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Hiding Your Air Conditioner
New York Magazine 7.6.08

It's a question and concern for many apartment dwellers - How do you hide the monstrously ugly air conditioner? New York Magazine does a quick round-up of five approaches to the common problem. The ...

Best Products: Mitsubishi Mr. Slim Air Conditioners

In our new apartment we've only recently begun to use a new feature, one that we'd never encountered before, a Mr. Slim split-ductless AC system. Not totally attractive at first because these bulbo...

Eco, Sexy & Ventless: The Bosch Axxis Washer Dryer Series
Email from 4.28.08

So, we were at our friend's apartment up in Harlem (they just moved in last summer) and they were proudly showing us around - showing us all the new things that made us downtown folks jealous, like ...

Best Small Kitchens Units 2008

This is a really fun category that we've been collecting data on for years now. More and more we are seeing people go small and compact in order to open their space up and increase the efficiency o...

Good Questions: A "Telescopic" Loft Ladder?

Hello AT, We're looking for a loft ladder...maybe someone can come up with a great solution. Not sure if the picture is clear, but the door on the left is for the bathroom, the sliding door on the r...

Liesl's Cure: The Fridge Saga - #4, Finale!

Welcome to Liesl, veteran writer for many New York papers and magazines who now is weighing in on kitchen appliances instead of books for a change. Continuing on from Chapter #3... "...Anyway, end...

Liesl's Cure: The Fridge Saga - #3

Welcome to Liesl, veteran writer for many New York papers and magazines who now is weighing in on kitchen appliances instead of books for a change. This is a copy of Liesl's letter to Big Chill, w...

Jill's Tour: Hansen Living Kitchen Architecture

The night of Day 2 in Copenhagen introduced me to Hansen Living, a minimalist, natural approach to kitchens. Knud Kapper, danish architect and founder of Hansen Living, has designed an eco-friendly ...

Liesl's Cure: The Fridge Saga - #2

Welcome to Liesl, veteran writer for many New York papers and magazines who now is weighing in on kitchen appliances instead of books for a change. Liesl's favorite, the Bombatino Doppio (left two) ...

Liesl's Cure: The Fridge Saga - #1

Welcome to Liesl, veteran writer for many New York papers and magazines who now is weighing in on kitchen appliances instead of books for a change. The Old Fridge RIP "Ever since I moved into my lo...

NY Good Questions: Reviews on Summit's Fridges?

Hello AT, My wife and I are in the planning stages of our Jackson Heights Co-op kitchen gut redo and we have run into the same problem I guess a lot of people in NYC apartments is that we can't get a...

Jenn-Air's New Oiled Bronze Finish

Yesterday, we saw a vintage copper kitchen appliance set. Today, we see a modern take from Jenn-Air with their new Oiled Bronze Suite. The collection includes matching dishwasher, refrigerator, cook...

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...

Transparent Appliances from Invention Station

Everyone likes to hide stuff behind closed doors, but these appliances are extra cool. Gizmodo posted these images from Tokyo's National Electronics' Invention Station......

Microwave Drawer by Sharp

Undercover microwave. If you use a microwave and want to get it out of the way, it might be worth a look at Sharp's new microwave drawer......

Fagor's 24" Refrigerator
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Slim & Shiny. We're loving the look of Fagor's 24" refrigerator it has the same depth of standard kitchen cabinets. a great size for small kitchens that still need a larger-than-undercounter-fri...

LG Control Center Laundry

Still dreaming of the day we have our own washer and dryer, we recently came across LG's Control Center Laundry stackable washer and dryer....

Liberty Island Cooktop by Alno

Cook at the table. The Liberty Island induction cooktop by Alno mounts on the end of your table. It folds down when not in use. Pop it up to use it and open its glass cover to function as a backspla...

Fuego Grills by Pentagram

We've blogged it before out at ATLA: Fuego - Finally Available!, but ID magazine just gave the Fuego Grill special mention in their annual design review. Designed by the hot, hot design company Pent...

Flymo Hover Mowers

Just in time for summer. We wondered where we had been when Flymo invented Hover Mowers forty years ago? It appears the entire line of garden and lawn-care equipment is only available in Europe. It...

30" Refrigerator/Freezer by Marvel

Fit more undercounter. We installed an undercounter refrigerator to maximize counter space in our small kitchen. Our choice? The 30" Marvel refrigerator/freezer. ...

Design Within Reach: Airstream

Small & Cool! We've known this was in the works for a while, but the Airstream trailer designed by Design Within Reach has hit the web. We wonder how succesfully these will sell, or if it just an el...

Automatic Mahjong Table

Pung! My week-long trip to China included several late nights at the tiny hotel's Automatic Mahjong Table. The table mechanically shuffles and deals the tiles and the "wow factor" doesn't diminish...

Star extractor by D R Cooker Hoods Ltd.

This is really a gem of an extractor. Tony, an AT reader, tipped us off to this glam remote-control extractor hood for the kitchen. ...

LG's Gallery Kitchen Appliances

This is the first in a new series of Gallery Kitchen appliances by LG Electronics. It is a refrigerator with an exterior printed in flower designs by artist Ha Sang-rim. I remember the old refrigerato...

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