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How To Clean Greasy Walls, Backsplashes, and Kitchen Cupboards

(Image credit: Erika Tracy) From Kitchn → How To Clean Greasy Kitchen Walls, Backsplashes, and Cupboards

Apartment Therapy

Feb 6, 2017

360 House Tour: Walk Around in a Sunny Venice Beach Cottage

Come inside and take a look around this LA home. Seriously! In this 360 video you can check out every detail in each room. Homeowners Marisa and Peter Vitale invite us into their home again to see how they really live. This time, you’ll get the 360 experience of their living room, outdoor space and playroom/office in the videos below. (You’ll need the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Edge to view.

AT Video

Feb 6, 2017

Survey Says: Rent is So Expensive, Lots of People are Paying to Sleep in Living Rooms

If you’re reading this from New York City or Boston or San Francisco (or really anywhere!), I don’t have to tell you: the rent is too damn high. (It’s an old meme, but it checks out because it’s still too damn true.) Wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living, and housing in metro areas is getting prohibitively expensive. “Prohibitively” expensive?

Taryn Williford

Feb 6, 2017

IKEA’s New Black Kitchen Cabinets Are Literally Garbage

IKEA’s new cabinets are literally garbage. Kungsbacka, the Swedish furniture retailer’s latest line of kitchen cabinets, is made from reclaimed industrial wood and recycled plastic bottles. IKEA collaborated with Swedish design studio Form Us With Love to create a sleek collection of anthracite cabinets with a matte finish (you know we love a black kitchen!). Each 15.75-by-31.5-inch cabinet uses 25 plastic bottles.

Maggie Coughlan

Feb 6, 2017

Introducing the Sofa Squad: Our Hunt for REALLY Comfortable Sofas

This month, we are kicking off a new series: The Apartment Therapy Sofa Squad. Internally known simply as “Sofa Squad”, our editorial team converged on New York City to couch surf our way through a hefty helping of retailers. We sat. We lounged. We plopped. We cocooned. We nestled. We faux napped (some may have actually napped.) All in the name of Sofa Squad. SS’s mission is to do the sitting and rating for you.

Arlyn Hernandez

Feb 6, 2017

Before & After: An Outdated Bathroom Gets a Stylish Makeover & a Door (Yes, a Door)

Jennifer’s pink tile bathroom was a little outdated aesthetically, but more urgently, it lacked function. Like, didn’t have a door, lacked function. For under $3k Jennifer and her husband were able to add style and useability to the space. From Jenn: Our 1961 ranch only has two bathrooms, one of which was this sad pink nightmare. We’d spent six years in a pink bathroom in our previous apartment and 12 with another pink bathroom in this, our first house.

Apartment Therapy Submissions

Feb 6, 2017

Real Couples, Real Spaces: Co-Existing in a 700 Square Foot Apartment

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