Spring means gardens and it also means the Milan Furniture Fair. This week's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section takes a look at the Venice Home & Garden Tour (which is only open today), the LA G...
Name:Anna Spiro
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Size: 220 square meters or 2370 square feet
Years lived in: 1 year, owned
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Over the past few weeks we've been getting a glimpse int...
Dear Apartment Therapy LA: I recently purchased this Fred Lowen chair and thinking of restoring it. I am of two minds: 1) either bring the chair back to its former glory by stripping back the wood and...
We're guessing that this magnifying glass chandelier is a safe bet since it's out of the sun's reach (otherwise your home might be in trouble). It's got a turn of the century vibe going on--and we di...
When you have only one bathroom in your home, you have to be creative with it! Sometimes guest bathroom, sometimes storage space and all the time everyday life, your bathroom's style has many sides. C...
When Duncan Mowatt isn't bumpin' some rockin' jams on his KRK Rokit 6" Studio monitors hooked to a power amp under the desk, he's either gaming or Wacom'ing it up on his custom desk of his dreams, alm...
When looking for affordable decorating solutions we normally start with cleaning and then rearranging. When that hasn't yeilded the desired effect, we consider changing just one thing in the room and...
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Danish Starburst Table Sculpture (North Hollywood)
Unique modern oval couch - $600 (Agoura Hills)
Small Art Deco Buffet - $375 (Torrance - Delivery Avail)
European Design ...
Like getting a new piece of clothing, getting a new something for your home, whether it's a big piece like a rug or a couch or a small piece like a vase or a some glassware, suddenly shifts your persp...
Maison Martin Margiela Door Rug (via Moco Loco's excellent Milan Design Week 2009 coverage)
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click for more picsWhat we wouldn't do to call this extremely organized office our own. Nancy truly gives meaning to the phrase, "a place for everything and everything in it's place."...
When Friday rolls around, the question most often asked around the office is, "So, what are you up to this weekend?" Right, well, whatever those plans may be; the fact of the matter is that half the ...
We've all probably had that unfinished project lying around our home every now and then. Like a chair you bought off Craigslist that would be absolutely gorgeous if only you found the time/inspiratio...
Welcome to the AT:Los Angeles Open Thread! Happy May Day everyone! Small Cool 2009 is concluding this weekend and we hope you take a bit of your time to help us crown the 2009 winner! Anything else on...
click for more picsAbby posted about the colourful parquet flooring inside the Humlegarden Apartment just shortly ago, a spacious apartment with a colourinf book character that dizzied some while...
It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend here in LA and we're gonna be diving into outdoor month in June so we thought it was a good time to dust off this post on cleaning patio furniture to inspire yo...
It's no secret that we love inspirational office spaces and even better when they're putting our favorite colors to work--gray and orange. Follow us after the jump where we'll break down our favorit...
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Within just an hour or two in any direction from Los Angeles you can end up in another city and environment. (Mountains? Beach? City? Island? Whatever you want, you can find.)...
It's all over the news, people are chatting and emailing about the worries of a pandemic, eyeing sniffling strangers suspiciously despite facts that this is not the Black Plague (calm your worries and...
Frustrated by a lack of really simple, cool outdoor furniture, one of our favorite local landscape designers took it upon herself to design some. So a couple of years ago Judy Kameon and her husband ...
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• Unique Los Angeles Design & Gift Show
• Highbrowfurniture Liquidation Sale
• Mercado Mother's Day Sale
• 12 Homes Sherman Oaks Chandler Estates Sale
• Sanford Burr...
Finally, it's here! After months of rumours and waiting, CB2 opens today, their first store in Southern California. Yesterday morning we got to take a sneak peek at the new store. The beautifully de...
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Attention Small Cool Fans! We've progressed from hundreds of entries to only a handful of finalists. Today, we're voting on the size division winners. Help us decide who has the most inspi...
Because we work from home we spend a lot of time in various spots around the house. Typing from the kitchen table, reading on the couch and working in the office--we've become pretty familiar with ou...
Before you check out these photos of this flat in Denmark, you might want to consider dimming your computer screen or donning on a pair of sunglasses. The colors in this home is...daring? Fearless? B...
Our Grandparent's generation can't go on holidays within Australia without coming home with a tourist tea towel from their destination. We’ve already confessed to loving Australian made tea towels, ...
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Attention Small Cool Fans! We've progressed from hundreds of entries to only a handful of finalists. Today, we're voting on the size division winners. Help us decide who has the most inspi...
Dear AT, I have a glass round dining table top that my parents gave me a few years back when I was in college. When I moved back home, I stupidly threw away the base, thinking it would be easy to fi...
For many of us, the beginning of the year is a time to plot our course, to visualize where we want the year to take us and what we'd like to accomplish. It normally helps that we're on vacation, with...
We're a big fan of repurposing items around the home (especially if they mix well with your established decor). Our style could be defined as eclectic meets vintage so giving glass bottles another li...
When we moved last year, we finally had some nice hardwood floors. We decided to go with a shaggy cream rug although the room it's in has the most foot traffic. It's definitely time for a little clean...
For many, visiting Etsy daily borders on a near obsession, such is the scope, range and quality in selection of handmade items that range from home crafting in quality to designers whose creations see...
