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Have you been following the Color Contest this year? The Eastern region's entries have been spread among our three Eastern city sites: New York, Boston and Washington DC. We're shaking up the format...
East Village Amy has taken over our new Flickr pool! Here's one of her inspiration pics: "I love all the white with just bits of serene colors."
• Cure Clock: 59 days Remaining
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Fall 2008, from left to right: Y3, Peter Jensen, DSquared
This Fall's runway shows were uniformly heavy on tartans (check out style.com for more images), and it's starting to spread (see Kristen's t...
I would love to know where I can find a clock that is similar to the cool retro one shown in this photo from The Selby. Do AT readers have any ideas or suggested substitutes? Thanks! Nicole
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We asked our favorite plant store, Sprout Home, to try a little experiment with us. We wanted to see what the same plant looks like in different containers. They helped us pick a plant that thrives ...
We love to see contestants from Apartment Therapy contests featured in more traditional shelter media. Our East Regional finalist and overall Third Place winner, Luca Andrisani (of East #3: Luca's S...
I am looking for a big ball of thick nautical rope that I saw in Domino Magazine and can't find the picture now.. It can be used as extra seating or an ottoman, and is really just rope with a rope ...
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Name: Gina
Location: New York, NY
Type of Home: Sublet apartment in an old converted school building.
What inspired you to use color? When I was a kid, I didn’t draw a...
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Nathaniel Bisson shared his home with the AT Offline crowd at at last week's meetup.
We first met Nathaniel when he entered and won last year's Fall Colors Contest......
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Name: James
Location: Asbury Park, NJ
Type of Home: owned condo
What inspired you to use color? This place needed to be a total opposite of the rich, warm and deep palat...
Dorothy, we're not in Ikea anymore. When I just out of college, my mother gave me a beautiful little votive candle holder from a place called Design House Stockholm. It came with a note explaining...
Bench, anyone? Gerard in Tribeca is moving out today and motivated to sell his Nelson Platform Bench, so it could be a great time to pick up this versatile piece (sitting area, coffee table, makeshif...
Yesterday's Home section of The New York Times, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne showed off his one-of-a-kind home in Oklahoma City. A funky and eclectic mix of colors and materials the home captur...
It's Colors Month!
(Image: Flickr member threedots licensed under Creative Commons) (To All New York Open Threads)...
Pieke Bergmans' series of one-of-a-kind crystal LED lamps for Royal Leerdam Crystal and Solid Lighting are what the designer calls "light blubs." And what exactly is a light blub? ...
Sofas, rugs and artwork are some of the toughest challenges when furnishing an apartment. Art:asap is one-stop-shopping at trade prices for a range of art services, including art consultations, deve...
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My kitchen fireplace - brushed stainless steel mosaic tiles. Although the kitchen isn't quite finished, I couldn't resist posting a photo of this fireplace. The mosaic tiles on the hearth are bru...
We wanted to share our new eBay purchase. It holds some resonance in the current economy. Check out what's inside......
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Name: Randi in BK
Location: Brooklyn Heights, NY
Type of Home: 1 BR apt
What inspired you to use color? Life as a renter in New York City has made quite an impact on my ...
Lover's Leap, 2007. Multicolor wood block print. 47" x 47", ed. of 25
So here it is, fall has come and the Cure has begun, and it’s high time to cull the stack of magazines being “saved” for ...
An email we received yesterday alerted us to the existence of MyDeco.com, and it took all of five minutes for us to become completely obsessed.
Based in the UK, MyDeco bills itself as "a furniture...
Dear AT folks, I guess I'm writing with a plea for help! I recently moved into an apartment with HUGE ceilings (14 feet+) and I have no idea what to do for my window/door treatment. Curtains that a...
Items: One Autographed Amy Butler's Midwest Modern LifestyleMidwestern Modern by Amy Butler and One Handmade ModernHandmade Modern by Todd Oldham
Value: $35 & $20
>> 12 Page Gallery: Peek into bot...
Space age cool, or just another piece of unnecessary plastic? What do you think of this futuristic recycling center?Over at Re-nest, we're continuing our Creative Reuse series with a retro-themed cra...
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Name: Jo
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type of Home: 1920's rowhouse
What inspired you to use color? Prior to this house, my husband and I had been living in rentals with w...
I love the Festival settee from Designers Guild but there's no way I could go to London and haul one back. They currently have no distributors in the US. Does anyone know of something similar?
(No...
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Name: Zee & John
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Type of Home: 2-bedroom 1930s terraced house
What inspired you to use color? We didn’t consciously decide to create a co...
We love this idea! Designer Cristina Toledo has created a barnacle-like storage system that takes advantage of the often-overlooked corners of a room...
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'Wall Street Crash Sale' at Deeply Madly Living
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These Danish Modern End Tables may or may not be original mid-century (the seller is unsure), but either way they have an interesting shape and look to them. Throw some lamps on 'em and they'd make a...
Item: 20 Copies of The 8 Step Home Cure, autographed to you!
