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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...

5 Messy Chic Offices

We try to keep a tidy home, but the one area where it's nearly impossible for us is the home office. That's why we're always happy to see photos of creative workspaces with a little bit of artfully ...

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:...

5 Great Mantelpiece Displays

As the traditional place of honor in a home, mantelpieces can be intimidating to decorate. It's hard to find the appropriate balance: structured without being overly formal, full of character but no...

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...

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...

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...

Typewriters as Decor

Many of Apartment Therapy's tours, highlights, and vintage loves focus on the typewriter. Typically used as decor while the owner reads blogs on his/her computer, we gathered some examples (a few ho...

Typeset Drawer Displays

These old drawers, once used for storing typeset, are still found today being put to use in the home. Is it their dada-esque appeal, their reminder of a now-antiquated process, or their careful comp...

5 Approaches to Artwork in the Kitchen

Many of us would rather go for a clean, slick, necessity-only kitchen; others opt for the visual feast of paintings, photos, and prints adorning the walls. For a few inspirational suggestions, we fo...

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...

Look! 25 Years Of Pez On Display

This morning over at Ohdeedoh, we shared a small obsession in our household. Pez. We keep our collection in check, contained and displayed in full glory while we add to it. It all started as a p...

DIY Project: Make An Inverted Bookshelf

We were raised in a family who more than love books. Often times when we see diy projects that utilize books in arts and crafts, the structure of the book can be harmed and it can feel a bit, well a...

Retail Decor Inspiration: Anthropologie
Part 1 of 2

Sometimes the best part about shopping is the window displays. While we were out and about this past weekend, we came across some clever ideas used in retail spaces that could easily be translated i...

Good Questions: How To Display Empty Wine Bottles?

Laura is looking for ideas. She writes: Do you have any tips for displaying empty wine bottles? Whenever we open a bottle of wine we have whoever is over autograph and date the bottles as a keepsake. ...

Decorating and Display Ideas from Restoration Home

The book, Restoration Home, is about decorating with found treasures, recycled objects and mementos from traveling. These types of items can give a room texture, heart and a sense of history, especial...

Leaning Artwork Displays

We do this a lot in our own home, partly because we like the casual style of leaning artwork and partly because we switch things around so much that we try to avoid putting holes in the walls when w...

Displaying Political Pins: What's Your Vote?

We're undecided on the issue. Sometimes we love seeing collections of political pins, although it's hard to imagine displaying a bunch of buttons in our own home. We actually have a small pin collec...