The Los Angeles Times website has been remodeled! The Home and Garden section will now include a section called "First Look" focusing on lesser known architecture and interior design firms in Souther...
Name: Allison [of Lark] and Paul, Jacob (7), Jules (6), Jim the dog, and cats Rita and Ingrid.
Location: Daylesford, Australia
Size: 150 square meters [1600 square feet]
Years lived in: 3, owned
Or...
Q - I just moved to Los Angeles and I brought along this chair that I inherited from my mother. Originally it was covered in an orange fuzzy fabric, but she had it reupholstered a few years ago. Any...
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As a former studio apartment tenant, we know how hard it is to make a small amount of square footage look good while remaining efficient. Joan manages to work a small space to her advantage, com...
No, we're not talking about pushing your partner out of bed. We are talking about upgrading the size of your bed. In the last few weeks a few of our friends have finally decided to go from queen to ki...
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The other day we shared our dilemma about pruning our book collection down and what to do with the books we were getting rid of. Our options mostly consisted of passing them on to others. JessyRatFi...
As we head towards the weekend, all we can think about is how much we would love our own weekend house. We stumbled across Wombat Towers, built on 40-hectares in the Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales a...
We like to dream about our ideal kitchen, but we run up against one difficult decision in our fantasizing. Open kitchen, or closed? Open is great for entertaining and people flow, but what about hidin...
After our teal bedroom find earlier this week, we feel a trend coming on. This club chair is the perfect addition to a chic office (we can see it sitting behind a dark wood desk surrounded by b...
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We have a confession. We absolutely love mixed and matched sets of things. Dinner plates, dining room chairs, throw pillows---you name it, and we think it's gorgeous when it's oh-so casually mixed to...
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We often talk about frames and galleries at Apartment Therapy. When we spotted these neat re-stickable wall decals, we wanted to share them with you. These little guys are a great way to add......
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Don't put it past us to wrap gifts in magazines, newspapers or a pretty tea towel--but sometimes an occasion calls for something a little more fancy. Because we'd still like the effort to be ec...
One of our favourite daily reads, The Design Files, featured this fantastic home yesterday belonging to Shelley and Stephen Trbuhovich . The couple run their own business, Galerie Montmartre, selling ...
At The Kitchn we love to talk about the ways that home cooking can transform your home into an even more nourishing space. But what happens if your passion for food overflows the home? What if you wan...
We are in love with this coffee table. We almost bought it ourselves but it doesn't exactly go with our current decor. It would look great with a colorful couch or flokati rug underneath and w...
We're used to seeing items organized in drawers but usually those drawers are attached to a desk. We spotted these vintage beauties for sale on Etsy and thought--what a great idea!...
Hmm...it's been awhile since we had one of these! We've been entertaining a lot this month--friends from all over have been coming in roves every weekend. During the day, we take them to some of our ...
With a footprint of only 3 square meters [that’s just over 30 square feet] this 2 storey copper clad building is set in the middle of sheep station in central NSW. Brilliantly, the cladding of the b...
Name: Jen Ramos
Location: Henderson, Nevada
Size: 2,200 square feet | 4.5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
Years lived in: 2.5 years
We've admired the cards and creative designs by Jen Ramos of Made By Girl for...
Q - I have been searching for a high back bench (like the picture attached) to use in my dining room of my Long Beach condo. Could you please help me find a store that would carry something similar?
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We came across a neat post on AOL's home design site ShelterPop spilling the details of a great secret source of soft, high-quality bathroom towels......
A majority of Apartment Therapy readers are big fans of the cozy look--especially in the bedroom. Teal wood paneling and a large bed for diving right in, you'd never know this comfy room belong...
When I was a kid, my parents considered purchasing a loft with same level parking. Architectural Digest-Maserati Design Driven contest winner Holger Schubert has taken that idea one step further......
The current issue of Inside Out magazine is a beauty. Jammed full of wonderful homes, people and objects and flaunting a new redesign, but it was the cover story that left us breathless. This home was...
