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2 Traditional House Tours & The Best Off-White Paint
New York Hot Posts

Click to view these New York Hot Posts in bold below • Greenwich Village House Tour: Lorin Luxuriates in a Studio • Narrow House in Greenwich Village • Maximizing Space in a Little L...

Weekend Sales Guide: 8.28.09
New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Bay Area & Online

Every Friday! Here are all the home and garden sales across the country - painstakingly collected by our editorial team of over 70 bloggers. This is only place on the web where you can find them all...

Graphic Stickers by Hu2

The good folks across the pond at Hu2 Design create the quirkiest vinyl wall stickers that I have ever come across. These are great for making temporary changes to a space, as they peel off and...

SodaStream: Quick & Easy Sparkling Water at Home

When Sara and I ate at Chez Panisse (in the cafe) two years ago, they brought sparking water to the table. Rather than serve it in glass bottles (ie. Pellegrino) that would instantly become waste, ...

What to do with Built-in Soap Dishes?

Most older rentals have them. Those knobby little built-in soap and toothbrush holders. There but to hold a sliver of melting Ivory....

S t r e t c h Shelf by Pete Oyler
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: cast rubber + machined aluminum Price Point: $120 "Inspired by the potential of 3D design to incite playful curiosity and imaginative pause, the s t r e t c h shelf expands the func...

Dining Tables, End Tables, Consoles & Storage
Friday Fire Sale – All at least 50% Off

The end of the season means a lot of deals on last seasons' goods — and these 10 furniture picks rounded up from online retailers are all at least 50% off! ...

Stripes: Red and White

No doubt about it, stripes are fun, bold and graphic. I find red and white particularly cheery so I've rounded up some images with lots of stripes of red and white!...

Smart & Minimal Apartment in Portugal by Hugo Proença
ArchDaily

Architect Hugo Proença transformed this small 700 square foot apartment in Carcavelos, Portugal with the addition of tons of built-in storage (both open and closed), pale grey floors and...

Large TV Stand - $160
New York Scavenger

Something about this set of shelves says Ikea to me, but the price for the unit is unbeatable even by Ikea standards. • Large TV stand • Crate & Barrel "Woodland" 9x12 rug • Ethan Al...

Project of the Month Check-In: Just a few more days!
August 2009

This month Apartment Therapy is partnering with Valspar to help you paint a headboard above your bed, and there are only a few days left for you to complete the project and enter to win a $500 gift ca...

Hanging a Charley Harper Skate Deck as Art?
Good Questions

Q: We're longtime Apartment Therapy readers and Charley Harper fans, and we've just purchased a Harper skateboard deck by Habitat. But, now we're stumped about how and where to incorporate it i...

Before & After: Tiny Kitchen Remodel
Real Simple

From Real Simple's Simply Stated blog, check out this kitchen renovation by interior designer Frances Herrera. It starts with a typical closed and cramped New York City apartment kitchen....

Planted Bench by Jessica Carter
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Reclaimed wood, steel, clay, and a jade plant Price Point: $450 "My husband and I have a studio in an old dye factory in North Philadelphia, where we make furniture and design objec...

The Weekend Guide: Sales & Events
New York 8.28.09

THIS WEEK • Royal Botania Sample Sale • Vitra Show at The Conran Shop • Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Sale • Westin Heavenly Bed Sale • Blu Dot 20/20 Sale • AREAWARE Pop ...

The ULTIMATE Star Wars Themed Home

Collectors are a dime a dozen. Collectors like Cho Woong, who can balance their obsession with a good eye for decor, are more of a rare breed. Cho's collection of Star Wars borders on Sith Lord fright...

Modern Bentwood Chair & Table by James Irvine
MUJI & Thonet

When I was in Japan in May, one of my favorite places was the giant MUJI store in Tokyo's Ginza neighborhood — more MUJI than I'd ever seen before! In addition to more familiar clothing, ...

Purple Things That I Don't Hate

Purple is a big color in fashion for the fall, so naturally, all the big shelter stores are producing new items in its various shades. Unfortunately for me, I just don't get purple, and I've di...

