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How To: Create a Quick, Cheap Rug

Reader Hanners sent in her steps for creating a quick and inexpensive blast of color in her living room. For less than $20, she added a small area rug to her gray, gray, gray space......

Hot Tip: Copper Appliances on Craigslist Boston

Thanks to AT reader Shiba, we can share with you this really cool vintage set of appliances. Although the kitchen appliances are vintage they, unbelievably, have never actually been used! The set in...

Tip: Hanging Groups of Artwork

Reader Marcelo recently sent in this Tip for hanging artwork: inexpensive grid paper from Scotch. Last week, AT:Chicago showed us How To: Hang Artwork in Clusters (and Clustered Artwork Revisted). H...

Brocade Home Discount at Design Milk

Jaime from Design Milk sent us a message to spread the word that Design Milk readers will receive a 15% off discount at Brocade Home through 12/23/2007......

Hot Tip: Dorm Rooms I Would Love To Move Into!

These women know how to turn an ordinary dorm room into a bright and colorful home and to make you forget for a second that you are are in a dormitory... ...

Hot Tip: Reclaimed Home Blog Launch

New kids on the home design blog block: Reclaimed Home. They're a newly-launched blog that looks at NYC homes, its suburbs, exurbs, and second home locations. The site's emphasis is on sustainabilit...

Hot Tip: Our Favorites from Gracious Home's 44th Anniversary Sale

Some of you may have seen by now that Gracious Home is celebrating their 44th anniversary with a whopping sale. So, we've checked out the savings and pulled out our favorite picks of the sale. Parti...

Dan Hisel's Z-Box

Furnitecture. Reader Ryan sent this to us and it promises to be an AT favorite! Designer Dan Hisel has created the ultimate free-standing bedroom for small spaces. The Z Box combines a bed, shelving...

MANDAL Bed with Storage

Dreamy Bedroom Storage. We pulled this from yesterday's Hot Tip #4. lisa2 in austin vouches for the new MANDAL Bed with storage by designer Nike Karlsson for IKEA. Love it or hate it, this queen si...

Hot Tips: On Painting

Since the start of our new Tips post, several have been related to painting. Since many of us are painting to freshen up our homes this spring, we wanted to put the painting tips front and center he...

Hot Posts: 4.06.07

Reader's Top 5 New Posts: The Spring Cure: Week Five The Spring Cure: Week Four - Weekend Post from Paris: The BHV Good Questions: How To Unpack a Truck in NYC? ...

AIA launches How Design Works

Design Process 101. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has launched a new site, How Design Works to reach the growing number of people designing/redesigning their homes. The site aims to ans...

Hot Tip: French Soaps Discount

The vendors are evesdropping... but this one is pretty cool as French Soaps is a very nice online shop. We spotted this on a thread from last week: "We would like to offer Apartment Therapy readers ...

Hot Tip: Angela Adams at Bed, Bath and Beyond

Accessibility. It's a good thing when a designer's line goes mainstream at an easy-to-reach store. We heard from AT reader, Rod, that Angela Adams now has a line of bedding available at Bed, Bath and ...

Hot Tip: Switch Planet

Use more... waste less! The founder of Switch Planet, Chris Samarin, notified us that the site is newly available for anyone to join. The site is a trading center for dvd's and cd's. Chris says they w...

Popular Machanics: Best of Eco-Friendly Home Design

We just finished digging through Popular Machanics: The Best of Eco-Friendly Home Design at the urging of AT reader, Matt. The feature seelects a top 25 of green design innovators and shares them w...

Hot Tip: Alvin Lustig Limited Edition Prints

These limited edition prints by Alvin Lustig are designs from 1940's New Classics Series book jackets. We think they're very cool. They were screen printed by Luther Davis of Axelle Fine Art in Broo...

Tip: Check Out Sleeper

Upon the arrival of Bedroom Month, take a moment to check out this fitting blog, Sleeper. It's "everything about the bedroom" on this blog, all the time. We like the entries on Memorable Sleeps and B...

Tip: Shower Curtain Decor

We received this tip from AT reader, Jessica, on how to spruce up a standard clear shower curtain liner. The outcome is dazzling. Thanks, Jessica! I've had a poster up in my hallway for a few years...

Tip: Auto Clearance Sale

Roman wrote to let us know that Auto is having a clearance sale this month (starts Saturday). The lowdown on some of the goods: -Etro pillows and throws (40-50% off) pillows were $138 now $70 Joh...

Tip: Delong Ceramic Boat Cleats

Tipped off by reader Pauline. Spotted at the Grand Central Terminal Gift Fair, Delong Ceramics casts ceramic boat cleats in white, ivory and beautiful nautical greens and blues. According to Pauline...

Hot Tip: HGTV's Design Star

Could this be you? Are you ready to be the new Star? HGTV's Design Star is casting for season two right now. They're looking for submissions from great designers and, of course, also a great new telev...

11x17.com

We work with 11"x17" paper a lot, creating presentations, drawings, etc. But when it comes to organizing these double-size sheets, the market favors letter or legal size. This site, 11x17.com, offer...

Furnish: Free Layout Program

There have been recent questions about free, downloadable programs for creating furniture layouts online. And we just received a tip-off from Pixie directing us to just that: Furnish is a free progr...

Whirls by Kim Westad

Now on exhibit at the Kiva Cafe: New York ceramic artist and designer Kim Westad. The opening reception is this Friday, December 1 from 6:30-8:30 and the show is up until January 20. Kim just shared...

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