Author: Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Value: Priceless
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>> Enter Kate's Gallery
Kate Smith, of Sensational Color, was our third and final expert color panelist at last week's meetup Kate is a professional color consultant. She has that rare and utte...
It's always amusing to see how fashion and home decor echo and play off one another. Fashion magazines and department store catalogs are full of tartan prints this season and in addition to the usual ...
What's a flammeküeche? Well, it involves bacon, crème fraîche, and a hot oven. It's also utterly delicious. See the recipe and more about this Alsatian dish at The Kitchn.
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Lighting that really = form + function. Most famous for their Tizio lamp that you have (undoubtedly) seen everywhere, we have bought countless numbers of our favorite, the Tolomeo, for clients and ...
As is often the case, I'm in love with this ottoman from Buck House, but not in love with its $3200 price tag. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find something similar? Or, how I could go abo...
Bernini, one of the companies represented at the Living Home in Soho
Art & Design Events...
AT Events:
• October is Color Month!
• Our Fall Colors Contest is underway.
- See All Eve...
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It's here! After an initial launch nearly five years ago as a catalog, Williams-Sonoma Home is opening their first store in New York City, on Friday October 10th. ...
"Tuwallu", 2008, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 52.5 x 60 inches
Stumbling around the internet last night looking for film stills of interiors, we came across the art of Minnesota based Amanda Smith and...
Hello, I am in the midst of renovating my small 6 x 8 NY bathroom and have a quick question.. Is there a standard width a bathroom light fixture should be relative to the mirror/vanity width? If so ...
>> Enter Mark's Gallery
Mark Chamberlain, artist and house painter extraordinaire, was our second presenter at last week's meetup and boy does he have a way with color! Whereas Gideon prefers a...
Take a peek at this sunny playhouse made largely from recycled materials and decorated with the help of a three-year-old flea market lover.
There's lots of inspiration for all ages at Ohdeedoh: ...
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Name: Vanja
Location: Croatia
Type of Home: 2 rooms apartment
What inspired you to use color? warmth, joy, happiness, love, enjoyment..
Color Tip: It is always possible ...
The lobby of our building in Brooklyn occasionally serves as a sort of free bin, with stacks of old records and pieces of furniture (what's up with all the alarm clocks, guys?) piled in the corner. ...
The room divider keeps coming up--in the form of a bookcase, a screen or a huge wonderful piece of fabric. Axel and Sylvia have a home that morphs into a gallery space at times. To achieve the smoot...
Thomas Paul, Unison & Loolo
During Fall Colors Month (see all our entries here), many readers are learning that one of the best ways to experiment and add color without painting or spending a lot mon...
• What: AT Offline Design Meetup (info and signup here)
• Members: 736
Last Thursday we hosted our 16th meetup on the night of the Vice Presidential debate. While we lost a few people to...
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Name: Becky
Location: UWS, New York City
Type of Home: prewar apt
What inspired you to use color? We liked the idea of imbuing a fairly traditional prewar apartment with...
This is an amazing-looking Mid Century Modern Rosewood Desk. Granted, the price does seem steep to us, but it's apparently in great condition and would likely last for years to come if properly cared...
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Name: Neeta
Location: New York, NY
Type of Home: 1 Bedroom Apartment
What inspired you to use color? Color is an avenue of expression for me to make my living space my s...
Marie Claire Maison, Elle Décoration and Côté Maison -- the online versions of some of France's top shelter magazines -- have recently launched house tour features with photos sent in by readers th...
Are your pots and pans stacked in tangled jumbles? Do you have a hard time retrieving saucepans and matching lids? We're curious about this organizer that promises to change that; it packs nearly all ...
One can always decorate with maps. Antique maps have a depth of interest and beauty of texture that isn't found in anything else. We were reminded how much we love maps by this Swiss Miss' Strange M...
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Name: Brett
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Type of Home: Studio apartment
What inspired you to use color? Moving back to Brooklyn after spending a year in Oakland, I found a sma...
Left: "Chair-chair Pad" by Chenhhui Su; Right: Detail from Monique and Richard's SF apartment
There's been some discussion recently about the pros and cons of working with photocopies and facsimile...
Hi, I am desperately looking for a similar table. I saw ones like this in England and in Hong Kong. Would any one know where to get a similar one-piece glass table in North America? Cheers, Sarah
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We thought we'd highlight one of our favorite sources for vintage accessories, the online shop Three Potato Four......
What would you do if you had 3 million records? For one, you would have a collection appraised at approximately 50 million dollars, but you would also have a bit of a storage issue. Click on over to ...
Enter Gideon's Gallery
Gideon Gelber, architect was our first presenter at last thursday's AT Offline. Gideon, in addition to being an incredibly talented designer, is a person obsessed with colo...
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Name: Emily & Andrew
Location: Hamburg, NJ
Type of Home: rental apartment
What inspired you to use color? The true inspiration to use color came from the colors of the t...
Hi there! Our long awaited kitchen remodel is set to begin in a couple of weeks and we still haven’t figured out what to do about countertops! We’re leaning towards soapstone, but it looks like ma...