John Mayer's SoHo Apartment
Elle Decor

The September issue of Elle Decor includes a look at musician John Mayer's 2,500 square foot SoHo apartment — designed by Armani Casa....

Sodastream Quick & Easy Sparkling Water at Home

When Sara and I ate at Chez Panisse (in the cafe) two years ago, they brought sparking water to the table. Rather than serve it in glass bottles (ie. Pellegrino) that would instantly become waste, ...

Free Finds for the Home
Scavengerslist.com

New York is like one big take-a-penny, leave-a-penny. If you’re moving or it’s simply not worth selling on Criagslist, just leave it on the curb and poof! You’re slightly used trashcan is...

Hello Block Shelving by Kenn Archibald
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Painted Medex, FSC-Certified Cherry, Maple, Walnut and White Oak Price Point: Painted: $70/unit; Cherry, Maple, Oak: $135/unit; Walnut: $170/unit "Say Hello to a versatile modular ...

Modern Pool House & Patio
ArchDaily

Though it is technically just a pool house, I'd love to move into this 1,200 square foot structure as my primary residence....

Beyond the Chalkboard Fridge: Decorated Refrigerators

When we bought our apartment we took on the kitchen with the white fridge, white stove and white microwave plus the dark green Corian counter tops and the linoleum floor. Not my taste at all an...

Windsor Chairs & Their Modern Influence
Retrospect

You asked about the history of Windsor chairs (image 1) and Scandinavian stick-back chairs, so let's look at these icons of vernacular design. Windsor chairs always seemed to be the ultimate co...

Thonet Bentwood Chairs - $550
New York Scavenger

Made in the 1950's this set of four bentwood arm chairs are in excellent condition and have something extra special going on. Not your usual bentwood chair to be sure. • Vintage Thonet bentwood...

Strata Cabinet for the hall by Nicole Runde
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Cardboard, plywood, welded aluminum planter Price Point: $215 "Strata uses eco-friendly materials to provide a space-efficient solution to entryway clutter. Its unique geometry, pie...

Ideas for Bathroom Renovation?
Good Questions

Q: I was wondering if your readers could help us remodel our bathroom. The previous homeowners seem to have installed everything that happened to be on sale one weekend at Home Depot: Dark-stained wai...

Narrow House in Greenwich Village

Small spaces are our focus, but even we flinched at this narrow landmark house in Greenwich Village......

Vera Electric Kettle by Casa Bugatti

Never in our life did we think we'd be lusting over a tea kettle, but we indeed feel some amorous tech lust for these beautifully designed and tech-laden electric kettle from Casa Bugatti. Pardon the ...

Lorin Luxuriates in a Studio
House Tour

Name: Lorin Location: Greenwich Village, Manhattan Size: 400 square feet — Studio Years lived in: 9 years "Just because you have to live in a small space, doesn't mean you have to forgo conve...

Maximizing Space in a Little Loft Studio
Dwell

In the archives of Dwell, architect Kyu Sung Woo renovated his son Wonbo's Union Square loft taking advantage of natural light and the 12 feet of vertical space — he stacked a minimal lof...

Best Outdoor Spaces! East Coast, European & African Submissions

Ever wondered what you could do with that little scrap of balcony or yard outside your door? Here's more inspiration and resources from homes in the East Coast, Europe and Africa. These were the 8 m...

Historical Discovery: Monteith

While visiting the American Period Rooms at the Met yesterday I stumbled upon an odd contraption called a monteith that kept popping up in all the 18th century rooms....

Look! A Victorian Home Grows in Brooklyn

For a while now the trend in Brooklyn is to level an existing lot and erect a cold, glass tower. So we have to give kudos when someone goes against the grain and restores an existing building w...

Oh Lloyd! Lampshade Pendant by Hemal Patel
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Polypropylene, H35.W20.D20cm Price Point: $125 "Oh Lloyd! is a simple, elegant lampshade pendant. Designed to install quickly and easily over any standard light bulb fitting Oh Lloy...

Best Outdoor Garden Hose Showers 2009

It's been really hot lately, and I've been wanting to find and purchase a simple outdoor shower that would hook up to a hose and stick into or sit on the lawn. At the house we visited in Italy in J...

