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How To: Prep Your Bathroom For Company

At a recent gathering, I was struck by the inviting elegance of the well-groomed powder room. With simple but thoughtful details, it easily rivaled the lavish glamorous dining room. I tend to focus o...

Inspiration Roundup: Open Display Towel Storage

When it comes to organization, a pretty display is my number one motivator. Sad but true, if the item in question is not something I see everyday— if it's tucked away in a closet or shoved in a...

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 ...

Samantha's Autumnal Bathroom
Room for Color - South #3

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Samantha Location: Richmond, Virginia Type of Home: single family home Color Inspiration: The shower curtain, and my love for autumn colors....

Baltimore Row Home Revamped with a Modern Twist
Chesapeake Home

A lovely Baltimore row house was recently featured on the August cover of Chesapeake Home. This modern renovation took place shortly after Howie Bartz purchased his home, with help from interior de...

A Converted Stable in N.E. Goes Green, Retro, and On the Market
DC Urban Turf

Add this one to the list of positive design gossip we've been hearing about the H Street corridor in N.E., this home is definitely buzz-worthy. Once a delivery stable, now a family home decked out in...

A Hope-filled Family Home
Charleston Mag

When Karen told us about her home's feature in Charleston Mag we swooned, but not just for the usual reasons. Her home is a 1,600 sq.ft. masterpiece brimming with color, order, and a strong sense o...

Roundup: Schoolhouse Style Lighting Options

Schoolhouse style has been a growing obsession. It's an eclectic mash of vintage and industrial with a bit of geek chic that is easy to incorporate into a home with inhabitants of any age. Until rece...

Great Escape: Tree House Lodge
Costa Rica

As Great Escape month winds down, I've started thinking about my own escape soon to come. It's about time I began sifting through the bookmarked websites and saved magazine clippings and start plan...

Five Favorite Re-Uses For Wooden Crates

Wine, re-purposing, and attractive storage solutions — these are a few of our favorite things. Perhaps that's why we've featured the wine crate on so many occasions. As a flea market staple and...

Contemporary French Great Escape: Hotel Pastis
Saint Tropez, France

Maybe it's the massive amount of Tour de France coverage I've been watching the past few days, but all I can think about is taking a trip to France and finding an amazing boutique hotel to crash in ...

The Power of Distraction: Hiding Eyesores in Plain View

Nearly every home has something we wish we it didn't— an oddly placed (but necessary) electrical fixture, an outdated sofa, ugly tile— but replacing even the smallest eyesore doesn't alway...

Hot or Not? Veolia Green Bathroom

This concept green bathroom by industrial design student Thomas Nicodeme was designed for Veolia. The urban bathroom is designed to save water and help with waste management. Survey after the ju...

How to Create Calm: Inspiration from Atlanta Bartlett's Serene Interiors

click thumbnails for larger pics You can't help but feel at ease when you peer into the calm interiors of Atlanta Bartlett — stylist, author, and co-founder of Beach Studios. Whenever we're in ...

Napoleon Complex: Black and White Patterned Bathrooms

Sometimes small spaces beg for bold decoration. After falling in love with the daring drama of black and white striped hallways, we've been on the look out for other petite places that could handle a...

Beautiful Local Kitchens & Bathrooms
Washington Spaces Magazine

click thumbnails for larger pics We've long enjoyed flipping through the pages of Washington Spaces and browsing the magazine's website. Shown here are some beautiful local kitchens and bathrooms fr...

5 Tips to Transform Your Bathroom

Many of us are looking for quick and easy ways to change the look and feel of our bathrooms. The bathroom is one of the most necessary rooms in the house and it's important to create a space that y...

Looking for a Mod Shower Curtain?

We've been on the lookout for a new shower curtain for quite some time, but haven't be able to find anything to replace our battered IKEA polka dots. This weekend a friend suggested we check out t...

Master Bathroom Renovation

click thumbnails for larger pics In December, Meg Duerksen of the famed Whatever blog gave us a tour of her colorful playroom at our sister site, Ohdeedoh, and now she's generously opened the doors o...

Hot or Not? Animal-Print Bathroom Tiles

It's bathroom and kitchen month on AT and with this cold, snowy DC weather, we're thinking about heating up our home decor. The bathroom is a great place to go bold - or even wild - with your decorat...

Bathroom Inspiration from Twig Hutchinson

click thumbnails for larger pics To kick off bathroom and kitchen month, here's a peek into some of the most un-bathroomy bathrooms we've seen. British stylist, Twig Hutchinson, is particularly adept...

The Old Lucketts Store and Design House
Vintage Hip

Nothing short of a goldmine, this is the best kept secret in the DC area. In fact, I almost did keep it a secret, but then I remembered AT is all about sharing the design wealth. In this case, you w...

Good Questions: How Can I Get Rid of Bathtub Stains?

AT DC, I moved into an apartment with old bathtub stains that really gross me out. The former resident's bathmat left dark stains on the bottom of the tub. I love taking baths but wouldn't be able ...

Good Questions: Help Me Pick My Bathroom Tile!

Hi AT DC - so excited about the site, my boyfriend and I are addicted :) Anyways, we are remodeling our rowhouse in Baltimore. We've done a lot of the work ourselves as well as all of the actual ...

Unexpected Bathroom Colors and Details
Chesapeake Life Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2008

This bathroom is relaxing just to look at. We love the bay window, and the brown floor tiles and mosaic make the room warm. The turquoise wall tiles are a surprising but pleasing bright accent. We ...

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