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AT DC: What Does Your Apt Building Say About You?

This is from our DC finalist, Thomas. Comment away! What do apartment buildings say about the residents that live inside of them? I walk to work everyday...rain or shine. My studio is ten blocks ...

Organizing Books: Animal Index Cards

Books and book organization are a popular subject on AT. Whether our readers are organizing their collection of magazines or standing tall for the protection of books' spines, you love books. These ca...

Sketchpad: Garden Apartment
The New York Times 5.4.08

The most recent Sketch Pad feature from The New York Times highlights a one bedroom apartment with garden space in the Flatiron District. This garden level apartment has an additional studio buildin...

Design Ideas from the Kips Bay Decorator Show House
The New York Times 5.1.08

Last week, The New York Times featured a preview of this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Today, they followed up the general preview with some specific details on replicating the professionals' ...

Inspiration: Grouping by Color

Will the current trend of grouping your books and clothing by color expand to include everything? Photographer Helga Steppan grouped her own personal belonging by color to create these amazing photo...

Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Memoir of Gerald & Sara Murphy
Email from 4.23.08

Gerald and Sara Murphy dancing on the beach at East Hampton, ca. 1915 I write about products a lot, and they can excite and solve problems, but they don't always lift your spirit. This book can: Livi...

Jim Lambie: A Great DIY Flooring Project at MoMA
Email from 4.21.08

TRY THIS AT HOME. If you go to the MoMA to see anything right now, you'll have to walk over Jim Lambie's work. You can't avoid it. In the entryway up to the crazy flying fan in the Marron atrium, ...

Inspiration: Small Parisian Garden Shed Apartment

This dwelling was created in a backyard shed for use by a teenager. The structure, divided into four stories, is both extremely small and undeniably cool. Made entirely of birch plywood, the interio...

Creating Space at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House
The New York Times 4.24.08

This year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House is not a townhouse — it's six apartments in the Manhattan House apartment building on East 66th Street. Built in 1950, the modernist block of apartments a...

Inspiration: Corian Loves Missoni

In the kitchen counter-top debate, we've always liked Corian. It's durable and you can repair small scratches yourself. And it's available in a ton of colors. To emphasize the wide array of colors a...

Marbelous: Marble-chute Table by Tineke Beunder

Design blog Core77 has a ton of posts and video from Milan. In addition to a chat with Derek Chen of Council (and a peek at their new products), there is a quick video of Dutch designer Tineke Beund...

Inspiration: Eye Candy from Habitat

When we lived in England during college, our favorite store was Habitat. (We still have the catalog from autumn of 1998 that we picked up in a London store!) Gregory from ATLA even posted Habitat's ...

Pandelier: Frying Pan Chandelier

This one-of-a-kind chandelier graces the entrance to San Antonio's new branch of the Culinary Institute of America. The new Center for Foods of the Americas (that's what the CFA stands for) was foun...

Townhouse Transformed
New York Magazine 4.13.08

The new issue of New York Magazine features their special Vu. real estate section which is always chock-full of fascinating projects. Our favorite? The transformation of Adam Gordon's Jane Street To...

Look! Concrete Brick Floor

Though technically it doesn't qualify for a Tile Vault listing, the interior flooring of the Meatpacking District's jewelry store Ten Thousand Things achieves a similar aesthetic. The industrial con...

Christopher Peacock Kitchens
The New York Times 4.10.08

Sterling silver knobs and hinges? Who is going to polish them? The high-end kitchens from English kitchen designer Christopher Peacock don't all feature such obnoxious displays of wealth (though som...

Look! Mike Perry's Custom Tape

We recently completed a project (unrelated to AT) with Brooklyn-based illustrator Mike Perry . We've featured his wallpaper designs for Studio Nommo before, and we were excited to receive this custo...

Bucket Pendant Light from IKEA PS

The new pendant lamp from IKEA's PS collection offers nearly endless possibilities for personalization and customization. A clear plastic bucket houses a protected bulb and the space surrounding the...

AT Email: Jim Denevan, Photos to Inspire - 4.4.08

April 4, 2008 But I digress. What an amazing week it has been. With the first shoots popping up in the little greenhouse on our kitchen table, no longer needing to wear gloves outside...

Crepe Paper Flower Kits from Martha Stewart Crafts

Are your Deli-daffodils dying too fast? While we've always preferred our flowers fresh, there is something sweet and simple about these crepe paper flower kits from Martha Stewart. The kit provides ...

Inspiration: The Best Way to Hang Artwork the Wrong Way

Rules were made to be broken, right? As popular as our How To: Hang Your Artwork and Not Screw It Up post is, it's very refreshing to see a completely different approach. Illustrator Claudia Carieri...

Timber Loft in London

In a shell of an existing loft space in South Kensington, London, Hogarth Architects have created a beautifully warm interior with the addition of a two-floor timber structure. The timber structure ...

Bi-Color Window Panels from West Elm

With a near window-less apartment, I don't spend much time thinking about window coverings (the rental came with functioning blinds that do the job). Last year, I was transfixed by the custom linen ...

Look!: Curvy Modern Marble Stairs

Posts on unique designs and solutions for stairs are always very popular here on AT. Last month, we received a record number of visitors for Kristin's AT Europe post, London Close-up - The Amazing ...

This Old House's Favorite Bathrooms Ever

We didn't realize one of Wednesday's carrara marble bathrooms was on this editors' list of This Old House's favorite bathrooms ever. But it's on there, along with many others, which we're sharing af...

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