Gracious living in a small space is what AT is all about. This week's focus over at the Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section is a home in Venice that belies its small footprint yet successfully ac...
Name: Susy and Dale
Location: Reno, Nevada
Size: 440 sq. ft. studio
Years lived in: 1½ years
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Do what we do long enough and one begins to appreciate seeing smart ideas from unex...
"In case you haven't heard, wall to wall carpet is back in fashion" or so says Danielle Proud, the brit designer behind the Fun On The Floor carpet house in the UK. We thought we saw this coming and ...
We recently acquired "A Little of This" Flor tiles to create a runner at the end of our long hallway. We love the tiles (as does the cat, as you can see) but I keep having this urge to cut one col...
Growing up, our grandma had a small black and white TV in a corner of the kitchen. Since she was always whipping up a dish or a fancy dessert, you could usually find her in the kitchen with the TV on...
While designers come up with countless versions of chairs, door knobs, lamps, coat hooks...the lowly dish rack has mostly been left ignored despite a dire need of refresh (we guess it's partially due ...
Is the era of the "kitchen table" gone? We think not but the interpretation of it sure has changed for most small space dwellers. In homes and apartments with a small footprint and potentially no eat-...
click for more picsNot until recently did we really understand the appeal of desert living. But thanks to several trips out the desert, sometimes exploring desert trails, other times just living ...
How do you know that an underground movement has gone completely mainstream? Two words: Martha Stewart. From the gal that brought the art of homekeeping out into the open, comes a crafting blog that ...
For this week's Trending Report we want to bring you some great online stores that we think are great resources for your home interior needs, but that you may not yet be aware of. As more and more of ...
Here's a question posted by daiz in our most recent open thread :
Any ideas on the best way to get grout off tile after grout is applied?! Grouting is hard, hard work, but the tile oh so pretty!
Got ...
We're pretty sure it's because we were raised in the south but we always want to know what's going on in our neighborhood. Being hip to the town gossip, not to mention store openings, art happenings ...
Kitchens with weird layouts are always challenging, so we're always excited to see odd spaces that work thanks to some ingenuity (and probably some heavy editing of...stuff). Take, for example, this ...
This end of the week Slinks post includes some home gift ideas for architects, a very cool LED display postcard that measures the time between the moment you drop it into the mailbox and the time it i...
It's no news that color, and more specifically a room's color, can affect your mood dramatically. In fact, color psychology has been discussed before on AT, like in Color Psychology: The Impact of Pa...
How we wish we had the means to collect all the past issues of Popular Science Monthly, most notably for great how-to instructions like this 1954 feature about making your own Eames era mobile......
Yesterday's post on great tile resources for the kitchen and bath had some readers wondering what reversible things they could do to their backsplash if they're renting. Anh-Minh had a great idea to ...
We're quite smitten with these bamboo bathroom containers available at Materiashop not only because of their high gloss lacquer finish (even safe for food stuff, so you can use this in the bathroom or...
I'm trying to find a modern rug for my living room for a reasonable price. I love this rug at Room & Board...the stripes, the color palette... but $999 is just too much. I've checked the usual suspect...
We wanted to highlight the powder room because like the kitchen, it's probably a high traffic area. While a powder room is typically super small, it usually packs a punch. Most of the small space de...
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A few months ago, over on NY, Aaron blogged a sofa featured in the NY Times that had been attacked by magic markers. We were completely captivated and tucked this idea away in the back of our m...
Small space dwellers are always looking for creative ways to create storage without the feeling of bulky furniture taking up the room. Going vertical is the perfect way to create storage spaces while ...
click for more Scavenger findsThis Thursday's Los Angeles Craigslist Scavenger is a great mix of modern, vintage and ethnic, notably a beautiful Moroccan style wall water fountain, a stunning set...
We must all have small home offices on the brain these days. My own desire to move from the dining room table to some kind of dedicated workspace that doesn't need to get packed up (like the one I us...
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About a year ago the team over at AT San Francisco mentioned the stylish prefab dwellings from Method Homes (no relation to the household cleaner brand) and we noticed they've...
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I'm in the process of moving to a new apartment. The whole place had beautiful wood flooring except for the bedroom. I got the OK from the building super to tear out the ugly...
