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Favorite Design Magazine?

Is it Dwell, with its modern emphasis? House Beautiful with its short, useful articles? Elle Decor, with the longer features you can read over coffee? Or Living, Etc., that British stronghold? The l...

How Do You Move?
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We've moved several times in our lifetime and, for us, it's always a DIY affair. We've always wondered if we're with the majority or if most others hire movers......

Survey: White or Yellow Metals?

Right out of architecture school, we were hell-bent on white metals for hardware and plumbing fixtures. Brushed nickel, stainless steel, chrome. We wouldn't even look at yellow metals because we tho...

Survey: Where Do Your Guests Sleep?

Travel season can often mean hosting out-of-town guests in your home. After living in NYC, we're used to putting house guests up in our tiny apartment. It's taken some real patience on their parts a...

Survey: Do You Line Your Trash Cans?

Someone recently asked our thoughts on lining the trash bins around our home. Knowing our proclivity for the aesthetically pleasing, they assumed we'd be against the old plastic bag method......

What Friends Say About Your Home

You know the "AT Survey", where Apartment Therapy asks all House Tour participants to answer a few questions about their home? We wanted to ask one of the questions of you about your home......

Letters in the Home

While perusing the wares at our local Anthropologie, we stumbled upon a large rack of oversize zinc letters meant for using as decorative accents around the home. A few years ago the look was a favori...

AT Survey: What's Your D.I.Y. Threshold

My husband and I are D.I.Y. enthusiasts: We have tools, reference books, and materials for executing home improvement projects ourselves around the house. Part of it is our thrifty nature and part of ...

Survey: Curtains -- Open or Closed?

This weekend, Portland experienced the dreaded sunny day...repeatedly. As the unfamiliar rays touched down, we considered pulling back the living room curtains and letting a little Vitamin D venture i...

Survey: How Bright Do You Like Your Bedrooms?

Bright and bold are all the rage lately, but more often than not, we see the wild and crazy colors used as accents as opposed to wall colors and usually not in the bedroom. So we ask you, how brigh...

AT Survey: Did You Send Out Cards for the Holidays?

We have always been pretty spotty with our holiday cards. Some years we get out nice little packages to everyone, other years we buy a box of adorable letterhead and it sits in a drawer until next yea...

Holiday Lights: All White or Multi-Colored?

Yesterday we were contemplating wreaths, and today we're on to the lights. Do you have a preference in the color of yours? We've always just used white in our house - it's classic and looks great with...

Survey: What's In Your Bathroom?

We just returned from a 10-day trip and now we can't stop thinking about bathing. Why? Because the house where we stayed was outfitted with a clawfoot tub and a very short handheld shower. And if this...

Reader Survey: Right to Make Noise Complaints in a Known Noisy Neighborhood?

We were really bummed out when our favorite venue stopped having loud, experimental music and noise shows due to nightly complaints by one neighbor, a resident who lived in a nearby building. The club...

Survey: Would You Pay Someone Else to Clean Up After Your Pet?

A friend of ours in Chicago recently sent us a link to a Web site for a professional dog poop-scooping service. The company will come to your residence and pick up your dog's business for you. It seem...

Survey: Are You a Planner?

In our everyday life, we rely heavily on list-making. If it doesn't make it on the list, chances are it won't get done. This seemingly type-A trait of ours actually masks the fact that we HATE to plan...

Survey: Should San Franciscans Pay a Price for Not Recycling and Composting?

jump below for more and to vote A few days ago, San Francisco Mayor Newsom proposed a mandate that would fine residents and businesses up to $1000 and possibly have their garbage service halted if the...

Survey: Do You Have Tchotchkes?

We were intrigued by a post earlier this week -- What's Your Weirdest Tchotchke? -- mostly because we saw it while we were in the midst of happily conducting a sort of mini Cure. And we realized we d...

How Far Would You Drive for a Craigslist Find?

no, this is not our find The other day we drove about an hour and a half (round trip) to buy something we found on Craigslist. (And unfortunately, we then brought it home and discovered it was a dumb...

How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Sofa?

Yesterday we were zipping around the city looking for sofas and we came across a furniture store that sort of blew us away. And no, it wasn't because of the merchandise. It was because of the prices...

Informal Survey: How Do You Wake Up?

For the past 5 years we've haven't used a traditional alarm clock to wake up, we've used our cell phone. We've found that this is true for a lot of our friends. But because of our recent cellphone d...

SF Survey: What Kind of Cleaning Products Do You Use?

Here at AT we're big fans of non-toxic cleaning products. They're better for the earth and better for your health. That said, we know some people are skeptical of their cleaning powers, and we admit t...

SF Survey: Street Noise or Neighbor Noise?

While working on our SF Good Questions: How Can I Reduce the Sound of Street Noise? earlier today, we realized that's it's not street noise that bothers us, it's neighbor noise. And we've lived next ...

Survey: How Small is Your Home?

Yesterday we mentioned to someone that we live in a 300-square foot home, and their response was, "Wow, that's really small." That's the reaction we always get. With the start of Small Cool Month, w...

Survey: Do You Use Fluorescent Light Bulbs?

We had to buy some light bulbs over the weekend, and we have to admit we bought incandescent ones. Yes, we felt guilty for bypassing the fluorescent bulbs, but we still did it. Although we keep read...

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