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Candy-Colored Showerheads

If there's one place we hadn't though about adding color before, it was a showerhead. But, now the showerhead — like the iPod and the laptop and the toaster — come in a rainbow of colors...

Cutlery Candlesticks

We are suckers for forks and spoons-turned-decor. So when we saw these candlesticks, we had to share them with you. We debut here the Conran cutlery candlesticks, and link to other fork and spoon mo...

Historic-Inspired Moulding

The winds they are a shifting from hard-angled modern to traditional interiors, and for us, traditional necessitates moulding. The National Trust for Historic Preservation partnered with Lowe's to r...

DIY Snapshots Into Wall Art

We found a great idea for an inexpensive big wall art project on Canadian House & Home: paint a corkboard white, and tack up black and white photos. We love it! ...

DIY Greeting Card Display

Our bookcases are topped with a row of books, bookends, candles, frames and a clock — there's not a lot of room for greeting cards. And postcards? Our fridge is covered with a magnet collectio...

Look! Olympics Inspired Centerpiece
Tara and Thyme

With the blizzard and the ensuing craziness dominating our thoughts this week in Washington, I completely forgot about the Olympics until the talented Lauren of Tara and Thyme shared another one of ...

Schumacher for Dempsey & Carroll

If you like fabric company Schumacher's Chiang Mai Dragon pattern as much as we do, then you'll love Schumacher's new stationery line for Dempsey & Carroll. The envelopes are lined with fabulous...

Do You Love This Lamp, Too?

Poring through the March House Beautiful, (which arrived in the mail yesterday — bliss!) we kept noticing a similar type of lamp. Is there a lighting trend going on that we've completely misse...

Xylophone Table!

How about some music with your coffee? On the table, that is. We've talked about musical furniture before, but how about this rainbow-colored coffee table-slash-xylophone? ...

The Stoppy, a Decorative Door Stop

Our apartment door is big and heavy and hard to hold open. So we need a door stop. And we know that there are attractive options for every single functional thing out there, right? Well, the "Stoppy...

8 Ways to Hide a Safe at Home

Since seeing Scott's hidden wall safe in his house tour Scott's Detailed Restoration at The Ontario, we've been thinking about secret hiding places. Not many have safes built into their walls, so we...

Our Favorite Idea from Abigail Ahern's Book

Hanging wallpaper with bulldog clips — perfect for apartment dwellers! In her book, A Girl's Guide to Decorating, Ahern has a photo of wallpaper hung from molding with clips. Now we are just t...

Look! Library Dining Rooms

Everyone loves a great collection of books. When we have visitors, they spend a lot of their time checking out each and every book we have in our collection &mdash there are so many things about th...

Holders Worthy of Your Stockings

We looked high and low to bring you stocking holders that weren't kitschy, truly, but except for one Pottery Barn style that sold out presto! we were left fruitless. The owners of a favorite Seattle...

Stockings by Ahna Holder

Ahna Holder make and sells wonderful felt stockings in fresh designs &mdash and friends, if you want one this year, get yours now....

Ornament Centerpiece by Crate & Barrel

You may be planning your Thanksgiving decorations, but I'm already mapping out my Christmas glitz. Here's one of my 2009 must-haves: a mini-version of Crate & Barrel's window ornament display. I...

Wreaths of Annapolis

'Tis the season for wreaths, and on the streets of Annapolis, Maryland, they come in abundance. We had written off door wreaths a long time ago as too stuffy, but these wreaths on colorful doors and...

Wine Cork Flooring

Colorful penny tiles have been on our future-home-dream-list for years, but now they have competition: wine cork tiles. Jelinek Cork Group makes the flooring from recycled wine corks, combining two ...

Vere Bag: The Coolest Resusable Shopping Bag

We can always count on Velocity Art & Design to bring us the best, newest and coolest products. How's The Vere Bag for a non-frumpy reusable shopping bag? These are so fancy that they could be used ...

Candy Colored Chandis from Barovier&Toso

Okay, the word "chandi" is annoying, but these chandeliers are anything but. The Jolly Rancher-like colors take an elegant object and make it spunky. How about this fun way to add color with your li...

Look! Branches with Berries Artfully Placed

We found these branches-as-décor at a store in Alexandria, and loved the way the store owner clipped and twisted them......

Look! Unexpected Outcome for a House Tour-Inspired DIY

From Apartment Therapy DC reader Catherine, in her own words: "Hi! You guys always feature lovely DIYs that appear effortlessly perfect, so I wanted to share one that went tragically, but hilarious...

Prismatic Glass Drawer-Knobs by Tracy Glover

Rhode Island artist Tracy Glover shows us her new glass drawer- and doorknobs, tells us how she used them to warm up a modern dresser and talks about the importance of craft in the home....

Look! Pretty Ribbon-Hung Art

Hanging art from picture rails with ribbon has been suggested by many an Apartment Therapy reader, and after seeing the way the art is hung at The Hour in Alexandria, we would suggest it too. In fac...

Look! Sweater Tree Gets a New Sweater
Baltimore

Since the resurgence of DIY and the handmade renaissance, it seems there has been some rebellious crafting happening these days. Knit grafitti to yarnbombing to yarnstorming, it doesn't matter what...

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