We're all thumbs (some black) so we're that much more impressed by those who have the patience and skill to create beautiful things. Felt Club, the subject of this week's feature story in the Los An...
Name:Buena Terra Way Residence
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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We're finishing our Friday with this inside peek of a Phoenix residence uploaded onto our Apartment Therapy LA Group Pool by re...
Emma over at our more culinary focused site The Kitchn caught our DIY eyes with these four fun paper floral projects that provide some centerpiece beauty on a dime (and an opportunity to use some of t...
This week in the Cure we're talking about Lighting and how much it affects how our homes feel. You can have the coolest furniture, the greatest layout, the best bones and nicest art, but if your ligh...
Dear AT, I am looking for someone who builds/installs pressurized walls in the Los Angeles area, to divide a larger room into 2 smaller ones. Plenty of providers exist in NYC, but I can't seem to fin...
We've all been there before--hosting a party and for one reason or another, strangers are the only ones left. Or worse, our friends keep starting new conversations (even though they know we have a 7a...
Our co-contributer Abby has admitted on numerous times that she's afflicted by what is commonly known as "black thumb", where any flora bestowed to her care gradually deteriorates until they shrivel a...
We are moving into a 2 bdrm apartment in a few weeks and we're looking forward to finally having hardwood floors, a laundry room in our unit and a backyard. Plus we'll have the design opportunity to f...
We're sure you could DIY something like this using some string LED lights and a hollowed out metal or wood rod, but when it comes to electrical in the closet, we lean toward manufactured and UL tested...
Are you ready for Le Swap? It's your last day to purge before we all meet up, get rid of our stuff, hopefully find some treasures and swap stories about lightening our loads. Curious? Jump below fo...
Name: Sherry and Miguel, owners of Marvimon
Location: Chinatown/Elysian park
Size: 3,500 sq. feet (interior) + 2,500 sq. feet (vertical courtyard)
Years lived in: 3 years
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Autzve's shelves are organized and pretty. The blue makes even the utilitarian cement blocks feel like a deliberate choice and add a sense of humour.
Ah, the weekend. When focusing and relaxing are ...
I have been searching endlessly for a coat rack shaped like a tree. I have browsed stores in the Los Angeles area and all over the web. Anybody found any cool ones they would like to suggest? Regards,...
Our post yesterday, Change Your Bedding, Change Your Look, was inspired by The One and Only Jet Guer's photostream. Because we were inspired by his bedding transformation, we decided to take a closer...
If you're invited to a dinner party, do you bring a gift? For as long as we remember--or at least old enough to be invited to "adult" dinner parties--we've defaulted to bringing a bottle of wine. Des...
Join us in welcoming Friday and the weekend with a few miscellaneous bits of online diversions of interest, including a low cost, green list of holiday gifts, the interesting Hollywood freeway park pr...
We're back with some more previews of the awesome creative spirit you'll be able to witness this weekend if you happen to be in Austin. If you won't be one of the lucky art lovers in Austin this week...
This storage cabinet by Spanish designer Attua Aparicio Torinos is easily the best product design we've seen this week. At first glance, it doesn't seem all that special. But it offers something wonde...
Perhaps it's partially because we're at the tail end of our work day, or because we've been running on empty the last few weeks with a hectic work schedule...or maybe because we're just a little stran...
With all the discussions about tableware this week (corelle vs. heath vs. eva) and the impending holiday season, we wanted to round up some of our favorite potters and ceramicists around town (and ets...
Dear Apartment Therapy, my partner and I just moved into a condo with a skylight in the kitchen and also in one of the bathrooms. We absolutely love how they provide natural light during the day, BUT,...
We lead a relatively organized life in our home. Containers are labeled, items have a place to land and we have systems for keeping everything in order. Because our car acts like a much smaller vers...
Narrow in design and functional for storage, the console table can be a nice anchor to a room. We are currently in the market for a console table and have started doing some research. While we are loo...
Name: Carter Residence; Bruce Bolander
Location: Brentwood, CA
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Here's a bit of a flashback of an interior space we found ourselves revisiting via a Los Angeles magazine article fro...
Maybe you're hosting Thanksgiving at your place for the 100th time, maybe it's your first time, or maybe you're going out of town or to someone else's house to celebrate. No matter. There are things...
