Tag: before & after | Apartment Therapy

Romantic and Modern Bedroom With a Classic Twist

We love how this bedroom feels "grown-up" without seeming stuffy or overdone. All of the elements came together to make for a stunning bedroom. Basically, we've kinda fallen for the space--let's b...

Before & After: From Carriage Seat to Entryway Bench

We love Grace's enthusiasm for all things vintage. While busy running an amazing blog of her own, Poetic Home, she also manages to find amazing pieces to transform. Take for instance, this carriage ...

Before & After: Cate's Colorful Home Office

The perfect spot for books, baskets and all things that need to be organized, built-ins are an added bonus to any home. We love the way they help anchor a room and can be painted to add a playful d...

Cover Instead Of Reupholster

We see a lot of brilliant before and afters of reupholstered chairs on Apartment Therapy. However, reupholstering isn’t always the answer! Sewing some slip covers is not only a cheap and easy altern...

From Blah To Brilliant: A Colorful Entryway

An important step of Apartment Therapy's Home Cure is to create a functional and inspiring landing strip. And while your landing strip can be found in alternate rooms, we usually spot them in a home...

Before & After: Living Room Rearranged

With Fall just around the corner, we've noticed that we're itching to change up our home decor. Not really having the budget (or the time) to shop for anything new, we've been contemplating a season...

Before & After: Alice's Hand Painted Wood Trunk

We love a sturdy wood trunk for storing blankets, bedding and seasonal clothes. They also double up as a coffee table or a landing zone in the entryway or bedroom. We're used to seeing the standard...

Before & After: Olga's Green Stripe

It's no secret that our favorite way to transform a space is with paint. We've made over our friends homes here and here--and of course overhauled our own apartment here. So when we spotted Olga's b...

Before & After: Claire's Repurposed Spice Rack

We recognize that there are some instances where wood furniture should stay as is. But in Claire's case, a coat of shiny white paint transforms her spice rack into a beauty......

Sasha's Easy Bathroom Makeover

Sasha's powder room initially had powder blue walls to match the light blue, textured wallpaper behind the sink. But a recent shopping trip at Home Depot uncovered a roll of red damask wallpaper--on...

Before & After: Erica's Open Shelving

We've always prided ourselves on being able to see the potential in any space (even when we faced a dreaded make-shift stage with a disco ball hanging in the corner of the room). One of our go-to mov...

Before & After: Viv’s Studio Makeover
Sydney

We’ve loved watching the progress of Viv’s studio on her blog Ish & Chi. Over the past few months Viv has been keeping us updated with handfuls of projects she's been hard at work on and we were e...

Before & After: Becca's Inspiring Table Lamp and Chairs

Recently, we've been thinking about revamping our bar stools and living room chairs. Because we've been spotting a lot of great "before & after" projects--it's starting to give us the itch to DIY our...

House Tour Update: Sara Lov's Los Feliz Charmer Gets A Bamboo Bar

We first met Sara when we took pics for her house tour (if you missed it, check it out here). We quickly discovered that Sara had a talent for home projects. We were most impressed with her front ya...

Before & After: Torie Jayne's Transformed Shed

Torie Jayne shows us that the decorating department can extend to the often-overlooked outdoor shed. With a few simple steps, she takes a passable wood shed and makes it quite attractive... ...

Before & After Patio: Jessica's Colorful Upgrade

Sometimes it's as simple as a can of spray paint and a few new cushions. Jessica (of Noël Marie) needed a quick an easy update for her pad's recent House Tour so she incorporated items she already o...

Before & After: Claire's Updated CD Cabinet

We found Claire's updated CD case on her blog, Needle Book and had to take a closer look. She mentions that when she initially bought the cabinet, she had grand ideas of wanting to add fabric (but ha...

Before & After: Kristine & Will’s Sitting Room
Melbourne

This before and after was worth the 5 year wait for owners Kristine and Will. The sitting room of this Melbourne home went from dark and dull to bright and glamorous, see how below the jump… ...

Before and After: Dry Spell Gardening
Australia

Our garden is looking mighty sad after the incredibly dry and hot summer Victoria has experienced this year. With water restrictions firmly in place, watering every day was off limits so we could onl...

Before & After: 1940’s Rocker Chair
Perth

The weekend is so close and all this Spring weather we’re having in Australia is making us feel alive again after shivering through Winter. Di over at The Cut Cloth has added to our motivation to st...