We're just over halfway through 2019, and Behr paint is ready to forecast their color projections for 2020.

They're way better than a bedside lamp.

The summer before my senior year of high school, I had a revelation: When I lived in a dorm, all of my clothes would be in one place for pretty much the first time in my life. This might sound strange, but I had been switching houses between my mom and my dad every Friday evening since I was three.

One of my favorite parts of looking at our house tours each day is the inventive use of color from our audience all over the world — the ways you translate trends, timeless colors, and preferences into palettes that reflect back your personal styles.

The coming of age movie is a Hollywood staple, which often depicts a young woman whose story is defined by a romantic relationship. Part of what made this past year’s Lady Bird so special is that its subtle telling of a teenage female experience—from tenuous mother/daughter relationships to shifting friendship dynamics—relied on Lady Bird’s personal growth as the main storytelling device. Its actors have received plenty of accolades ahead of Sunday night’s Oscars.

When you tell people you work at Apartment Therapy, they often ask if your own place looks like the tours we feature—full of plants, ingenious DIYs, and other one-of-a-kind finds. But the truth is that I face the same struggles our readers often do: limited space, time, energy, creativity, and money to devote to my own home. If only my IRL looked like my Instagram feed—but the truth was that my space was looking a bit more like a “before” than an “after.

I’ve been obsessed with T.J. Maxx since I was a kid. Growing up, a really. good. day. was when we’d not only go to the one in my town, but the one 45 minutes east of us (which had better clothes and shoes)—and then the one 45 minutes west of us (which had better home goods). Yup, that’s three T.J. Maxxes (I grew up in a small town, what can I say?).

We forecast—and set—decor trends all the time here at Apartment Therapy. But what does a “trend” even mean and where do they come from in the first place? “Trends are heavily influenced by pop culture, fashion, food, music, the streets, and sometimes what is going on in the world politically,” Lori Weitzner, author of Ode to Color, previously told the site. Sometimes when you hear about one it can start to feel like it’s popping up all over the place.

Book stacks, begone.

I am obsessed with candy—I often joke that Sour Patch Kids are my favorite food, and I’m not really joking. So when a friend DM-ed me about a new Sour Patch Kids artist, I had to learn more. New Yorker Robyn Blair Davidson takes candy (not just Sour Patch Kids—bubble gum, Starburst, gummy bears, Fun Dip, Ring Pops, and tons of other nostalgic favorites), and turns it into whimsical works of art. And the Internet has noticed: OK!

IKEA is known for simple, staple rugs that can go with just about everything—like the classic black-and-white Stockholm that has graced many a first-apartment floor for under $200. But on Thursday, the retailer announced that they are majorly upping their rug game—with eight new designer collaborations for this year’s IKEA Art Event. The rugs will be available for a limited time in 2019.

My husband has a seriously convenient knack for putting together IKEA furniture. Seriously, sometimes I (half) jokingly suggest he start side hustling as a TaskRabbit for a little extra income. But the thing is that he actually enjoys it—and when I ask him why he says it’s like building LEGOs for grownups. Well, now he might actually be able to build an IKEA LEGO, or something like it.

When you work at a place like Apartment Therapy, people often ask what you buy for your own homes. A lot of our editors work in different cities, and when we get together we even start quizzing each other—where’s the best place to buy linens? What’s your favorite big box store find? Basically: Where do you buy everything from without spending your entire paycheck? We recommend products on this site all the time.

90s nostalgia suckers, this one’s for you: This weekend, we reported the breaking news that original Polly Pockets are apparently selling for thousands of dollars. If you’ve already called home to confirm that you don’t have any of these lottery tickets collecting dust in the attic between the Beanie Babies and American Girl dolls, you’re not alone. But what exactly was it about those miniature plastic dollhouses that could keep our childhood selves entertained for hours?