Tag: lavender | Apartment Therapy

5 Fragrant Plants for a Small Space

When I visited my mom this weekend she put me to work 'dead-heading' her lavender. As I trimmed away the dead blossoms the smell of lavender surrounded me and attracted quite a few bees. It reminded...

How To: Make Your Own Liquid Hand Soap

We love us some fancy soap but at $20 a bottle sometimes it's better to be a bit frugal. We've been known to reuse the bottles we love by refilling them with a concoction of our own:...

Look! Painting A Section of the Wall

If you've been thinking about painting your fireplace, consider this option: paint the fireplace and the wall right up to the molding. It gives the room a bit of dimension and a definite focal point....

Look! Lavender(ish) Room

We spotted this photo in a feature that Desire to Inspire posted spotlighting Luis Albuquerque's still life photography....and we say: forget the Eames chair and textile pillows--what is THAT paint co...

Travel Essential: 4 Uses for Lavender

Traveling is exciting, packing a small bag makes it better, and having that bag smell good when you get there is sublime:...

Trader Joe’s Lavender Dryer Bags

We’ve been meaning to blog these for a while but we wanted to try them out for ourselves first and see if they worked and our Trader Joe’s (apparently the most popular TJ’s in LA) has been out o...