Cambria Bold

Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.

This “Mega-Capacity” Washing Machine and Dryer Alleviated My Laundry Dread

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It actually makes it possible to do laundry for a whole family in just a couple loads — and it has a special cycle to get rid of allergens.

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Mar 30, 2023

I Was Finally Able to Clean My Greasy Oven Door—and Here’s My Secret Ingredient

Despite vigorous scrubbing with baking soda and Bon Ami, the spatters wouldn't budge. It took me six months to revisit the problem (I know!), but I finally got the glass on my oven door looking clean and clear.

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Jul 25, 2019

10 Ways to Get Rid of That Awful Smell in Your Kitchen Sink

Even when we diligently use a sink strainer or garbage disposal, we work our kitchen sink drains hard. Inevitably, food particles, grease, and other not-so-lovely things make their way into the drain and we wake up one morning to a foul smell coming out of the sink. Blech! Now what? Thanks to our readers and my fellow editors, I’ve got 10 ways you can kick that kitchen sink smell to the curb (and keep it from coming back).

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Jun 30, 2019

5 Brilliant Ideas to Steal from Julia Child’s World Famous Kitchen

In 1976 Julia Child wrote an essay for Architectural Digest about her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In it she called her kitchen “the beating heart and social center of the household … both practical and beautiful, a working laboratory as well as a living and dining room.” Sounds so lovely, right? We—as her humble servants, now and forever—can’t get enough of her kitchen either.

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Feb 1, 2019

I Spent $30 on a Fan for My Kitchen, and It’s Made a Huge Difference

A while ago, I wrote a post about how to ventilate a kitchen when you don’t have a range hood or vent. A number of Kitchn readers recommended installing a reversible window fan which, when put on the exhaust setting, can effectively draw smells, steam, and smoke out of your kitchen. I don’t have a hood in my rental kitchen, and for a long time I just ran the ceiling fans in other rooms when I cooked something particularly smelly or smoky. It worked okay, but wasn’t ideal.

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Jul 23, 2018

10 Surprising Uses for Kitchen Items Around the Rest of the House

Here are the top 10 kitchen things we use to solve problems all over the house.

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Jun 28, 2018

10 Smart, Introspective Questions to Ask Your Partner at the Dinner Table

“How was your day?” Every couple sharing an evening meal together has asked this question. It’s a fine question; you care about each other, after all, and are genuinely interested in what happened that day! But sometimes, especially for couples who’ve been together a long time, dinner conversations can settle into the same grooves night after night — work talk, complaining about the subway, what’s new with the kids.

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Jun 9, 2018

5 Things to Do in Your New Kitchen Before You Move In

So you’re moving, huh? Congratulations! While moving itself is stressful, the prospects of a new place are usually always exciting. It’s a fresh start — a chance to reorganize and redecorate! But where do you start? I’ll tell you: You start before you move in — especially in the kitchen. Here are five things to take care of before you unpack that first kitchen box.

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Jun 3, 2018

There’s a Hidden Top-Loading Washing Machine In this Kitchen!

From Apartment Therapy → There’s a Hidden Top-Loading Washing Machine In this Kitchen!

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Mar 27, 2014

How To Remove and Install a Kitchen Sink

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Mar 24, 2014

Beautiful Balcony, Rooftop & Patio Gardens

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Mar 21, 2014