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Round Up: Nesting Tables

With the holidays quickly approaching, I've been thinking about all our guests who are bound to be balancing their tiny hors d'oeuvres plates on their knees if we don't come up with a better plan qui...

Decorative Ice Buckets
Roundup

Formal ice buckets always take parties a good three steps above picking cubes out of trays with your fingers &mdash they even make three-buck Chuck glamorous. Sleek ice buckets are almost clich&eacu...

Roundup: Holiday Decor that Transcends the Season

We love this time of year for the wealth of decorative accessories that pop up in all our favorite stores. In recent years, we've tried to refocus our holiday decor away from Santas and snowmen to ...

Roundup: Best DIY Coasters

We've posted before about our love of unique coasters, but agree with the commenters who found the price of those recycled beauties a little steep. As we gear up for the holiday entertaining season...

Architecture as Design Inspiration
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Yes, the architecture of a home inspires the interior design of the home, but in our age of modern and postmodern cleverness, architecture as a motif also inspires product designers... ...

Entertaining Ideas from DC House Tours

It's Entertaining month at Apartment Therapy so we've rounded up DC homes that are ready to entertain. Click through for ways to make your home party-ready and see a peek of an upcoming House Tour....

Entertainingly Entertaining Serving Pieces

November is the start of the party season and that makes us both excited and a tad bit nervous. We love throwing dinner parties (and attending them too!) so this year we wanted to make sure our par...

Cable-Knit Throws: High, Low and DIY

The Cure is inspiring me to do research into how I can buy my wants (such as a bathroom clock) and still save. Cable-knit throws have been blogged about over and over and over &mdash so I wanted to ...

Classic Clocks (Not Pomo or Clever in Any Way)
High and Low Roundup

I need a clock to replace a simple Umbra one that broke in the bathroom. It has numbers and a black border and is about seven inches wide. Why is it so hard to find a replacement that's not devoid o...

Round Up: Multipurpose Trays

From breakfast trays to boot trays; plant trays to catchalls. Trays have become my favorite way to reign in clutter and display prized possessions. No matter how many trays I own, I'm always able ...

Roundup: Top 10 Fall Finds at IKEA

It has been a while since our last trip to IKEA, but with two set of friends installed in new homes, we are planning a visit next weekend. In preparation, we have been checking out new offerings on...

Inside 3 Philadelphia Homes
House Tour Roundup

Thanks to our lone Philadephia-based contributor — Kristen — we have 3 unique Philly homes in our House Tour archives....

Objects of Multicolored Glory
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We love a neutral palette, but we really love a neutral palette with a big, bad, bold accessory that incorporates all shades. It's the equivalent of a white room with rows of colorful bookshelves. N...

High-Contrast, Two-Tone Furniture
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Here's a solution for mismatched furniture: add two-tone pieces. A black dresser with drawers painted white recently landed in our newlywed apartment, and the color combo allows us to mix traditiona...

Roundup: Colorful Fall Furniture Finds

With several friends in the process of moving to new homes, we've spent a lot of time recently looking for various pieces of furniture to complete their new spaces. Given that we're celebrating col...

Inside 5 U Street Corridor Homes
House Tour Roundup

Here are 5 homes from Apartment Therapy DC's archives — all located in the popular U Street corridor....

Inside & Outside 10 South African Homes
House Tour Roundup

Thanks to our (now) London-based contributor Liezel Strauss, we've added 9 House Tours from South Africa to our growing archive — and I threw in a Cape Town entry from June's My Great Outdoors...

Roundup: Picture Perfect Ledges

Artwork? Check. Frame? Check. Perfect spot to hang newly framed image? Hmm... How about I sleep on it. Sound familiar anyone? Perhaps it's because I live in a newly renovated house that makes...

Animal-Themed Wallpaper
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Six of our friends are, or were, recently pregnant, and so everywhere we look we see great options for kid décor. In our hunt to find subtle animal prints, we found lots of animal-themed wall...

Animal Prints Done Subtly
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We love animal prints, but we don't like to be hit over the head with them. Our two rules for using animal prints in a subtle, not-so-trendy fashion: 1) Avoid the zebra rug; 2) Use only one print on...

Roundup: Salvaged Style Coat Racks and Hooks

Chilly season is approaching fast and we're looking for cheap creative ways to organize the influx of outerwear in our home. Here are some favorite ideas......

Rooms Brimming with Book Collections

"As long as there have been books, there have been book collectors," Marie Proeller Hueston writes in House Beautiful's "Decorating with Books." Book collections often turn into libraries, so here i...

5 Colorful Philadelphia Homes
Best of the 2008 Color Contest

Last year, we received a flood of inspiring entries from the DC area and Mid-Atlantic region — and a surprising number of entries from Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Here they are:...

Collections: Birdcages, Sans Bird

The owner of Georgetown Birdcage says she doesn't collect birdcages herself, but the five in her store made us think about how neat a birdcage collection might be. To start your own rustic grouping,...

Elephantine Inspiration

Let's recapture child-inspired décor for the adult home &mdash if it brought you joy when you were young, shouldn't it bring you joy now? First, we reconsidered mobiles. Now, we love elephant...

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