A few years back, I had an appointment to view an apartment that sounded PERFECT. A view of the Puget Sound, hardwood floors, two entrances, with a second floor deck (high enough to be safe from break-ins, but low enough to escape from a fire), in the lovely neighborhood of Queen Anne, Seattle. More

The decision to cohabitate with your significant other is a big one by itself. But filed just under the act of moving in together are dozens of smaller decisions about, well, stuff. With any luck, your decor styles mesh well together, but discussions about wall art and furniture represent only one portion of the negotiated peace accords. If you're bringing together two fully furnished homes, you're probably each bringing a slew of tech gear into the new place. There will be redundancies - televisions, speakers, routers - and you won't want to simply leave the unwanted duplicates out on the curb. How will you decide whose tech stays and whose goes? More

My cross-country move is about three months away, which seems like no time at all. Oh, the to-do list, it is long! I've started taking boxes home from my workplaces, and figure that if I pack a box a day, I'll be in good shape. Any chance I'll be able to keep it up for more than, say, two days?

I've already done a ton of organizing and donating, so that is a major help. There will be at least one more major trip to the thrift store, and I'm considering having a garage sale, but for the most part, the stuff I have left is the stuff I want to take with me. And it seems to be a lot of stuff. More

During college, I lived in a little brownstone in Boston and absolutely loved it. We had a management company that usually hired outside companies to do maintenance, so we never actually saw the landlord unless we went to his office. I have to admit that I took advantage of this and decided to break the rules and paint my bedroom bubble gum pink. This photo was taken while I was sneakily painting. More

There's rarely anything about my life that's hip (as evidenced by my use of "hip"). But the rise in sibling roommate situations has The New York Times calling it a growing trend. My brother recently moved into my apartment, so looks like I'm not alone in bunking up with kin.

How long do you think it takes for you to move from one home to another? Not including a long drive, the organizing, wrapping, packing, cleaning, touching up paint, renting/returning a truck, loading/unloading the truck, unpacking, and rearranging can add up to many hours of heavy labor. How much would you pay for a service that did it all in one day, including cleaning each item before packing it? More

Name: Yvonne & David
Location: Sunnyside, Queens, NY

After 35 years in a tiny tenement apartment in the heart of the East Village, it was time for a change. What we wanted now was something bright, open, simple and peaceful, with easy access to Manhattan. A 650 square foot studio apartment in Sunnyside, Queens fit the bill perfectly.

The importance of an organized entryway, or landing strip, is one of our most-repeated tenets here at Apartment Therapy. They help keep your home clutter-free and your life running smoothly, and what's more important than that? If you're only going to tackle one task for Project Month, make it the addition (or improvement) of a landing strip. More

My mother-in-law just stayed with us for the first time since we bought our house two years ago. The last time she came to see us, my man and I were a new-ish couple who'd just moved to Seattle together and were shacked up in a cramped rental. So when she decided to visit for the weekend with my husband's brother in tow, I went into home-improvement overdrive. More

I was chatting with an interior designer friend recently and she told me that half the time she feels like a therapist as she tries to accommodate both partners in a design. I've been hearing this a lot lately: a girlfriend whose husband thought the tufted headboard she was eyeing was too girly; another who was grateful she got a pink bedroom out of her system before her engagement; a crafty art collection didn't make the cut when moving in with a partner... More