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Housewarming Gift Tips and Ideas

While we're on the subject of moving and setting up home this month, we thought we'd touch on housewarming gifts, too. Chances are, you know someone setting up a new place to live this season. A few...

Make It Yours: Clean Your New Home

One way I best settle into a house after a move is by scrubbing it clean from head to toe. It's like a handshake with your new home......

Moving Tip: Pack an "Open First" Box

Have you ever moved and found yourself in your new home without the essentials on hand? Try packing a box of necessities that you'll need while you're getting unpacked. Some things you might include...

Survey: What Do You Procrastinate Unpacking?

Moving boxes. We HATE moving boxes! After we've emptied them, we just don't have the energy left to break them down as we go. Or maybe it's the giant pile of them that makes us feel like we're mak...

Vacation To One Of The 15 Most Sustainable US Cities

There are thousands of wonderful places you might chose to vacation to this summer. You might be headed out in search of good food, family and friends or just seeing the sights. But would you be mor...

Apartment Hunting: Do A Night Time Drive-By

We've covered lots of apartment hunting tips in the past. For instance, is living near a grocery store important? What about things to be cautious of? Or how to land the perfect place in 3 easy ste...

Tight Spaces vs. Box Springs
Go Collapsible!

Not all spaces allow for a box spring, whether you love them or hate them, it's not something you think about until you try to weasel one around a doorway built in the 50's. Sometimes, no matter how...

Padmapper: Apartment Search Tool App

Are you apartment hunting? Have an iphone? You might want to check this out....we just heard about Padmapper from Rachel at Re-Nest. It is a free web-based tool that takes Craigslist apartment listing...

An Architectural First: The Sliding House

Click on the Thumbnails to See The House In Motion When most people get tired of their home, or things feel a bit stale, we rearrange furniture and add in a few new throw pillows. But for this UK hom...

What's The First Thing You Unpack?
Adventures in Loft Living Day 1

This past weekend was chilly and overcast in Kansas City. A perfect weekend for moving! My husband and I packed up all of our stuff and headed downtown to our new loft. It's a very raw space just ...

How To Pack Things That Are Flammable
Without Your Moving Truck Going KABOOM!

We have a pair of oil lamps for power outages (thank you unpredictable Midwest weather). We happen to love their vintage color and since they are a necessity in this neck of the woods, it's nice to ...

Feliway by Comfort Zone

Meet Bird. We love him so but he can be one fussy jerk. When our roommate moved out and there was a temporary upheaval of furnishings, Bird let his annoyance be known by opting out of his litter box...

Recycled Moving Blanket at The Container Store

We like this moving blanket from The Container Store for a few simple reasons: it's not expensive and it's made of recycled materials. Jump down to discover its mystery material and its small price ta...

Prioritizing the To Do List

So let's say that you're moving out of or into a new home. Besides the worry and hassle of packing all your worldly possessions, there's also the fret of finishing up or starting anew with home proje...

Moving Day

We just moved to Montreal and had our own quiet little moving day - one month late, it seems. The great majority of Montreal's (Quebec's, for that matter) leases end on July 1, which means that day ...

CHI Good Questions: Tips for "De-allergizing" and Moving in with Your Significant Other?

Miss Croissant has TWO questions for the AT community: "Later this month, I will be moving in with my boyfriend. My cat is moving in with a friend of mine because said bf is way too allergic to cats t...

AT On: The Benefits of Hiring Movers

After weeks of seemingly endless packing, we've finally moved in to our new apartment. We're happy (and a little surprised) to say that the move went really well. Despite stressing over whether or n...

10 Things We Should Have Gotten Rid of a Long Time Ago

These tiny espresso cups are cute, but we don't ever drink espresso. Despite our regular drop-offs at the Salvation Army, the declutterer within us has laid dormant for a while. We had a few items ...

The Best and Worst of Packing Up a Home

Tomorrow is moving day for us, and we've spent the last few weeks preparing and packing. The packing part seems never-ending, but there are a few upshots to the whole process......

How To: Prepare for a Move
Martha Stewart Living 04.08

Martha is so good at breaking down big jobs into manageable steps. We're changing apartments soon, and we clipped her moving guidelines to help make sense of our big move. It's nothing we don't alre...

Best Tips from AT:Chicago for Our Moving Process

As familiar with Chicago resources as I am, I have thankfully gotten so much more from AT:Chicago's past threads, reader reviews, and our general archives regarding my current in-process move. I've fo...