Apartment Therapy Tagged: Decorating

4 Decorating Questions We Sometimes Forget

Most of us decorate our home without a plan. We've always wanted that couch, this chair's from our first apartment, we inherited that lamp from our grandmother. Then we put them all together and won...

The Colorphobe's Guide To Color Without Commitment

throw pillows, colorful accessories and painting the door jamb are easy ways of bringing color into your home. If you're looking at the entries for the Fall Colors contest, and thinking, "Yeah, they ...

Affordable Decorating: Doilies

One of the things we like to do is to switch things around, whether it's mixing up arrangements or making new pillows, it keeps the apartment feeling alive and fun. Although we aren't going to embark...

Homestrology: Look To The Stars For Your Decorating Style

Does a Libran decorate differently than a Scorpio? What about a Capricorn? Or a Virgo, a Gemini or a Leo?......

Decorating with Your 5 Senses

Often we forget, when decorating, that an appealing space is not only one which appeals to your visual sense but to your other four senses as well. The senses of touch, smell, sound and even taste, a...

Do You Have Your Parent's Decorating Habits?

Earlier today we blogged rethinking our dining room. When we moved into our home, we set up the rooms to function as they were designed to function. Into the dining room went a large table and chair...

Is There A Place For a Formal Dining Room In a Modern Home?

Recently, a book we've been reading about the evolution of the idea of home has us questioning the idea of a formal dining room in our home. Then, as these things go, poking around the Domino website...

FIt Your Home to Your Life, Not Your Life to Your Home

This weekend, we visited a friend's house for the first time. She's frustrated by her space. It's uncomfortable, it doesn't work, she doesn't like it. We've heard the same complaints from many of o...

Make Your Own Inspiration Board: Decorating's First Step

Lindsey Dann, whose apartment we house toured a few months back, creates beautiful inspiration boards for her clients. They're meticulous collages that wouldn't look out of place hung on the wall......

How To: Mix It Up

Yesterday, we asked ...

What's the Mix in Your Home?

We read the lead feature in this past weekend's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section, about the movement of antique stores from brick and mortar shops to online sites, with interest. Growing up, o...

Vacation at Home: Decorate for a Party

Sometimes all it takes to break out of the doldrums of everyday life is to, well, break out and do something different, something fun! Well, when we saw this picture we knew we wanted to make some ga...

Lessons from A Shabby Chic Redux

We went through our Shabby Chic period -- couches covered in billowing white sheets, paint chipped tables displaying shell-encrusted knickknacks, flower paintings -- and we would've said that we have ...

Good Questions: What Kind Of Chairs Go With This Leather Couch?

Victor writes: I'm slowly getting my apartment in shape. The couch was given to me by a friend, the coffee table and rug are from Crate and Barrel. Now I need to replace the chairs. What style? Wh...

Marcel Wanders Chandelier Showerhead

Looking to add a little glamour to your morning shower? How about Marcel Wanders Chandelier Showerhead for The Mondrian South Beach Hotel?...

Look! Purple Walls

As the Curees start to work with colour this week, they may be tempted to stick with white walls. But as our color contests have shown, color can not only be fun to look at but it can be great to liv...

LA Good Question: How Do We Make Our Living Room Less Blah?

Simon and Linda have a good question about making the most of the living room area in their new apartment: So we're very excited about our new apartment and our new couch and chair from The Sofa Com...

DIY: Make A Simple Throw

We love a throw: to add a little color to our living room, to keep us warm on the still chilly evenings when our heat is enthusiastic but ineffective, to cozy up under when we're watching our Netflix....

Look! Vera

Have you checked out the pictures of Lindsay Lohan in New York Magazine yet? In the shots of Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern that inspired them, the blonde bombshell hides coyly behind her sheer Vera sca...

Blogging...House Beautiful Feb. '08: 101 Decorating Makeovers

In keeping with the series they've been having (101 pillows, 101 plates, etc...), the February 2008 issue of House Beautiful has 101 Decorating Makeovers! It's a list of 101 ideas for quick small cha...

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