Some of the most popular features on AT include our round-ups of items from chain stores. Today's LA Times Home & Garden section sets Phillippe Starck, Kelly Wearstler and MOCA curator Brooke Hodge l...
Name: Wendi Weger
Location: Silver Lake Hills
Size: 2032 sq. ft
Years lived in: 5 months, rented
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When Wendi and I met, we were ditching the same interior design course. We chatte...
Name: Kelly Van Patter
Location: Mt. Washington, Los Angeles
Size: 1500 sq. ft.
Years lived in: 4 years
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Just a hop, skip and jump from the last house tour we photographed in the s...
Monica Ewing, I heart your DIY skills for this open and shut case of crafty goodness. Taking a couple shutters bestowed by a friend, the Craftynest creator transformed the doors into a hideaway space ...
We always like seeing unconventional uses for everyday objects. This brussel sprout wreath is a great way to bring some green into the holidays without spending a lot and without resorting to the cla...
Similar to the reuse of packaging we posted just a short while ago, Spanish waste management and consulting firm, Grupo Hera, sent out these bottles of cava as gifts (I'm a teetotaler, so I had to loo...
We were scouring the web (as we always do) and stumbled upon a website called This Young House. It's a platform that Sherry and John use to display amazing before and after pics of their old house br...
For this weeks Trending post we're going to discuss the look of Chinoiserie and how to incorporate it in your own home. In case some of you are wondering what is the definition of Chinoiserie is its: ...
We saw John Murphy's colorful + fun artwork on The Today Show this morning and agree that any of these would be a fantastic gift for yourself or for someone special this holiday. With price points of ...
Here's one for your automotive fans: a stairway lit by genuine old car headlights, connected to one another along and up a staircase, used to light up artwork on the facing side......
AT reader Erika writes in with a sourcing question, hoping to emulate the bedroom adornments from a favourite television show:
Where can I find the fabric from Serena's headboard on Gossip Girl? Or ...
Many of us live in small apartments and are great at utilizing what little storage space we have. But what happens when an influx of Christmas presents need a place to hide? Since we don't put up a ...
If you're on a tight budget this holiday, don't spend it on decorations...especially when one of our favorite magazines, UK's Living Etc., offers a few fabulous DIY decorating ideas to celebrate the h...
Supersize your holidays and your stocking, gift someone special with a state shaped keepsake, take a visual tour around the globe of colourful locales, and check out the appearance of snowy apparition...
We all need that small container to catch our odds and ends or keep our veggies in, don't we? Sure there are all types of containers out there, but none so dutifully straddle the line between modern ...
Recycline is a conceptual line of ten wonderful ideas concocted by Ryter Design, reusing the common polyethylene terephthalate bottle as the basis of all their designs. We guess if you're going to dri...
Beautiful sunset this evening, gracing the Los Angeles sky. Here's hoping to a sunny Christmas, LA style!
Remember to enter to win this Blossom Tree Wall Decal from ShaNickers! alongside plenty more ...
Living in a place that has no closets (the only closed storage are the kitchen cabinets) I've been much more aware of how much stuff I use everyday and how much stuff gets used here and there but take...
I've always loved cutting out pictures from magazines that had design that inspired me (well before I knew about a "style tray"). And I've always planned on organizing them somehow so that I could fin...
We're not sure the exact moment we first fell in love with miniatures (miniature cityscapes, animals, and dollhouses). Maybe it was the film Beetlejuice--remember the miniature town-scape in the movi...
Just like the hidden seating of Cube Style from Japan, Naho Matsuno's Cube 6 hide six stools within.
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We are loving the price point holiday guides that have been popping up on various store websites. It makes it easy to select a great gift for the amount of money you prefer to spend. One of our favori...
Do you know what we're most looking forward to this holiday season beyond the usual festivities and family meals together? Just finding some time to read. Not "read" as in "read one article in the tub...
Lisa has finished and is even decorated for the holidays!
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This morning we sprung out of bed early and made it a plan to get our home in order. Vacuuming, cleaning, and putting away things and placing them in their appropriate spots. We'd say we're about 60% ...
Most of the time, we're happy with our home. Oh sure, we're seriously contemplating a change (which will happen as soon as we find the right coffee table), but most of the time it works. And then, w...
