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Before and After: Bold Color Gives a Shared Girls’ Room New Life

White doesn’t have to mean trite. Paired with a joyful neon color scheme, a white room can be an honest delight. Gill gave her girls’ “small and dark” room a colorful makeover to make the space feel entirely modern—and still kid-appropriate. “It is a shared room for our two daughters, and while we were desperate to lighten and brighten the space, we also wanted to ensure it appealed to both a 6-year-old and a 6-year-old,” Gill says.

Jamie Wiebe

May 13, 2019

You Can Now Rent Art, So You Don’t Even Have to Commit to that Gallery Wall

When it comes to shopping for art, the potential purchasing conundrums are endless. From getting a piece home only to notice that it doesn’t work with your overall aesthetic to obsessing over a print that’s too far out of your design budget, art lovers can all attest that choosing that perfect print isn’t always the simplest task.

Kenya Foy

May 13, 2019

Look Inside: A Blue Beauty (with a Screened-In Porch) in Houston for $420K

From the den to the dining room—everything is oversized in this Texas home.5623 Mcknight Street Located in Houston, Texas$419,0003 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsThis house is love at first sight. The sprawling blue beauty, built in 1957, is set among a lush lawn with big, shady trees.Step right up along the paved brick walkway. (Now, don’t forget to notice those lovely shutters wrapped around that big window!) Just walk through that punchy green door and… you’re in!

Anne Roderique-Jones

May 13, 2019

Hoteliers Turn a Cozy NYC Apartment into a Moody, Hygge Paradise

Name: Timothy Griffin and Nico Fournier Location: Lower East Side — New York, New York Size: 750 square feet Years lived in: 1 year, owned Timothy and Nico, both hoteliers, have created an apartment full of mood and atmosphere. They both wanted to try and create that feeling of hygge, and they did it thanks to cozy textiles, moody colors, and atmospheric light choices.

Chinasa Cooper

May 13, 2019

The 9 Most Lovable Mother-Daughter Duos on TV

While moms deserve kudos every day all year round for the hard work they do, Mother’s Day gives us the opportunity to go all out in their honor. It’s also a good excuse to reminisce about our favorite on-screen mothers and daughters. Sometimes, they make us laugh and other times, they make us cry. The best mother-daughter duos make us appreciate and love our own mothers that much more.No matter what they’ve endured separately or together, these duos prove that love prevails.

Jennifer Nied

May 13, 2019

Why Is Cane Furniture Suddenly Everywhere?

In the interior design world, trends come and go faster than you can say, “mid-century modern”—but you can bet they’ll eventually make a comeback.Take cane furniture, for example. Wickered furniture has been around since ancient Egyptian civilizations, and caning has been having small resurgences since the 1600s (psst… you can check its entire history here). Now in 2019, centuries after cane furniture burst onto the design scene, we’re seeing it everywhere.

Kelsey Mulvey

May 13, 2019

How Furnishing My Apartment Taught Me to Love My Neighborhood

I slept horribly my first night at 5427 Avenue de L’esplanade. Like most Montreal apartments, it was located in a decades-old building—and despite all the beautiful touches of its age, like crown molding and gorgeous hardwood flooring, it lacked air conditioning and was uncomfortably hot during the summer.

Audrey Carleton

May 13, 2019

This Tiny 310-Square-Foot Home Is One of the Loveliest Studio Apartments

Name: Kylie Repasy Location: Harlem — New York, New YorkSize: 310 square feetYears lived in: 9 months, rentingSince 2008 I’ve lived with 27 different roommates in four different cities. From “forced triple” dorm rooms to Tanzanian homestays, these spaces house so many of my most treasured memories and nurtured environments that cultivated some of my strongest friendships.

Apartment Therapy Submissions

May 13, 2019

House Calls With The Plant Doctor | Irene's Leaning Dracaena Lisa

May 13, 2019