Lauren Hannel

About Me

A Buffalo native in Brooklyn. Reader, crafter, scavenger, and Netflix addict. Amateur foodie, but professional eater. She has yet to find a bakery she didn't like.


Latest Stories

Turn Old Items into Fresh Finds With These DIY Upgrades
We know you had good intentions: when you come across a free curbside cast-off, or have a piece you’ve become seriously attached to, it’s hard to let it go. But after your best efforts to work it into your home, something’s still not working…and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. When you’re faced with the decision to toss or transform an old piece of furniture, why not upgrade it into something useful?
May 3, 2019
This Company is Changing the Way We Look at the Past
You know what they say: what's old is new again.
Jul 27, 2017
Take a Fresh Look at Your Decor: Affordable Mirrors $40 and Up
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. You likely don’t need convincing on the aesthetic and functional appeal of a mirror: aside from knowing that it can make a space feel larger and reflect light around a room, sometimes you just want something to make your space a little bit prettier.
Jul 25, 2017
Our Favorite Marketplace Moving Sale Deals
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. When it comes to finding affordable decor and home goods, we all have our favorite shopping sources. One you should also be considering: your neighbors.
Jul 21, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Secondhand CB2, West Elm and More
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. If you’re looking to switch out some of your basic furniture elements, these picks stand out from the pack for being as attractive as they are functional. And ok, yes, there are some great name-brand deals, too. You know we can’t pass those up.
Jul 19, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Our Favorite Finds Under $50
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. Who can say no to a good deal? Let’s guarantee that your work week gets off to a great start by looking at some of our favorite under-$50 finds from the Marketplace; everything from furniture to fun accessories, (hopefully) making savvy shoppers find one less reason to dread Mondays.
Jul 17, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Affordable Art to Kickstart Your Collection
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. I think that art collecting gets a bad rap. It’s understandable to envision dropping thousands on valuable pieces, only to have to hold your breath every time someone comes over or brushes past them. But lucky for all of us mere mortals, this doesn’t have to be the case!
Jul 13, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Save on Tables from Design Within Reach
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. Every home needs multiple places to gather: a coffee table anchors the living room, a dining table is the center of entertaining, and the right work surface is crucial to be productive. Even better? When that key table isn’t just beautiful and functional, but a designer deal at a great price!
Jul 10, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Coffee Tables
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. Regardless of space, every living room needs the essentials: seating, artwork, and of course, the right coffee table. Since it can be easy to get overwhelmed by all of the options out there (style? size? shape? price?!), we’ve picked some of our favorite deals on coffee tables that Marketplace has to offer.
Jul 5, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Your New Favorite Lighting Source
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors who love quality home furnishings and good design. If you’ve been looking for a bright spot of design inspiration, look no further. Based in Irvine, CA, Cocoweb has a Marketplace corner fully stocked with a beautiful range of new lighting options for your home.
Jul 3, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Outdoor Entertaining Essentials
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors that love quality home furnishings and good design. No one likes sudden panic of realizing you’re less than prepared to entertain. Didn’t it seem like that event was just weeks away?!
Jun 27, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Under $100 Furniture and Decor Finds
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors that love quality home furnishings and good design. As much fun as it is to scroll through aspirational photos of homes and pricy decor, a realistic style upgrade often occurs slowly (and with a set budget).
Jun 26, 2017

