Apartment Therapy: diy

Cartonnistes DIY Cardboard Furniture

We're now looking at all the large cardboard boxes in a new light after seeing these impressive DIY furniture creations made by the Parisian artist collective known as the Cartonnistes. Founder Eric G...

How To...Get Rid of Bleach Stains in the Bathroom

Bleach stains...sounds contradictory, doesn't it? Well, a few days ago, in an effort to unclog our drain, we followed the advice of one of our friends and poured bleach down the drain. And man, we lea...

15 Cleaning Tricks with A Few of These...

Lemon and vinegar? Those are house cleaning staples. But...Kool-Aid and Coke? Find out what these unexpected items can clean around the house after the jump!...

Look! Sleeping Under a Tree: A DIY Paint Project

Here's a beautiful NY to Cali collaboration that resulted in amazing effect. ATLA reader Chelsea's best friend flew out from New York and helped transform her walls into a breezy woodland scene using ...

Look! DIY Platform Bed With Storage

David tells us his DIY platform bed project isn't yet complete, but we think he's done such a spectacular job with his bed/storage to this point, we wanted to go ahead and share what's he's completed ...

How to...Repair Bamboo Floors

One of our pals just put in a new bamboo floor, and it's been less than 24 hours and he's already found scratches in it. Usually, our advice is, "Don't worry about it! It'll give your home character!...

How to...Make 4 DIY Headboards

When we first found this carved-relief salvage piece for Scavenger, we thought it was perfect for a headboard...which got us thinking about our own headboard situation (or lack thereof). Instead of h...

DIY Inspiration: Color Blocked Sideboard
Wallpaper Magazine April 2008

We spotted this sideboard in the April 2008 issue of Wallpaper Magazine. We love the graphic color-blocking of the tonal gray values. This "Horizon" sideboard is by Pearson Lloyd for Martinez Otero fr...

How To: Make Bubble Wrap Curtains

We're not so sure about the actual finished results, but this idea shown at Crafty Crafty of using bubble wrap for curtains is pretty keen. The blue tape isn't doing it for us, but perhaps stretched a...

Floor Lamp from Vintage Camera Equipment

Jonathan's post last week on lamps inspired by vintage camera equipment, reminded us of this project from ReadyMade Magazine. A lamp actually made from vintage camera equipment, it combines the lates...

Look! Manhole Cover Outdoor Table

Not that we want any of your to start stealing manhole covers throughout the city, but we wanted to point out this notable found-object-turned-outdoor-furniture idea from ATLA's most recent house tour...

6 Uses for Wallpaper Not Including Hanging It on the Wall

We've been blogging a lot of wallpaper lately. It's a great way to add sparkle to a room. After the job's done though, we're left with the scraps. Of course, we keep some of them to use as patch bu...

Inspiration: Rustic Headboard
Living Etc. May 2008

Normally, whenever we see anything "white washed" (or I guess "pickling" or "liming" could be another term), we usually associate it with the "shabby chic" / cottage look. While there's nothing wrong ...

Look! IKEA + Decorative Scrap Paper Box Drawer

Here's any easy DIY inspiration we found via Flickr just using some scrap decorative paper and the IKEA wooden drawer boxes. We saw plenty of beautiful decorative paper in Little Tokyo; we might have ...

Look! DIY Shelf Using Melamine Glasses

Sometimes drilling into your walls is not an option. Flickr user mamichan's plaster walls called for improvisation, so she created this lovely shelf using two melamine glasses and a brushed metal shel...

Look! Birdcage desk organizer

We spotted this fun DIY idea in the "Reader Letters" page of the April 2008 Country Home magazine. A reader wrote in to say they were inspired by a previous article and converted a birdcage to become ...

Look! DIY Framed Sconces

Anthony, our blogger-to-be (he's on his probationa; trial period) is not only doing a banging job writing for us on Unplggd, he also took the time to shoot us over this keen DIY framed sconce project ...

Look! Eames Toilet Seat Hack

Haha, we've thought we'd seen every sort of Eames related mod, but nothing quite as amusing as this Eames shell chair modified for comfortable bathroom lounging (although if you're sitting there too l...

Look! Painting Embossed Wallpaper

ATLA readers Jason and Lori shared the doors they'd transformed in their new house. Lori did them herself using embossed wallpaper and paint. She'd been inspired by door panels she'd seen when she a...

Look! DIY Tufted Closet Doors

Here's an interesting idea from DIY'er "nazinsky", who transformed a plain closet system with a new coat of paint, some trim detailing and applied tufted seat pads for some texture and colour. More be...

Look! DIY Scrap Digital Prints Bed

Ikea Hacker has an impressive example of someone who took advantage of an affordable resource that resulted in an expensive looking finish. Scrounging through the scrap pile of a local large format gr...

How To...Make a Couch, Bed, and Guest Room Fit In a Small Space

Here's a problem that most of us have faced at some point or another: How do you fit in a bed, a big couch, and a guest room in an apartment? We've touched on it a bit before when we were lamenting o...

The Paul Smith Ping Pong Table

We've been trying to rationalize getting a ping pong table for the past six months, but now we're thinking we should just make one! The Paul Smith Ping Pong table was designed by Hunn Wai and it's ma...

Wary Meyer's Painted Eames Shell Chair

We're...REALLY...late on this bandwagon, but we couldn't help but feature Wary Meyer's painted Eames shell chair a year or two after the fact. We love the idea of salvaging a vintage piece, especiall...

How to: Create Dresden Plates With Fabric Scraps

Got a collection of fabric remnants you don't know what to do with? Anna Maria took a $15 ziploc bag of fabric scraps and created these beautiful Dresden plates that now decorate her studio wall......

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