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Our February Jumpstart Project winning entries will be announced next week. Your reader votes will determine the winner in each category but to help round out the voting on Apartment Therapy, we've...
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A reader sent in this fabulous DIY just moments ago — too late for an official entry in the February Jumpstart Project, but we felt it was definitely worth...
This beautiful Georgian-Federal style home in Sharon Springs, New York is the home of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge. According to The New York Times, the couple bought the 200-year-old home (wit...
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Title: Converting Plug-in Pendants to Custom Chandelier
Name: Bonnie McKernan
Time: A weekend
Cost: about $60
Bonnie used a grouping of inexpensive IKEA...
Hi AT ! I bought these great French chairs for almost nothing, and would like to reupholster them. The fabric not only doesn’t fit with my living room, but is very worn. I am having a hard time d...
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Apartment Therapy will be turning our focus to bathrooms and kitchens in March — and we had to jump the gun with this amazing bathroom of the Berkel family...
Okay, so you love your wallpaper so much that you want to match some other accents to it. Some pillows, upholstery, a rug... your body? That's what's shown here by body artist Emma Hack. Her Wallpap...
This Mod Apple Green Loveseat is cute and compact if you're really tight on space. See more picks below the jump!
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Hi, I am in love with this lamp that I saw on Velocity Art and Design's website. The picture is actually for Dwell Studio's "sketch" bedding, but I am looking for the lamp that they have in the pic...
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. 3r. Opened in 2004, 3r Living's Park Slope location has been keeping the 'hood (and the rest of us as well) well-stocked in the green department. The products that you’l...
Welcome to the AT:NY Open Thread! February is officially Do-It-Yourself Month. Give a Thumbs Up to your favorite reader-submitted projects! NYC & New York Metro Area readers, join us in the commen...
Spring is coming, and with it all sorts of new green and living things. Many cooks choose the color green for their kitchens, too - it's can be cheery or soothing, boldly modern or quietly vintage. Th...
Submissions are closed, but take a gander at all these amazing small projects completed recently and submitted this month! All info for Do it Now! our Small Project Contest is here.
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Introducing Jessica Baker who pulls copper and solar plate etchings, monotypes and monoprints on the etching press in her Clinton Hill studio. In the works we a...
We love the variety of ideas for creating lighting fixtures from branches that have been cropping up on AT. The chandelier above is from the Moormann Berge hotel in Denmark and could be easily repli...
When we consciously make decisions each day to live a green lifestyle, it makes sense that our sensibilities would follow us to the grave. As some say (and heard the words at some point yesterday, may...
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Hello! I found this chair at an auction and thought I would like to reupholster it. It is a mustard yellow color with the Naugahyde fabric having a sort of grain...
As a resident of the East Village, I'm not sure why anyone would build a luxury doorman building on 7th Street between Avenues C & D — but apparently someone did and then Anil Shrivastava and Na...
Talk about building with nature instead of against it ... Check out this amazing home in Missouri. It was built in a natural cave with tons of green amenities, and now the owners might be forced to se...
Apartment Therapy, I need your help. While I was going through my old Domino magazine collection, I fell in love with a piece that would be perfect for my home. It's an accent chair that was from th...
When former New Yorker Courtney moved to Houston,Texas, she took her fashioned-honed aesthetic sensibility with her. She's since been reporting on her finds via the always stylish Inside the Loop. ...
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We recently posted the Pleats-Pleats sofa design that had us thinking of Janel's Macrame prediction — now that macrame is embedded in our subconscious, it'...
This 6-foot-long George Smith Sofa is all hand-made and has cushions stuffed with down. The fabric on this sofa is in fair condition, so it may need to be reupholstered, but we're told even tha...
When we attended the opening of Shigeru Ban's Furniture House in Sagaponac, construction was just-completed and no one had moved in. Now, a few years later, the Telegraph pays a visit to the home an...
I have four chairs I've had for a while that I love. I would like to know what kind of chairs are they, and who is the designer. I know it looks a bit like a Wassily chair but it's not. I actually l...