Making Old New Again: Creative Lampshade Frames

Old lampshades have wonderful bones. The sculptural steel frames are great for DIY craft and decorating projects — a simple coat of paint is sometimes all they need. The armature is also ...

Twilight Sleep Sofa from DWR
Sofa Sleeper of the Week

The Twilight Sleep Sofa from Design Within Reach shows up fairly regularly in our Scavenger posts and is a popular solution for Apartment Therapy readers furnishing a modern space. Designed for...

Danish Lounge Chair - $375
New York Scavenger

This Danish lounge chair is upholstered in a sunny yellow nubby tweed fabric and has teak tapered legs. It is on the smallish side so it should work beautifully in an apartment setting. ...

NOMAD Floor Lamp by Steve Worden
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Recycled African Mahogany, Natural Fiber Shade, Leviton - Incandescent Lamp Holder Price Point: $450 "NOMAD is a Danish inspired floor lamp that can be utilized in a number of appl...

Replacing Canvas on Tubular Metal Chairs?
Good Questions

Q: We have four chairs that are tubular metal with black canvas seats and backs. The canvas looks like it was sewn onto the frame. I would like to replace the canvas but I am not sure how to go about...

RED+HOUSING Emergency Shelter Prototype

New York's OBRA Architects developed RED+HOUSING as housing for disaster relief. Made for temporary use, the structures use methods that allow for quick construction, easy transport, and minimum was...

Re-Nest Blogger Search: Looking for a LEED-Accredited Architect!

Are you a LEED-accredited architect looking to share your knowledge and love of green design and building materials to a large (and ever growing) audience? Well, then you might be just the person we'...

Gregory's Refreshed & Refreshing Home Office
Tech Tour

My home office has always been a space of compromise. It was where things went to stay (and often die) when we didn't have anywhere else to put them, and I alway felt like it was the most neglected ro...

Best Products: I Heart My Mitsubishi Mr. Slim AC

This may seem like an absolutely boring post to some of you, so I'll apologize in advance as I can't help myself. It's been really hot lately, so we've come to rely our air conditioner at night. In...

Color & Creativity: 500 Pencils from Social Designer

Social Designer, a progressive arts organization, is offering an unusual subscription called 500 Pencils — over the course of 20 months, participants will be sent 25 colored pencils every...

Vertical Garden: A Green Wall in Islington
Architects' Journal

What a sad sight! The exterior vertical garden of Paradise Park Children's Centre in the London Borough of Islington has seen better days! Britain's first "Living Wall" was installed in 2006 an...

Kampenwand Dining Table by Nils Holger Moormann

Here’s the latest industrial piece from designer Nils Holger Moorman. The Kampenwand table is held together using industrial-grade rope. And they mean it — the rope is 5x stronger than ...

Le Petit Dej by Peter White
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Injection molded acrylic Price Point: $92 retail "Le Petit Dej is a high-gloss acrylic tray with a vase that fluidly shoots up from the surface thanks to a cleverly and carefully de...

Unpacking My Library: Architects & Their Book Collections

The Urban Center bookstore at The Municipal Art Society of New York started an exhibition in May — Unpacking My Library — that explores the book collections of noted New York area a...

Inspiration: Entry Ways, Foyers & Landing Strips

Entryways are of constant inspiration. They come in all styles and reflect different ideals. Some are utilitarian — places for organizing your day before you leave or for when you return....

The Best Off-White Paint
ColorTherapy

It's been said that the human eye can perceive an average of 3 million colors, with some highly sensitive or artistic types able to detect 7 million. Yet, I've noticed over the years that every dec...

Custom Cabinet - $500
New York Scavenger

Today in NY, a custom made retro styled hardwood oak cabinet. This is a great piece for storing electronics as it comes with holes pre-drilled for wiring in the back, truly the best of the modern and...

Redeploy Rug by Rebekah Rauser
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: wool exterior, wool-blend interior Price Point: $800 - $1000 "The Redeploy Rug combines the necessary durability of military surplus blankets with the organic fluidity of a topogra...

