apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Oh my gosh, that quote jumped out at me too - that chair knocked my socks off the first time I saw it but now I am seeing it EVERYWHERE - I wish Anthro had a custom fabric process where one would have a lot to choose from to at least make the chair their own.

Lately, "Woods" by Cole and Son is my Ugg boots as wallpaper choice. I dreamed of it at first, but luckily it's been so hard to find a good wallpaper hanger that my urge for it passed, as it's become so ubiquitous.

Becky

oh P.S. is there anywhere to leave comments on their blog? If so, I didn't see it.

Becky

By the way, elsewhere on there, they quote AT as where they heard of Rasterbator.

I actually was interested in the next story down, which was the followup to the apartment makeover story. She says she *bought* most of the stuff they used in the makeover. I never really gave that much thought to it, but it never occurred to me that the makeover recipient doesn't get to keep the stuff. That seems so cruel, to give someone a fab new apartment and then cart it all away!

Regarding the next story down, third photo--has anyone seen bright blue andirons before? Reminds me of the coated chandeliers in style lately.

becky - I feel the exact same way you do about the Woods wallpaper. When I first saw it, I wanted it SO badly! We are in a rental apartment and I knew I couldn't wallpaper a room or a wall and was so disappointed. I thought about wallpapering a large board or foam core and mounting it to the wall behind our bed. I even ramped up our condo search efforts (not just for the sake of being able to wallpaper, but it was one of my motivators!)
Then... one day I saw the Woods wallpaper again in the 30th room setting, in the 20th publication, and I was just completely and utterly over it.
Now I would much rather paint my own unique tree wall mural or at the very least find a wallpaper that is less, as you pointed out, ubiquitous.

It's kind of like those papier mache square wall tile things that look curled up at the corner -- every once in a while I see them in a different HGTV situation; and at the gym I saw them on the Style network painted blue on a wall behind the people on a show called Fashion Police or something like that.

Jennifer, in the magazine print version they explain that they painted the andirons with Benjamin Moore Surf Blue paint.

Also, I seriously doubt that the apartment recipient "bought" her stuff with her own money- considering she is the editor of the magazine.

I like Blueprint, if not for the stuff in it, then at least for some of the ideas. That's how I shop anyway -
1. Can I make it? If not
2. Can I get it for free? If not
3. Can I get it used? If not
4. Can I get a cheaper version or substitute something else?

But I'm a tightwad.

Considering the resources behind this blog. I am disappointed. I couldn't find anywhere to post a comment either. This in itself shows it's true spirit or lack there of.

i think that very same chair is in the new real simple article about mixing patterns...

Weird, my friends and I were just talking about Blueprint the other week - saw the initial issue, but haven't seen it on a newsstand since. I assumed that they folded it after a trial run. Martha's got to push this one a little harder.

I also think that there's got to be a market for a home design mag with modern sensability that skews a little less "girls only". Maxwell, got one brewing?

Deb - no comments on the Blueprint blog is pretty lame. What's the point of a blog if there is no interaction?

VeryVermonty - I saw the new issue on a newsstand just this weekend, and like you, I had assumed it had folded. Like you, I also with there was a home design mag with modern sensibility that was a little less "girls only". I'm a girl, but my own design preferences are for a clean, modern and slightly more masculine look. Domino, Blueprint and many others are so sugary-sweet sometimes I can't look. Dwell is so generic and full of $$$ products that are inaccessible to most people I know on average budgets.

I was upset about the No Comments thing too, but then their actual magazine website takes weeks to get updated too. However, they have are offering the very first issue as a down-loadable file. Yes, the entire issue!

Blueprint only had 2 issue a year until recently. Those other two were trial issues in order to gauge interest before they decided if it would be 6 or 12 issues a year. This is only the third issue and like other MS publications they make their money more from subscriptions.

Well, I was pretty ticked when I subscribed in late January and then they mailed me my free trial issue but it was their Fall Issue (which I already had from back in fall of 2006). So I cancelled my subscription thinking it was folding and somewhat annoyed at their lack of professionalism and sure enough the new issue shows up on newsstands a few weeks later.

Still like the magazine though, just don't trust their subscription service

Did you see that their blog now has comments, since this afternoon? Wow, that was quick.
Good for you Blueprint!