Tiny Living continues to work hard at building up a design base in the East Village. Dedicated to maximizing the potential of small apartments in the city, Tiny Living is all about living with and ...
The kitchen floor is one thing that seems obviously off-limits for re-do in a rental (or even an owned) kitchen. Cost and hassle are just too much for most people to even think of replacing an ugly fl...
Name: Roy, Jen and Gabriel (infant)
Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Size: 815 sqft. 2-bdrm co-op
Years lived in: 4
>> Enter Jen and Roy's Gallery!
Jen and Roy share an architecture firm and ...
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Name: Amanda
Location: East Marion, New York
Hi, I think this would be an interesting home to feature because it's only 2 and a half hours out of NYC. It's acce...
Vinny Ciambriello has been an Apartment Therapy go-to painter on small jobs for a number of years. A musician by night, he paints by day and does a great job with clean walls. Exacting about the fini...
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Leslie follows up from her previous Good Question: AT — You were nice enough to post my question a few months ago and AT readers gave some great advice on ...
This is where recycling and intelligence meets decor. Check out how Nia inventively turns this old headboard into a totally new piece of furniture. Click above for the pics and head below for all the ...
Another dreamy retreat from The New York Times International Real Estate pages — this time it's a 4 bedroom and 3 bathroom escape on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The 3,500-square-foot multi...
from Nina Van de Goor's Flat in Den Bosch, Netherlands
We've noticed that stuffed animals have been worked into home decor over the past few years — often taking the place of a throw pillow. We...
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Title: Refinish an Antique Desk
Name: Lindsay
Time: 10 hours
Cost: $130
Lindsay gave this desk a cheerful makeover with sage-colored paint and bright a...
I like Eileen Fisher and what she's doing with Garnet Hill. Her bedding line, which was new last year, continues to be luxurious and earthy (though not quite green). We just got these total e...
Item: Grove Nightstand
Store: Room & Board
Total Value: $1,149
Don't miss out on this stylish solid wood nightstand made in Pennsylvania!
>>Enter here!
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Perfect for patios and playrooms, these Flor tiles in Green Acres are brand new (the owners just changed their mind). There are 29 available. See it in our Classifieds!
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Sure, there are all kinds of mirror clips for hanging a plain old mirror on the wall. There are those clear plastic shell-shaped ones that are, sadly, pretty prevalent. But one type looks pretty goo...
Hi! Ok I have a problem. I have these candle holders (if that's what they even are) I bought at an antique store. I love them but they just sit with no purpose. I have no idea what to do with them!...
Blue Tree, the home and body boutique on the Upper East Side, carries a small selection of charming home goods......
We're in the final stretch of the February Jumpstart - all the entries are in! But there's still time for you to get that one little project done before the end of the month, so you can go into March ...
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Take floral arranging to another level with Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe's Bloom My Buddy — the person-shaped vases are totally weird and totall...
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Hello there! I want to have this bedroom double as a craft room — I would like to have space to knit, cross stitch and draw. I'm thinking about adding a so...
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According to LoftLife, this former Con-Edison buidling in SoHo is now the home of horror movie director Marcus Nispel and his family. Talk about a lot of space! ...
When was the last time you read an audio reproductive device review? It's been a while? Well you are in luck. Over at unplggd, Peter has just got his hands on a NuForce icon amp and S-1 speakers. Want...
This makes us (almost) wish we still had our landline. We just learned that Velocity Art and Design will begin carrying the reintroduced Ericofon. This stylish push button phone was originally intr...
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The new Voilá metal frame extendable table from Ozzio transforms from a console table of just 52cm x 125cm (about 1.7' x 4.1') into a dining table with a ...
This lovely dining room is from Living Etc.
Lately, I have had a fascination with modern rustic interiors. They are simple, clean and warm, but they are filled with raw textures, organic materials a...
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Name: Old White #4
Brand: Farrow & Ball
If last season was my “off-black” period, this might be my time to go “off-white,” and I’ll start by going through the li...
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The new Fire Collection from Arik Levy for Planika simplifies the structure of a small, fireplace and creates an intimate setting that works both outdoors and in...