Color Complement for Oak Trim in Entryway?
Good Questions

Q: I just bought this wonderful colonial in Englewood, New Jersey (built in 1915) that still has a lot of its original detail. I'll be moving in in a few weeks and wanted your opinion on the ...

Time Capsules of Home

The Living in a Time Capsule feature in the New York Times got us thinking about actual time capsules buried in back yards or built into walls......

Stephanie's Living Room+: August Group Cure
New York Design Meetup

• What: AT's New York Design Meetup • August Guests: 6 Members with problem rooms • Members: 1,135 and growing Two weeks ago, we had a remarkable meetup in which we got to hear ...

Organizer's Tool: DYMO LetraTag Labelmaker

We have no idea why nor how we'd gone without a labelmaker for so long. We finally got around to redoing our whole home office, top to bottom, with the goal of truly getting our %^@! in order after se...

Minna's English Countryside in the City
House Tour

Name: Minna Hepburn Location: Camberwell, London Type: Georgian / Victorian house Size: 2,100 square feet (approximate) Years lived in: 1.5 years Minna is originally from Finland but when she move...

Fort Greene Garden Apartment & Store
The New York Times

The Fort Greene, Brooklyn apartment of newlyweds Skye Parrott and Alec Friedman is home and work — just underneath their first floor apartment, the brownstone's garden level space is home...

Transit Authority Figures: Fire Island & Hamptons Subway Maps

Rob and Damia Stewart are the forces behind Transit Authority Figures, a team that creates subway maps for places most unlikely to ever install that mode of transportation. ...

Eskayel Bespoke Wallpaper by Shanan Campanaro

Brooklyn-based artist Shanan Campanaro creates wallpaper made from digitally manipulated portions of her colorful paintings under the name Eskayel. The resulting patterns are both very graphic ...

Soft Parcel Modular Furniture by TAF

Cutting edge designers from Swedish design and architecture firm TAF takes packaging to a whole new level with their Soft Parcel collection. These are individual blocks of foam that have been u...

Bird Bottle by Julie Rooney
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Aluminum, stainless steel, powdercoat Price Point: $142 "The Birdbottle is a modern update to the classic bird house of the colonial days. What once was a functional necessity in th...

The Magisso Cake Server by Maria Kivijärvi
Gift Fair, Summer 2009

This is Miika's company's newest product with more revolutionary goodness from Finland. You may remember that he was the one behind the fabulous Magnetic Kitchen Cloth Holder that we found in Toron...

Windsor Chairs, Swedish Stick Back Chairs & Variations

Here is a little eye candy for Monday — a selection of Windsor Chairs or Swedish stick back chairs. (To be honest, we're not sure of the exact difference or which came first – Anna?...

Wood Veneer Demystified
WoodWise

My name is Johnny and I’m a recovering solid-wood snob. I once considered veneered furniture to be innately inferior — lacking in density, durability and soul. But witnessing the fine craft...

Crate and Barrel Sofa - $600
New York Scavenger

Today in NY a very nice neutral piece in woven gray and brown from Crate and Barrel. It appears to be the Steele Sofa which is $1439 on Crate and Barrel's website, so you are getting a super deal wit...

Nature Planter by Dominic D'Andrea & Tram Pham
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: White cast dry slip, lead-free underglaze and clear glaze Price Point: $375 "Nature is a modern ceramic planter intended for growing a variety of herbs and flowers. The form takes i...

Displaying an Original Trolley Scroll Intact?
Good Questions

Q: My Dad who is a saver of many interesting things recently gave me a vintage trolley bus destination roll/blind from Brisbane, Australia. I have sentimental interest in many of the destinations list...

Small Space Inspiration: Dormitory by Alberto Mozo

This dormitory interior by Chilean architect Alberto Mozo is about as spare as they come......

Vicki's Bathroom: August Group Cure
New York Design Meetup

• What: AT's New York Design Meetup • August Guests: 6 Members with problem rooms • Members: 1,135 and growing Two weeks ago, we had a remarkable meetup in which we got to hear ...

Roundup: 10 Home Offices We Could Call Home

Home offices are so personal, that when viewing spaces belonging to others, it's not uncommon to say, "Neat, but I'd have to change _____ & _____." We've searched high and low and found 10 great work...

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