With President Obama's term not even a full week in, we're already seeing changes. Michael S. Smith, who's been hired to redecorate the Obama's living quarters, will be making significant changes ins...
Name: Sam
Location: Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Size: 557 sq. ft
Years lived in: 5
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Sam’s laid back, suburban, Northern Beach Sydney, Australia apartment seems a whole lot lar...
One of the more upscale house tours we were invited to shoot was Stacy's Updated Heirlooms, a beautifully appointed WeHo apartment that was put together with the professional help of interior dec...
Have a piece of wooden furniture with a cigarette burn marring its finish? There's two solutions that might be able to bring back a more presentable surface, one an old timey tip and the other a store...
We've been hearing about the shift from bright white on white in home decor to a darker, more sophisticated palette with the same crispness that white offers. Until now we hadn't been totally convinc...
Does anyone know how to get unglazed hex tiles (French bistro style) clean? We recently put them in our bathrooms and they already look scratched up. Here is a photo from the small bathroom where it ...
Your local Pottery Barn is offering a free class this Sunday on decorating. This hour-long class promises to help participants with simple updates for your home. It's geared towards the new year and...
Name: Pasinetti House; Kotaro Ide of ARTechnic architects
Location: Nagano, Japan
In similar spirit to the Nautilus Shell House (though noticeably more refined), Artechnic's Shell residence in ...
We have been an IKEA shopper for years. And while we love the selection of affordable goods, we recently looked around our apartment and realized we are a bit IKEAed out. As our design style has slowl...
Okay, we obviously know covering your books like this is a matter of appearances over function, making it hard to distinguish one book from another. But still, there's something a lot of fun about thi...
We pointed out another sort of poetic idea to borrow over the summer. Well, we recently spotted this lampshade from designer Elsa Somano of a perforated world map and thought it was a great jumping o...
Even if we hadn't had surgery the other day, causing us to spend as many waking hours in bed as possible, we still would find as many excuses as we could for eating breakfast there (not to mention din...
Wendy writes in:
Dear AT, we have a concrete dining table and are in desperate need of chairs. We were thinking the Herman Miller White Eiffel side chairs would match – but would like to put it out ...
As a freshman in college, we had a roommate that insisted on playing The Steve Miller Band when we turned out the lights. We would patiently wait until our bunkmate fell asleep and then tiptoe to th...
A documentary about the minds behind some of the most famous and desirable "things" in the world, a minuscule living space in the size of a wardrobe, an amusing tour of Phoenix's worst interiors and a...
If you've ever gotten tired of the lampshades in your home, check out this pretty cool pendant lamp called the Miformi. Designed by Ramin Razani, this polypropylene lamp can be transformed into twent...
Last week, we posted about taking tips from a modern bed and breakfast on how you can transform your own bedroom into a minimalist and relaxing retreat. But if your idea of the perfect sleep space is...
Welcome to the AT:LA's Open Thread! January is all about Fresh Starts & Resolutions (befitting today's festivities), most notably everything about that most private of sanctuaries, the bedroom. What's...
Dayna writes in with the hopes of someone helping identify these vintage 1950's-era boomerang leg chairs:
My husband picked up two of these chairs at the Goodwill a couple of months ago. They came wi...
Sometimes we just love dreary weather, it makes us feel cozy and warm inside with visions of living room forts and an urge to wrap ourselves up in a quilt and watch movies. So along those lines we st...
Last week we helped a friend paint her living room (before and after pics coming soon!). Since the space is quite small and has a few big pieces of furniture, the space felt cramped with little room ...
Shen Di's +Shifter Faucet: Control water flow by manually shifting like a car. A few more images below the jump...
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[Good friend, Heather, keeps a small globe in her family room to remind her of places she has been and where she'd like to visit next.]
When we are visiting our friend's homes or have been invited to ...
Richard and Margerie discuss whether buying a table without legs was such a great idea
AT reader Kim sent us an email about a topic she wanted to throw out to the AT community, living with home decor ...
Yesterday we talked about how to make your own custom removable wallpaper using lightweight fabric and starch. Some of you balked. For those that had terrible visions of a starch stained room and a ...
From NYT: Small Space Inspiration
Dear Readers,
Yee-haw! We're doing another book, and I'm hoping we can feature a number of your amazing homes.
This time we're specifically focusing on small and...
Love is in the air (and rain), for our heart is beating a'flutter for this three piece collection comprised of a heart shaped mirror, a console table, and our favourite, a 100% pure wool upholstered l...
As Laure reminded us, Valentine's Day is fast approaching and we thought we'd take a look at some ways to bring the love into your bedroom. No, we're not talking red lighting, heart-shaped water beds...
Do you know where I can find the artwork featured in this photo the one with orange birds stacked against a white background? I remember seeing a post (within the last year or two) on AT that feature...
Round Printed Peacock Rug From Urban Outfitters
We're always on the lookout for the best design tips (and even better if we can translate them to work in small spaces). So when we stumbled upon Trad...
SALES & EVENTS
• Living Room Winter Sale
• Sonrisa Furniture
• Flores Designs
• Roche Bobois
• Soolip Bungalow
• Los Angeles Go Green Expo
• Art LA
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If you're living in a studio apartment, this solution is probably old hat to you: having the bed function as a sofa. If you've been contemplating doing this in your home, there are a number of ways to...
