Apartment Therapy: inspiration

Learning to Trust Your Instinct

A few weeks ago, Maxwell's weekly email rounded-up best small sofas. Hmmm...there was one that resembled a daybed we've been coveting at a friend's house...could it be? Yes it was! We emailed her t...

ATLA Reader "Work in Progress" Loft Update

We love updates from you, our readers! Reader submitted photos of renovation and home improvement projects are the gifts that keep on giving, in terms of advice and inspiration, and are amongst our mo...

Inspiration: Creating A Graphic Niche with Paint
Living Etc., June 2008

A simple way to define a space is to use paint. We noticed this clever paint treatment in the June 2008 Living Etc. They utilized the awkward corner space in the stairwell and created a graphic niche....

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 ...

Top 10 Organizing Tips From Chez Larsson

Benita Larsson (of Chez Larsson) is our hero when it comes to keeping an organized home that is still comfortable and beautiful. So we're over the moon that she was willing to share her top 10 tips f...

Look: The Scents Room in the House of Bols

The Scents Room in the House of Bols gave us an idea about what to do with all those small cans of interior paint samples, perhaps altered for a horizontal application up our stairway. The colourful s...

Tile Vault: Black White Hex Tile Flowers

What: Cafe at Surfas Where: Culver City When: Saturday afternoon, enjoying a little something sweet Why: We love Culver City and all they're doing to revamp its historic roots. This tile floor with i...

Inspiration: Painted Wall Murals

If you've been considering doing a little DIY artwork on your walls, check out this beautiful design idea. We love all the colors and how it wraps around the corner. This is just one of several design...

Design Inspiration: Family

Yesterday's question, who was your first designer influence? stumped me. I couldn't think of a 'designer'. Then I realized that I've been profoundly influenced by my family and their design choices...

Inspiration: Who was Your First Designer Influence?

The first designer we really had a thing for was Vicente Wolf. We were decorating our first apartment and we had seen a spread on an apartment that he had done and we thought, this is it! We leaned...

Look! Using the Wall Above Stairs

LiveJournal user Katie and boyfriend Sean give an example of utilizing the space above their stairs, an area ripe for showcasing art, collections or rarely used items (although, we're considering conv...

Color Inspiration: Playing with Crayons

We got a chance to play around with some kids this weekend and remembered how much we love to play with color and crayons. ...

Redesigned Household Items by Fethi Atakol

Not much detail on Fethi Atakol's site about these designs, but we're loving the reused colander as wall clock idea, alongside the plexiglass+ladder magazine holder. Simple ideas and inspiration to re...

Moroccan Modern
Vogue Living Australia Jan/Feb 2008

We love ethnic touches, but there's a fine line between "just a touch" to suddenly a bit too "theme-y." This interior from a recent Vogue Living Australia is a great example of the balance between sta...

Look! Inspiring Inspiration Board

We look at hundreds of images every day, thousands every week, trying to find things to inspire, educate, or just entertain (we're definitely in need of a media fast like Laure recommended). But as st...

Pull-Out Ironing Board and Other Small Space Storage Ideas

If our kitchen area was a little roomier (or if we actually had a laundry room), we'd seriously consider installing one of these pull-out drawer ironing boards. What a great idea for space efficiency....

Neutral Bedroom

Obviously we here at ATLA tend towards using a lot of color in our homes. But when we came across this bedroom in another of the Chinese design mags we picked up, we thought neutral never looked so g...

Inspiration: Laure's Blue Lamp

Surfing through the archives of some of our House Tours, we noticed, while checking out our own Laure's tour of her old place, how many people had commented on her blue lamp. Well now a similar versi...

Inspiration: Oversized White Lacquer Coffee Tables

We love the look of a large white lacquer coffee table. While the one in this photo from Living, etc. is certainly pricey, Jonathan’s post yesterday, about using two end tables as a coffee table,...

Summer Style at West Elm

We rounded up our favorite outdoor lighting a while ago before West Elm released their new lanterns for summer. Along with some other new pieces, we're getting impatient for summer. ...

Tile Vault: Color Block Mural

What: United International Arrivals Terminal Where: LAX When: Photo taken on April 14th at 10:23am Why: The seriously retro pattern and intense color helped welcome us back to California. We loved t...

Look: Collapsible Bed With Tubular Grid

Nicola From Bern's prototype adjustable and collapsible Delta Bed has us daydreaming about getting our hands on some wood working tools and some thick plastic piping from Home Depot to make our own ve...

Inspiration: Friday Night Spa in Your Bathroom

Friday night. With our many commitments, it's the end of a very very long work week. Sometimes, of course, we wind down over dinner with friends. But we're just as happy when they cancel and we can pa...

Using Chinese Elements: Wisteria Living

We've been thinking about how the Chinese Decor we saw on vacation could get incorporated into our home. With a look at Turquoise's Chinoiserie Meets the Beach we're definitely getting inspired. We ...

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...

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