Hi! i have a floor to ceiling wall window in my bedroom with a curtain rod drilled to the ceiling as close as possible to the window with black out fabric sewn on the back of the curtain. I live on ...
We love this idea of repurposing a desk drawer full of organized sections as craft storage on a wall. We spotted this neat idea on a blog called Hummmlan (check it out for more crafty inspiration). ...
Perhaps a more appropriate title to this post would be, "Alexander Girard wishlist." After all, some of these items are on the pricier side, and who's splurging this holiday season? (Not me.) But, i...
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Name: Blossom Tree Wall Decal
Shop: ShaNickers
Value: $85
Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Blossom Tree Wall Decal from ShaNickers. ShaNickers wall ...
December 13th, Abbot Kinney Holiday Festival, Rin Tanaka at Venice Beach favourite, Surfing Cowboys. from 5:00 to 7:00PM, author Rin Tanaka will be on hand rom 5:00 to 7:00PM to sign copies of his b...
The serene, sun drenched apartment of Sydneysider Juliette Arent, nearly had this Melbournian consider decamping to the sunny city. Juliette is an interior designer of Arent & Pyke, and her own apartm...
We're loving the Christmas spirit we're starting to see show up at our Apartment Therapy LA Flickr Pool, most notably AT reader royaltygirl's white awash winter wonderland interior, which reveals an o...
Lars Contzen's hard surface, high gloss floor-panels are wall graphics taken down to the ground level. We first saw his blueprint lined Linear Landscape klick panels and thought we had died and gone t...
With the nights getting chilly we're starting to dream about being tucked away in a cozy cabin on a snowy hillside. Later this week we'll be featuring some woodland inspired housetours but it's wedne...
Here's a good question culled from our last open thread, included with a helpful answer from one of our other readers (we love the sense of community!):
I finally asked my landlady if I could take out...
White Lacquer ApartmentUnfortunately, not all of us are blessed with tall ceilings (or average ceilings for that matter). To help out with this small slight of space, we've come up with five tricks o...
Michael Berman Limited's Venice desk won us over with it's backside view [wolf whistle], offering an unexpected storage space for books or other decorative items. We also like the combed gesso “drif...
We've been spotting letters recently and think they make a fun decor addition to a space. If you want to personalize a room or add a little bit of whimsy, consider placing your initials, name or a fav...
Notice anything unusual about this lamp, or more specifically its shade? We happen to have the same lamp, but this one uploaded by flickr user hnxing contains a sweet little surprise. Jump below to ...
Name: Inspired By Nature Highrise; Jeff Andrews
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Earlier this year Jonathan highlighted some of the interior design work and personal abode of Los Angeles t...
Dear Apartment Therapy, I really like Anthropologie's Ditte Sofa, but it's a bit out of my price range. Do you know who makes this sofa or one similar to it for a lower cost?
Got a good question you...
"Why? Seriously. I mean, look at this place, man. You gotta see this through the eyes of a woman, you know? What is she going to think when she comes in here? Look. He's got a billion toys." - Cal fro...
“My passion for design follows the same methodology as the vinyl junkie's. Record collecting is about pastoral nostalgia — joining the Kinks in the craving of an unsullied village green, or the be...
Just in time for the holiday season, we've fallen in love with a gorgeous new textile company that specializes in heirloom-quality, all natural, eco-friendly fabrics. And they are beautiful! They loo...
Did you know that's Pierre Koenig himself looking all suave and debonair, undoubtedly about to put something a bit more romantic on the hi-fi? I'm sure quite a few of you our knowledgeable readers do ...
Obviously bathrooms are important all the time. But around the holidays they get an influx of use. People come over, there are overnight guests, there's a lot of getting ready and grooming before pa...
My boyfriend and I just moved into a beautiful old house with wood floors (no carpet) in LA about a month ago. I love it, but there is a distinct old-house smell. I've tried candles, Lysol, Meyer's pl...
Because we work out of our home, our laptop travels from room to room but we always seem to end up working in our bedroom (there's nice lighting and we feel most comfortable there). Our bedroom is al...
A year ago we had relaunched Apartment Therapy with a new site design, bigger images and a growing team of writers that covered an array of topics that included cleaning the throne with Tang, water co...
If you've ever wondered if The Clapper works as great as the commercial is or if the ShamWow! really can clean up all of that water then consider hosting a White Elephant gift exchange holiday party t...
