Tag: Family | Apartment Therapy

Make Your Own Message Center

Although most families these days have many of the members texting away, consider setting up a dedicated message center at home to keep all of your schedules in order. We love this version that was...

The Cutest Photo Booth Idea to Steal

Of all the things we've seen today, nothing brought a smile to our face like this photo booth made from a spare sheet of plywood with cutouts, some wallpaper, ornate/vintage picture frames and some ...

Design Star, The Final Challenge

Design Star concluded last night with the final challenge, pitting Antonio and Dan against each other to become the next host of HGTV. The 4-day challenge had each designer making over an entire hou...

Apartment Living In The City

It's sometimes loud, it's hard to find street parking, it's often a too close for comfort vibe - it's apartment living in the city. A span of sometimes just 10 feet between apartment buildings is com...

How Has Your Childhood Home Influenced Your Design?

[We've always had a thing for stripes and we have an idea of why....] We were inspired by our post yesterday about using family heirlooms in every day life (by the way we still don't know the name of ...

Holiday Season: What really makes you smile?
Melbourne

Our family’s Christmas lunch is a case of too many cooks somehow not spoiling the broth, and with 21 people coming, this year is going to be a big one. As we all converge at our grandparents house,...

The Gratitude Box
A Heartfelt Gift Idea This Holiday Season

In recent years, I have found that giving material gifts to my family has become somewhat challenging. What to get and how much to spend? Do they really need that? How do I make this special for them?...

How To Be Generous With Family
Without Spending A Dime

Many people are taking this holiday season as an opportunity to focus on giving things other than packaged gifts. Cash is tight for a lot of people and the financial crisis has awakened many of us to...

Both Sides Now: Empty Nest Syndrome

How close do you live to your parents? Your kids? A friend of ours just moved back to LA due to a job offer, but is wary about being only ten minutes away from his mother who has a tendency to hover. ...

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...

Tile Vault: French Encaustic Tiles

My grandmother recently moved from her apartment in Paris to a house in the countryside where she can grow old in a bit more comfort. I'm visiting now and I'm in heaven. The house is filled with inc...

Remembering Family and Home

The 4th of July weekend is always a bittersweet affair in my life. While there are plenty of wonderful memories of holiday barbecues and gatherings spent at home with the family, it also marks the wee...

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...

Inherited Clutter

Yes, half of this is at our house nowAs we begin the Cure, we're faced with all this stuff in our homes. Even if we've put the apartment on a diet it can still be emotionally taxing to sort through w...