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• Financial District House Tour: Tara & Ari Living It Up Downtown
• BloomFrame Window & Balcony by Hofman Dujardin Architects
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Every Friday! Here are all the home and garden sales across the country — collected by our editorial team of over 70 bloggers. This is the only place on the web where you can find them all in ...
Here at AT, we love a good silhouette. When I feel like flexing my Photoshop muscles, I'll sometimes create laser portraits of my friends on those awful 80s backdrops. It's a cool gift item bec...
Materials: Ceramic
Price Point: $30-70 (based on size)
"Bringing play to your table, these round-bottomed bowls rock and spin with a touch, but won’t tip over, just like children's toys..."...
More crafting! Here’s a project that’s about a 5 on a 1-10 difficulty scale. Actually, it’s not that tough, it just requires some precision and a few tools you most likely don’t have ar...
Materials: Walnut, walnut veneered plywood, aspen, aluminum
Price Point: $600
"Undefined (yes that's the name) is totally handmade. It was influenced by the cantilever that is daringly used in...
Last year we saw Anna Sui's closet, and now Elle Decor is showing off the fashion designer's black and white-clad Manhattan penthouse of this Detroit native. There is a lot going on here, and w...
When I was in college, I had a collection of snowglobes but they just kind of sat on a shelf and got dusty. I never took the time to display them in a cool way. If I had, I might have had mor...
Having remodeled about a dozen homes and produced/styled close to 100 home stories for magazines, I may have met my match recently with a tiny studio apartment in Hell's Kitchen. In the past, ...
These 4' diner booths and matching table could use a little restoration, but are a great deal for a fun alternative to your standard dining set.
• 2 Diner booths and tables
• Very cool han...
Whew. You did it! Thanks to everyone who participated in our August 2009 Project of the Month: Paint a Headboard Above Your Bed. We knew you could do it, and now you have a headboard like you alway...
Q: I need some help picking a color for my dark cabinet but light-abundant kitchen! This is a fairly traditional house and we have decided to keep the original oak trim all around the house. However,...
You wouldn't think of hard-working furnishing like shelves as artwork, but NYC interior designer David Netto pulled it off with these artful shelves. They're a beautiful composition in and of themse...
Materials: Hardwood, Non-toxic lacquered paints, Polished chrome and rubber casters
Price Point: $400 to $500
"Inspired by my 21-month old son, this playtable stores toys, books, shoes, or wh...
THIS WEEK
• Loll Designs Fall Sale
• Auto. Fall Yard Sale
• Sheherazade Sale
• Charles P. Rogers Beds Sale
• Bruce Marsh Designs Sale
• DWR Modern Mixer Sale
• DWR F...
Mary, a reader, just sent an email showing us her pot rack solution for a small kitchen. She doesn't have a lot of room in the kitchen for a full-sized pot rack, since their kitchen has only eight fee...
The Bloomframe is now in production! The concept for a window that transforms into a balcony space spread across the internet — Apartment Therapy first posted it in November of 2005! &m...
Some electronic devices are so well-designed that they become sculptural items in our rooms. One of the most distinguished electronics companies created the interactive Panasonic Design Museum ...
The Collyer Brothers' Harlem Brownstone in 1947
When does collecting cross the line into hoarding? The New York Times re-examines the story of brothers Homer and Langley Collyer. The brothers' bodies...
Walls and what to do with them — you can paint, wallpaper, stencil or cover them with hundreds of slices of Kraft Singles. But when a home is blessed with exposed cement or concrete, why ...
Materials: Sandblasted Porcelain
Price Point: $30 to $40
"This plate is made by dripping melted wax onto the surface of a porcelain plate and sandblasting away the exposed areas. The original ...
This amazing apartment with Central Park views was designed by The Apartment founder Stefan Boublil. Located 61 stories above New York City, the unique space takes full advantage of over-the-to...
There is a little shop in Hoboken that I pass by occasionally — but today what I saw from the door made me go inside to take a closer look. This beautiful secretary has a few little hidde...
September is Artwork, Crafts & Collections month at Apartment Therapy, and in honor of this theme, let’s talk about teapots, which I’ve always wanted to collect. Teapots are fascinating obj...
