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How About Skateboarding in the Living Room?

When I picked up this birthday present (for my husband, a skateboarder & gamer) I had no idea that I was purchasing a Yves Behar design....but but I was. This new controller (just launched yesterday -...

Barber Osgerby for The Rug Company

For their first collection of rugs for children, The Rug Company went to Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby of British design duo Barber Osgerby. The designers — who already have a wonderfully colorful c...

Color Therapy: A Riff on Harold and the Purple Crayon

Whereas Harold had a purple crayon with which to design and demarcate the world according to his whims, I’m actually doing the opposite — using paper white to line-draw animals over a color I thin...

Super-FUNctional Playtable by Jennifer Mujat-Kearns
Design Showcase 2009

(Over the past month on Apartment Therapy , Maxwell has been presenting products and ideas from independent designers as part of a Design Showcase competition - here is another that we thought the Ohd...

Soft-Maps by Emily Fischer
Design Showcase 2009

(Over the past month on Apartment Therapy , Maxwell has been presenting products and ideas from independent designers as part of a Design Showcase competition - here is one that we thought the Ohdeedo...

Roundup: Educational Shower Curtains

Never mind singing, how about studying in the shower? With various subjects and even languages to choose from, your bathroom could turn into a study hall. You can keep your vocabulary fresh, your know...

How To: Create an Elegant Garden Your Kids Will Love

Gardens can be magical play spaces for children, but so often, outdoor areas designed with play in mind include unsightly plastic and metal structures that might make garden enthusiasts cringe. Fortun...

Fifteen Year Old's Impressive Bedroom Office

We thought we were cool when we had a Private Call and dual-cassette stereo in our bedroom. This puts anything we may have had in our room to shame. A great little Flickr Find recently featured on o...

A Family-Style Kitchen

We met Emily at her home on a cold Wednesday morning when her husband and four kids (all under 9) were out and occupied. We chatted while she showed us around the old Victorian which was quiet and ca...

Two Battle-Tested Household Uses for Cinnamon

This week my husband wrote "20 lbs of cinnamon" on our grocery list, and no, he is not planning to bake breakfast pastries for the whole neighborhood (although that would certainly make us popular!). ...

Help Us Give 1% To The Planet: Vote For Your Favorite!

We're almost there! Apartment Therapy is giving away 1% of our 2008 profits to the nonprofit of your choice. You've given us your recommendations, and we've rounded up your Top 4 and added in 2 top ch...

Help Us Give 1% To The Planet
Tell Us Your Non-Profit of Choice!

Last year you helped us give thousands of dollars to Habitat for Humanity, your non-profit of choice. This year we're asking you to help again. For three years Apartment Therapy has been teaming up wi...

Famous TV Interiors in Miniature

Ready for a trip down video memory lane? A friend sent us a link to these fun and memory-inducing photos of miniature TV sets created by "On The Set". The set at left is unmistakably the mod home of o...

Help Us Give 1% To The Planet

Last year you helped us give thousands of dollars to Habitat for Humanity, your non-profit of choice. This year we're asking you to help again. For three years Apartment Therapy has been teaming up wi...

Chalkboard Easter Eggs

Easter is this weekend and amongst our family, chocolate is the gift of choice. However, after seeing the above chalkboard Easter eggs we got quite excited about the idea of an Easter egg that will la...

Paint Drips in Home Decor

Inspired by the raw formations of dripping paint, this trend makes a nod to street art. Whether deliberately designed or thrown haphazardly on the wall, drips introduce an element of edginess into a r...

Non-Annoying Easter Décor

We enjoy some of the traditions that go along with Easter: hunting eggs, decorating with spring flowers, eating Peeps. But unfortunately, like many holidays, Easter has become commercially cutesy-fied...

Small Space Solution: The Slat Rack by Wallter

A good solution for too-small-for-furniture entry areas is the Slatrack by Wallter. A wall-hung version of the "landing strip" it provides a place to hang stuff (jackets, bags, keys, helmet) and to ...

Five Pet Products for a People-Friendly Home

As much as we adore the skinny fellow in the photo, it took us a while to get used to living with an animal. Not having grown up with pets, and being—well, ahem—a little particular about our space...

Milk Magazine: Not Just for Kids

Here's a cool find that Jennifer Ward shared with me while photographing her house a few weeks back. Milk Magazine is a French lifestyle mag that is geared to parents and children, but has beautiful i...

Old Fashioned Clawfoot Tubs

They are the ultimate bathroom "classic" - the old fashioned clawfoot tub is a huge style statement and we've always hoped to someday live in a place with one. The selection we put together here prove...

Bathroom Basic: Train Racks

These compact, heavy-duty racks take their name from trains, where they served as tiny "closets" for passengers. We can just imagine Cary Grant in North by Northwest hanging his suit on one of them. T...

Block-Printed Dhurries: John Robshaw for Anthropologie

We've always been fans of John Robshaw's collection for Anthropologie, which is slightly less expensive than his own product line. These cotton dhurrie rugs, new to the collection, have quickly become...

What’s Your Most Cherished Family Heirloom “Score”?

Out of all my sixteen cousins, I was lucky enough to end up with my grandma’s Art Deco cedar chest. Someone gave it to her as an engagement gift in 1942. My mother says if she ever wanted a moment a...

Clouds for Your Walls

For some reason, whenever we see a cloud motif lately we're drawn to it. These mobiles from le Petit Atelier de Paris caught our eye and got us thinking about all the other cloud images we've blogge...

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