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Color Therapy Palette, Vol. 1: The Best Off-Whites

To All ColorTherapy Posts It’s been said that the human eye can perceive an average of 3 million colors, with some highly sensitive or artistic types able to detect 7 million. Yet, I’ve noticed ...

Hard-to-Find Art & Design Books
The New York Times 7.17.08

In this week's Shopping With... feature from The New York Times, designer Kelly Wearstler visits Potterton Books in Los Angeles and shares her tips and resources for finding out-of-print design book...

How To: Make the Most of Your Groceries from Consumerist

We're all for cutting down on consumption around the house. When we saw Consumerist's list of 20 ways to make more of your groceries without spending more money, it appealed to our waste-not ways. C...

Miss Pixie's
Washington DC

Address: 1626 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-232-8171 Website: www.misspixies.com Recently relocated from Adam Morgan's to 14th St., Miss Pixie's carries a wide range of goods: fr...

NEWS: Metropolitan Home Launches Fulcrum Magazine

One of the standby shelter magazines, Metropolitan Home has created a new spin-off title to focus on architecture and design news. Fulcrum will be busy "Charting New Directions in Design, Architecture...

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

Green up your clean up. The Green Clean book is a practical guide to more eco-friendly house cleaning. With simple guides for laundry, dishes, recycling and more, we found the sample PDF book pages ...

Cradle to Cradle: Design for the Future
Email from 6.19.08

If you watched the endless footage of flooding in the Midwest on television last night, you probably wondered - as I did - if this was a freak of nature or the shape of things to come. And then you...

Finnish Summer Houses

Summers in Finland mean heading out to the country house, often without electricity or running water. Time is spent outdoors and the sun is up around the clock. This book, Finnish Summer Houses by J...

Materials Monthly from Princeton Architectural Press

If you're a designer or just interested in new materials for designing your own home, you might like this. It's Materials Monthly, a subscription to 10 mailings per year of the latest and greatest a...

BEEFY Home & Garden Tool Source: Forestry Suppliers, Inc.
Email from 6.10.08

Looking at garden catalogs is an annual occasion at our house. While it's usually window shopping and imagining "WHAT IF WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY", tucked away inside are always a few super cool, use...

Donate Your Books with a Free Pick-Up Service!
Boston

It’s one thing to sort through your stuff to decide what to keep and what to purge. But it’s another thing altogether to send the purged stuff on to its final destination, be it donating, reselli...

The Museum of Bad Art
Boston

Charlie and Sheba If you're a fan of Goodwill, or curbsides on trashday you see a lot of bad art. We do too, and we actually have a soft spot for it. Not in large doses, but sometimes the simplest, m...

The Rasterbator: Huge DIY Artwork
Email from 5.23.08

Here's a little Memorial Day Weekend parting shot email tip for you to play with if it gets rainy in the next few days, and you're stuck inside. The Rasterbator is an infamous website which allow...

Sublease Form at Law Depot

'Tis the season for the summer sublet. With so many people on the move for the summer, lots of New York City apartments are going to be sublet. When it's only for a period of a couple months, we kno...

Modern Rebel: MLK Jr. Memorial Library
Washington DC

One of the few modernist buildings in DC, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has been the source of controversy since it opened in 1972. The building was designed by legendary architect Lu...

AT Press: Real People, Really Small Spaces
The New York Times 5.29.08

Our new book was featured in The New York Times! Penelope Green profiled Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions and we're thrilled to be a small part of this...

Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly

This is a little artwork inspiration for you and your home. We found this book in the home where we're staying (SKGR's mother's house in LA) and found ourselves paging through it last night after e...

Personal Library: Collecting Books
The New York Times 5.15.08

How much is too much? The New York Times shares the first-person account of author Alberto Manguel discussing his life-long love of books and his personal library of over 30,000 volumes. As romantic...

Georgetown Refinishing (Furniture Repair)
Washington, DC

This U.S. post office cubby cabinet was recently picked up at the Raleigh, NC flea market in excellent condition, but suffered damage during the journey to DC. The cabinet was made in 1930 and used t...

NEWS: T Style Magazine Design & Living Spring 2008

This Sunday, the newest issue of The New York Times T Style Magazine has a Design & Living focus. While we usually read the newspaper online, we always try to purchase a physical copy of the paper whe...

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...

Thursday Giveaway: "Sorted!" by Lissanne Oliver

Congratulations to kkbutler, who won last week's giveaway, The Shower Bow. Items: 2 copies of Sorted! The Ultimate Guide to Organising Your Life Author: Lissanne Oliver Retail Price: $20 ea De...

AT Email: Margaret Roach's New Blog, A Way to Garden - 4.8.08

April 8, 2008 I am not a gardener. I am a landscaper. I like to build the garden, not tend it. But I don't get much of an opportunity to do either living in the city, which is why I LOVE...

Japanese Love Hotels

When SMALL is a PROBLEM. In Japan, space at home is tight and privacy rare, so love hotels are ubiquitous. But leave it to the Japanese to take interior design to a new level when it comes to rooms ...

Urban Fruit Orchards, Renovation Consultants, Tiny Entries
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.13.08

Backyards, Beware: An Orchard Wants Your Spot. A look at the increasing number of urban gardeners planting and harvesting fruit trees. Calling in the House Therapist. Renovation consultants can be...

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