apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

*whimper*

Factory.

Beautiful. love the arbor room and think it would be awesome with vines.

anyone have an idea of how much a house like this would cost? 1 million? 5 million? more?

just curious as i have some planning to do.

I can't relate

Really like this. The fireplace alone does it for me. Wondering about window coverings, though - no running around nekkid in this place, I'm guessing.

AH-MAZING!.

madsarah, poverty is not a virtue and having money is not a sin.

Mad, your frustration is totally understandable, but part of reading a community about design means that, just occasionally, you're going to run into High Design that is fantastically expensive.

It's kind of like a clothing blog looking at the craziest of fashion shows. Yes, we're never, ever going to be able to pay $50,000 for a dress. But the experimentation and innovation in High Fashion often spreads through and inspires the rest of the industry, right down to Etsy artists repurposing old sweaters.

This is pretty much the polar opposite of my tastes, but I can see how another apartment dweller could get inspiration out of the neat kiddie shelves, the simple grouping of sculpture on the wood shelf that's both highly polished and still has a few flaws in the wood left in, the oddly featureless kitchen...

Man alive, I actually really don't like the style, but I can understand why some people would like to see it.

Bromelia,

Who said anything about poverty? I am not the only person who visits AT who thinks that the site's mission (or what we thought was its mission) has been diluted by the increase of high-end homes and products. It's not hard to understand why the owners of the site would go in this direction (more advertising dollars being the biggest reason) but many of us come here to escape the onslaught of mainstream "more is more" consumer culture and find innovative, inexpensive, and DIY solutions to decorating problems.

Well, I have mixed feelings about featuring multi-million-dollar abodes that have little or nothing to do with apartments. But I think that there are lessons to be learned about design, layout and color from these exquisitely appointed places. And there is something to be said for a place (like this) that is high end without clobbering you over the head with its high end-ness.

I agree with madsarah -- you're increasingly likely to find a NY Times Home and Garden or Real Estate article reposted here, with little added content.

My sister just bought a tiny house in Santa Cruz, and I told her about AT because I thought she'd get good DIY and "small space" ideas. Instead, she'll find a trillion-dollar compound in Carmel.

Kaete,

You are right about what you say but I guess I don't like the "catchall" that AT has become. There are many other sites I visit that focus on specific aspects of design or living or parenting or whatever. AT has become "all things to all people," which to me means it doesn't feel like a place for me anymore--someone who lives in a small home and values resourcefulness over resources. It was so much better a year or more ago, in my opinion. If you compare it to a magazine, you would expect the editorial content to be geared toward a certain demographic or market segment. No magazine can appeal to everyone at once. Just because AT doesn't have the costs a printed publication does doesn't mean it should abandon the principles of either good editorial development or good marketing.

Having said all that, I know not everyone feels the way I do so I will just do my part by not clicking on the stories that I know are not going to fit with my expectations and interests. Nothing tells an online publication more about its readership than click-through rates. :)

Miser--here is your answer http://www.santaluciapreserve.com/index.cfm/featured_homes.htm