Apartment Therapy Tagged: tips

What Makes For A Qualified Renter

Since big cities often have a rush on newly vacant apartments, separate yourself from other applicants by being a qualified renter. Follow these tips to show your potential new landlord that you are t...

The Right Height For Your Television

We've been house sitting for friends this week and while we're loving the beach breeze, we aren't so sure about the height of their television, mounted high above the fireplace mantle. We wanted to as...

Motivation For Organizing

In the Professional Organizing business, we often get frantic phone calls from clients who need organizing help ASAP. Unfortunately, because of time or money restrictions, a portion of folks aren't a...

Creating Extra Storage vs. Getting Rid of Stuff

It seems life around the house is a constant balancing act between deciding to limit how much comes into the house (in addition to thinning out what's here) and deciding on a piece of furniture that c...

Best Tips For Traveling With Pets

So you've just decided to take your pet with you on vacation. And while the little guy does well on trips to the dog park, you'd like to be as prepared as possible to make the journey comfy. We spea...

Travel Tips: Doing Research Before Going Abroad

It's T-minus 5 days until I head off to London for fourteen days straight of music, music, and more music...with some blogging in between. But before I go leaving on a jet plane, there are a few thin...

Bad Habits To Break At Home

No joke, this is how the credenza was left after popping in a dvd for us to watch. A little blurry from laughing. Although it's been many years of living together, I still can't get over when Boy my ...

Simple Tips to Make Over Your Garden

If you're looking at your backyard in despair, take heart: Sometimes, it's the little things that can make a difference. We've rounded up a few simple, budget-friendly tips that can help enliven your ...

10 Useful Links For The Long Weekend

Ahhh, a long weekend. So many possibilities. Maybe you'll be hitting the beach, or tackling a project you've been meaning to get to. Will you have people over? Do a bit of gardening? Do nothing a...

10 Tips For Small Space Living

As we leave kitchen and bathroom month we'll be diving headfirst into our 5th Annual Smallest Coolest Contest and a month full of inspiration and tips for small spaces. Lots of people are choosing to...

10 Color Tips For Your Home via Farrow and Ball

We attended Westweek at the Pacific Design Center last week and had the pleasure of checking out a fabulous color consultation at the Dan Marty Design showroom for Farrow and Ball paint and wallpaper....

Gearing Up For Spring
Flower Suggestions For Your Home

The warm weather and blue skies of Spring provide the perfect opportunity for adding more color by way of outdoor flowers and plants outside your home. If you have ample garden space or a small patio,...

5 Tips to A Cozier Kitchen

There's nothing better than an intimate evening spent cozied up in the kitchen. Good food, great wine and flowing conversation amidst homey surroundings and we'll stay indoors every single time. 5 t...

5 Tips For A Well Designed Home

Yesterday we posted about David Jimenez's stylish Palm Springs Getaway and how to apply his style to a small space. We noticed in a past interview with him that he listed the 5 things a well designed...

5 Tips for Making Your Bathroom Your Sanctuary
On the Cheap

When we first saw Matt's bathroom we oohed and awed over how clean, bright and spa-like it felt. We want a bathroom like that, we thought. We'd be so relaxed if we had one like that. We've been wor...

Forgetting Items When You Leave The House?
Tips to Help You Remember

At a networking meeting yesterday, the speaker forgot their notes for the presentation she was about to give. We immediately felt the stress and anxiety they were feeling (in the past we've been know...

7 Tips to Liven Up The Entryway

If your entryway has been looking a bit blah to you lately, why not make it a February Jumpstart project? We've compiled seven tips that can liven up your entryway woes. Take a look after the jump! ...

Tips To Shed Your Magazine Collection
And How To Organize the Rest

When Domino recently closed its doors forever (huge sob) our knee-jerk reaction was to go out and collect the magazine's entire four year run. We have since reconsidered and have gone online to downl...

3 Easy Ways To Add Texture To a Room

A quick and easy way to make a room visually interesting is to add texture. There are plenty of ways you can add texture to a room but as a renter, we need simple solutions that can travel with us wh...

Organizing Tip: Create Zones In Your Home

Lack of space planning can cause any organizing endeavor to head south. Your space requires specific zones (which essentially means grouping items together that serve a particular purpose). We've go...

Bargain Hunting & Deal Making
Tips For Researching & Getting A Great Deal

For all of you Apartment Therapy readers living in or near warmer weather, go out bargain hunting at local yard sales and flea markets. We recently checked out the Rose Bowl flea market that sets up s...

Stuck In A Decorating Rut?
Tips For Overcoming Decorating Paralysis

Designing your own space can feel super overwhelming. Although there are small space solutions and great design tips out there, it's easy to simply give up on what feels like a huge task. We have a fr...

11 Tips for Slowing Down

Going on vacation can be an automatic slow down. And even though a lot of us are about to take some time off, this week can be hectic with last minute details to take care of. We've been busy finish...

How To: Create A Dramatic Focal Point
Tips From Behr Paint

Do you have a room in your apartment that just doesn't feel right? You've tried painting or adding new fabric or even changed out the art on the wall and the space still reads blah. It might just be...

Your Car As An Extension of Your Home

We lead a relatively organized life in our home. Containers are labeled, items have a place to land and we have systems for keeping everything in order. Because our car acts like a much smaller vers...

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