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Daily Marketplace Deals: Raw, Industrial Vintage Style
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors that love quality home furnishings and good design. While some vintage collectors may stumble across a random assortment of goodies, you’ve got to appreciate someone who can consistently stick to a solid theme.
Jun 23, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Build Your Home With Essentials $300 and Under
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors that love quality home furnishings and good design. As much as we might like to get little tchotchkes and accessories for our space (guilty as charged), every home needs to start from square one: basics like a solid coffee table, organized entryway and a plush rug create the essential foundation that let you move on to even more personalized touches.
Jun 21, 2017
Daily Marketplace Deals: Herman Miller and More Mid-Century Favorites
We spend our days scouring the Marketplace for gems you can’t find anywhere else. Buy and sell with over 200,000 neighbors that love quality home furnishings and good design. Who can resist one-stop shopping? Los Angeles-based seller Nate Dusaban has a corner stocked with home essentials and some of our favorite mid-century modern designers, just for a much better price than we’re used to seeing.
Jun 20, 2017
It’s Time to Introduce Your Plants to Their Vintage Soulmate
I will never claim to have a green thumb. My local plant shop knows better than to try and sell me anything less than the most resilient greenery, and more than once I’ve tried to make dry leaves look gloomily intentional. Despite my lack of gardening skills, I love to dig through plant-packed homes on Instagram and drool over the inventive ways people have thought to display their collection.
Jun 14, 2017
Interior Decorator Natasha Habermann Picks Her Marketplace Favorites
When it comes to home decor, I have no problem gathering general inspiration (“warm minimalism seems good”), but getting to step two and creating a cohesive look (“how did I end up with so much black?”) is a whole different story. That’s why I’m grateful that interior decorators like Natasha Habermann exist.
Jun 13, 2017
Splurge, Save, Steal: Plush and Stylish Vintage Rugs
Every design element needs it’s counterpart: for every shiny hardwood floor, your toes are probably also craving comfort from the right rug. Aside from the obvious underfoot plushness, rugs are essential for bringing fresh texture into a room, and a nice burst of color or pattern that you might not want on your walls. There are a ton of beautiful vintage rugs on the Marketplace, but these three stood out for being great deals (and yes, a well-deserved #treatyourself moment).
Jun 9, 2017
The Best of Designer Arne Jacobsen on the Marketplace
One of the downfalls of an ambitious designer can be overthinking; your head is swimming with all of these concepts and forms and colors, and far too often function takes a backseat to frills. How many times have you seen some cutting-edge modern design unveiling and thought, “is….is that a chair? Where do your legs go? And why so many edges?!
Jun 7, 2017
Monday on Marketplace: Latest Listings Under $25
You know what’s a surefire cure for the Monday blues? A great deal, and specifically one that’s just around the corner. Rather than tear you away from your work, we’ve rounded up some of the best under-$25 finds on the Marketplace. Nothing is more aggravating than a tricky lighting situation in your home.
Jun 5, 2017
Bookends to Fit Your Style and Organize Your Collection
Most people aren’t blessed with a Beauty and the Beast-size personal library, but I’m willing to guess you have more than a few paperbacks lying around. Luckily the right bookends let you turn any surface into a perfect place to store your reads: keep a few on your desk, on a shelf, propped up on a side table…as long as you start with the right foundation, you’ll have a ton of room to customize to your aesthetic.
Jun 1, 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.
May 31, 2017
Splurge, Save, Steal: Totally Unique Bar Accessories
While you can’t knock the appeal of a fun night out, there’s something extra special about being able to entertain at home. So pour yourself a cold one and make room for a new happy hour essential: let’s check out some of the coolest bar accessories on the Marketplace! You know the easiest way to make an everyday get together feel like a special occasion? Investing in something truly one-of-a-kind.
May 26, 2017
The Vintage Wood Highboys Your Bedroom Has Been Missing
Not to start off on a dramatic note, but no one in the history of humankind has ever complained about a surplus of bedroom storage. “Unfortunate-looking” bedroom storage is a much more valid complaint, which is why we’ve turned to the Marketplace for some beautiful vintage highboys to get your bedroom in order (while staying stylish). LOW Let these options be proof that you don’t need to spend more than $200 to snag a great vintage highboy!
May 25, 2017

