This has been a big week for us! Apartment Therapy — a site that has so much to say about color — went black-and-white. Along with many sites around the web, we’ve donated our color this week to raise awareness for National Painting Week (May 19–29), a week dedicated to the power of color and transformation where Sherwin-Williams will celebrate by donating to communities in need and completing projects during the month of May and all year long.
Despite what political pundits may lead you to believe, America is way more colorful than just a bunch of red and blue states. We took a look at data we’ve learned from Color Search — the ultimate tool powered by Sherwin-Williams® for using Apartment Therapy House Tours to find the perfect palette inspired — to see what colors every U.S. region really identifies with.
We don’t want to brag (much), but Color Search — the Sherwin-Williams® powered tool that helps you turn House Tour color schemes into your own paint palettes — is one of our favorite AT creations. We love making our HUGE archive of House Tour images even more useful to readers — and what’s more useful than turning someone’s real-life inspiration into your own real-life results?
There are not enough happy-dance gifs on the Internet to convey our excitement about Apartment Therapy’s game-changing new feature, Color Search: Thanks to our partnership with Sherwin-Williams, you can now scan our thousands of House Tour photos by color! (Search terms are so 2013, don’t you think?
Back in April, with the launch of Color Search 3.0, we introduced the new Search by Room tool which lets you pick a palette and specify a room to find color inspiration from our House Tours. After a few months (and thousands of Color Searches) we were curious to boldly go where no Color Searcher has gone before! We dove into all that data to see what the most popular Sherwin-Williams® Color Searches have been, room by room.
Whether they’re retrofitting old homes with eco-modern touches or going net-zero in the sleekest way ever, our readers know that tech and green are a perfect design marriage. Together, they make an unstoppable combo of nature and science that helps great-looking homes look and work better. Here are a few of our favorite power couples from House Tours and House Calls past. Find Out What Makes These Eco-Tech Dream Homes So Dreamy! 1. Jessica and Jered’s Solar-Heated, Stylish Home.
Looking to add a little color to your home, but not sure which color would look right in your space? We found readers who had this same paint color dilemma, and asked them to try the Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap® Visualizer for web or iPad – an easy (and fun!) online tool that lets you upload a photo of your room and virtually “paint” the walls with different colors.
Looking to add a little color to your home, but not sure which color would look right in your space? We found readers who had this same paint color dilemma, and asked them to try the Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap® Visualizer for web or iPad – an easy (and fun!) online tool that lets you upload a photo of your room and virtually “paint” the walls with different colors.
Looking to add a little color to your home, but not sure which color would look right in your space? We found readers who had this same paint color dilemma, and asked them to try the Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap® Visualizer for web or iPad – an easy (and fun!) online tool that lets you upload a photo of your room and virtually “paint” the walls with different colors.
Woodwork is a dream detail, but it can be a doozy to work around. With undertones ranging from yellow to red to gray, matching it is no one-size-fits-all task. Consider our Color Search tool, sponsored by Sherwin-Williams, your crystal ball: Will lavender paint look good with my dark wood trim? Is red right for oak crown molding? Let Color Search inspire you! Color Search also offers instant inspiration, with a treasure trove of real-life images.
Fashion is such a great resource for home style that we’ve combined two of our favorite Apartment Therapy features — our Fashionable People profiles, featuring chic House Tour subjects, and our Color Search tool, powered by Sherwin-Williams® — to help you find sartorial-meets-interior inspiration in a snap. Each of these lovely ladies has a rich, moody and distinctive color savvy that translates beautifully to the home. Which suits your style best?
Prize: (1) $2,000 credit to Zappos Value: Up to $2,000 From: Zappos.com It’s the most wonderful – and anxious – time of the year! Wonderful because presents! Anxious because you have no idea what to get for everyone. And because what are you wearing to the office party? We’ve gone to Zappos and pulled together gift ideas for everyone on your list – including yourself.
