Decorating

Turn an eyesore into a show piece!

Here are the meanings behind some of the brand's most popular colors.

Not long ago, we proclaimed that blue was the most popular color for the home. But if we had to take a guess as to what might be the most underrated?

Big design energy can come in small objects.

With prices starting at $12, this collection might be the way to show your home a little love right now.

You'll never run out of coffee ever again!

Some furnishings really earn their keep in your home.

White is nowhere to be found.

Get ready to put your Harry Potter knowledge to the test!

PJ party meets DJ party.

If you're in need of some serious, well, apartment therapy, we've got you covered—virtually. We rounded up some of our favorite illustrated home backgrounds so you can use them on Zoom.

Spend a little more now and you'll save over time.

Here's how to avoid a lemon.

Just because you're decorating with hand-me-downs, doesn't mean your place has to look like a hodgepodge of random castoffs.

It’s 2019, and yet, “modern farmhouse” style is still crushing it. These colors will help you bring the style home.

Here's what AT staffers have been wearing to work.

No flipping through magazines necessary.

There are other fun designs, too.

A list of online classes, materials, pattern designers, and shops.

Being awoken by the sun is actually good for you, but there are times when darkening a room aids in sleep especially for napping children, shift workers or others with non traditional sleep schedules and for blocking artificial night time light such as from a streetlamp. Blackout curtains also are energy saving (keeping heat from escaping in the winter and the hot sun from heating up your room in the summer) and help block or muffle outdoor noise.

Is there a twelve-step program for addiction to throw pillows? Maybe we’ll start one. It’s gotten pretty bad. In fact, we’ve had to place a moratorium on them for the calendar year (here we come, 2010!).

Not all video apps are created equal!

Minus the fussiness and middle-of-the-night wakeups.

Just because it's sold out doesn't mean you can't find it!

Contrary to what I used to believe, you can't just throw a bunch of things in there and hope for the best!

Walk along the hanging cliffs and canyon walls, and get ready for the breathtaking views.

Time to stock up.

The small-space dwellers in these six studio apartments are happily living a maximalist decor style despite their home's small square footage.

They need your support now more than ever.

Regardless of whether you’re a novice or veteran plant parent, you can’t go wrong with a cactus: they’re stylish, affordable, hard to kill, and propagable. And as of today, Bloomscape is enticing plant lovers everywhere with their new line of cacti that they’ll deliver right to your door. The online plant shop launched their new cacti line called the Mojave Collection, curated by Bloomscape’s very own Plant Mom, Joyce Mast.

Because sometimes you just don't have the extra storage.

Move over, Dorothy Draper!

The destinations were picked by local guides, so you're in good hands.

If House Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Sophie Donelson has anything to say about it, we're done with white kitchens.

Choosing grey paint is a cinch. You only have a few…thousand choices. Do you want a light grey, medium grey, charcoal grey? A brown-ish grey, blue-ish grey, black-ish grey? It’s enough to throw your hands up and just keep the color you’ve got. Or, check out some real homes with grey walls and see what colors and brands they used as a starting point for your own paint project.

Here's to storing things in style!

Now you don't have to clean before that video call.

Experience your favorite rides right at home.

Cozy blanket in the winter, cool art in the summer.

It's the 50th anniversary.

Never use TaskRabbit to put together your furniture again.

Sunshine and rainbows!

Waffle weave? Yes, please.

Looking for date night ideas to reignite the spark in your relationship? Consider dusting off your favorite board game.

Like the rest of us, French artists are stuck at home social distancing and staying safe from the novel coronavirus. But even isolation won’t stop them from collaborating.Their ongoing work, called #CoronaMaison, involves each artist taking a template of a room with a staircase, and putting in their own creative spin. The goal is to illustrate their ideal living space, one where they’d be glad to be stuck in for the duration of this pandemic.Here’s the template.

“We know there’s a lot of stressful news in your timeline, so here’s a #MuseumMomentofZen.”

Take it from one of the best!

For those who can't go out to the grocery store right now.

Be it your bed or dining table.

