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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...
When I came across the Gin and Titonic ice cube tray, I was reminded of this Berlitz ad, which is one of the funnier things the internet has provided. Now that it's so cold outside, you don't e...
How many ways can you alter a chair? Allan Wexler transforms ordinary chairs - which look like Ikea's Stefan chair and very well could be - into functional artwork that serve as "metaphors for h...
Green is next on our Roundup of colors and I feel in harmony just thinking about it. Green represents growth, renewal and life. It connects us with nature and makes us feel fresh and alive. ...
Here in New York, we are heading into a weekend of cold and rainy weather so I thought a colorful rainbow of rooms could add some needed cheer....
Much of our inspiration comes from books and magazines, and because Linda and I are out yard saling and flea marketing just about every weekend, the overwhelming majority of that material is no...
If you have a little extra room and are a lover of mid-century furniture have we got a deal for you! This entire dining suite is priced at $750 and includes table, 4 chairs and a matching hut...
Your bedding makes a statement about you, whether you want it to or not. There's the I Don't Have Time, I Don't Care bedding, the Hold On, I'm Suddenly 30 and I'm Not Ready bedding, and conv...
Q: I finally finished painting my entire apartment, and have been really pleased with all my other paint choices — navy, chocolate brown, turquoise, gray— until the last room, my kitchen...
I was reading about Annie's Work Day 1 on the stair at her house and began thinking about how helpful it can be when there are knowledgeable staff at the hardware store. But it's not so common......
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Name: Jennifer
Location: Astoria, Queens, New York
Type of Home: rental apartment
Color Inspiration: I knew I had to use a wall color that wou...
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• Jew...
Guest Post from Matthew Haly of The Furniture Joint
True upholstery ateliers —or as they are more commonly known, upholstery studios— consist of a wide range of services. They normally o...
Name: Kristin & Gadge
Location: Greenwich Village, NYC
In 2002 my husband (a photographer) and I (an event designer) managed to find a disaster of a commercial rental space. (We had previ...
Needlepoint has been revived by some very creative crafters and entrepreneurs alike. These days, folks are taking the intricate methods of old and applying them to challenging new pictures....
The Voltaire series uses psychedelic colored rubber to give stuffy antiques a makeover. Designed by by Jasper van Groote, the antique furniture is restored and reconditioned, and then coated in ...
This seems to get posted every year but it’s a calendar, so it make sense to bring you the 2010 edition. Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar (that’s the company name) makes a bold, type-driven ca...
Before I began this post, I looked up the definition of neutral just so I could be sure of what I thought I already understood. After all, beige and grey (or gray) are both colors, right? At wh...
Last week we discussed the controversial Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Although his architecture is largely out of style — the apex of 20th century functionalism — his furniture is ...
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Name: Mandi
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Type of Home: rental apartment
Color Inspiration: I've always been inspired by the saturated col...
Any modern apartment in need of a little separation of spaces could use this great Herman Miller screen to divide rooms. ...
Q: Good Morning! I was perusing Desire to Inspire and found the attached photograph. I am DRAWN to these chairs and would love to have them or something similar (sadly, the photo was credited to Doug...
What a difference the window treatments can make. New York designers Tocar Interior Design have a great batch of before and after shots on their website. And one thing we noticed that packs a r...
The West Coast Green conference just wrapped up in San Francisco earlier this month. It’s an annual event that started four years ago and is now the largest conference focusing on green building inn...
Name: Jorge Rosso
Location: Coral Gables neighborhood of Miami, Florida
The concept of this house is cheap finds for an expensive look. I am an obsessive hunter for bargains on great stuff, an...
The heat finally turned on in my building today, and the sputtering coil radiators have once again made their presence known. Modern radiator covers are not very common, but Richard Burbidge in the ...
New York painter and paintmaker Carl Plansky passed away last weekend. Carl Plansky was known for founding Williamsburg Paints -- a company that makes high quality artists' materials and handmad...
This post will make some of you say, wha!? For others, awe. German designer Stefan Ulrich created a shape-changing object, not a pillow, using artificial muscle technology. The concept? To help...
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Name: Katy
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Type of Home: owned co-op apartment
Color Inspiration: I love varying shades of gray. Not only is gra...
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Name: Lauren
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Type of Home: rental studio apartment
Color Inspiration: I live in an L-shaped studio with my boyfr...
With all the social media we have now, letter writing is truly a lost art. Perhaps that is why we are seeing more decor inspired by old letters, postage stamps and postcards....
Here are 10 great Brooklyn House Tours from the Apartment Therapy archives — from Williamsburg to Boerum Hill....
Apartment Therapy recently spoke with Darryl Carter about his new collection for Thomasville!
What can people expect to find when they see your collection for Thomasville?
The Darryl Carter for T...
