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...
Posts tagged “bedroom”
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...
Fantastic Guest Rooms
In New York, the coveted Guest Bedroom is a rare, elusive beast. If you're lucky enough to have an extra room it's usually the size of a small pantry with a view of a brick wall. But just because yo...
Improvise Vanities for Your Guests
You can likely furnish a room for holiday company using what you already have around the house. For example, if you think a guest would like a private place to sit and apply her face (while freeing ...
Breakfast in Bed: Serving Trays
Yawn, strrretch Still fantasizing about a long winter's nap and thinking about all the entertaining to do this month when I realized — some of the most fun is entertaining in bed....
Source for a Similar Winged Headboard Bed?
Good Questions
Q: My fiance and I are looking for a bed similar to the one pictured — any tips or leads to assist me in finding this bed to purchase? Sent by Rafael...
Hibernating Dreams: Alcove Beds
Shorter, colder days tend to make me want to hibernate. Just the thought of cozying up in a cave of comforters and pillows when I get home brings a sense of peace to me as I toil on through the day....
Trompe L'oeil for the Home
Roundup
Trompe l'oeil is a french phrase for "trick of the eye." In design terms it means using extremely realistic imagery to create an optical illusion that make the artwork appear 3-D. This is most often...
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 ...
Small Spaces Aboard the USS Intrepid
We've featured some tight quarters on Apartment Therapy before, but the rooms on the USS Intrepid are not only historical, they're a marvel of small space efficiency. I recently visited the floating...
Blue Accents & Accessories for the Home
Roundup
Next on our Color Roundup is blue − the calm, tranquil color of the sky and sea. Blue is considered a dependable color; it’s always there for us. In fact most people answer blue when asked ...
Katy's 'Shadow Gray' Bedroom
Room for Color - East #23
To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Katy Location: Brooklyn, New York Type of Home: owned co-op apartment Color Inspiration: I love varying shades of gray. Not only is gray sup...
Velvet Tufted Headboards
“What is this, velvet?” Do you ever get a design idea stuck in your head and all you can think about is how it would make life perfect? For me, the latest is a velvet tufted headboard. ...
Daniela's Red & White Bedroom
Room for Color - International #6
To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Daniela Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Type of Home: apartment Color Inspiration: As I was thinking what to do with this room I picked up fen...
Maira Kalman at Monticello
We've admired Thomas Jefferson's bed alcove at Monticello both here and here. And so has Maira Kalman......
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. ...
Lanni's Orange & Pink Bedroom
Room for Color - East #1
To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Lanni Location: Rochester, New York Type of Home: single family home Color Inspiration: I am a very colorful person and I like to be surround...
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 ...
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? ...
Black-Painted Bedroom Walls
Before Fall Colors starts, we just wanted to get this black wall out of our system. We're loving the idea of using black on bumpy, imperfect walls like the ones pictured here......
Amazing Wall Curtains: Shaker Design for Drafts
Insta-wallpaper for renters? I've loved Shaker peg rails for a long time, especially because they are so multi-purpose. BUT I'd never known that the Shakers also used them during the winter to help ...
Hell’s Kitchen Studio Makeover: Part 3 – Bedroom
Guest Post from Danny Seo
I’ve always said if you can only invest money in one room of the house — or, in this case, one section of the studio — pick the bedroom. It’s where we theoretically spend 1/3 of our ...
Black & White and Purple All Over
This article from New York Spaces features this apartment for its purple interiors. But what caught our eye was the headboard pictured here......
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