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The Great Escape: Amazing Vacation Rentals Close to NYC

Getaway. Escape. Whatever you want to call it. Your summer vacation need not be an extravagant European adventure in order to be relaxing. In fact, it’s better if it isn’t. When you really need to take a break from city life, you probably want something close, affordable and, above all else, like a home away from home. These 5 vacation rentals fit the bill, if you’re a New Yorker.

Taryn Williford

May 31, 2017

A Cozy Oasis in a West Village Walk Up

Name: Melina Location: West Village, New York — New York The basics: 9 months, rented | 300 square feet If you’ve spent anytime hunting for housing on Craigslist, you know that “cozy” spaces so rarely are. Not so in the case of Melina’s West Village studio. Like something out of a TV show with an excellent acoustic soundtrack, her studio is welcoming, warm and totally charming.

Apartment Therapy Submissions

May 31, 2017

See How This Couple Dramatically DIY’d Their Tiny Rental Kitchen

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The Kitchn

May 31, 2017

Is This Really the Smartest Way to Hang Kitchen Curtains?

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Apartment Therapy

May 31, 2017

Warmth, Charm & Architectural Details in this $1.5m Multi-Family Home in Historic Stuyvesant Heights

This two-family home in Stuyvesant Heights is straight out of central casting and represents all the things we love about older Brooklyn homes like hardwood floors, fireplaces, decorative molding and exposed brick. The 1.5 million price includes an owners’ duplex and a garden-level rental unit (to help pay the mortgage). The home’s architectural details are in keeping with the historic neighborhood’s posh past and exude warmth and charm.

Carrie McBride

May 31, 2017

Designing With Lucite (For Every Budget)

I absolutely love Lucite. Though technically an umbrella term for clear acrylic, as is the case with Band-Aid and Kleenex, sometimes the brand name becomes synonymous with describing an item in any form.

Lauren Hannel

May 31, 2017

IKEA’s Innovation Hub Is Hosting a Future Festival

IKEA is imagining what the future might look like. The Swedish brand’s external innovation hub, SPACE10, is hosting a three-day festival to explore how we can create a more positive future. The first ever Made in Space will be held June 15 through 17 at SPACE10’s headquarters in Copenhagen and will feature three days of programming across the fields of design, art, architecture, anthropology, philosophy, and social entrepreneurship to brainstorm “alternative futures.

Tara Bellucci

May 31, 2017

Empowering Design Lessons From a Stunning Rental Living Room (That Non-Renters Should Take to Heart Too)

Isabelle’s house tour is endlessly inspiring to me, for starters because it’s just flat out gorgeous but also because it so clearly illustrates how all of the small choices we make can add up to something wonderfully, personally beautiful. And for those of us who are renting, that is pretty damn empowering. Ok, first thing’s first: Isabelle’s rental living room is not exactly problematic to begin with. In fact, it has supermodel-level good bones for a rental.

Julia Brenner

May 31, 2017

Before & After: A Rental Bathroom Upgrade with a Vintage Portrait Gallery

Megan’s rental bath makeover is low key awe inducing. Without making any major upgrades, it’s like she helped her bathroom leap forward into modern styling, while also time traveling back to the time of glam powder rooms. From Megan: The walls of our bathroom were decked in a puzzling color scheme with one brown wall and the rest purple. It was flat paint so it felt pretty dingy and not very practical in a bathroom.

Apartment Therapy Submissions

May 31, 2017

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Pablo and Sophie’s Best Coast Bedroom Fix

Former New Yorkers Pablo, a photographer, and Sophie, a designer, are loving life in Los Angeles: sunshine, new chapters of their creative careers and, of course, new digs. All that action makes for hectic days, though. Between being in business for themselves and making their new house feel like home, the couple needs a bedroom that feels like a real respite. The centerpiece of their restful retreat? A dreamy new mattress suited to their summery new temps.