You like to think of yourself as green. You recycle your plastic bottles and your newspapers. Maybe your home is furnished with a few pieces of furniture you've found on the street. Take it about t...
Name: Ario Pratomo
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Size: 72 sq. meters (775 sq. ft.)
Years lived in: 1 year
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We've highlighted homes from Singapore, India, the Philippines, and quit...
You know how we've been talking a lot about outdoor spaces lately? And how inspired we were by a recent camping trip? Seems all our attention is on getting outside into nature. But what about going...
Our work took us to Pasadena yesterday when we spotted this giant glass partition. Used to separate a work station and a conference table area, the French doors allow light through while maintaining ...
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Who Lives Here: Two, me and my boyfriend
Location: Shanghai, China
Size: 452 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home?...
We love checking out dinnerware designs, especially small plates like dessert or salad plates. These little guys are great at playing double duty for your space. If you need a colorful or textural acc...
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane...well, yes, it's a plane that also happens to be a 2 bedroom Costa Rican hotel suite constructed using a real 1965 Boeing 727 fuselage, complete with spa...
Having recently switched from having a small backyard with a hose to an apartment with a balcony and a container garden, I've had to adjust my watering techniques. Lacking a watering can I've been re...
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Who Lives Here: Vinh Diep
Location: Los Angeles, California
Size: 800 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? My fav...
Is because we wear gray all the time and we're looking for something to mix it up? Or maybe it's a harbinger of spring? Or could it be a friend's child's obsession with Curious George and his patron...
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Who Lives Here: The two of us, our pets and the occasional tree frog
Location: Flatonia, Texas
Size: 490 square feet
What is your one favorite eleme...
Laurana takes a teeny space and organizes an entire craft room perfectly. Not only is it one of the teeniest craft studios we've seen, it may be the most organized--further reasons why her craft stud...
In keeping with the same theme as the Earth Day festivites post earlier this week, we'd like to tell you about another opportunity to help save the planet. If you live in Austin and really want to get...
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Who Lives Here: One: Myself (and a cat named Peppermint)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Size: 280 square feet
What is your one favorite element i...
A friend of ours just moved into a pretty small studio and wants to have her bed, a sitting area, a place to play music and then room for books and media without it looking like a closet crammed to th...
We're big fans of taking a run of the mill cabinet and making it your own. We've seen fabric and contact paper used to transform a cabinet door but this is a first for us--using twigs to DIY a cupboa...
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Who Lives Here: Three, Poonam Sharma, myself, our 4 month old daughter Noorand (and our kitty-cat, Kullu)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Size: 914...
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Apartment Therapy has definitely covered wall decor tips for renters and one of our faves has been the addition of temporary wallpaper. We've been living...
An appropriate topic for Small Cool month, Unplggd's gathered various examples of optimizing the space within a closet or stand-alone storage for home office use. Now if we can only clean out our walk...
We're sorry we didn't remember this little gem during bathroom month, but from a house tour ages ago comes this amazing hand painted flower mural in a classic pink and yellow tiled bathroom:...
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Who Lives Here: One: All by myself
Location: Los Angeles, California
Size: 240 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool h...
Grey Gardens, as the house is known, is as much a character in the film as the two women and their relationship.Tonight we're attending the premiere of HBO's "Grey Gardens" starring Drew Barrymore and...
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Who Lives Here: Two: My husband (artist - his piece is in the fireplace) & graphic designer), me and our dog, Coco.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Size: 1...
Traditionally, red, white and blue color combos inspire more of a preppy, nautical vibe but Ania has managed to combine the trio of colors in a way that is less patriotic and more vintage charm. More...
In preparation for this post, we conducted a little experiment: Instead of haunting our usual lunch spot, we ventured a little further out and parked ourselves at an outdoor table at a cafe in Eagle ...
It was the grass green glass splash back that completely drew us in. Searching around architect Grant Amon’s website this St Kilda apartment caught our eye and boy are we glad it did. This apartmen...
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Who Lives Here: Adam
Location: Houston, Texas
Size: 710 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? It is hard to choose...
Oftentimes it is said that an all white room will look bigger than a darker one. That white walls will magnify how big a room feels. So it's often a good bet for small apartments that are lacking in...
Since working from home is the norm nowadays, it's inspiring to see options of this reality put into action. Especially since most folks have to make one room function as the office (and something el...
Today is the day, procrastinators. And we say that with a smirk, since we just finished filing our own Fed and states taxes online. We don't know how our parents did it the old fashioned way with pen,...
We recently heard some great news out of the L.A. Mart...they are launching a brand new year-round program called the Buyer Services Program, a service that enables consumers an opportunity to shop th...
Last year you helped us give thousands of dollars to Habitat for Humanity, your non-profit of choice. This year we're asking you to help again. For three years Apartment Therapy has been teaming up wi...
