space was designed by H2O Architects for a comic book enthusiast — the shelves and niches that fill the apartment's walls pay homage to the "blocks" of comic strips and offer the ...
Look at the fun colors in this shelf from Barcelona-based manufacturer RS! Inspired by the colors of the sunset, each powder-coated steel shelf is actually two parts that let the owner play with the...
The bibliophiles among us might appreciate the Pagina bookshelf from Italian company Cassina. Designed by Jean Louis Berthet and Denis Vasset, the shelving system mimics the appearance of a giant bo...
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...
If you love certain books as much as we do — we have a collection of 1970's Jaws paperbacks, just because — here's a way to finally show them off. These baroque-style bookshelves can sh...
Norwegian-based photographer Trine Thorsen photographed a creative shoe storage solution that would work in our home near the back door, especially during mud-season. It's made using a vintage ladd...
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