While most of us have little say in how our kitchen is designed (stove and fridge placement), we are probably working with a somewhat ergonomic layout. It's how we organize the kitchen that determine...
Yesterday, we marveled at Dora's cozy office nook, a great example of simplicity at its best. So here's an idea for those of you who have the extra closet space (coughIwishcough): convert it into a qu...
THIS WEEK
• Lignet Roset Santa Monica Warehouse Sale
• Modernica Free Shipping Deal on all Bedroom Furniture
• Benefit for Students of Art Center College of Design
• Green Space Re...
At the moment, it feels like every time we see a magazine it’s labeled “The Renovation Special”. We’ve already had a gut full of all the hiccups that keep happening with our bathroom renovatio...
A funny quirk about our 1917 studio here in LA is that the bathroom doesn't have any lock feature (that, and the light switch is on the outside wall next to the door instead of inside). We've consider...
Since we're in San Antonio and this also happens to be bathroom and kitchen month here at AT, we thought we'd share a video clip illustrating the utility and efficiency of dual flush toilets as shown...
As part of the Cure one of the assignments is to begin buying fresh flowers for your apartment (along with cooking meals at home) to bring some life into the space, and in many ways start coaxing som...
Soomie writes in with a lease question:
So, my roommate and I signed a one year lease together which ends in July but she wants to move out early and have someone sublet her room for the last 3-4 mont...
We like cozy office spaces that invite you in and Dora's nook does just that. Teeny but effective, small but still communicates style and personality......
Our apartment is a light-filled studio whose view and sunshine make it easy to stay indoors even on the best of days. BUT, there are some occasions for the sake of heat, privacy or the desire to strik...
We are looking forward to the arrival of Spring and enjoying the outdoors more. (Yes, it does get cold here in Southern California too.) We spotted some pretty lanterns the other day and were inspired...
As if we didn't already avoid the bathroom scale enough (even more so upon returning from Texas and the plethora of BBQ and TexMex), industrial designer Jim Ruck comes up with a bathroom scale design ...
Kitchens and bathrooms are a prime places to showcase striking tiles. We rounded up some of our favorite bathroom tile in this post and were recently thinking about the backsplash in our kitchen. We...
You know what this is, don't you? We reported it would be coming soon not too long ago and the day has finally arrived. That inner 6 year old girl (or boy) may be very excited at seeing a childhood dr...
A few months ago I was thumbing through a FLOR catalogue and came across an image that had this pair of molded plywood chairs upholstered in an Eames dot pattern fabric. I contacted FLOR to ask if the...
We've posted about clothing as display on AT before but we've never seen a dress as decor above the bed. Clothing as display is an affordable option and a great way to display specialty clothing......
"The secret to a happy marriage is separate bathrooms. That's essential." - Michael CaineWhether or not the original Alfie is right (although, he has been married for thirty-five years...and in the en...
"There are some things in life - like Herman Miller's Eames Lounge Chair, Levi's Jeans, Porsche's 911, springtime in Paris and diving off the Great Barrier Reef - where there is no substitute for the ...
To put stuff in that space above your kitchen wall cabinets or to leave them empty. That is a question that plagues many a homeowner and apartment dweller, isn’t it? On the one hand, it’s a prime...
click for more picsAfter a filling lunch at Rosario's near downtown San Antonio, Emily and I decided to burn off some of calories yesterday with a self-guided walking tour down the tree-shaded si...
Home fragrances rank pretty high for making a space feel clean and inviting. Realtors pay attention to smell because they know it helps to sell people on a home (some of their tips in our post on 12 ...
I was hoping someone might be able to tell me where the pillow in this picture came from. It's the one with the trees on it in the center of the bed! I have searched high and low for it and even asked...
Last week, we pulled up to park in front of our apartment and noticed brand new painted house numbers on the curb. We figured it was a new thing the city was implementing (and we'd seen similar paint...
Last year at this time Apartment Therapy LA's most popular posts revolved around the bathroom, including amazing indoor/outdoor baths and showers, best bathrooms from around the world, discussion abou...
[The pretty bungalow space housing Patio Culture is full of colorful wares for the outdoors.]