Thankfully, companies around the country are taking the spread of the coronavirus seriously and have told employees to stay home in an effort to keep the public and their fellow coworkers safe. However, for those who don’t work from home on the regular, having to set up a designated work space has posed quite the challenge. Where exactly do I set up shop? What do I use for a desk? How the heck do people do this on a daily basis?

So of course, since this is an attempt to create a collection of bedrooms that are ‘romantic’, it’s worth defining what in the world we mean by romantic anyway.

Ease your sniffles while you sleep.

We found options for every size and style.

A fantastical photo series.

Those with a rare sensory condition called synesthesia see colors when evoked by musical notes—and they've translated different genres into living room color palettes.

Bean bag chairs and all.

We're craving spicy tuna right about now.

The hunt for the perfect pillow ends here.

You can virtually tour the top museums and galleries around the world! No ticket required.

We’ve had freezing temperatures in San Francisco this week, which is way worse than getting them in, say, New York. Our windows are old and drafty and not insulated for this kind of weather. In fact, I’ve lived in two apartments with no heat at all. It’s not uncommon here, where temps don’t tend to dip below 50. But this season, my Chilean boyfriend turned me on to the hot water bottle. I hadn’t used one since I was a kid with the flu.

Here's what to keep an eye out for!

Don't give up on this pink-toned metal just yet!

Bippity-boppity-book your stay!

Whether it’s a piece of furniture you found for free on the side of the road, a hand-me-down you’ve had for ages, something you found in a really affordable big-box store or just something that feels cheap looking to you, there are some successful things you can DIY to make a piece of furniture look a lot more expensive (and personal!) to you. Splurge on some seriously rad hardware like pulls or handles and remove the less impressive ones that the furniture piece came to you with.

It seems that, increasingly, it’s becoming the norm for kids to have their own bedrooms, especially if there’s adequate space for it. But what if you have two rooms, two kids, and no playroom? Is it a better use of the space to have the kids share a bedroom? In my experience, young children don’t feel much of a need for a private bedroom. They would rather have ample space to play.

Piet Mondrian used reds, yellows, blues, and blacks. Donald Judd’s palette has included green, pink, and orange. Carl Andre relied on the colors of specific materials like wood and metals. And yet somehow, the term “minimalism” today calls to mind an image of a pure, clean, and orderly space with white as the dominant color. Why, despite seeing color everywhere, do we still tend to associate the minimal and the modern with whiteness?

Modernist company KitHAUS recently debuted a new line of prefab homes.

Many of us probably have an idea of what will be in anyone’s bedroom. A bed, nightstands, some clothes storage. Maybe a lamp for reading. But sometimes the most amazing bedrooms are the ones with unexpected elements! Consider including some of these (admittedly outrageous, but totally worth the effort) design ideas for your bedroom. You don’t just have to use a plain old table as a nightstand.

When you hear the word “cabin,” what does it conjure? Wood, trees, taxidermy, leather? Going through our tour archives, I noticed that we’ve featured many a cabin here on Apartment Therapy, and while some of them adhere to the usual expectations for a cabin, many of them offer unexpected takes on rustic decor. TOP ROW: 1. Nancy, Ethan, Ohle’s 1903 Cabin in the Country 2. David Bethany’s Abode in the Woods 3. Keith Rebecca’s Cabin of Worldly Delights 4.

Sticking with all-white in an interior space has a lot of advantages. Light and airy, you’ll be left with bright spaces that feel refreshing and peaceful. Those who rent will find solace in being able to work with can’t-paint white walls. Not having a lot of colors in a space allows the people to become the paint that splashes colorfully on your home’s palette. But creating stunning all-white rooms isn’t as easy as simply leaving out the color.

Looking for fresh ideas for revitalizing the same old bathrooms you have in your home in this new year? This year, it’s all about taking old ideas and translating them in an accessible (read: easy, affordable and quick) way to give your bathroom a fun, fresh look without a ton of work. We’ve got 15 ideas to try out (one at a time or combined with others!). Why stick to just one bathmat?

Part of my motivation behind doing the Style Cure this year was to reclaim our main living space. It has been a whirlwind of a year for us and we pack a lot of living into not a lot of square footage. Unfinished projects, leftovers from our wedding and all of the (amazing) gifts from our guests left us with an apartment that felt like it was always almost there, but not quite.