Q: Two days after closing on our first home, a 1936 Colonial Revival house, we exuberantly painted the interiors with the help of twelve gracious relatives. After three months in the house, we are l...
Winter is looming and already the Duraflame logs are out for sale. A sad reminder that you live in an apartment with a stifling, rattling radiator instead of a a warm, crackling fireplace. Fortunate...
Hi! My husband and I just made a faux fireplace on our new loft. The top piece is sustainable salvaged maple from our local re-use shop. We cut it in half (going to make a coffee table out of the ot...
I had to share this amazing fireplace facade — it's part of a home renovation in Sag Harbor, New York by Jendretzki Design and Planning Consultant. The update to the existing home included the...
Q: Hi, I just moved into a new condo in an older building from the late 1800s. I don't like my fireplace and would like to change it with either paint or new tiles. I have seen pictures of other house...
Fireplaces grace many a pre-war apartment, working or non-working, decorative or functional. In small spaces, the fireplace can be somewhat limiting when it comes to laying out furniture. That's why...
Hi guys, I just wanted to share my dog's new bed I made last weekend — we have a disused fireplace in our living room and I thought it would be charming to make it into a doggy bed for our Shi...
Name: Minna Hepburn Location: Camberwell, London Type: Georgian / Victorian house Size: 2,100 square feet (approximate) Years lived in: 1.5 years Minna is originally from Finland but when she move...
Q: I know this might cause an uproar, but I am trying to find the best way to hide the fireplace in my apartment. I feel that the best layout for my apartment requires that the sofa be placed on the w...
Make your Scooby Doo fantasies come true! Creative Home Engineering is in the business of building custom secret passageways and hidden storage ways in homes. While most of their portfolio of design...
Q - Dear Apartment Therapy — In its original state our fireplace had continuous brick up to the ceiling, a real wood burning fireplace and a cement slab ledge. Now, the brick is covered in dr...
I'm currently renovating my apartment and would love some advice on how to handle the fireplace. I'm putting in a Henrybuilt kitchen on the other side of this room, so the room's overall aesthetic ...
I submitted a question about our rental bathroom awhile back and got such awesome suggestions I thought I'd ask again about another dilemma! Our rental apartment came with a hideous fireplace in the...
click thumbnails for larger pics The new Fire Collection from Arik Levy for Planika simplifies the structure of a small, fireplace and creates an intimate setting that works both outdoors and indoors...
Hi! I'm remodeling this apartment, the trickiest room being the living room. This decorative fireplace looks pretty sad I think and so I'm looking for ideas to make it a more pleasant sight. The liv...
We've sung the praises of artist Ann Wood before. She is now creating custom paintings of roaring fires, which are sized to fit in any ornamental fireplace, and offered through Partners and Spade. ...
If you read the Sunday Times, you saw it. It's there again today and in papers all over the USA. A full page advert for an electric fireplace made by picturesque Amish people that's actually being g...
This tote for firewood from Swedish designer Malin Lundmark is sleek, practical, and nearly perfect for housing an evening's supply of firewood......
Hi AT, I know you have posted a few items about the freestanding Eco Smart alcohol fireplaces, which are super cute but super expensive at around $6,000 or so. Does anybody know how these much less ex...
My husband and I are redoing our living room and decided to paint the working red brick fireplace white. We chose to paint the inside of the fireplace black and now are at a loss as to what to do rega...
Our loft in Brooklyn has more than a few long, blank expanses of wall. To make these a little less intimidating, we've been considering ways to make the stretches more interesting on the cheap. The ...
Hello AT, We're renovating and we've got three fireplaces in our new place. Since we can't burn wood in the city anymore, we can either restore fireplaces and put in gas ($$$$) or chose not to rest...
We crave outdoor space of our own! Decorator Charlotte Moss has created an outdoor room in the back garden of her Upper East Side town house. Featured in New York Magazine, the outdoor room is furni...
Though we'll always treasure the idea of the Porcelain Campfire, we're pleased to see New York-based ceramicists Klein Reid with a new line of Bisque Books that deserve our "mimic" tag for things that...
We haven't run out of matches in ages: the last ones we bought were a 4-pack of strike anywheres. But, unbelievably, we are now running low. And in a timely fashion we stumbled on these colorful boxe...
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