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The Best of Hans Wegner in the Marketplace
There’s a big difference between understanding the concept of a design style and recognizing individual artists’ work; Danish modernism has a lot of common themes that can make it easy to grasp, but designers like Verner Panton and Arne Jacobsen have unique attributes all their own. Let’s start your formal design training with a look at how exactly Hans Wegner has maintained popularity well into the modern era.
May 23, 2017
10 Marketplace Listings That Made Us Do a Double Take
Feel like your home is missing a certain something? Needs a little oomph to truly make it unique? Sometimes it’s really good to stand out from the pack.
May 18, 2017
Sleep Tight With the Right Nightstand for Every Budget
All hail the humble nightstand! As much as a comfy bed and light-blocking curtains are essential to a good night’s sleep, you can’t knock the impact that a nightstand can have on your relaxation time. It allows you to store a good book or crossword puzzle nearby in case you need to force a little drowsiness, keep your phone (which is probably also your alarm clock) close at hand, and find the perfect space to hide a midnight snack. So you definitely need one, but where to begin?
May 16, 2017
Splurge, Save, Steal: Sleek and Modern Chandeliers
Nothing adds instant drama to a space quite like a chandelier. But if you’re anything like me, the word tends to draw up mental images of stuffy decor and overly-ornate crystal. With the gorgeous range of more minimal, modern designs out there, this definitely doesn’t have to be the case. Apartment Therapy Marketplace has a bunch of beautiful chandeliers in stock, but these modern finds stood out from the pack.
May 11, 2017
10 Marketplace Floral Finds That Bring Spring Indoors
“Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” Fully acknowledging the cliche presented by The Devil Wears Prada‘s Miranda Priestly, we’re still ready to embrace this seasonal favorite with open arms. New blooms don’t just work to liven up your outdoor space; getting colorful new floral accents can seriously improve the mood of your interiors.
May 10, 2017
Monday on Marketplace: A Bookcase for Every Budget
My apartment defies basic New York City cliches by having a “regular”-sized bedroom and a huge kitchen. But as someone who doesn’t cook very often, I’ve repurposed a whole section of open shelving into a makeshift bookshelf over my breakfast table. That’s because despite not making it into your general idea of apartment must-haves (like a sofa and bed), I think that you should try to work a bookshelf (or bookcase) into your home anyway you can.
May 8, 2017
Splurge, Save, Steal: Get Productive With a New Desk Chair
I’m here to sing the praises of the humble desk chair. As much as a clean and clear surface is an essential part of a workspace, you could argue that the right seating is what can really make or break your 9 to 5. For those of us who even occasionally work at home, desk chairs can be a kind of Goldilocks situation: if they’re too soft and unsupportive you’ll probably end up nodding off, and overly stiff models mean restless legs and sore backs.
May 5, 2017
Beyond the Bubble Lamp: The Best of George Nelson
How well do you know your Bertoias from Baumritters? Nailing down your preferred design style is one thing, but being able to identify individual designers is a whole different level of dedication. But if you’re really serious about getting familiar with the most influential designers of the past century, no lesson would be complete without spending some time with George Nelson.
Apr 26, 2017
Chicago Vintage Dealer Timothy Burkhart Picks His Marketplace Favorites
When I’m looking for good Marketplace content to share on social media, there are a few choice sellers that I know I can always count on to provide quality stuff. Dial M For Modern is one of those sellers, and Timothy Burkhart is the vintage phenom behind the brand. So I took a short break from stalking his insanely gorgeous Instagram feed to find out what marketplace picks caught his eye…because if his feed is any proof, Timothy knows a good find when he sees it.
Apr 25, 2017
Monday on Marketplace: Vintage Favorites Under $20
Another Monday is upon us, and with that unfortunate cloud comes a silver lining: the best new deals on Apartment Therapy Marketplace! If you thought we couldn’t find listings under $20 worth your time, think again (and maybe even prepare yourself with a crisp Andrew Jackson or two). You know what your vanity or dresser has been missing? The perfect mirror.
Apr 24, 2017
Please DO Touch: Velvet Furniture for Every Budget
For those keeping their finger on the pulse, texture has been considered a major interior design trend for 2017. It’s not hard to see why: even the most bare-bones minimalist needs to bring in some variety to keep their home feeling lived-in. Everything from raw wood to sleek chrome can offer a change-up in texture, but today we’re focusing on something perfectly plush and approachable: velvet. Forget any pre-conceived notions that you may have about the fabric.
Apr 19, 2017
20 Ideas to Make Your Whole Home Feel Bigger
As someone who currently has a desk-nightstand-vanity hybrid, trust me when I say that I get any and all of your small-space living woes. That’s why I’ve turned to the wise voices of the Internet to find the essential tips and tricks you’ll need to make your home feel open and welcoming, no matter what the size. Everything’s better with some support, so let’s navigate this big journey through small spaces together. Spring for built-ins.
Apr 18, 2017