There are two different Vintage Dress Forms for sale in our Classifieds today. One is an upper body adjustable and the other is a lower body skirt form. They are both aged like wine as you can...
After all of the positive response to Katie's DIY No Mess Litter Boxes, we were inspired to find new ways to enclose kitty's litter box. The cat silhouette is a cabinet door cutout that admits your ...
Hello, I am thinking about renovating my small studio apartment which I own in a walk-up building on the Upper East Side and I cannot make up my mind if I should go with a two burner or four burner ...
Manufactum attempts to avoid what they call "the proliferation of paler imitations, produced by unimaginative competitors at the lowest possible price." Instead, their products are classic, excepti...
Over the weekend we showed you Brooke's Vintage Collections, a beautiful slideshow of ten things Brooke loves in her cute blue and white kitchen. One of them was her cookware stand, an item that was c...
There is a way to save your icky windows!
This question: Drippy Window Fog Solution? garnered a lot of interest since last June, but just today we recieved a comment that seems to offer a very inter...
Design 21 has announced the winners of its most recent green design competition, Wood, Paper, Checkmark. -- the point of which was to help educate consumers about FSC-certified wood and paper products...
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Location: Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Size: 785 sq ft
Type: Condo in an elevator building
Price: $495,000 $475,000 (10% down)
CC/Maint: $417
Contact: Michael @ 917.4...
We inherited a small chandelier from a dear friend who was remodeling (one man's trash...!). We've been debating where to hang it when we noticed photos of chandeliers standing in for bedside lamps....
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Hi AT! I love your site and I'm crossing my fingers that you can help me — what should I do with this room!? It's one half of an attic bedroom, and there's...
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In the new New York Magazine, Wendy Goodman shows us the NoHo offices of Richard Christiansen's advertising agency — Chandelier Creative. Christiansen has ...
This creative no-sew project from Jenny of The Little Green Notebook transforms plain white mini-blinds into custom fabric shades. It's a great budget solution for beautiful window coverings.
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Some helpful information from MaisonLuxe blog: To everyone who is a Domino subscriber, fear not, you can call Condé Nast and let them know which magazine you want to switch to from their list ...
In the weekly Habitats column of The New York Times, we get a peek at the Brooklyn Heights home of Kimberly Oliver and Stuart Sclater-Booth — Ms. Oliver is the public relations manager for Desig...
This is a beautiful, flexible design element from Australia. I spotted photos of the stool online and tracked down all the clues until I ended up at Jon Goulder's website......
Item: Grove Nightstand
Store: Room & Board
Total Value: $1,149
Don't miss out on this stylish solid wood nightstand made in Pennsylvania!
>>Enter here!
...
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Title: Modern Coffee Table
Name: Stacy S.
Time: 1 weekend
Cost: about $120
Stacy S. created her own modern coffee table with various DIY parts from the...
This Deco Medical/Dental Cabinet has 2 drawers with metal inside, a lower cabinet with shelves, and an upper cabinet with a light fixture inside. Great shape, nice history. See it in our Clas...
These gals look like they keep each other's secrets and we feel sure they'll keep your daughter's secrets, too.
Whether your child has outgrown dolls, but still wants a soft confidant or you like th...
Sam Kragiel of Brave Space Design is featured in Time Out New York with a how-to on making your own desk. All it takes are some wooden crates, a flat board, and chalk board paint...
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The award-winning Blu Dot has been around since 1997 and is the entrepreneurial creation of three Williams College friends with a passion for art, architecture and design who, when attempting to fur...
We are looking for a dresser and bookshelves for our new apartment. I saw this picture on the AT post on DIY headboards. I would love to get a combination dresser/bookshelf. Living in a rental, I wo...
We are so smitten by this baby blue Scandinavian storage cabinet. We spotted it over at Living Etc., and after some sleuthing discovered its source.
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Tonight it's all about the Oscars out in LA, but even interior designers have their place in the sun. For the past 7 years, Architectural Digest has chosen a notable designer to do the "green room,...
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