Since we've been looking for ways to maximize the use of a small balcony or outdoor area (see here, here and here to catch up) we've run across a lot of the same kinds of ideas: tier plants, keep it c...
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Who Lives Here: Me and my dog "Mouse".
Location: Los Angeles, California
Size: 395 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool...
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Who Lives Here: Myself and my papillon puppy, Isobel
Location: Sydney, Australia
Size: 258 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your sma...
We're a big fan of taking a closet and transforming it into a work space. Not only does this suggestion make great use of a teeny space, it also evokes a cozy vibe that we're attached to......
"I don’t have the kind of Martha Stewart eye where I know how to turn vintage drapes into flat sheets and pair them with some cool pillow from the Fairfax flea market or whatever; and voilà, I have...
We're no stranger at trying to make the earth a better place here at AT. Any search will produce many "green" idea posts, from gardening, to recycling to cleaning products and even green home decor. ...
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Who Lives Here: One, just me
Location: Temple City, California
Size: 865 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? My ...
One of the nicest things about living in Venice was getting to have a little garden all to myself. Only problem is that the next door neighbors added on to their house and ended up putting a second s...
While some may think skunks are cute and fuzzy, their smell surely is not. Our first experience with a skunk lingered long after we encountered its smell (driving around Los Angeles on our first visi...
Using discarded keyboard elements removed from laptops, designer Dante Bonuccelli took the keys and fashioned the aptly named Texte-ile, a lounge chair that incorporates keys as both material and patt...
We spotted this neat decal design in Manhattan Beach over the weekend. The shiny circles definitely caught our eye and we thought using decals or stickers are a great way to add design and detail to y...
In our tiny bedroom we just don't have the option of putting our bed against a plain wall; every single wall has a window, a door, a couple of windows or a closet. And the whole thing is already bare...
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Who Lives Here: Two: My partner Jade and I (and our two kitties).
Location: Los Angeles, California
Size: 715 square feet
What is your one favorite ...
Despite how we may live now, we all carry around in our heads a picture of our dream home, often based on someplace from childhood that made a big impact on us. For me, it was a loft apartment carved...
A question about painted stairs: I love the look of the painted stairs and the stained runner that people have posted before, however, I question the durability. One friend recommended porch paint o...
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Who Lives Here: Two: me and my cat Marina
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Size: 300 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, co...
My roommate and I had a similar dilemma--two bikes that needed a home (only we had no extra room to spare). We love Ryan's DIY solution to make the most out of a hallway......
Brisbane based Bespoke Press have just released their latest range of letterpressed prints. Using their antique 1893 printing press these vintage chair prints are available in signed and numbered limi...
Hi! I would love to post a question for the AT readers. I'm designing an office and I'm looking to find someone in Los Angeles who can do furniture reproduction at a reasonable price. I'm looking for...
You heeded the call! Last week we featured the shipping pallet furniture that a reader diy'ed and we asked you to share what inds of projects you've been up to. Today another reader showed us how th...
When we came across Penny, an artist that creates pictures sewn from fabric and thread, we expected a house as delightful as her craft. And Penny delivers--her home is a mix of eclectic vintage finds ...
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Who Lives Here: Rachel and Ernie
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Size: 500 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? I love ...
We often talk about small space solutions and sharing a space at Apartment Therapy. When we caught an episode of The Office last week, the Michael Scott Paper Company set up shop in a mere 165 sq ft,...
We're guessing if you feel like you're working in paradise, work somehow becomes paradise. We can't really attest if that's really true ourselves (our walls are a nice dark cream color that reminds us...
As apartment dwellers and renters we don't often want to invest a lot in the outdoor space we've got. Adding those lovely (but expensive) pebbles, doing any real hardscaping, etc just isn't practical...
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Who Lives Here: My husband and I
Location: Dallas, Texas
Size: 750 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? That it...
Given our druthers we prefer a wood floor over carpet, linoleum or painted floors. But whether you go dark or light, wood flooring tends to come in a range of wood, i.e. brown tones, and the exciteme...
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Who Lives Here: Two, together with my wife
Location: Singapore
Size: 968 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? "Th...
We have our own version of the idea pictured above--a simple shell decorated with a plant inside. We love the beach vibe ours gives off (hanging in the window over the kitchen sink). With summer day...
Now that Easter weekend has officially ended, we're dutifully locking ourselves up for another tough work week ahead. On that note, we've collected a few examples of black-and-white striped decor that...
Last week AT readers weighed in on their opinions of fake plants versus real ones inside the home. While some people are okay with fake flowers if they don't have a green thumb, what's a homeowner to ...
Happy Easter everyone! Hope you're enjoying your Sunday and that you take the time to peruse our selection of week's favourite posts. A great deal of this past week's best posts were from our Smallest...
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