Stephanie & Bob Walker, Silver Lake, CA
Maxwell's recent AT newsletter made note of three of our top October house tours from the Southwest region, with an East Coast perspective: "The sunlight and t...
Product: Hersk's "Angel" print series, framed. Signed and numbered (5/20 set edition).
Value: $75
Description: With the holidays right around the corner, the gift shopping and decorating will be bear...
Last week, Gregory posted some sage advice on being a good neighbor. We're trying to take his advice to heart. Like many of you, we love our home, but our neighbors can be...umm...challenging. One ...
Hello LA Apartment Therapy! I'm on the lookout for a beautiful side table that I saw in the FLOR (carpet tiles) Winter 2008 catalog. I was wondering if someone in the Apartment Therapy community may...
Because we like to wear the same type of clothing on a daily basis, the jewelry we wear tends to also stay the same. We hardly ever take off our necklace and wear a ring that our grandmother passed d...
November Sales...
Grand Opening and Holiday Sales of blik surface graphics' SHOW-OFF SHOP on Abbot Kinney Blvd in sunny Venice. 15% off Show-Off Shop sales through December 23rd and 15% off online ...
We think it’s important to support up and coming local designers. It encourages the creative community and spending your dollars on locally made produce makes environmental sense too. They’re also...
Michelle wants to hear feedback from owners of an IKEA piece she's smitten with:
I am looking for a new chair for my apartment and LOVE the Karlstad swivel chair and ottoman from Ikea. Curious of the ...
We love beautiful wrapping paper as much as the next guy, but this year we're not keen on spending more on it. So we're looking around the house and finding ways to reuse what we've got (hey it's che...
We've posted about Kwikset's previous keyless entry solution, the Kwikset Keyless Fingerprint Scan Door Lock. Amongst some of the criticisms mentioned about the finger scanning entry opposed to the go...
We spied this chic and airy room yesterday on our Apartment Therapy LA Group Pool. Once we found the The One and Only Jet Guer's photostream, we noticed that he completely changed the look of his bed...
Name: Christian, aka Bigboy Cheng
Location: Manila, Philippines
Collection: Vinyl collectible toys
Size: I don't count my toys but i have approximately 800 pieces of designer toys.
Value: For me its p...
To add to yesterday's classic neutral tabletop we found some newer all-white ceramic pieces from one of our favorite small companies, Perch!. We love Perch because everything is handmade, and it look...
Abby just emailed me to wish me a happy World Toilet Day (she's considerate that way), as reported this morning on NPR (It's to bring attention to the problem of waste & sewage in lesser developed co...
Michael is looking for a local interior decorator who can help him with his small space decoration challenge:
How can I find an interior decorator with a mid-century modern aesthetic to help me decora...
Gift wrap storage is a year-round issue but it becomes much more apparent when you throw holiday wrapping paper into the mix. If you're like us and go all out when wrapping gifts, it's important for ...
Considering that most of our favorite books growing up relied heavily on the connections between reality and fantasy worlds (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Where the Wild Things Are, Le Petit ...
If it’s not where it belongs, it might as well be gone.
[Image: Sharilyn's sewing space]...
Austin, while known for being 'weird', is also overwhelmingly considered a hub of creative thinkers and artistic souls. You can find great art in Austin any day, but there's one weekend a year that's...
We're not sure which costs more: holiday cards or inkjet printer cartridges. But if you're looking for a quick, easy and free (besides the ink) resource for some stylish-modern holiday cards, you migh...
We think we might have found an excuse to purchase a Roomba. We'd just worry the lazier of our two cats would just resort to riding it all the time around the house. Well, at least our floors would b...
Right up there with the right way to set the table is fancy napkin folding. It isn't exactly necessary and you could probably go your whole life without ever learning how, but why not learn a couple ...
AT reader Brooke (who we remember as our big holiday prize winner) wrote in with a cool find utilizing not only a chalkboard finish, but also a magnetic backing that would allow for easy storage and d...
Wow...talk about a very easy and rewarding experience. We just received our Apple printed perfect-bound iLife Photo Book and it came out looking pretty darn nice, if we do say so ourselves. Take a loo...
What was going on one year ago today here at Apartment Therapy Los Angeles? Our Fall Colors Contest winners were being crowned, we were showing you how to make your own fabric softening sheets, compar...
