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After The Feast: Food Storage Containers

It never fails: the leftovers of Thanksgiving dinner. You’ll get by on the standard plastic containers or reseal-able bags. But purchasing nice, long-lasting and non-plastic containers will be a mu...

Stash Multi-Room Organizer
Good Finds

Nothing makes us happier than finding a product that is simple, multi-functional, good-looking and inexpensive. It may have been designed with baby in mind but we are hardly thinking of using this fo...

High vs. Low
Mud Room & Entry Essentials

It has begun: the yucky, muddy, cold weather. At least in our neck of the woods. Slimy shoes, drippy umbrellas, gloves for the cold…and it’s only the beginning of Fall. Here is some inspiration f...

10 Space Saving Wine Racks

As we enter the entertaining season we find ourselves stocking up on bottles. They aren’t all for ourselves, of course. There’s one for the host, a couple for the dinner party, one for that recip...

Baskets & Boxes for Paper Media
Organizing

Homes are our sanctuary, our place of refuge and rest. But when your latest issue threatens to topple the pile of magazines and the pile of books or newspaper recycling take up enough real estate to ...

Bulletin Boards: Funky, Fancy and DIY
Roundup

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 a sim...

Displaying Childhood Collections in a Grown-Up Home

Recently I noticed a glass bowl of beautiful polished rocks newly displayed on my mother's sideboard. A closer inspection revealed this to be my long lost childhood rock collection, which I promptly a...

One Man's Collections

Tony's largest collection, cartoon character figurines Displayed throughout his home, Tony's collections are at once overwhelming and inspiring. Overwhelming, because of their size (that's the most ...

Mergers & Acquistions
SF Chronicle

The SF Chronicle ran a story this last weekend that couldn't be more apropos for Collections Month on Apartment Therapy. Several design experts from around the city (including the owner of this amazin...

How To: Turn Old Books into Wall Folders
Gingerbread Snowflakes

Buying stuff to help us organize the stuff we already have always seems not only wasteful, but counterproductive. That's why we love re-use projects that aid in organization, like this nice hanging st...

Before & After: Jason's Closet Office

Even the most talented and organized among us have a lot of accumulated office junk. The above accumulation belongs to Jason Loper, the brains behind Zola Jones Designs, a line of stylish and efficien...

Mirrored Closet Doors

If we saw the phrase 'mirrored closet doors' in a rental ad, we'd immediately picture those sliding styles of the 70s and 80s framed in bright metallic trim, and probably move on to the next listing. ...

Aarikka Towel Clips

We've seen Aarikka mobiles before, but here's one more playful home accessory from the Finnish designer and manufacturer: towel clips!......

Before & After: Setting Up the Kitchen

Cassie's new kitchen, before the move-in Unpacking the kitchen is always one of the very first projects on our list to tackle after a move. A new home just doesn't feel relaxed until we're able to co...

Roundup: Ways to Put Your Cake Stands to Work

We have to admit to being a bit obsessed with cake stands, and while we'll also (reluctantly) admit to being a bit obsessed with cake, we try not to indulge this latter obsession very often. So that l...

Self-Storage: Some Handy Tips

We have had the pleasure of storing everything we own within the last year during a transition time in our cross-country move. All in all, we did pretty well organizing and our traveling and storage e...

A Sustainable Move: Karmaboxx.com
Seattle

Recent years have seen an increase in options for moving that don't include heaps of floppy cardboard boxes. Karmaboxx.com is just one, but they're new and Seattle-based, and throw a little value-ad...

Two San Francisco Artists Share Their "Favorite Things"
Decor8

Holly over at the wonderful blog Decor8 has been running a series of guest posts this month in which artists and designers share their favorite things from their own homes. As it happens, two of our f...

Checklist for Moving Out

It's exciting settling into a new home. But leaving the old one behind can be tolling, both emotionally and physically. With stresses high on moving day, it's good to have a checklist to run down be...

Quick Space Refresher: Re-Design Your Open Storage

Our dining area open storage after a weekend re-design Surely we've all fallen prey to the home décor doldrums, when everything in the house suddenly looks a little tired. Sometimes all it takes to ...

What Don't You Move?

When we begin packing for a move, we tend to address our most important items first. By the time we work through the rest, there invariably remain the misfits we can't see the point in moving......

Look! Old Croquet Cart Transformed into Yardwork Caddy

Proving that there are many folks far more resourceful than ourselves, The Oregonian featured this handy way to reuse an old croquet cart, for which the actual croquet set had long been missing piec...

Etsy Find: Able + Baker

Too often we turn to IKEA whenever in need of new furniture. Some of us go to flea markets and thrift stores in hopes of finding something different and affordable. Rarely we look into custom pieces o...

Inspiration: The "Other Side" of Katrina's Office

A home office always seems to accumulate a lot of junk, doesn't it? In our own home office, we try to keep our desk itself as neat as possible, but there's always one corner of the room where the buil...

Four Ideas for Postcard Display

Do you bring postcards home from trips? Or receive lots of them from traveling friends and family? If you currently have them stored away, might we convince you to get them out and put them on displ...

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