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Our friend Seth Boor, an amazing local architect, is blogging a new project we're so excited to share. Shedsploitation explores the design of tiny backyard sheds, small enough to build without pe...
I came upon the website of photographer Roland Bello and was astounded not just by the quality of his images, but also by their content....
This room isn't alone with its pink and orange scheme. Apartment Therapy has looked at the color combination both here and here. But what about accenting it with......
Last month Apartment Therapy featured a great roundup of easels as home decor, but this has taken it one step further. Check out this use of an easel as a television stand in what we think is a stran...
Sean Scherer, a painter, bought this 1840's Cape-style farmhouse on 90 acres in the Catskills in 2002. His home is now an "eclectic collection of 19th-century pieces...enhanced by clever juxtaposition...
Early in the week, Lindsey brought us the Curly LIght. It reminded us of a lamp we have at home that we want to share with you here......
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Name: Sherry
Location: Portland, Oregon
Type of Home: Single Family Home
Color Inspiration: I love bold colors and also believe that colors ha...
Our desk is in the same room as our dining table, so it's important that our work space be classy and organized. Currently, we're fixated on organizing with classy bulletin boards. If you have ...
This pair of West Elm love seats are the perfect sized apartment sofas. $350 for both or $200 for one....
There must be some kind of law stating that a dog bed must offend either the dog owner's wallet or her taste, or both. Pet owners among you will no doubt be familiar with this timeworn bed dilemma. We...
Q:I was hoping to get some ideas on a paint color for a walk in closet that I'd like to convert into a sitting/reading room. The closet has the exact dimensions and shape of a queen size bed with the...
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Color and texture are often foremost in our minds when thinking about how to decorate and furnish a room. But shapes and lines are equally powerful tools for creating vibrant, harmonious interior...
Over on Gawker today, I stumbled upon a post called Inside the Nerd Mansions of San Francisco. It discusses a C Magazine article showcasing the homes of internet moguls decorated by interior de...
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Name: Megan
Location: Mill Valley, California
Type of Home: Single Family Home
Color Inspiration: I'm inspired by clean modern design, but I'v...
Portraits and other artwork are one way to introduce color into your home. But what about boosting their effect by blowing them up to, say, the size of a door?......
We love a good refinish, repurpose, or reinvention. This nightstand project is a gorgeous example of a finely crafted refinishing that we wish we had the artistic inclination to be able to do!...
Guest Post from Matthew Haly
Having something upholstered or custom-made is a complex endeavor — and for most people it is a world that is unknown. Taking your sofa in to be reupholstered is simila...
When we talk chalkboard paint here at Apartment Therapy, there are invariably those who voice that the trend has run its course. Do you agree?... ...
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Name: Nancy
Location: Menlo Park, California
Type of Home: Single Family
Color Inspiration: I love color and white almost equally. I feel lik...
Is white a color? Or is it the lack of color? Either way, Northwest interior designers often preach its virtues &mdash along with its cousins, taupe and gray &mdash for that particular light we...
From our Apartment Therapy classifieds comes this fantastic Mid Century Modern secretary with pull out writing surface....
This Noe Valley house has been painted this way for so long, it's become an icon of the neighborhood. Imagine if the neighbors had nixed it!!
A friend shared this story: The day she and her husband m...
Storm Troopers, left and Ewoks, rightQ: I'm trying to find the perfect dining chairs to accompany my Burke Industries Saarinen knockoff table. I'd already had some Ikea chairs from my previous dining ...
Inexpensive imitiations of the Knoll PaperClip table design have been popping up on our radar of late. The table is so lovely and timeless that we're not surprised to see big companies trying to ...
I've stayed in several hotels lately that no longer use shower curtains in their bathrooms, but instead, have rotating sheets of glass to enclose the mere three feet of space closest to the sho...
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Name: Karla
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Type of Home: Single Family Home
Color Inspiration: First off, I LOVE a good, moody bedroom! A bedroo...
We often first think to introduce color to a room with paint. Fabrics, too, can liven up the scene, be it in upholstery, drapery, or smaller objects like pillows. For a little color inspiration...
Cool weather is making its way in, and we embrace the opportunity to snuggle up with our favorite soft throws and pillows. We've rounded up a collection--a wish list of sorts-- of the coziest co...
These alphabet pillows made from old suit jackets are totally hitting a sweet spot for us. We love the warmth and geek chic of tweed and herringbone, and admit to having a thing for Letter decor. (We ...
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Name: J&R
Location: Bellingham, Washington
Type of Home: rental apartment
Color Inspiration: Since we could not paint the walls, we took inspi...
