Straight from Chicago, Janel & Heather have a new idea that we're copying: We know you love design. We know you have great ideas. We know you take pictures. We'd love to see them and show them off.
If you tag your photos in flickr, we can find you!
Each week we'll start doing searches in flickr based on the tag apartmenttherapynewyork. We'll pull great photos from our searches to build posts here on the front page. Whenever you upload something you'd like to share with us, just pop in the tag.
Our goal is to create a local repository of images showing how we live here in New York. We plan to start searching and posting the goods ASAP, so if you have something up on flickr already that you'd like to show us (and the world...) go ahead and add the tag apartmenttherapynewyork.
What we'd love to see (a quick, partial list):
Favorite rooms (or rooms on their way to being favorites)
Space saving solutions
DIY projects!!!
Art and Design (your work or something you've collected)
New purchases (we love bargains as well as major buys!)
Dinner party table setting pix (menu/music in the comments)
The stuff you have stuck on your fridge
An organized workspace (or drawer, or closet)
Your favorite piece of furniture
A collection
Things you see around town that inspire you to make your home more beautiful, organized and healthy
Put any info you'd like us to know in the comments section of the photos - the more details the better!
Surprise and inspire us! Keep in mind: Our Mission at AT is to help people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy. We'll be looking for photos that help us to do that (plus we think it sounds like fun!).
It's simple: upload your photos to flickr and tag it with apartmenttherapynewyork. Yup, all one word: apartmenttherapynewyork.
As flickr users know, tags are like a keyword or category label. Tags help you find photos which have something in common. You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo. We uploaded and tagged some of our photos (the test run) here.
Thanks! We'll be searching and blogging the best of what we find...
sounds like fun! hope to contribute soon.
What can us folks un-lucky enough to not live in NY or Chicago do?
"apartmenttherapysomewhereelse" sounds like a good idea. :)
Maybe someone should start an "apartment therapy everywhere" pool.
Can't wait to contribute!
Great idea!
It looks like there are already some pics up! Cool.
I'm on the DIY-out-of-necessity side of things, and I have a bunch of projects that I'm going to be doing in the few months. Looking forward to posting them on flickr for all to enjoy (or mock?).
Great idea! Janel and Heather are so clever - I'll definitely do this whenever I post pics of my pad.
Holly
Um, I don't get this, exactly... why don't people just contribute their photos to the site?
What am I missing?
P2,
Of course, people absolutely CAN directly contribute their photos to the site, and we love it when people do...but our thought was that this might work as an easy alternative for readers to use.
It's just another way to contribute...we are hoping that folks who might not think about sending a pic to us directly might go ahead and just add the tag to put it into the mix for consideration.
Also - we see great stuff on flickr all the time and it was a natural inclination as editors to want to pull cool interior/design ideas from peoples flickr photostreams. At the same time, we wanted to make sure it was ok to blog peoples photos - this is one way for flickr users to let us know its ok to post their stuff on the site.
Plus for those who give it a try, there is the added fun of never knowing just when they may show up on the AT front page!
The only AT features where we regularly see other readers' places are Good Questions and House Tours. I think people have all kinds of projects and purchases going on that don't fit into either of those categories, but which might be worth featuring on the site.
If I'm doing something glamorous like reorganizing my kitchen cupboards, I wouldn't think of submitting such a thing to AT, but if I document the project on flickr, the eds. might see some aspect of the project that they think other readers would find useful. "Look how so-and-so dealt with the problem of an awkwardly-shaped pantry..."
As a reader/voyeur of AT, I think it is a terrific idea because I can go on Flickr and see what other ATers are up to (plus I think it will be nice to know that certian people won't be offering their unsolicted, amatuer, decorating advice or comments - and if they do, the flickr members can delete them!!!!).
Also, I would venture to guess it saves the editors a certain amout of time sorting through e-mails and questions. P(too), you're a sport, no? Can't you see the benefit in that, at least?
I just clicked through a few of the pix that are already up. I agree with previous posters that this will be a completely different type of forum than the more formal posting of a house tour on AT. It's more like looking through a lot of someone's pix to see what's new and what's of interest. No editing by AT (unless inappropriate, of course.) Plus, I see large numbers of pix coming.
BTW, love the FLOR one person posted. Although I remain unconvinced that I would like FLOR very much after having seen it both in person (DWR) and in pix (they just don't look like they add up to a comfy rug), those bold, red patterns in the pix look fab. Thanks to the poster for contributing them.
Not dissing anyone, because I understand that there must be oeverwhelming amounts of email, but I have had contributions sit in junk mail purgatory for a long time before they were posted after a reminder.
I think this would be more accessible and easier to manage for AT staff and also helps contributers because the UI for loading pics onto flickr and commenting on them is orders of magnitude better than any email application where you have to search and attach one at a time.
I'd like to know what you used to suspend the guitar on the wall in this pic?
http://chicago.apartmenttherapy.com/images/uploads/2006-07-28-guitarchair.jpg
I'm tired of mine sitting in the corner and then ending up on the floor.
axa_flyer:
it's a guitar hanger called a "string swing". It's available for 13.99 on guitarcenter.com.