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• Greenwich Village House Tour: Lorin Luxuriates in a Studio
• Narrow House in Greenwich Village
• Maximizing Space in a Little L...
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...
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...
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, ...
Most older rentals have them. Those knobby little built-in soap and toothbrush holders. There but to hold a sliver of melting Ivory....
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...
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!
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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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
The September issue of Elle Decor includes a look at musician John Mayer's 2,500 square foot SoHo apartment — designed by Armani Casa....
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, ...
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...
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 ...
Though it is technically just a pool house, I'd love to move into this 1,200 square foot structure as my primary residence....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Small spaces are our focus, but even we flinched at this narrow landmark house in Greenwich Village......
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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......
• 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This dormitory interior by Chilean architect Alberto Mozo is about as spare as they come......
• 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 ...
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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