My friends Matt and Alex recently moved from a studio apartment to a (by contrast) luxurious 1 bedroom apartment with a balcony. Not only have I been impressed with how quickly they made their new sp...
An irrelevant cube;
Absurdity
Sucked by gravity
Against immensity;
Walled by diversity;
Roofed by infinity.
-My House Is Small by May Williams Ward, from her collection of poetry, Seesaw (Atlan...
The bedroom in Maxwell and Sara-Kate's old apartment proves that an oasis doesn't have to be large, just serene.
• Cure Clock: 1.5 weeks remaining
• Assignment: Read Chapter 7, pps. 206-22...
No matter where we've managed to end up living in Los Angeles, we've always tried to put a positive spin on our neighborhood (and we've lived in some questionable areas). Having a place (or two) in y...
Like many of you, we've been keeping a tighter grip on our purse strings, from cutting back on ordering takeout to limiting our time on eBay. Last week, a friend of ours challenged us to do "Survivor ...
We first dubbed this color scheme "the ketchup/mustard effect" long before we ever actually experienced it in an interior space. After catching a glimpse of this house project by local interior desi...
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Attention Small Cool Fans! The third round of Match-Ups has begun and will be open for 24 hours. Help us decide who has the most inspiring, small and cool home — Small #06: Kimmer's ...
click for more picsOur friends over at KNQ Associates sent us this fun and colourful before and after update of a one-bedroom apartment in Singapore, a small space transformation of a blank canva...
When we first moved in we didn't have the wherewithal to get the bed frame out of storage and up 2 flights of stairs so we slept on a boxspring and mattress on the floor for a couple of months. We've...
We were at our favorite new restaurant (Gjelina) last week and spotted a decor choice we really liked--indoor lighting outdoors. Our table was right next to a floor lamp that was nestled between land...
Perhaps we've seen more stylish ones before, but we're going to go out on a limb and call Scott A. Pope's Man Cave entertainment room the ultimate den of tech delights for the sheer scope of his optio...
We recently posted mixing and matching of chair fabric and table texture. We like to see classic pieces mixed with more eclectic styles. We love the look of this chair because.......
Maybe it's because we saw a set of these exact same Mikasa mugs and pitcher at the Salvation Army a couple of weeks ago and didn't buy them, but when we ran across these planted succulents on Etsy we ...
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Chic Crystal Chandelier - $119 (Miracle Mile)
High-glam Sculptural 70's Brass Etagere - $749 (Miracle Mile)
OFFI Duoplane DVD/ Books Shelf Wall Storage Unit BRAND NEW DWR -...
As the weather warms up, we're thinking more and more about sprucing up our outdoor space but this year, more than ever, we're trying to do it without burning a hole in our already stretched pockets. ...
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Attention Small Cool Fans! The third round of Match-Ups has begun and will be open for 24 hours. Help us decide who has the most inspiring, small and cool home — Little #12: Sonia & ...
If you're anything like us, reupholstering is something we'll usually leave to the professionals. But yesterday, we landed on a website called Queen of DIY where Sarah actually makes this crafty DIY ...
Ready to take a break? Pull yourself away from work for a moment and bask in the glory of this simple, small Swedish summer house (and then try to say that 5x fast, heh). This little slice of heaven...
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Name: Greg Natale
Location: Sydney, Australia
For a while now we've loved Greg Natale's work, using amazing patterns, products and colour, he produces some of A...
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Attention Small Cool Fans! The first round of International Match-Ups has begun and will be open for 24 hours. Help us decide who has the most inspiring, small and cool home — Intern...
Hi there Apartment Therapy community,
I've just moved in to a new place in Melbourne, Australia which is definitely NOT an apartment. It's a timber-clad (weatherboard) house with a small front yard,...
We're quickly running out of space on our own balcony; it's getting cramped with little pots that look almost like (egads!) clutter. Plus, in a freak sweeping accident over the weekend one of our pri...
While we don't expect to receive a hand written thank you card every time we give a gift, it sure is nice to get one delivered in the mail. And if you're like us, you really enjoy the art of writing ...
From the big windows to the low profile sofas to the ginormous foliage to the beautiful flat screen and speakers mounted on the wall, this room has everything. The photograph actually comes from Mark ...
We started keeping issues of our favorite magazines a few years ago and now have a bookshelf full of them. Easy to store (although super heavy once your collection gets going), magazines are a great s...
We have friends who recently picked up their outdoor furniture at Albertsons. The price was right and it took the hassle out of going all over town looking for the right furniture. But had they know...
We like to think of our house as clean. We vacuum once a week, we dust daily, we take off our shoes when we come in the door. But then we do a dry mop and there they are, living under the bed, the d...
Knocking down a wall is a pretty big deal but when Katie discovered her new kitchen had no drawers or countertops--it seems like an easy decision. Apparently, the previous owner's solution was to kee...
While there's a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that magazines are reaching its demise, we're hoping that some of the smaller, specialized ones will survive, like Canada's Uppercase magazine. Wh...
Austin has long been the home of a great tradition of taco carts and other types of food sold out of roadside trailers. While we've enjoyed a number of city favorites for some time now, recently ther...
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