apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Nicole is curious: On last weeks (11-24-08) episode of Chuck, they showed coffee mugs in the first few minutes of the show. They were white and the mug part kind of swirled into the handle at the top (or vice versa). I'm having trouble finding an image of them to attach, but was wondering if anybody knew where they came from.

Yes, we are hiring. We are looking for a new blogger (or two) to help us cover San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond in 2009. Do you love AT, interior design and all things home-related? Would you like a place to share your ideas and inspirations? Think you would like to join our team? If so, jump below for the details:

Questions, Answers and Conversation
for SF and the Northwest

Check out Yesterdays Most Popular SF Post:
Good Questions: Mandal into Modulicious?

Today is opening day for Storeroom, a temporary holiday pop up department store of design put together by CITIZEN:Citizen. Here is the scoop:

Ashley sent in a good question for the crowd: When my husband and I first got married, we purchased our first real piece of furniture together - a new bed. We selected a big, beautiful dark-wood four poster and paired it with sea inspired blue walls and cream linens....

Chandra is looking for some ideas:Help! We have this great mahogany wood table with long pedestal legs that we recently bought a wingback settee for. The problem is that the pedestal legs of the table line directly up with the sette, leaving too much room between the sette and the table.

Rachel sent in a good question: I was reading your post called Purge baby, purge! and I wonder if you ever have purging remorse.

Kimber is looking for some links: Please help me! I have been having the hardest time finding reasonably priced, modern hanging planters! I would LOVE the PlantOrb from Perch! However, I can't fathom spending $100 on a planter for a single succulent, let alone the six I need to repot.

Design Roundtable
for SF and the Northwest

Check out Yesterday's Most Popular SF Post:
Batles' Potrero Hill Home Echoes the Past

Snowiye has a good question for the crowd: We have a split level/ partially open floor plan with a L-shaped hallway, and part of it is open to the living room. I am trying to figure out where the hallway color should start, help? (more photos below)

Rhia is looking for some advice: We are baffled as to how to design the entry in our rental house (photos show landlord's stuff). It is currently an uninviting area that leads to the kitchen and living room. We need design ideas to help us create a comfortable and organized atmosphere that feels more like a cozy room than a hallway.

AT:SF Reader John Clarke Mills is just beginning to restore his 1890 San Francisco Victorian. One of his first projects was to redo this old chandelier and the AFTER is fantastic. Jump below to check out the finished project and a mini how to:

Mrs. W sent us an email: So I've been looking at some pink tools lately and I think they are so cute but I am hesitant to buy them because I want something of quality. Do any major tool brands maybe do special breast cancer awareness limited pink tools or somthing?