Could you take a dated, 1950s kitchen with brown wood cabinets and unfashionable appliance colors and transform it for just $30? Well, it's possible.
Read on for a before photo and more details on h...
We're assuming that most everyone is at least as excited as we are about the return of Mad Men Season Three this sunday. In honor of Don Draper's office at Sterling Cooper, we found a great mi...
Flipping through a recent copy of In Style magazine, we spotted this great idea using 3M Scotch Foil Tape. Used in an entryway, this DIY is easy on the eyes and the pocketbook......
It's about starting over and getting inspired.
In light of the economic ups and downs of this year, it's safe to say that all of us know at least one person (and quite possibly more than just one) wh...
We've seen great advice here on Apartment Therapy on how to hang and display your favorite art in your home. Tips like how to hang your artwork and not screw it up and how to hang art in groups......
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We've been planning on having people over this summer to enjoy the complex's pool, eat some food, hang out, maybe play the wii and just enjoy summer time. We haven't actually made it happen ye...
A tray ceiling tends to be the focal point of the room, even if it's left undecorated. But sometimes, we like to see home decor kicked up a notch--which happens to be the case with this accented tray...
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This week's Design Star episode on HGTV focused on improving one's home and expanding the "living" areas. In this case - the...
The other day our friend posted a facebook update that read something like this: The neighbor across the way who has loud sex with her boyfriend just yelled at the neighbor upstairs for his hours of g...
Yesterday, Beth pointed out the impact of a single basket as wall decor. Here's a 180 from that look but the impact is just as strong. While we've seen this done before, we've never seen it as ...
We had a hard time deciding what we loved most about this Toorak home. Was it the huge windows? The luxurious finishes and furniture? The fridge that’s bigger than our entire kitchen? It was all of ...
Some of us have spice jar sets, where all the jars match and fit into their own custom container. And some of us (me) enjoy a jumble of mismatched jars and containers. When I saw these new spice jars ...
We love it when an entryway makes an impression--and your landing zone is sure to do just that with this ornate fireplace mirror. Since we don't have a fireplace, it would hang nicely in our h...
We had no idea this DIY postcard holder was used for anything else besides holding bits of inspiration, until we read the caption below the photo......
We're pretty sure these photos have made the rounds, but just in case this is your first time seeing 'em, take a look and then make a guess as to which celebrity calls this place home. "After I final...
We’ve been keenly watching The Selby website over the past couple of months as Todd Selby has been in Sydney. Our favourite out of the 11 homes he photographed was that of photographer Harold David ...
Q - I love this green chair featured in Real Simple. The curved back and woven seat are really interesting together. Do you or any of your readers know who makes it or where I can fine one?...
We've posted about using affordable embroidery hoops as wall art before, like by framing fabric scraps, making wall art collages and even using doilies in hoops......
We usually like wicker furnishings kept outdoors but we're digging this large basket as bedroom wall decor......
Name: Heather and Josh Smith
Location: Los Feliz, CA
Size: 1,275 square feet
Newlyweds, Heather and Josh, open the doors to their charming and comfortable Los Feliz apartment. Thoughtful about...
Yesterday we were flying back to LA from Seattle and had to take a series of smaller airplanes with just the one compact bathroom in the back. Normally these get pretty...stuffy early on in the fligh...
We no longer play Scrabble in our house due to the dictionary throwing arguments that usually ensue, so using the Scrabble tiles as place cards is a brilliant way to stop this classic game gathering d...
We've been trying to clear out the books in our house; coincidentally we came across an article that asked, if you're not enjoying them, why finish the books you start. But of course! And then we st...
We long to have a permanent creative space instead of lugging the sewing machine and supplies out onto the dining table anytime we feel inspired. We had our socks knocked off when we saw how Kirsty wa...
We've talked about useless gadgets and useful ones, but these mostly recent tools didn't include some of our real favorite kitchen gadgets. Ingenious kitchen devices have been around for hundreds of y...
One of our favorite shows (when we have the time to watch) is Antiques Roadshow. We love it when a couple brings in a table they bought at a yard sale for $10 only to find out the antique is now...
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