Ok we’re not feng shui masters and certainly haven’t ‘feng shui-ed’ our home, but due to adolescent dabbling, our bedrooms have always followed a few key points like bed positioning and avoidi...
When we recently made our way over to Las Vegas for CES and stayed over at our friend's home in the northern reaches of Vegas' suburbs, one of the things we noticed immediately was the lack of lawns i...
We're heading out to Texas in the near future, hopefully making our way down over to Austin (we'll be visiting Emily's family in San Antonio) for some good ole BBQ if we get our way. Maybe we can...
Flipping through the latest Sundance Catalog (which we're more and more pleasantly surprised by) we spotted these organic cotton towels. We thought they were the right blend of fluffy, cozy and comfo...
Does anyone know where this wallpaper is from?? It’s yellowish in color in the middle, metallic silver outside that, and lined in black (you can see it on this restaurant's website. It looks diff...
Lack of space planning can cause any organizing endeavor to head south. Your space requires specific zones (which essentially means grouping items together that serve a particular purpose). We've go...
Last year at this time AT Los Angeles readers were passionately discussing the topic of being evicted, sharing various ways to transform digital photos into printed books for sharing, babysteps for or...
We've talked about mattresses a lot on Apartment Therapy, and with good reason. Considering how much of our overall lives we spend sleeping, it's important to have a healthy, comfortable and even goo...
[The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is a great place to take a break.]
We often post about tips for navigating the decorating of your home and how to create a look you love. Although you may be s...
We recently discovered Jill Sanford Burrows' new bedding line, Sanford Burrows, which is a cool project combining high quality Italian made bedding with modern designs. Treating each bed as a canva...
These days we've been searching around for removable or reversible design ideas. Not so much because we rent but because we have a hard time committing; we like knowing we can change our minds. This...
Here's a small space design we'd like to see make it's way Stateside, the Smeg LBL16RO Washing Machine with sink. The cute pink washer comes equipped with 15 programmed wash cycles, wash load capacity...
My husband's aunt gave us a marigold velvet couch with matching love seat.
I sort of have a crush on them, but how can I bring them into my modern, but traditional space without people thinking they'...
Laure got us excited about Valentine's Day a few weeks early with her post yesterday on letterpress cards. Since we love all things red (in moderation) we've rounded up some inspirational ways to bri...
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal
[Image: Gregory's Palm Springs In the Suburbs]...
This weekend Emily and I joined 248 other Angelenos and the good folks of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Clean Up Project to answer the call put out by our new President of the United States to help giv...
With all the political festivities this morning we got a little veklempt and decided to focus on all the love happening right now. And with Valentines Day fast approaching there are some great letter...
This desk came from my great-grandmother, so I don't want to destroy it but I do want it to fit in better with our modern furniture and mid-century character. To the left of it is an Eames-style chair...
Growing up in the south, we always knew our neighbor's. By the time we were old enough, we knew that welcoming a new person to the neighborhood with a freshly baked pie or bottle of wine was all in a...
Ask any window cleaner what the secret to crystal clear windows are and they'll undoubtedly mention the importance of using a squeegee to remove water and cleaning solution. But sometimes there are wi...
For all of you Apartment Therapy readers living in or near warmer weather, go out bargain hunting at local yard sales and flea markets. We recently checked out the Rose Bowl flea market that sets up s...
Next time we head down south to San Diego we're going to make sure to swing on by over to The Milo Shoe Gallery to see their amazing retail space which stylishly incorporates their wares into the deco...
Some of the most fun we've had outfitting our place have been regular cruises through discount retailers Ross and TJ Maxx, just to see. Since we don't don't go in with an agenda we can really keep an...
A few years back while living with a girlfriend who owned a spectacular Spanish Colonial in the tony hills of Los Feliz, we invited a movie sites management company to survey her home for possible mo...
Our general philosophy on TV in the bedroom is no. We confine ours to the living room, reserving the bedroom as a sanctuary for relaxing, resting and, umm...recreation, a place where we can figurativ...
Kristine writes in:
My husband and I finally bought our dream house overlooking a lake. We have changed everything, with the exception of the living room (20x24). I am stuck!! Should we paint the wo...
We were reading on CNN today about how the Bush Family are having to say goodbye for a second time around this weekend as the nation gets ready for a new President. We also tend to get pretty sad whe...
Amarcord Bathroom Collection
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One of our favorite décor mags, Sweden's Sköna Hem, recently listed their trend prediction of 2009. If you're in need of some inspiration to spruce up your home, take a minute to peruse the list...
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Shannon Fricke
Reading through piles of Australian blogs has become a daily addiction for us. We love seeing what creative ideas are had, what great local resources are found, what the writers are d...
Following suit all across the AT sites, we're taking the day off to celebrate MLK Day (we just finished a few hours of sweeping and cleaning trash in our neighborhood with a kind group of strange...
We're off to head out to work on our "Jan tan" at the beach today (or more likely, investigate some more tide pools) and enjoy the warm weather gracing us here in LA today. For those of you looking fo...
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