Bring a little sunshine inside on these shortening days with this bright yellow floor lamp from our Apartment Therapy classifieds....
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Name: Margie
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Type of Home: rental apartment
Color Inspiration: Creating warmth in an often times cold feeling cit...
As part of tonight's Meetup with Rachel Ashwell, Maxwell and the crowd will be contributing suggestions to help one member from the group solve his or her design challenge. If you can't make it...
IKEA's Frosta stool, a $12.99 version of an original Alvar Aalto design, is by now known to most as an affordable and versatile seating/side table option. It comes in a clear lacquered birch ve...
Item: One Grand Prize winner will receive a Whirlpool brand Resource Saver™ dishwasher and six pouches of affresh™ dishwasher and disposal cleaner. Five alternate first place winners will...
We came across this incredible Before & After on the blog Hashai, and we think it's a great example of how you can completely transform a room with just a few simple changes...
• See the 'Af...
Name: Marcela
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hello! my name is Marcela and I'm an interior designer. Together with my husband Peter and my two sons Thomas and Philip we moved into this hous...
Today is a big day. After getting the thumbs-up from my landlord, I've started work on my staircase, which I asked for advice on in a previous post. Click through to see how it all goes down....
New York Spaces magazine features the Connecticut house of architect Gene Kohn and his wife Barbara. The Victorian house was built in 1894 and designed by Ehrick Kensett Rossiter, an American ar...
We’ve brought you red, orange and now a fan favorite − yellow. Of course yellow is the color of sunshine which means warmth, energy and cheerfulness. It’s perfect for brightening thin...
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Name: Cusi & Peter
Location: West Village of Manhattan, New York, New York
Type of Home: rent stabilized apartment
Color Inspiration: My...
My own personal color combination obsession lately has been lavender and the color of a bosc pear. It can't just be purple and yellow — which is a lovely combination, but not exactly what...
• What: AT's New York Design Meetup
• Guest: Rachel Ashwell, founder of Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic
• RSVP's: 99 Yes / 27 Maybe (rsvp here)
• When: 6:30-9pm, Wednesday, Octob...
This hardwood mid century coffee table measures 28" x 28" with lots of room for magazine storage....
Q: Hi! I am wondering if anyone can tell me a safe and inexpensive way to strip a lamp like this of the color so that it is just clear glass? I have two — one in green and one in amber. I know t...
We recently found the work of Jared Flood on his blog, Brooklyn Tweed. His warm knits are made for the body and for the home and, according to his book, Made in Brooklyn, are very much rooted i...
Hungary native Edina Tokodi (a.k.a Mosstika) lives in Brooklyn and does green graffiti installations, using moss as her primary material. Her use of wildlife in urban environments encourages pedestria...
Cote Maison magazine features the intensely colorful home of Paolo Bagnara — a textile designer who LOVES prints, patterns, stripes, and color. The designer uses lots of purples and says...
Fall has made its way to the streets of New York and pumpkins have found themselves smiling from the stoops. Pumpkin displays are forever being reinvented and pushed to the seedy limits, but he...
Young House Love is a website about "two young people falling in love with their first house." Sherry and John renovated their entire home, and they did an incredible job....
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We have so many sign-ups for this season's Home Cure, most of which have not do...
More bookcases to love! I've rounded up some images of bookcases that extend over the top of doorways and windows....
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Name: Tess
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Type of Home: single family home
Color Inspiration: I'm a girl who loves a good bubble bath, an...
Following our successful Roundup of 10 Parisian Homes, here are 5 Danish homes from our House Tour archives.
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With all that precise 90-degree joinery, furniture makers can be pretty square. But when life’s boring corners get us down, we make curves. Steam bending is a favored technique for such shapi...
Small Businesses are the driving force behind growth and innovation in the American Economy, and their inspiring stories reverberate across all industry sectors. American Express and NBC Universal ar...
From our Apartment Therapy classifieds today, an entire room full of DWR Cubitec shelving. Originally paid $800 for the set, but are offering them at just $400....
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Name: Abigail
Location: New York, New York
Type of Home: rental apartment
Color Inspiration: Oscar Wilde, Pedro Almodovar, Paul Poiret, Mauri...
Q: I found these chairs at a garage sale for $20. I was thinking about reupholstering them but this week I had a decorator over to give me ideas and she told me to leave them — that they looked ...
We enjoy spotting color in unexpected places around a home. One place we wouldn't expect rich jewel tones: doorknobs......
Item: One Grand Prize winner will receive a Whirlpool brand Resource Saver™ dishwasher and six pouches of affresh™ dishwasher and disposal cleaner. Five alternate first place winners will...
There are a few classic designs that most people don't know about which cause them to want to break their budget when they discover them. Every client I have introduced Vitsoe shelving to has w...
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