MidCentury coffee table and magazine holder available in West Hollywood for $225, with several more Craigslist finds below including free moving boxes, a retro patio set, Hollywood Regency pieces, an ...
Fans of this season's Top Design might already be following Eddie Ross's decorating antics over on his blog. But for those of you who might have missed it, he recently spent Thanksgiving out here in ...
Brrr...it's been getting noticeably colder at night, so we've been inspecting our 1917-built studio apartment for drafts so we can insulate and weatherize before our wimpy temperate-acclimated bodies ...
Are you staying around for the holidays? Many of us are leaving town -- visiting family, going skiing or to someplace tropical -- and taking advantage of the week long stretch before the New Year whe...
Is there any way to make those 5-gallon black plastic plant pots look non-hideous? I don't have money to buy pots, especially not big ones, so I'm planning to wrap them in (affordable) fabric. Most l...
We were helping our boyfriend move over the weekend and he commented that the place he was moving out of was the longest he'd ever lived in an apartment in LA (only a year and a half). Then this mor...
"Human Nature" by Peter Holst Henckel
We spotted these photos from two recent art installations over at Line Juhl Hansen's blog. Even though these mixed media pieces aren't in a home per se, we reall...
A link below about an insane asking price for a serious fixer upper in Venice, a comprehensive list of crazy Christmas lights setups from around the globe, a bolt that's smart enough to tell you when ...
Images from Desire to Inspire and The Red Thread
While our friends in America are getting ready to roast chestnuts on an open fire, we in Australia are throwing some prawns on the BBQ. Lets embrace o...
Alright, all you Midcentury boo-birds, close your eyes and skip this post. But for all of you who love that special era of design that forever in our hearts and our homes, take a step into this wayb...
In the Cure, Maxwell suggests always including a Thank You note with your rent check. We've never thought to do this during the year, but around the holidays we like to include a special thank you fo...
Vi writes in asking about alternative ways to wrap up holiday gifts: Any ideas on unique ways to wrap presents? The options in the stores are too boring!
Got a good question you'd like answered? Send...
We found this image on popofatticus' flickr photostream and were reminded how much we love holiday wreaths. They don't require a ton of space and are a great symbol of the holiday cheer. We rounded ...
Does this image above look familiar? It should if you've been a long time reader, as the residence belongs to our 2007 Fall Colors Winner, Dan and Amy's Chinatown Loft. CurbedLA reports that the histo...
In preparing for our move last week, we realized that we've done this quite a few times in the last twelve years and seemed to have picked up a moving style, so to speak. We definitely follow some of ...
Invited by architect Robert Stone to stay over at his desert luxe-camping shelter, Rosa Muerta, Emily and I spent a refreshing weekend out in the outlying area of Joshua Tree where sparse development ...
mcbfly has an organized space that just needs to be maintainedIt's been a fast paced 8 weeks with lots of purging, refining and adding life to our spaces. Did you have a party over the weekend? Do y...
Brilliant...simply hit-your-forehead brilliant idea of using something as common and ignored as the electrical cord as both the power source and the materials which shapes the lamp (looks like we have...
Two years ago, around this time, Maxwell posted a solution to covering exposed pipes, especially steam pipes in the bathroom, with rope. It was an idea that we loved and we stored the technique in t...
Marybel writes in with a simple furniture identification query: "Where are these chairs from?"
Got a good question you'd like answered? Send your queries and a photo or two illustrating your question...
Look: IKEA Decorative Scrap Paper Box Drawer
We love the idea of taking a plain decorative item, like this IKEA wooden box above and decorating it with paper. Especially when we have a great place t...
When we first started compiling a list of holiday movies with great set decor, we struggled to rank some of our favorites: Love Actually, Elf, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story,...
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Name: Quadrato Vanity Set
Shop: Z Gallerie
Value: $100
Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Quadrato Vanity Set from Z Gallerie. This 5-piece set featur...
In the off chance you haven't heard of this amazing website yet, we felt it prudent, especially in the height of gift-giving season, that we tell you about Wall Blank. Wall Blank is this amazing webs...
A December to remember, AT Los Angeles numbers were smokin' hot, thanks to a post about 70's rock musicians and their parents' homes that spread across the blogosphere. But here are the other ten post...
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