apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

These lovely works on paper come from Jackson Heights artist, Nina Max Daly. Working in gouache, collage, or pencil, Nina captures a delightful sense of whimsy in her thoughtful use of negative space, scale, and a rich yet restrained color palette...

Words cannot express how much we love fall in New England. For a precious few, glorious weeks, leaves of fiery red, burnt orange, and golden yellow filter light from above and blanket the earth below. We wanted to capture the color inspiration with a roundup and instantly thought of bedding...

We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary but our physical belongings had a 6 month jump on the actual marriage — slowly merging and flexing two former Small Cool Entries into a new state of marital bliss...

On our search to find a Nantucket whale to take home with us, we stumbled upon this shop where the owner was displaying reclaimed wood trunks he builds on top of makeshift antique stove bases. We think with the right top paired with a nice vintage base it could make a wonderful unique coffee table...

Hannah Wilmot takes reupholstery to a new and refreshing realm with full-on narrative illustration of Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant"...

Ever see that Sarah Jessica Parker movie, If Lucy Fell, where she and her roommate had a giant, painted calendar on their apartment wall and would prime over and re-paint the whole thing on the first of every month? Smaller scale and a lot less labor intensive, these magnets still make a pretty creative calendar...

The pinkcomma gallery is presenting twenty-five designs from Hometta, a new company that has commissioned emerging practices from across the country to produce small, sustainable, contemporary home designs. We're not sure how to pronounce the name (home-ta or home-etta?) but we really like the idea...

We came across the the firm of Elliott + Elliott Architecture in the 2009 AIA New England awards. Located in Blue Hill Maine the work inspired by the dramatic rocky Maine Coastline stood out to us for its modern sensibilities yet familiar New England feel...

In addition to a highly restrained color palette, there are several other decorating trends we noticed in downtown Nantucket: jaw-dropping amounts of hydrangeas and sculpted hedges dominate nearly every yard and almost everyone owns a Sperm Whale.

Devoted to improving the quality of the built environment in the region, AIA New England just published the 2009 Design Awards winners and there are some truly wonderful interior spaces in the bunch...

We just returned from a long weekend on Nantucket and, although the weather wasn't picture perfect everyday, were delighted to discover this island's wonderfully refined sense of color. Isolated pops of historic hues invigorate this cobblestone world of weathered cedar shingles...

Q: I'm currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and moved in to a very old house with great bones. It was built in 1857. The previous owner was very much into historical colors and such. I moved here from Toronto and from a very modern house and I'm desperately trying to make this old house modernized...

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Q: What color of paint do you suggest for our front door and steps? We just bought this house and want to break up the green a bit. The covered area extends to the right through another archway (which is hidden in the photo) into an uncovered patio and is currently unpainted concrete...

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We've seen the Bocci flush wall outlets before and we were very intrigued but they seemed to be missing all the different types of outlets you may need for your walls. This new system by Trufig seems to fill in the missing pieces with a large series of flush mounted options...