Let's be honest, we are up for a brutal gray winter. How about adding a little green to your living space with this fun sectional to combat the winter blahs?
• Vintage retro sectional sofa
&bu...
Materials: American ash, wood stain, linseed based paint
Price Point: About 20 hrs of work + materials = $625
"These shelves use the wall to redistribute weight, allowing a wide span with mini...
Q: My boyfriend and I just rented a beautiful garden-level apartment in a brownstone. The problem is that our backyard is all concrete with little to block the sight of our neighbors. To boot, neit...
In this Southampton renovation of a 1960's ranch house, architect Elmslie Osler added continuity to the interior by carrying blue accents through the crisp white spaces. The kitchen's blue is found ...
One of the biggest complaints, and hardest things to change, about a rental kitchen is the floor. When you own a kitchen you can put down new tile or wood floors — but even then you may not want to ...
This concept for a cantilevered house on water is from architects Jedrzej Lewandowski and Lukasz Skirzynski.
After researching yacht architecture, the pair came up with the idea for a self-suf...
I spent yesterday helping my sister move from one Brooklyn neighborhood to the one adjacent, and started thinking about how much cardboard box waste must be generated on a typical first of any ...
It's no secret that PLAID is BIG right now — and FLOR is in the game with their new pattern Pop Tartan. It's a modern spin on tartan with a relaxed, hand-drawn feel in 3 colorways....
In the spirit of Arts, Crafts & Collections Month here at Apartment Therapy, how about finding new uses for everyday objects? Pipe plumbing is super inexpensive and can be found in most hardwar...
Materials: LEDs, Copper, Circuit Boards
Price Point: $6,000
"The Constellation chandelier blooms with excitement. Like a bouquet of many tiny flowers, its lights settle across space like a st...
We're excited to share the news! Two sofas by celebrated designer Finn Juhl will be reintroduced to the market by Danish company OneCollection. Both designs are from the early 1950s and are gre...
It may still be summer but recent slight drop in temperature has me wondering if we are due for an early fall and I'm already fantasizing about chilly nights in front of the firewood. I actuall...
MANSTAD packs a lot of punch — it's a (1) small scale sectional sofa that's also a (2) bed and (3) storage. While there are options for sectionals with built in beds, few are this small, ...
This lovely three piece vintage sofa has just been reupholstered with Boris Knoll fabric and is being sold individually if you love it but can't fit all three pieces in your home.
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Materials: Reclaimed native Maine cherry
Price Point: $5000
"The Brix console is made out of lumber normally destined for the scrap bin, called shorts. Shorts might be leftover wood from other...
Q: I'm thinking about buying my first non vintage, non scuzzy sofa but am only attracted to ones that are in the $3,000 range. Since I'm still a poor person, I wanted to know if there are places wher...
Betsill's closet workspace
Daniel Joseph Betsill first trained as an interior designer. His education prepared him for a career in large architectural firms. But large-scale wooden interior models l...
We've all uttered some variation of the phrase, "I practically live in my kitchen," or, "When guests are over, everyone ends up in the kitchen."
Which is why we love seeing accents that you'd usuall...
Name: Cleyenne
Location: London, England
I have decorated my apartment after spending some time in Paris — after returning to London, I decided that I could not relocate but I could brin...
New Yorkers have experienced the best weather of the year these past few days. It's been fair and breezy in the low 70s, after a hellish few weeks of heatwaves and violent rain. I've felt inspi...
Materials: Dupioni silk and organic cotton
Price Point: $600 (crib quilt) to $3200 (queen-sized quilt)
"Soft-Maps are handmade quilted maps of cities, neighborhoods and parks that represent so...
There are some things that just can’t be duplicated, and we’re not talking about the remake of The Stepford Wives. But every now and then someone puts a new spin on a classic that’s both ...
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Yesterday, I posted a bizarre Octagonal Carriage House in Hoboken — today, I'm stepping it up with a polyhedron garden house on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia. ...
We've shown empty frames as a decor idea before and I like the idea when it involves a whole collection of them. I recently came across an image by Paul Joseph Hopper (the last picture) and wa...
