This Gorgeous, Brilliant Tiny Apartment Is the Most Popular House Tour of All Time
In 2020, Apartment Therapy debuted a brilliant new tool for capturing inspiration on our site: Vision Boards. Whenever you see something in a before-and-after project, an organizing tip, or a gorgeous house tour — you name it! — you can save it in your Apartment Therapy profile to come back to later when you’re ready to incorporate ideas.
Apartment Therapy’s Vision Boards Are the Best Solution for Cataloging and Organizing Real Home Inspiration
You can save specific images or entire posts by clicking the “save” heart on the left of the post or at the bottom left of each image. You’ll need to create an account (and/or be logged into it to use this feature), then you can create a new board or add the image or post to an existing one. To view your saved images, go to your user profile and navigate to the “Vision Boards” tab.
While I can’t personally see who saves what on their respective boards, I can see which house tours are the most saved of all time. In fact, I can see exactly which house tour has been the most saved of all time — out of all of them. And it should come as no surprise that the house tour that resonated with readers the most is one that is absolutely packed with brilliant small-space solutions and style.
The “Most Saved” House Tour of All Time Is Kim White’s 296-Square-Foot Brooklyn Studio
At the time of Kim White’s first house tour on Apartment Therapy (we toured her next and current home, too!), she had been living in the Bedford–Stuyvesant rental for two years and had brilliantly maximized every square foot. “Before I moved in I knew that every inch of the place needed purpose, so I outfitted the kitchen with basic IKEA cabinets up to the ceiling to store kitchenwares as well as other less-used items that I needed to store,” she wrote in the house tour.
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She Added Luxe Vibes (and Reflective Light) Using Gold Contact Paper on Her Kitchen Cabinets
“I found a roll of gold contact paper at Canal Plastics that I decided to cover the cabinets in to bounce light around the room,” Kim wrote in the house tour. “During the planning process, I was lucky to find a free IKEA PAX unit as well as a Murphy bed on Craigslist — both of which were a godsend and make the space incredibly functional.”
She DIYed a Dining Banquette with Plenty of Storage
“I found a TV stand for $15 at IKEA in their scratch-and-dent area, and was inspired to build a channeled banquette based off of a headboard I’d seen on Emily Henderson’s site (yay, more storage),” writes Kim. “I’m a makeup artist, and those two drawers in the banquette are home to lots of product!”
She Took Advantage of Vertical Space Where Possible
“I made sure to hang all of my storage options all the way to the ceiling,” she wrote in her tour. She even brilliantly found a use for unused wall space high up in a small hallway for hanging her necklaces and jewelry.
Other House Tours That Top Apartment Therapy’s “Most Saved” List
Kim’s Brooklyn home isn’t the only space that’s inspired people to save something to their Vision Boards for reference later. The second place tour is also one of my favorite tours of all time: Morgan and Faye Hurley‘s colorful, patterned house. The headline I wrote, “I’m Utterly Infatuated with Every Single Detail of This Massachusetts Home,” still applies to this day.
Tied for third place on the “most saved” tour list are two equally beautiful spaces that also brilliantly maximize their small footprints: Interior designer Jasmine Espinoza’s tiny San Francisco studio apartment, and Lauren Wilson’s 350-square-foot Brooklyn studio apartment.