Big ideas for very small apartments
Lexington Herald-Leader, April, 2006 by Alyson Ward

From New York Magazine's Best of 2006:
Best Low-Commitment Interior Designer

Apartment Therapy
212-966-7174

A regular on HGTV’s Mission: Organization, proprietor of apartmenttherapy.com, and author of the new Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan specializes in transforming cluttered apartments at low cost. For a base consultation of $550, Gillingham-Ryan interviews clients at home, then draws up what he calls a “prescription.” “He’s very clever and efficient,” says Mary Hayes, an aesthetician who’s installing a mini-salon in her Soho one-bedroom. “He used what was in the apartment just by rearranging and adding some items. It wasn’t an entirely new makeover—my place was just in need of something that I couldn’t figure out myself. For the first time, I really feel like my apartment is set.” And her bank account remains intact.

Click here to go to the Newsday article about the AT Book from March 31, 2006.

"And if you think you’ve got a small place, check out the Smallest, Coolest Apartments of 2006, a contest going on over at the ever-delightful site ApartmentTherapy. Every entry’s got pix of all the strategically designed itty bitty spaces, with square footage and blueprints and deserved worshipful comments...."

We're basically shy, but when you have a book to flog you'll do anything, including sitting on your bed next to all your carefully arranged laundry change smiling for the camera.

In case you missed reading The Daily News yesterday, Apartment Therapy, the new book and yours truly got some great coverage.

In a two page spread, The Simple Life: Give your place a new lease on light by following this designer's tenets, everything that we believe in was proudly trumpeted in Daily News fashion... yes, there's juicy personal tidbits.

There is a lot in this article and much has been pulled from the book. Here is a really nice clip from the article from Deborah Needleman, the editor of Domino Magazine: More

Big ideas for small spaces in the Dallas/Fort Worth Star Telegram

We just heard that the Smallest, Coolest Contest is in this week's Newsweek Magazine. Check it out here. They feature pics of Robert and P2's apartments as well a some candid interview snippets including this one:

[P2] says the contest isn't for the thin-skinned since the site allows viewers to critique. "You're having total strangers say they hate your sofa," he says.

Potential small apartment submitters and thin skinners take note! If you have got some great ideas, this is becoming an even better forum for sharing them and getting your creativity out into the world. More

We're just throwing this other link that a reader sent us to the Philadelphia Enquirer where the Contest gets a nice, small mention. One more entry is coming today.....

Hey, The Kitchen has been nominated for Best Food Blog at the 6th Annual Weblog Awards (a.k.a. "The Bloggies").

While Treehugger, Gothamist and a few other unknown (to us) blogs squeezed AT: Home out of Best Topical blog, we feel like celebrating (and voting). And if YOU'RE feeling the love cooking in The Kitchen, express yourself voting-style. Polls close at 10:00 P.M. EST on Sunday, January 31. The winners will be posted sometime between Sunday, March 13 and Tuesday, March 15.

Vote here (scroll down for the Best Food Blog), and spread the good word.

Amidst all the excitement yesterday surrounding The Kitchen, we completely forgot to mention that there was a great article in the Washington Post on design blogs that featured MoCoLoco, Design*Sponge, FunFurde, Apartment Therapy AND Ky Ta, the runner up in our Fall Colors contest (check out Ky's picture below).
(Photo Credit: By Marvin Joseph - The Washington Post Photo)

Blog Wild: Independent Design Sites Blend Advice, Opinion and One-Click Access, by Jeffrey Turrentine, is a great primer and booster for our little band of sites. As we happened to be away when Jeffrey called, Jill Slater did an amazing job of giving him our vibe and there are some great quotes to be noted:

On being an addict:
...the impulse to hit the "refresh" button every five minutes to see what has been posted most recently can take over one's life, putting things like social calendars and professional advancement in peril.... More