White is sometimes underplayed as the default choice of colorphobes, but some of the boldest and most sophisticated rooms in the world have white walls. Maxwell loves decorating with white walls – as long as it’s the right kind of white. According to Maxwell, the best whites aren’t just a “blank canvas.” He says, “I like the ones with a bit of depth and color.” A good white wall never looks unfinished, “it looks intentional.
Do you live in a cool apartment/house/loft? Collect records? Play guitar? We want to give one reader a custom indie-inspired mural! We’re working with a brand known for their legacy of rock ‘n’ roll style. The muralist we’ve selected will reflect that aesthetic with an edgy, deeply cool design that your friends will describe as “badass” and that we think you’ll love living with.
Prize: The Bemz Slipcover of your choice & 4 Maxwell Ryan x Bemz legs Total Value: $499 From: Bemz Slipcovers are the tailored suits of the furniture world, and legs are the fancy shoes. Put them both on and you’ve got one chic sofa that cuts a dash!
“Where is one place that your cat can sit, but you can’t?” If you believe the answer to an old Highlights magazine joke, it’s your lap. If you own a cat, though, you know that there are dozens of places that your cat can and will sit, everywhere from shelving units and windowsills to the edge of an open drawer and the top of the refrigerator.
Getting your first apartment after college is a big step, and it can be both exciting and terrifying. On the bright side, you don’t have to suffer through a stranger’s Cardi B impression in the communal shower every morning. On the other side, having your own place means that you’re really on your own, you know? You’re adulting now, which means there are power and water bills to pay—and no cafeteria staff to wash your dishes.
Whether you spend the day chasing emails or toddlers (or both), we’re guessing that your 9–5 can get hectic. A calm morning can make all the difference for the rest of your day, and even though we can hear you laughing right now, “calm morning” doesn’t have to be an oxymoron. The trick? A 5–9 routine.
We all have that one friend: the one whose home, whether on Instagram or in person, always looks FLAWLESS. You’ve admired that friend. You’ve envied that friend. But we know the secret to being that friend: accessories. They’re the little pieces that warm up the room with personality, making it feel lived in and complete.
Remember a couple years ago when we didn’t know the word hygge and we filled our time with annoying activities like “having plans”? But then we were reintroduced to the wonderful world of our own cozy home, and now staying in is the new going out. We want to aggressively enable you to cancel your plans and spend more time this fall in a home you love. Call it the carpe sofa movement.
Remember a couple years ago when we didn’t know the word hygge and we filled our time with annoying activities like “having plans”? But then we were reintroduced to the wonderful world of our own cozy home, and now staying in is the new going out. We want to aggressively enable you to cancel your plans and spend more time this fall in a home you love. Call it the carpe sofa movement.
Timothy and Brittany have just moved into a new house with their three-year-old daughter, Melani, and one-year-old son, Cameron. And somehow they’re still smiling at each other. In addition to being full-on #relationshipgoals for the rest of us, they have some brand new #parentinggoals to go with their new living space.
Your reading list of books with “What to Expect” in their titles made it sound so easy. Your favorite mommyblogger — and you never expected to have a favorite mommyblogger — has somehow figured everything out. Your friends have reassured you that you’re doing fine, but it didn’t feel fine when you were wiping pureed sweet potatoes off your toddler’s face, off the walls and…wait, it’s on the dog too? “You have no idea.
Where were you when you realized you were too old for crappy furniture? Was it during a dinner party when a guest sat down and the chair collapsed? Or standing in the street as the moving truck drove off and you realized you had zero attachment to anything inside? We all know how to find furniture that’s inexpensive and not really made to last; it’s also easy to find pieces that are lovely and elegant with price tags beyond your wildest dreams.
No matter who you live with — a great roommate, your best friend, your partner — keeping house is never easy. One person’s neat piles are another person’s mess. One of you might leave dishes in the sink, but the other might leave your shoes in the middle of the floor. Or maybe that gym bag your roommate keeps by the door is actually emitting an odor that you suspect she doesn’t even smell. Apartment Therapy gets it. (Seriously. We really, really get it.
