A feature from Dwell shows a unique renovation of a live/work building in Ottawa - the thoroughly modern reno incorporates bits of the buildings history as exterior design motifs. Including original f...
If you own a condo that's worth a lot less now than what you paid, Chicago Magazine's "Deal Estate" columnist Dennis Rodkin suggests you think about renting it....
British designer Kelly Hoppen's townhome (enviously located near London's Portobello Road market) was a gut rehab. It's featured in the upcoming December issue of Metropolitan Home and naturally, it's...
While researching bathroom storage yesterday, we came across a very helpful article from Better Homes & Gardens with 26(!) ideas for finding new space in your smallest room......
We're enjoying our review copy of the new Elle Decor coffee table book titled Style and Substance. Filled with photos from the magazines 20 years of archives, it creates a bit of time capsule - a port...
Wilco is closely linked with Chicago in many peoples minds - in addition to being famous long time residents, they featured the iconic Bertrand Goldberg towers on the cover of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Ph...
Over on Ohdeedoh, Carrie blogged a video of a visit that Oprah made to a really wonderful small home in Copenhagen. As they tour the modern town home, it's just as the lucky homeowner says - all strai...
The Mad Men lovers in the Apartment Therapy readership will definitely recognize the man above - actor Bryan Batt plays Salavatore Romano on the ever-popular show. On screen, his character Sal has a r...
If you take a look through the Apartment Therapy: Chicago archives, you'll quickly see that we like Jayson Home & Garden. It's one of our favorite spots in town, due in large part to the wonderful wor...
The annual "Nest" issue of the Chicago reader is out and features a fun look at the favorite rooms of six Chicagoans. From an architect to a fashion scholar, the folks behind the decor are just as int...
The man pictured above, sitting comfortably in his odd yet, homey living room is Charlie Hull. He, along with many others in the US have fully functional and prepared bomb shelters—wait what?...
The current Chicago Home + Garden features the home of Fort Pitt Furniture owner Scott Zawitz. The modern structure in Humboldt Park is remarkable in many ways, but what jumped out at us was the inter...
Across the river from the economically depressed downtown area of Flint, Michigan lies Carriage Town, a neighborhood that's experiencing an unexpected revival. The New York Times visited the town, w...
This is one of those stories we really love – a testament to the idea that our homes have a profound impact on the course of our lives. James and Jo Ford bought their first home together in Russel...
The fact that her home is tiny did not deter Anu Suebsawangkul from creating a home that is both well designed and gloriously glamorous. The white and navy color scheme works really well for making a ...
We've been enjoying the new September issue of Dwell - it's our favorite in awhile, which is not a surprise - its focus is on apartments. The most wonderful by far is the peek inside one family's hom...
Thomas Smyte of HGTV's Sarah's House gives a video tour of his ultra-tiny but very glamorous 180 sq. ft. apartment. A self-described "maximalist", he says that he decorated the small space just as he ...
Some of the staffers at Southern Living have shared their own rooms as part of a big collection of "Budget-Friendly Room Makeovers". We pulled a few of our favorites......
Architect Chris Talsma and his wife Sara (a HR director for Holly Hunt) set out to create their West Town home from the ground up on a small budget. By starting off with a reduced size lot and doing ...
The recent issue of CS Interiors includes a feature by Lisa Cregan and Amalie Drury that profiles seven of the people who help define the term "Chicago Design". First up is Mr. Berkus, who according t...
True to its name, British site Shedblog blogs a lot of sheds. So what do they consider the cream of the crop? This year, it's a tiny hand-built shed on a wooded lot. Steven Harwood built his "Kite C...
Over the years, along with many fab interiors, Domino featured some sweet outside spaces. We especially liked the makeovers - nothing beats a good before and after to motivate and inspire! We take a ...
Karim Rashid has been modernizing and putting color into the world for quite some time now, but what about in his own home? We featured his loft last year, but in a new video we spied even more of ...
An 11x11 foot one room former tourist cabin gets a rescue! We love stories like this - a true labor of love! Purchased in 2006 for $500, it needed plenty of work to get......
We could close our eyes, blindly choose any one of the showers featured in Dwell's A Look at Open-Air Showers, and be pleased as punch. Each and every one is stunning in its own way. Oh, to shower e...
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