apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Name: Shannon and Emmett
Location: Chicago, IL
Size: 1700 s/f
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Last Wednesday, the subject of AT's daily email was house tours - three really wonderful house tours from Chicago, to be exact. Jump below for the full email and click here to sign up to receive the emails directly...

Dear Readers,

For the next hour we'd like to ask you to help us by trying out our new gallery, which we've totally redesigned.

You can click to any gallery in any post or house tour to see the new version or you can simply click here to see it in this current post: CHI House Tour: Jessica & Alex's Simple Modern On a Budget

Please let us know what you think and if there are any problems by commenting HERE.

Thank you!

You chose 'em, now click on any pic above to see the full post. We want to thank all of our contestants and congratulate the Final Four in the Midwest above. Now, we invite you to handicap the winners in the thread below. These finalists are showing off their brand new, enriched entries this week for the judges to pick the winners, but we'd like to invite you to indulge in a little fantasy league of your own. All links and comments below......

Hello, house and home junkies. We ran this world premier video from CB2 yesterday, and so many people viewed it that we had bandwidth issues and some complained. We've fixed them, and you can check it out today and avoid work for at least another four minutes....

Dear Readers, below the jump you'll find a Reader Survey - something we've never done before - that will help us get to know who all is out there. We'd love it if you'd take a few minutes to go through and ask a number of questions by clicking on a bunch of buttons. In return for taking the time, you'll be entered into a $100 giveaway. Interested? Click below for more...

Looking around at sofas, we recently came across this one, The Lillberg, and felt that it was in the offing as another IKEA classic. Designed by Nike Karlsson, the sofa is part of a complete set of seating, including a rocker, sofa bed, armchair and sofa. While we worry about durability, we see Ikea hacks galore to spruce this baby up with paint and pillow covers...

Everyone who works for AT was a reader first. It is with this in mind that we are putting up this post and copy catting our favorite ice cream company (see 1994).

The time has come to find a really good, smart, fanatic person who is capable of joining our staff here at AT and helping to run operations and all that business-y stuff for the years ahead. Is this you? If so, read on...

We're working under the hood this weekend. Please excuse us while Mark has been shifting our entire publishing system this weekend to a new server. Although you won't notice any great changes on Monday, everything should load far quicker, and it lays the foundation for everything we're adding in the next eight weeks, including a new search function this week. Yee-Haw!

This is a tough subject. As a school teacher for seven years I learned to have faith in community and also to believe in the necessity for discipline in order to preserve community. Tempermentally I tend to be lenient, but I find I get less so each year. Quick, decisive discipline coupled with the availability of forgiveness is now my model.

Which is all to say that much as we hate to do it (and by we I mean the gaggle of us who now make up AT), we've had to ban two readers in the past week, and we want to be very clear about how and why...

In the five years Amy has lived in her 500 square foot one-bedroom apartment (in a pre-war courtyard construction in Chicagos north side Ravenswood neighborhood), she has managed to keep collecting and displaying without succumbing to clutter. Shes got framed photographs and personal art forming a backdrop for family heirlooms and retro furniture. Most of Amys things were scored at swap meets and flea markets outside the city.

Amys utilitarian kitchen is full of built-in display cabinets and shelves, saving enough room for a large kitchen table ready for dining with guests. The glass cabinet doors give visitors an envious glimpse at her coolly coordinated dishware (all from flea markets and antique shops, of course).

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