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Layering in the Home

Dressing in layers is what gets us through these transitional seasons when it's sunny and warm one day and gray and cold the next. The layered look can serve well in the home, as well. It can provid...

Suggestions for Living Room Sconce Lighting?
Good Questions

Q: Hi I was hoping that the Apartment Therapy community could help me — I'm slowly decorating my living room but now I'm a little out of ideas. I'd like to select a pair of wall lamps or sconc...

Ginkgo Leaf Decor

The ginkgoes around the neighborhood are really showing off right now. Their yellow plumes of leaves are beautiful. They're also showing off in a not-so-pleasant way: their ginkgo fruits at this tim...

Best Throw Pillows 2009

Clockwise from uppper left: BluDot, Thomas Paul, Orla Kiely & Alexander Girard During the Room for Color Contest (see all our entries here), many readers learn that one of the best ways to experiment...

Quest for a Lavender Rug: Which One?

Dear Resourceful Readers, I am hoping you can help with this decision. Using the top left photo as inspiration, I have been trying to find a similar rug for my living room. It seems that lavender (o...

Look! Lighting & Doorway Inspiration from Thomas O'Brien

I snapped the picture above in Thomas O'Brien's Soho shop last week. While O'Brien is amazingly talented and prolific, it is hard to find his style all in once location. His designs spread out amo...

Farmhouse Chic: Rugged & Elegant Inspiration

The words themselves are not a natural fit. Farmhouse being a rugged, rustic, utilitarian term. Chic being elegant, stylish and fashionable. But somehow when combined it's a match made in design hea...

Health Care Cures for the Home

A lot of home design brings the current health care situation front of mind. Some designers, like Tonky, are going one step further than red cross motifs and donating all profits from their modern p...

A Murray Hill Apartment by Ron Marvin

We've spotted previous Small Cool contestant Ron Marvin's own studio apartment and just last week Aaron shared a New York Times feature on Marvin's work in photographer Andrea Sperling's apartment. ...

Inspiration: Dude Design

Dude design, otherwise known as the man cave. What makes a home decidedly manly? Nothing per se. It certainly doesn’t make you more of a man to choose one design aesthetic over another, but there ...

Redecorating on a Budget: Pre-war to Modern Eclectic
The New York Times

The New York Times paired up photographer Andrea Sperling with interior designer Ron Marvin (a previous Small Cool winner!) to demonstrate the process of redecorating on a budget. Sperling, a single...

Wall-Mounted Fireplace by Vauni

Winter is looming and already the Duraflame logs are out for sale. A sad reminder that you live in an apartment with a stifling, rattling radiator instead of a a warm, crackling fireplace. Fortunate...

Green Accents & Accesories for the Home
Roundup

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. ...

Jennifer's Sophisticated Springtime Living Room
Room for Color - East #27

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Jennifer Location: Astoria, Queens, New York Type of Home: rental apartment Color Inspiration: I knew I had to use a wall color that would sh...

Lauren's Jewel Tones
Room for Color - East #24

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Lauren Location: Brooklyn, New York Type of Home: rental studio apartment Color Inspiration: I live in an L-shaped studio with my boyfriend....

Yellow Accents & Accessories for the Home
Roundup

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 things up...

Cusi & Peter's Cosy Writers' Studio
Room for Color - East #20

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Cusi & Peter Location: West Village of Manhattan, New York, New York Type of Home: rent stabilized apartment Color Inspiration: My husb...

Abigail's 'Victorian Peacock'
Room for Color - East #16

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Abigail Location: New York, New York Type of Home: rental apartment Color Inspiration: Oscar Wilde, Pedro Almodovar, Paul Poiret, Maurice Ve...

Katie's 'Apple Green' Studio
Room for Color - East #10

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Katie Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type of Home: studio apartment rental Color Inspiration: We took our color cues from the warm ora...

Accent Walls Using Wallpaper

Accent walls are a hot topic on Apartment Therapy, so here's a look at some rooms that use wallpaper to make one wall standout among the rest. ...

The Drapers' New Living Room Decor
Mad Men

The fabulous 60's decor in TV show Mad Men is a great inspiration here on Apartment Therapy. In last night's new episode (Season 3 Episode 7 "Seven Twenty Three"), Betty Draper and her decorator unve...

Exposed Ceiling Beams

There are ceilings and then there are ceilings with exposed beams. It’s like being born with perfect eyebrows. You don’t always notice them at first, but then you realize they make the face, or ...

Dealing with the Television
from Apartment Therapy House Tours

The television is the bane of many otherwise well-thought-out living spaces. The problem is compounded when you're dealing with tight spaces, as every little move packs a punch in a small apartment....

Return of a Trend? Extreme Matching

Remember how everything matched in Blanche’s bedroom on The Golden Girls? Do people still match their wallpaper and bedding? Or drapes and cushions? ...

Furniture in Front of the Fireplace

Fireplaces grace many a pre-war apartment, working or non-working, decorative or functional. In small spaces, the fireplace can be somewhat limiting when it comes to laying out furniture. That's why...

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