Apartment Therapy: tools & electrical helpers

Etsy Finds: Five Modern Clocks

Can you spare a moment of your time? If so, take a second to check out these modish clocks we're currently checking out on Etsy......

How To: Measure Without a Tape Measure or Ruler

Our tape measure is strangely one of the most precious items in our daily kit: along with cellphone, wallet and keys, it gets deposited and retrieved on our landing strip, and we feel somehow unprep...

Bottle Cutter Kit at Urban Outfitters

Ever since we spotted recycled glass tumblers made from Sol beer bottles at Farmhouse Wares, we've been scheming on how to make tumblers of our own (we get especially inspired by the beverage case a...

Retro-Style Clocks from Bai Design

Anyone else feel nostalgic for the classrooms of our youth? Pulldown maps, chalkboards, globes - we love it all. Not to mention these retro-style clocks, which would fit in perfectly in a school or at...

Best Product: OXO Folding Dish Rack

The area next to our kitchen sink has always been a source of disdain for us. The reason for our ill feelings? The dreaded dish rack. If it's pretty it doesn't work well (counters getting soaked, mild...

The Telescoping Ladder

Billed as "the world's handiest," never before would we have considered spending over a hundred bucks on a ladder. Though we have been caught in a jam without one before, storing a full-size ladder ...

Ironing Ladder from Tiny Living

We often find ourselves needing space for items that are essential but seldom used. Our stepladder and ironing board are definitely two of these - we don't need to access light fixtures or high cabine...

25-in-1 Multipurpose Handtool at Pure Modern

We get pathetically excited about multifunctional items like this 25-in-1 Tool. It has everything you could possibly need, including......

Green @ Home: Renting a Wood Chipper

Name: Shayna Location: Oakland A while back, we mentioned our backyard makeover and working with a wood chipper. It may not be the most perfect or simplest of green moves, but we're listing our time...

Swiss Tools Wrench Set

These are no more than a pretty set of wrenches for hexagon screws. But we know from experience that the better looking a tool is (well, assuming functionality is on par with the alternatives), the...

MUJI Wire Clips

Leave it to MUJI to create something at once so simple, cheap and useful. These jumbo wire clips have little hooks on one end, allowing one to hang them anywhere while they clip onto artwork, fabric...

The Split Ruler

This elegant tool would quickly find a use in our home, for applications like framing and sketching out floor plans. Because, sad to say, our ruler and pencil often become separated right when we n...

Mulch and a Backyard Makeover

In the process of cleaning up and redoing our backyard, the amount of garden debris that we've collected has far outrun our weekly curbside composting pickup. In a recent dead tree branch and overgr...

Hammer / Screwdriver Combination Tool

When we left home for college, our mother thoughtfully sent us off with one of these for our dorm decor and maintenance needs. And it still sees regular use many years later, even though we have a ...

Best Fixer-Upper Housewarming Gifts

Eleven months ago we closed on our first home. Ten months ago we moved in to our work-in-progress from the tent in the backyard. The time has flown by at record speed and we can't quite believe that...

Decole House Sewing Kit

The only sewing kits we've ever had were free ones we nicked from the hotel complementary basket. They always come in handy, and we've probably earned the privilege of actually paying for one. The...

Crow Bottle Opener from Rare Device

We know someone who can open a bottle with anything - their teeth, a key, a lighter, the ring on their finger. It's a great party trick that we have so far been totally incapable of picking up. So w...

WallMarker

Hanging art can sometimes seem like an art itself. All that measuring, guessing, and pencil marking only to stand back and realize you really wanted it one inch higher or half an inch to the left. Th...

Small Wooden Tape Measure

We've carried a tape measure in our bag for years, and we've used it so much that its plastic case is mangled and its cloth tape is stretched out. Seeing this lovely small wooden tape measure has m...

PowerSquid Surge Protector

While we've been doing our own form of spring cleaning (which entails more cleaning out than actual cleaning), and moving things around, we noticed once again how irritating it is that those bulky tra...

A Clock in the Bathroom

We live in a very small apartment. Yet we recently realized that we're surrounded by clocks: small travel alarm clocks by our bed, in the bathroom, in the kitchen -- and of course the clocks on the s...

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