Looking at the recent photos of Chase Cohl's SoHo loft on theselby.com, it's hard to believe her home exists outside of California, let alone in downtown Manhattan. The bright, airy space is a homag...
Last week Two weeks ago I spent most of Monday in Victoria Smith's apartment in San Francisco (you can see the video clip we did for the local television show here). Besides having a stunning apartm...
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Name: Carol
Location: Astoria, NY
Type of Home: rental apt.
What inspired you to use color? Design blogs like Apartment Therapy, SFgirlbybay, Design*Sponge; and magazine...
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Name: Magenta
Brand:Benjamin Moore 2077-10
“DEAR COLOR THERAPY: I love your articles on Apartment Therapy. I have an alcove studio in Manhattan and want to paint the wa...
We got a tip from reader Sue who wanted to show off her shelving system: I live in a brooklyn apartment and wanted to set up book shelving with a work space without spending a ton or using pre-fab S...
Welcome to October and the official launch of Colors Month!
(Image: Skye Textile Collection from Barber Osgerby) (To All New York Open Threads)...
Genuine Fake Bookshelves wallpaper by Deborah Bowness and available at The Collection fooled me the first time I saw it a few years back at the Christian Lacroix-designed Hotel du Petit Moulin in th...
We've been reviewing our favorite cheap (but still good) IKEA kitchen tools. See what we have so far!
• Click here to read full post: Roundup: Best of IKEA For the Kitchen...
Shopping at Apartment 48 is like visiting the home of a good friend. The small shop is broken up into rooms and is furnished as if someone lived there. The selection of goods is varied and thoughtf...
A number of years ago Martha Stewart had a catalog, which sold some pretty cool stuff. I bought a fair amount from it both for myself and for clients, and missed it when it shut down. One of the be...
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This is a great DS sneak peek.
- Tory
Origin: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/sneak-peek-tonya-and-mike-sutfin.html
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The Irish are on the rise! But seriously, I am a sucker for the soft colors and the painted runner on the staircase.
- Christopher
Origin: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/fall-colors-2008-ea...
Over the weekend, we finally got a chance to sit down with Domino's new book, the aptly titled Domino: The Book Of Decorating, due out October 14th. Our thoughts and more photos after the jump!...
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Name: Kelley
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Type of Home: apartment
What inspired you to use color? Military housing tends to be boring white boxes and everyone has the s...
Any idea what the fiberglass-looking chair on the right is?
(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: new...
Yesterday, we checked out the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene. The Brooklyn Flea has always been a bit more of curated Flea endeavor. This weekend we were pleased to find that the Flea organizers decid...
Like everyone else, we're paring back at Re-nest, looking for ways to use what we already have more beautifully and spend less on energy. We've spotted an ingenious way to make a shelf unit out of us...
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Name: Sary
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type of Home: row home
What inspired you to use color? Having lived in either college dorms or rentals my entire adult life, I was ...
Where can I get this bed that appeared in Alysia and David's House Tour?
(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject...
Great opening shot from Brave Little Soul, who says: "Oldish IKEA desk found on craigslist. I love it. The picture is .59 clearance wrapping paper from Old Navy. :) "
• Cure Clock: 9 Weeks Remai...
A classic decorator's trick is to cover the key pieces in a room using only one pattern. These photos from Desire To Inspire caught our eye this morning, with their exclusive use of just one bold pr...
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Name: Josh Takano Chambers-Letson
Location: Harlem, NYC
Type of Home: Teeny-tiny pre-war walk up rental apartment
What inspired you to use color? Living in a small Harle...
Name: Paul and Yessy
Location: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (above a laundromat)
Size: 900 sqft, 1.5 bdrm rental
My/Our style: comfortably cluttered
>>Enter Housetour Gallery
When I walked into...
If you're a fan of British indie rock, you may want to grab this Screen Print Libertines poster. It's currently out of print, and this one has been professionally framed. So, even if you're not a Li...
Over the weekend, The New York Times' real estate magazine Key featured the L-shaped stackable home designs of Swiss architect Hans Zwimpfer. The concept, named Pile Up attempts to merge the "comfor...
Turn any old four-legged chair into a rocking chair with these clever "chair skis" from Paris-based designer Marie Thurnauer......
The Flavour Shaker is a nifty little device from Jamie Oliver. He shakes up dressings and pulverizes spices with it. Have you tried the Flavour Shaker? What do you think - helpful or unnecessary?
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Damien Hirst: Beautiful, Galactic, Exploding Screenprint , 2001
A premier online source for limited-edition works by well known contemporary artists, Eyestorm aims to make artwork more available and...
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roomlovr loves cute messy home offices (and this swedishky blog too)
- roomlovr
Origin: http://emmas.blogg.se/2008/october/saturday-sweets-1.html
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What: Metal Produce Bins
Designer: anon
Picked By: Maxwell
Who Says: I saw these produce bins in the window of Paula Rubenstein and went in for the info. They have a bunch and people have been b...
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What: Twist modular storage system
Designer: Dylan Gold
Picked By: Lorrie from MyDesignSecrets.com
Who Says: I am an interior designer and recently was introduced to the work of Dylan Gold and C...
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