Name: Plum Raison 2082-20, Raisin torte 2083-10
Brand: Benjamin Moore
I discovered Matisse's The Red Studio at the Museum of Modern Art last summer, and found it to be completely captivating. It a...
This dresser set is nothing we haven't seen before stylistically, but as far as volume of pieces per dollar this is a must see collection. Included for the purchase price of $550 are six pieces of 19...
Materials: French Mouldmade paper (70% cotton), water-based) acrylic inks and paints
Price Point: Retail: $126.00 per 25" x 39" sheet
"Nama Rococo wallpaper is hand-screened, hand-painted wal...
Judy Ross Textiles
Full time Office Manager/Production Manager is needed for high-end home textile and furnishing company. This individual will be responsible for all aspects of the business, which i...
Q: I recently picked up these gorgeous cut-paper images of a tree. I have no idea how to hang it — obviously the artist didn't either, since she had it fixed to a wall with painter's tape!
Sen...
We've visited the subject of hanging art outside before. Garden LM takes two- and three-dimensional outdoor art to beautiful heights....
Materials: 9 ply Chinese Birch Plywood - enamel
Price Point: $250
"This is an affordable dining table created to meet our own standards of aesthetics and practicality. We designed it to follow...
Here's an interesting makeover for you: a kitchen that traded in white cabinets for pine cupboards — an opposite direction than we would generally go. Do you think it works?
Read on for more photo...
Name: Tara, Ari, daughter Theory and Jasmine the dog
Location: Financial District, NYC
Size: 1,500 square feet
Years lived in: 3
Walking into the ground floor of Downtown by Philippe Starck is quit...
We've recently posted quite a few examples of extreme minimalist living. While some of the homes were clearly staged for architectural photos, W Magazine recently featured the extremely minimal...
It's always difficult to rise on a Monday like today, especially by the hand of a screeching mobile device. There must be a better way. So, I did some detective work and discovered a few alarm ...
This odd octagonal home in Hoboken, New Jersey showed up as a featured property in The New York Times Real Estate section. A 3-story carriage house, the bizarre shape has us curious about the s...
Ceiling fans are a hot topic on Apartment Therapy. For such a common home item, it can be tough finding a style you can live with. One solution I came across was to antique a store bought fan for an...
Materials: Reclaimed wood, waterbased non-VOC Bioshield stain draped with organic cotton gauze.
Price Point: $1,200 - $4,600
"The follow up design to our “Pure White Four Poster Bed”. A ro...
Though we knew that there were plans to build a full-size house from LEGOs, the photographic evidence is beginning to show up! James May, the UK television host of Toy Stories is working with o...
When I walked into Le Vigne in Greenwich Village yesterday, I felt like I was seeing what would happen if Pablo Picasso, Lewis Carroll and Louise Nevelson met over drinks and decided to open an...
Each species of wood exhibits a unique personality — some are easy going and fun to work with, others hardheaded and quick to snap. Woodworkers must psychoanalyze this manic material, turning...
In the smallest of spaces this DWR chair could possibly work as a terribly romantic loveseat for two, or just a stylish seat for one if space should permit.
• Design Within Reach DWR lounge chai...
Materials: Pine Wood, Birch, Nails, Screws, Hinges
Price Point: $1000-$1200
"At first glance, it looks like a bookshelf with storage compartments. Then at a closer look, with the doors at full...
Q: I bought this Heywood Wakefield/Lloyd sprung rocker for a song on eBay, and IMHO, it's every bit as good looking and comfortable as can be. The seat is well shaped, the amount of rock/jiggle is mod...
Many of you didn't exactly share my appreciation for the diner-style seating at the local Mexican eatery. I love the everyday beauty of the place, but also love a more, um, intentional approach. So...
Materials: Steel, Fine texture semi-gloss powdercoat
Price Point: $175
"The Panic Table was designed to be an elegant and simple piece that can complement almost any decor, indoors or out. In ...
Subway tiles are a common element in bathrooms, but we also love the way they look in a kitchen. There's something about the shape and brick-like pattern that makes them look more modern than square t...
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