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Home-Related Tax Items

It's that time of year again - tax season. Whether you DIY or take them to a pro, don't forget these home-related items that figure in when doing your taxes:...

Apartment Eye Candy from Spain
Destination BCN

The other day, we gave you a peek inside a Barcelona apartment from Destination BCN, which has quickly become one of our favorite sites for inspiration. The company owns holiday rental apartments in...

A Modern Rustic Apartment in Barcelona

This vacation rental apartment in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona is full of durable natural objects, from linen slipcovers and bedding to carved wood antiques. Its a great example of the modern rus...

On the Market: Casa Finisterra

Last night, we stumbled across a listing for our dream home and immediately started trying to figure out a way to make a lot of money and move to Cabo San Lucas full time....

Modern Homes in Milwaukee

Milwaukee is one of our favorite Midwestern towns. Best known for the iconic Calatrava-designed Art Museum Pavilion, the area also has a lot to offer in terms of modern architecture on a smaller sca...

Brick Weave House by Studio Gang

Chicago architect Jeanne Gang is, in our opinion, a master of the screen. Her firm's Maisonette loft (which we profiled on Apartment Therapy) was elegantly divided by glass and steel screens, while ...

The Case for Renting Your Condo
Chicago Magazine's Deal Estate Column

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....

On the Market: Laura Ashley's Family Home

Welsh designer Laura Ashley was known for her traditional, Victorian style, and her family home in Wales is exactly the kind of place you'd expect such a woman to live......

Playing with Scale in a Milan Apartment

We write a lot about small spaces on Apartment Therapy, but today we're taking a peek inside a BIG home, and we're not just talking about the expansive rooms. This apartment in Milan celebrates the ...

Studio/Gallery from Alvhem

Found on Swedish real estate site Alvhem, this spare room has lots of good ideas for setting up your own gallery-style workspace at home... ...

Whitecross Street Apartments by Project Orange

Living in an attic apartment, we're always on the lookout for similar spaces that offer good design ideas. We've had luck finding inspiration overseas, like this multi-unit renovation by London arch...

3 Amazing Apartments in Valencia, Spain

Valencia is known for both ancient and modern architecture, so it makes sense that homes there would run the gamut from classical to ultra-mod. We found three lovely examples of local apartments. Th...

An Ultra-Modern Villa in Uruguay

We've seen some gorgeous Uruguayan homes and gardens on Apartment Therapy, including a seaside cottage, a lush patio, and a sunny apartment. These homes all have a sense of airiness and openness abo...

Eye Candy from Montreal
MontrealStays.com

We've written before about our hobby of looking up international apartments, just to see the options in far-flung places like Barcelona. We recently found this site, a little closer to home, in Mont...

Maisonette by Studio Gang Architects
ArchDaily

More good work from Chicago's Studio Gang Architects, whose office and community center have inspired us before. ArchDaily takes a look at one of their residential projects, an airy apartment constr...

A Converted Pasta Factory in Marseille, France
Loft Life

We'd take over this home in a second. This amazing pasta factory-turned-home in Marseille, France keeps its rustic appeal with not a lot of fuss, but lots of steel, wood, and rich, natural colors. Cli...

Sarah Richardson's Cottage
HGTV Canada

Perhaps because of the long, cold winters, summer cottages have special meaning in Canada. HGTV Canada created the show "Sarah's Cottage," which features designer Sarah Richardson's cottage renovat...

Downtown Chicago Condos are Hot Vacation Homes
The New York Times

We love our city and its downtown architecture, but we never really thought of Michigan Avenue as a prime spot for vacation homes—until now. Today's New York Times ran an article on Chicago's grow...

Nail Houses: Stubborn Owners Refusing To Sell

By now a good portion of our readership has seen the Disney/Pixar film, UP. In the animated flick, 78 year-old Carl Fredricksen refuses to sell his plot of land and the house on it, as the area ar...

On the Market: Modern Home from a Classic Chicago Film

Recognize this garage? It appeared in a well-known movie that was shot here in Chicago. Currently on the market, this modern home in the trees is listed with Sotheby's for 2.3 million dollars. To di...

Chicago Homes in High-Rises

click thumbnails for larger pics As the birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago has a lot of high-rises, and a lot of amazing penthouse apartments. Living in the sky offers a few advantages including ...

Wisconsin Cabin Revival
Chicago Home + Garden

This amazing small Wisconsin cottage featured in Chicago Home + Garden is steeped in history and sincere care about restoration. The one-bedroom tourist cabin from the 1920s has been brought back to l...

Tree Houses from Blue Forest

click thumbnails for larger pics It's not too often you see a tree house outfitted with a flatscreen TV and a kitchenette, but the projects from UK-based Blue Forest include all the creature comforts...

Habitat '67: A Peek Inside
Montreal

Poetic Home blogger (and Apartment Therapy reader) Grace is contemplating a summer rental of one of the apartments at Habitat '67 in Montreal. We'd love to have her here, as the city's moving full s...

Clayton Homes i-house: Green Prefab Under $100,000

Back in December, we noticed that Warren Buffet was investing in prefab amid an international housing crisis. Now his modular housing business, Clayton Homes, has launched the i-house, a model that ...

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