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Vintage Mantel Displays from 5 Gardenias

The mantelpiece is the traditional place of honor for holiday decor: stockings, garlands, and wreaths all come to mind. If you're looking for a way to buck convention and dress your mantel in someth...

Creative Collection Display Solutions
Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor

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...

Found: Obama Button Collection!

Putting all political views aside, this collection of Obama buttons from his campaign trail, is quite a sight! Although we've been thinning out our collections lately, we still love seeing people wh...

Casey's Russel Wright Dinnerware Collection

Name: Casey Location: Kent, Ohio Collection: Russel Wright American Modern & Residential Dinnerware Size: Embarrassingly large; 10-15 pieces on rotating display Value : Sentimental Casey tells us:...

A Family of Collectors

Last year, we featured a house tour of the home Ronnie and Viktoria share with their two teenagers - a big, wonderful rehabbed home in Lakeview. The house has large rooms, great bones, beautiful finis...

Decorating with Utilitarian Collections
Part II

Last week, we wrote about decorating with collections of useful things: sewing tools, dry goods, dishes, clothes, and blankets were just a few examples. Today, we're revisiting the idea that functio...

The Power of Asymmetry in Decor Displays

One of the pleasures of decor is setting up displays or vignettes around the house. They can be totally temporary (tied to a certain holiday or time of year or created to celebrate a new "treasure" th...

Decorating with Utilitarian Collections

To include collections in your home, you don't have to be a connoisseur of rare Japanese toys or vintage postcards. You can still be a utilitarian (or even a minimalist!) who keeps a few functional,...

Kitchen Collections in Modern Homes

When I was a kid, it was popular to have country-style collections of wicker baskets and copper molds that would decorate the tops of cabinets and the walls of kitchens. (Remember Martha Stewart's 1...

10 How-Tos for Organizing and Displaying Collections

Collections almost always look better when they're organized. Strewn haphazardly around the home, they can be mistaken for clutter. Purposefully displayed, they look like art. For step-by-step tutor...

Displaying Book, Movie & Music Collections
Inspiration Gallery

This month on Apartment Therapy we are looking at collections and even if you don't consider yourself a collector (no vinyl toys or blue & white porcelain at your house!) we bet you have a fairly siza...

Starting A Home Library What Would You Suggest?
Kansas City Star

We caught at article in the Kansas City Star this past weekend on what books are great to start off your home libraries. Or rather, which books simply must be included. We liked the one's we saw an...

Venus Zine: Looking for Collectors

Here at AT, we love a good collection (like Sarah's Chalkware Animals, which we featured right here). The team at Venus Zine (lead by Amy, whose own great looking Chicago home we featured right here)...

Look!: Color Inspiration from Wet Rocks

We're not much of a rock skipper. When we find ourselves on a beach, we'd much prefer to get caught up in rock collecting. Can you blame us? Wet rocks are beautiful! Jump down to see why gathering...

Look!: Fiestaware at The Brown Elephant

Tucked in amongst all the unmatched dessert plates and occasional Garfield mug (see left), we spotted this pristine Fiestaware cup and saucer. We don't know a lot about Fiestaware pricing but we do k...