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Name: Jason & Sarah
Location: Portland, Oregon
Type of Home: Single Family Home
Color Inspiration: We knew when we bought our house that our l...
We've seen color on the ceiling before here at Apartment Therapy, but it's something we rarely see in the actual homes we visit. Why is that?......
The recycled shade of the Curly Light by Fuz wraps around a CFL for what we think, would be a great low-light lamp at night &mdash during the day, it's could be a sculpture. We can see this light in...
This 1960's chrome legged roll top desk is the perfect laptop workstation. Best of all at the end of the day just roll down the top and hide everything away....
Dutch designers Mo Man Tai have produced some fun products with laser-cut techniques in the past, but this new line of etched stainless steel designs is positively stunning. The tables in the photo ar...
Q: I'm signing up for kitchen help! I've attached a "before" photo to show how far it's come but there's still a way to go. Before photo is shown at left, and the after is below the jump......
Even those whose work is not so poetic as to involve the contemplation of nature still deserve a desk with a view. To be able to sit in the natural light while working, or to take a break every s...
We've noticed a developing trend over the past several months that we haven't yet pointed out. It's hugely apparent that offset striped rugs are making themselves known to interiors all over th...
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Name: Kate
Location: San Francisco, California
Type of Home: 2 Bedroom Rental House
Color Inspiration: As an artist, I am obsessed with color....
Easy there with the paint brush during this month of color. Sometimes a home's perfect color is revealed through the removal of paint instead of the application of more. Take, for example, this incr...
In our daily trolling of things beautiful and inspirational, we found this amazing rug. Bursting with vibrant color, we thought it would be the perfect way to inject some liveliness into a room....
We've said it before: reupholstering furniture is a very green practice. Molly Worth of Chairloom is a 3rd-generation reupholsterer based out of Philadelphia. We first met her at the Brooklyn Flea las...
"An idea that comes from the widely accepted view that the colors of nature are, in the main, beautiful, harmonious, and satisfying is that the use of only the natural colors of materials will ...
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Name: Jany
Location: Nyon, Switzerland
Type of Home: Apartment, owned
Color Inspiration: Mood and purpose of the room. I just switched my bedr...
Using bold, floral-print lamp shades is one unexpected way way to add color to your home. And our favorite lamp shade outpost in Seattle, LiT Shades, has many bright options to customize your l...
Call us nuts, but $150 for this vintage Danish leather recliner seems just too good to be true. Someone must go snap that up immediately!...
Before I tell you any more about Piet, let's lay it all out on the table: Sadly, this sweet little ethanol-burning fireplace is not available for sale. It's the master's thesis project of Fredrik Cava...
Q: I was wondering if there was a good slip cover solution for the Crate and Barrel Petrie Couch (larger photo below the jump). Mine is white and getting wrecked, and I just can't bring myself to get ...
Some claim that we don't have seasons in San Francisco, but having lived here most of my life, I can attest that we surely do. October may not mean a show of turning leaves, but it does mean cool...
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Name: Aad
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Type of Home: rental
Color Inspiration: While the rest of my house is in a bright white and light g...
As a kid, my mother never let me match navy and black together, so now that I'm all grown up I try to do it as often as possible. It's true that this classic combination can clash, but it can a...
One of the most joyful ways to add color to your home is through the addition of colorful artwork - so as part of our color-filled October here on Apartment Therapy, we're taking a look through o...
We thought we would spotlight this home, the FU-1 house, today for those of you who love minimalist architecture and decor. While this may not be the most "lived-in" space, it is a gorgeous example of...
As soon as I saw this picture over on Dwell magazine's homepage, I thought, "I know that airstream." I know it, because it's our neighbor! We've been curious about Andreas Stavropoulos' airstream for ...
To be filed for next summer: The details at Numero 7, a country home in The Marche of Italy, are enough to make us wistful for the recently-departed summer......
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Name: Madeline
Location: San Francisco, California
Type of Home: Shared Two Bedroom Apartment - Owned
Color Inspiration: Our house has been in...
Is it Dwell, with its modern emphasis? House Beautiful with its short, useful articles? Elle Decor, with the longer features you can read over coffee? Or Living, Etc., that British stronghold? The l...
In SF today, a very cool tufted vinyl scoop chair that appears to have a solid bent wood back. Would look fabulous in a room where the back of the chair is visible as that is the most exciting...
At long last, it's the Mr. Potatohead of furniture... the SITO bench, from Italian design firm All+, is available with a smattering of mix-and-match modular parts that allow you to customize your benc...
Q: My girlfriend has had this couch (larger photo below) for years and while i've heard that plaid is in, its proving very difficult to style (besides the red pillows). She has beige curtains and we ...
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