Name: Ila & Nate
Location: Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Size: 700 square feet
Years lived in: 4.5
When you step into Ila and Nate's 700 square foot condo, you can see from one end of the space straight down to the other. However, they brilliantly mitigated the alley effect by using a different saturated color in each room, causing the eye to want to stop and take stock of the visual delights in each distinct space. But they didn't stop there.
While taking photos for an upcoming house tour yesterday, we spotted this clever, no-cost idea for jewelry storage.
Thankfully, it's starting to get easier to find places that recycle old computers, cell phones, and other small electronics. Unfortunately, most recyclers still send the waste overseas to be recycled AND it's difficult to find a one-stop source for harder to recycle objects like old vhs tapes, cassette tapes, and cds.
Most pet owners have them: stories that demonstrate your dog or cat's most mischievous inner rascal. And home is the perfect playground for our beloveds to act out. The photo above is evidence of my dog's proudest mayhem moment.
This isn't one of the sexiest design products you'll see on Apartment Therapy today but it could be one of the handiest, particularly as you make plans to entertain over the holidays.
When perusing paint swatches, most of us wonder who really uses the deep black shades to encapsulate an entire room. Interior Designer Windsor Smith didn't just stop at black walls, she added black trim, a black rug and black furnishings to this game room.
Apartment Therapy readers are always looking for organizing solutions for their landing strip areas. This clever one by Paul Koh may do the trick.
I'm a sucker for unusual solutions to space challenges. And this one made a shortcut to the top of my list of successful outside-the-box space ideas: a guest bed in the kitchen.
Thanksgiving is fast approaching. And given that it's also Entertaining Month on Apartment Therapy, it seemed an appropriate time to see how you feel about assigned seating for dinner parties or holiday meals...
Lago, an Italian design company, recently launched a new line of fun, modular shelving available in a delicious array of colors.
Not long ago, we blogged about using IKEA kitchen cabinets for a DIY storage bench in our kitchen. We just spotted a kindred idea in the November issue of Better Homes & Gardens. Textile designer Bonnee Sharp appears to have used an IKEA Lack shelf with IKEA legs to make a storage bench.
The Pew Research Center recently released findings about people's change in belief between 2006 and 2009 about which household objects they really NEED. For example, in 2006 68% of respondents said they needed a microwave, compared with only 47% in 2009. More results after the jump...
It might be so automatic that you don't even think about it. But most of us have rituals or routines that we enact upon arriving home, helping us to make the transition from being out in the world to being in our private spaces. I've being feeling increasingly unsettled about my own homecoming routine lately.
Hint: It's a fun solution for small space living. Answer with photo after the jump...
When you think of burlap, you probably think of the good ole' feedbag tan colored burlap. Well, think again because affordable burlap comes in a spectrum of saturated colors too!
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