We really take advantage of the walkability in our neighborhood, living just one block from Beverly Drive,...
click for more picsA slow economy can mean some interesting and tempting online offerings on Craigslist. Our favourite is a vintage fiberglass Rat Pack era 12 piece pool furniture set available i...
The 2009 Spring Cure is coming up soon so if you're been considering some spring cleaning, wanting to redecorate on a budget or just need some help motivating yourself to finish up some projects and m...
Last week we kicked off a new series of posts called "Ten Things I Love" with eleven elements from Laure's apartment that she picked out as favourites. We're back this time with Beth and her handpicke...
A few weeks ago, we highlighted Janeys Journey's chandelier, a project uploaded into our AT LA Flickr Pool. Today, she posted the finished product......
Hi AT! I acquired a chair frame from a family member and would like to know if anyone can help me identify it or tell me how to go about repairing it. The frame is VERY heavy and is constructed of w...
We had been putting off renters insurance for a while (we felt the push to purchase when we inherited a valuable ring this summer). In conjunction with our grandparent's photos being stolen last week...
We found this great site thanks to Rachel of Black Eiffel blog: Alvhem, a real estate company in Sweden, not only handles listings of available flats in Sweden--they also stage the property by hiring ...
The latest edition of Inside Out features architect Sharon Fraser’s home. Her home is beautiful, however it maybe due to our familiarity with Donnie Darko - but it was the giant gloss-red rabbit scu...
Welcome one and all! March is Kitchen & Bath Design Month, but feel free to drop us any questions, topics or thoughts here in the open thread.
Also, join the discussion below about the change in Ben...
We've been intrigued by the idea of wall to wall carpeting coming back into style in a chic, high design kind of a way and not in the brown rental way you might think of. The first example that reall...
Help Adam with his search for a sofa:
I'm hoping someone in the AT community can help me find an affordable solution for a high end wish. I'm looking for a high quality seating option that looks like ...
There's nothing better than an intimate evening spent cozied up in the kitchen. Good food, great wine and flowing conversation amidst homey surroundings and we'll stay indoors every single time. 5 t...
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Blame it on our graphic design background, but we absolutely love these armchair designs by Parisian graphic design company, AK-LH. The 1950's Swedish armchairs are upholstere...
A few months ago, we asked you to share your fave small space design tips and there were some great ideas! We loved your suggestions and enthusiasm and definitely picked up some fab tips for our own s...
Anjali of LA-based Giant Jeans Parlor sent us these helpful how-to instructions showing how to remove the characteristic thrift store bouquet that often accompanies a purchase, using two St. Vincent D...
Over the weekend we combed through the Rose Bowl reacquainting ourselves with what's out there and also to spark some inspiration, after all it totally worked for Rebecca! Well, it might have had to ...
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Name: Metamorphoses 1; Jose Ulloa Davet, Delphine Ding
Location: Casablanca, Chile
Size: 1937 sq. ft.
Today's House Call post takes us way down south of the equator to the c...
As NY is the Big Apple, LA is the Big Orange so it's only fitting that two Los Angelenos find a place for this bright colour in their similarly arranged and styled living rooms. Here, in our friend's...
Mimi writes in with a small space question:
I live in a very small studio and need a solution for my sleeping/bed situation. My thought was a chaise that has sofa bed inside. I've seen one in a maga...
We had the opportunity to pick the brain of LA's architect to the stars, David Applebaum. While some might think that an architect (especially during times like these) is a luxury, David reminds us t...
Have you ever seen a bathroom split up where the toilet is in one room and the sink/tub is in the other? Friends of ours in SF have that set up, mainly due to the fact that their flat was once part of...
Discussions about "suburbia" and suburban living, the introduction of a new line of outdoor FLOR tiles, Wooster Collective rubber and corrugated cuckoo clocks and the return of the California wildflow...
Last week we asked for everyone's opinions on the type of countertop material they currently have in their kitchen and what their dream material would be (and lots of people shared, thanks!). For thi...
Greetings from Texas...San Antonio to be exact. We're here to visit family, make our way over to Austin (if weather permits), and maybe even get a little Texan BBQ during our stay. We hope y'all are ...
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