Apartment

This Seattle apartment was once a "builder-grade blank canvas" until this couple made their mark on the space.

This cinematographer’s 700-square-foot apartment stuns with brick details, warm paint colors, and a double drenched pink bedroom.

It's the mix that makes this apartment so interesting, like a vintage sideboard, vinyl records, and eclectic art pieces.

Grace loves her sofa. ”The end tables can become stools and there's a secret compartment in the corner.”

Esther has poured her soul into this little apartment by “planning, painting, and installing cabinets, shelves, and a finicky wall desk.”

Rachel Schwartzmann, the author of “Slowing,” lets her Brooklyn Brownstone’s historic details — like moldings, wood floors, and fireplace — shine thanks to her minimal decor style.

These Parisians used color to transform their Lisbon apartment, and now it has cozy and comfortable English cottage vibes.

It’s taken Hollie just over a year to design her colorful and maximalist rental home.

Including wood floors with a patterned inlay, antique glass doors with brass hardware, arched doorways, intricate moldings, cast iron radiators, and a mauve-tiled fireplace.

Mauriel Davis considers herself a “city homesteader” not just for her apartment’s rustic “farmhouse-chic” look, but also because of the scratch-made meals and homemade bar soap she whips up in the kitchen.

Tour this eclectic and contemporary New Jersey apartment with lots of color and pattern.

Plus, photos of Shrek throughout.

Apartment Therapy’s video producer Margaret and her husband, Alex, have made a dreamy, cozy home for their two young daughters in this small Washington Heights apartment.

Shaped like a “T” and with original picture molding lining the hallway, this NYC rental apartment has a “modern folk, moody modernism” vibe.

The large bay window and the flood of natural light immediately sold Emily and her partner, Andrew, on this 700-square-foot Los Angeles house.

This Arizona native lucked out with this rental dream spot: a 1920s Spanish duplex with a private patio, an avocado and lime tree, and an original fireplace mantel.

Sydney Fazende says it took a lot of trial and error with furniture arrangements (and custom pieces) to maximize her small SoHo apartment.

This rental apartment before Madeline Warshaw moved in was “sad, drab, landlord special.” Not anymore!

Except for a few pieces of cookware, all of the furniture, wall art, linens, trinkets, rugs, and even plants have been found secondhand in this stylish rental apartment.

Two artists mixed Mediterranean-inspired minimalism, a Scandinavian approach to storage, and hints of space-age design elements in this hip Barcelona apartment.

This native New Yorker has personalized her small rental apartment with renter-friendly DIYs and “98% secondhand finds.”

Dalton and Dave transformed their blank, white shoebox of an apartment with art and vintage treasures.

This vibrant 1076-square-foot rental apartment in Brussels has high ceilings, lots of light, and fun furnishings.

This home is print driven, maximalist, and theatrical, and has the most beautiful pistachio-colored living room.

This Finnish graphic designer and illustrator has used Finnish design in her small and bright Portuguese rental apartment.

After living on a boat, the homeowners wanted a return to land but with the ocean just steps away.

Curved red marble kitchen counters, glass ceilings in the bathroom, big windows … this Barcelona home has stunning details.

Lynette has designed the perfect home for entertaining in the two-bedroom apartment she owns in Singapore.

Merçè’s grandmother lived in this 721-square-foot apartment — located in the center of Barcelona — her whole life, before leaving the small, two-bedroom space to Merçè two years ago. While in a great location, the apartment was pretty antiquated and “not-so-well-designed,” not to mention that Merçè wanted to add her own style to the space.

See every colorful and eclectic detail of the gorgeous small Columbia rental apartment that won 2023’s Small/Cool Contest.

Teju’s rental came with typical NYC apartment challenges like old infrastructure, window issues, uneven floors, and weird walls.

Renter Aviv Grimm describes her home as “warm, calm, and artistically inspiring all at once.”

See inside a Barcelona apartment that was renovated to modernize it, but still kept the historical character. And the pink kitchen is a must-see!

This couple hired architects to redesign their apartment for themselves, their 8-year-old daughter, and her grandparents.

See photos of this 388-square-foot Warsaw, Poland, apartment that uses color in a minimal, Parisian-inspired way.

Fenna’s home is a very cool vintage-filled loft apartment that was once a woodworking shop in the 1930s.

Tour a two-bedroom Edinburgh rental apartment with huge windows and built-in floor-to-ceiling mirrors.

Tour this rental home in Nashville, Tennessee, where Amaya was able to think outside the box to come up with creative renter- and budget-friendly solutions.

This prop stylist’s apartment went from a “vintage California cottage” vibe to an “eclectic contemporary space.”

With two people sharing 535 square feet, storage space gets used in unique ways. Case in point: Emily and Trei’s kitchen cupboards “hold books, holiday decor, and other non-kitchen items.”

It’s small but has a mid-century modern fireplace, hardwood floors, and retro bathroom tiles.

The moment Chyelle Milgrom walked into the apartment her eyes watered because of the smell of “rotting cat piss, frat-house boys, trash, and food so moldy it burned your eyes.” She signed that day.

Clare Maxwell is a creative director by day, and moves the objects around in her home by night.

See inside this rental apartment with French doors, a large kitchen, and tons of natural light from 12 total windows.

This woman-owned Atlanta condo mixes organic modern style with original architectural features like glass doorknobs, an old telephone niche, and more.

Adriano Tawin and Angelin Chua combine their tastes to bring texture and color to their Singapore apartment.

"As we've grown up together and built a life, the apartment feels much more like a reflection of our tastes and loves and how we want to spend our time: reading, writing, watching, lounging, cooking, snacking, and hanging out in Prospect Park," Virginia McLure writes.

This “clean cut” rental apartment is now sexy, groovy, and a little bit like “organized chaos.”