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8 Ways To Get Your Home Ready For Fall

Since the seasons have turned, consider getting your home ready for Fall and getting inspired for Apartment Therapy's 2009 Room For Color contest that is starting today! Check out 8 ways to welcome in...

Making A List Captures Home Priorities

We posted about April and Keith's tiny house build a few weeks ago and through their story, they expressed the main reasons for why and how they chose their tiny house direction. A list of priorities...

Space For Packing. Space for Storing.

We watch them, we love them, we want to pick up the phone and call. Yes, we are talking about space bags. The infomercial really makes these storage bags seem like a practical and efficient way to pac...

Roundup: Spring Cleaning Inspiration

The flowers are blooming all over Los Angeles and the weekend is here to do some serious spring cleaning. We are getting ready with a roundup of Apartment Therapy's best spring cleaning ideas and insp...

Flickr Find: Open Shelves In The Kitchen

We love the look of open shelves in the kitchen and enjoy the staged versions in design magazines. When we spotted this real life kitchen with open shelves we wanted to share it with you. We especiall...

Storing Kitchen Utensils
Drawer or Container?

We enjoyed dinner at a friend's house recently and noticed that she kept all of her kitchen utensils in a drawer next to her sink. She described this as her "easy access" drawer. We mentioned that we ...

Highlight What You Don't Have In Your Home

We certainly are among the "sad to see you go" Domino magazine readers and enjoyed the last issue. One of our favorite pieces highlighted the idea of "celebrating what you don't have". Since homes and...

Look: Neat Bike Storage Solution!
Austin

Sure, bicycling is a fun and earth-friendly way to get around. But if you have to store your bike inside your apartment for one reason another, they can begin to take over your place if your home is...

Your Home Is In Your Control!

Feeling overwhelmed in your own home is not uncommon. Sometimes life just seems to pile up - working late, no time to do laundry, the stack of bills to go through, having to clean the bathroom, etc. W...

13 Home-Staging Ideas
That Really Can Work In Your Own Home

[Tip #4: Float Your Furniture] We always feel inspired when we check out open houses and model homes. The decor (although not always our own personal style) is perfectly in place as if it was born to ...

10 Tips For Relaxing At Home
Better Homes & Gardens

Like Abby, we also spent some time relaxing at home this weekend. If you enjoy spending time at home or simply want to create a sanctuary in your space, check out these 10 tips to help relaxing at hom...

Expert Tips & Ideas At The Container Store

Whenever we are in The Container Store, we feel a sense of calm within the aisles of products, items and more products. Maybe it's because the stores are so organized? Or maybe it's the hope that afte...

Good Questions: Where to Find Petite Hangers?

AT reader Jen writes in with this closet organization question we're hoping someone out there might have experience with: "Where can I find inexpensive 14" hangers? I'm running out of hangers in my ...

ATLA Survey: Where Do You Do Laundry?

This convenient washer-turn-dryer was designed to fit perfectly in this kitchen layout. All renters have one thing in common above all - dealing with where to do laundry. Either having a washer and d...

Flickr Finds: Colorized Bookcase

We've posted before about organizing books by color and it's always inspiring to see this idea shared by our Apartment Therapy community. Chez posted this very organized-by-color bookcase in the Apart...

Mission Accomplished: The Closet Library

Certainly the biggest guilty secret in our apartment has been the state of our walk-in closet, where things went in, but seemed to rarely depart. But thanks to a few yard sales, following some of our ...

Round-up: Toothpaste dispensers

MC's low tech versionWe hate waste of any kind. We take doggie bags from restaurants, we rework our clothing into new things, we reupholster, refinish and recycle. Making sure we get all the toothpa...

How Do You Kick Off Spring Cleaning?

We wait for the weekend, then throw the windows open, turn on some music and start from the top down. ...

Look! CD Shelf Unit via Living Etc.

Once you’ve uploaded all of your CDs to your computer and carted them off, as many of the Curees are doing this week, you’re left with a lot of empty cd “furniture.” While you will want to ge...

Are You Ready for an Emergency?

The last few days have been beautiful, haven't they? When the weather in Los Angeles is beautiful, there's nothing like it. But we know, living in an earthquake zone, that disaster can strike when w...

Look! Glass Medical Jars for the Bathroom

While sitting in our doctor's office today, we were reminded of how much we love these glass jars used for holding medical supplies. Simple, functional, utilitarian, they easily make the transition i...

Taming The Mail Mountain

We receive an overwhelming amount of snail mail. Still. Dealing with it is one of our least favorite tasks. Here are some ways we've discovered to make it less painful. What we learned after the ...

Nigella Appetizer Bowls for Jewelry

Most of our jewelry is stored away in mismatched little boxes in a drawer underneath the sink. The result is that we only end up wearing the couple of things that are displayed in little bowls that s...

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