On the list of best emails ever: we were thrilled and honored this morning to hear from the team at CoteMaison that Apartment Therapy is their favorite English language design and decor blog. Here is a translation of their wonderful write up: More

Annually, TIME magazine publishes their picks for the Best Blogs of the year...and happily, Apartment Therapy is on the list for 2010. They say that the group is made up of the blogs that they "can't live without". Thanks, TIME! More

• THIS OLD HOUSE | Best Old House Neighborhoods 2010
• GAWKER | What's the Deal With the Olympics' Bean Bag Couch of Shame?
• MATERIALISTIC BOY | Apartamento, por favor.
• NYT | War Rooms: CNN's Christiane Amanpour at Home
• HERMAN MILLER BLOG | Apartment Therapy’s Founder Talks Shop

Earlier today, the Apartment Therapy team learned that we were listed as the #1 Design Blog by London's The Times in their list of 50 of the World's Best Design Blogs — a list that includes blogs focusing on interiors, graphic and product design. We're honored to be part of the growing family of design bloggers and pleased to be listed among great blogs like SwissMiss, The Selby, Young House Love, Sweet Paul, Making it Lovely, Design Sponge… More

Earlier this year, Dwell Magazine asked me to review an assortment of modern sofa beds, and my sleeper sofa opinions are in the September issue. Mind you, I was not responsible for choosing the sofas, only for reviewing them, but they included great ones, most of which are on my most recent list — Best Sleeper Sofas & Sofa Beds 2009. More

Today's New York Daily News features Teeny-tiny Division Winner Kevin Patterson from this year's Smallest Coolest Home Contest — the story gives a little more insight into Kevin's small space on the Upper West Side... More

Dear Readers, Lurkers & Commenters,

We've had unfiltered (and amazing) comments since we launched in 2004. Yes, every now and then we’ve had to do a little policing, but not much, and I’ve felt that it’s the tone that we set as writers that has the biggest impact on comments. However, as our sites have grown we’ve had to get a little stricter and a little more watchful. Now, with nearly 3 million monthly visitors, I’m hearing enough static that I feel it’s time to wade in again, comment on comments and make a policy. Therefore, we sat down as a group of editors over the past few weeks and put together a comment policy which outlines in detail what we are trying to achieve here... More

Whooo-hoooo! We've been fans of New York magazine's Home-Design Issue for years now because they have Wendy Goodman and all the juiciest pics of homes that are hard to get into. Now, finally, we've gotten into the magazine, featured in their current Shop-A-Matic. Yes, it was grueling, choosing 140 cool items for small New York apartments in one day, but we did it. Click on over and check out our picks:

>> Shop-A-Matic: 140 Small Space Solutions

Noooooooooooooooooooo! — sums up the collective panic across the blogosphere when the news hit that Condé Nast was closing their almost-4-year old shelter magazine, Domino. In The New York Times, Penelope Green follows up on the news and gives us a broader picture of the reason for the closure... More

Hey, The Kitchn just got nominated for an award! This doesn't happen every day, and we're very flattered. Thank you very much to everyone who nominated us in this go-round of the Food Blog Awards. We are nominated in the Best Food Blog - Group category, along with some other really great weblogs. The Food Blog Awards are a great way to discover wonderful food blogs. We suggest you go and take a look.

And of course, if you want to vote for us, that is very nice of you. But the main thing is that you check out ALL the delicious food blogs in our category and the other categories too.

• Vote here! VOTE: Best Food Blog - Group