It seems that most smaller apartments come with just one bedroom closet and one hallway closet - which can be tight enough just for one. Sure, buying an additional armoire could be a good solve althou...
We've seen large and expensive collections of a lot of items on Craigslist before, but never $30,000 in Danish Midcentury seating. We've also included some vintage board games, Art Deco seating a big ...
For dishes we try to stick to a neutral palette to keep the table simple. This way we can accessorize with a turquoise bowl here, a lemon yellow salt shaker there. We've got a set of white dishes bu...
Name: Robert Stone Design
Location: Joshua Tree, CA
Size: 1300 s.f
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Architect Robert Stone submitted these amazing photos of a desert rental home he designed which ...
Fire, earthquake, flood. No one's immune (even Oprah's home was in danger of being consumed by fire this week). It could happen to you. It happened to friends of ours -- a recent fire forced them t...
Olivia asks:
Tiny question - do any AT readers have an alarm clock that they love? I am looking for one that is a radio, alarm clock, ideally with an ipod dock, and is actually pretty (heck, I settle...
We were charmed to the core over this ingenious book storage idea. Yes, these are just planks of painted plywood nailed to the supports for the loft above. They create perfect cubby spaces to stor...
Confession: The concept of painting an accent wall is sort of difficult for us. For some reason, our visualization of an accent wall looks more like an unfinished paint job rather than a bold decor s...
Four tidbits of interesting miscellany we found while scouring online including a Pixar-inspired spoof of their iconic lighting personality getting frisky, germ hot spots around the house, the compreh...
We’ve been buying a lot of different prints and wall hangings from Etsy recently. While we’re happy to buy works from some great international sellers, with our Australian dollar being so terrible...
It's Dining & Entertaining Month. Join us in the comments for discussion.
We hope you're safe and sound, Los Angeles. Let's all pray the Santa Ana winds depart and wish the best to those affected by ...
Laure has rounded up the best coasters before and checking the comments we noted a reader recommended Sesame Letterpress as a personal favourite. We might have to add them to our holiday gift list res...
Since we usually opt for hosting casual dinners with close friends it doesn't really matter if we've set the table the right way or not. But sometimes it's nice to get a refresher on the rules so we ...
Dee writes in with a sourcing question for local shop that can handle laser cutting. We're curious about an answer to this question ourselves, so hopefully some of our design world readers might share...
We were listening to NPR this morning and overheard that some gift cards given this season might not be valid by the time they're used by the recipient. Because of the current economic crisis, compan...
Here's an interesting idea we could see of some utility for some of our heavier, colder weather outwear in our closet (aka, clothing for Angelenos when it dips under 65 degrees). Brush that heavy peac...
Feeling overwhelmed in your own home is not uncommon. Sometimes life just seems to pile up - working late, no time to do laundry, the stack of bills to go through, having to clean the bathroom, etc. W...
What a horrible weekend it has been down here in the Los Angeles. Our eyes have been watering, our throats burning and there's headaches galore being handed out thanks to all the ember and smoke choki...
If, like us, you weren't able to make it to this weekend's Felt Club don't fear! We've put together a round up of some of the highlights (as told to us by friends in attendance!) so that you can get ...
If you remember back a little more than a month ago we reviewed the Brondell Swash Ecoseat, a easy to install bidet system that helps reduce toilet paper use and aids in personal hygiene. Now Brondell...
Spedie1 is facing this burgundy tile, a deteriorating grout job, and a slow acting drain and making the best of it with white accents which give the room a clean fresh feeling. Keep it going with whi...
Noella writes in with a call out for ideas:
Hello Apartment Therapy,
First let me tell you congrats for all the hard work you've been doing these years and for all the amazing posts that have truly in...
We had the amazing opportunity to hold an organizing workshop at Cal Tech this past Friday. While we love educating the public with organizing how-to's and basics we always are amazed at what we lear...
Ever since we saw Wonderfalls a few years back (along with the first season of Heroes), we've been big fans of Pushing Daisies' creator Bryan Fuller's quirky, fictional worlds. If you've never seen t...
We're what, T-minus ten days until the kick-off of the holiday season? If you've got some holiday guests looming on the horizon and have been wondering where you were going to put them all (no, no on...
It's been a hectic and nerve-wracking weekend with all the fires burning throughout Los Angeles (including yet another one near our own mom's home), alongside the whirlwind of events we've been trying...
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