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Mural-Tastic Kid Friendly Living Room

In this large, open floor plan apartment, mom and wife Tanie wanted a kid-friendly space for little ones to call their own. Tanie provides child care in her home and really needed a space that was ...

How To Cook With Toddlers - Painting Toast
Home Hacks

Kids love helping in the kitchen, even at a very young age. Start them out with a fun cooking project designed to mix snack time with art. They'll love eating the results of this project, and you'll...

Maximize Their Senses While Painting With Smell

Having spent a great deal of time in the educational systems, seeing a new idea in the world of hands on art and tactile learning is always invigorating. We ran across this great way to tantalize yo...

Use Your Dishwasher For Messy Projects

Kids are attracted to dishwashers like moths to a flame. There's all sorts of fun sights, sounds and things to touch all on their level. It makes it an ideal candidate for messy projects where clea...

Easy Peasy DIY Alphabet Canvases

Whether you're comfortable creating your own artwork or not, we found a super simple DIY project that can be created in under an hour and would look great in any livingroom, playroom or bedroom. Det...

Pumpkins Don't Have to be Orange

We love a traditional jack o' lantern as much as the next big kid, but this year we're longing for something different. Try something bold like black and white to stand out among a sea of orange this...

Inspiration: Scallop Border

We all know that paint is the cheapest way to freshen up a room and give it a quick makeover. Rather than paint the entire room, or walls, consider doing a detailed border....

Flickr Find: Multi-Use Living Room

On this Monday morning, we wanted to sing the praises of this well used living room. There's interaction, entertainment, a budding artist and we just love it! There's something beautiful about catc...

Found: Easy Mural Idea

Earlier today over at Apartment Therapy Chicago, we featured a product that we think has some longevity when it comes to your kids spaces! Originally intended to cover garage doors, these printed t...

Instant Free Fun: Water Painting!

It's officially hot here in the Midwest. We're talking laying on the couch in our underpants, eating popsicles and thinking about our time spent living in Alaska when we were younger. One of the gr...

Ami Suma Wall Murals

click thumbnails for larger pics We've always had a soft spot for murals in terms of kids rooms. There aren't many times in your life you can get away with having giant bold crazy graphics on your w...

Getting Crafty Using Rocks

Growing up we had a thing for rocks. We have already professed our love for birds, bur our love for rocks goes far beyond that. We used to spend hours upon hours digging up rocks for fossils, proje...

Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum

We loved Lotta Jansdotter's first book - Simple Sewing - because it really was simple and it captured her Scandinavia-meets-Brooklyn aesthetic so well. And we have similar expectations for her curr...

Paintings by Emily K. Berman

Emily Berman is no stranger to Apartment Therapy-land, her fabulous Logan Square digs were featured on AT: Chicago. So we were pleasantly surprised to find that besides having a beautiful home, Emi...

Fabric-Inspired Nursery Walls

Ever love a fabric so much you wish you could cover your walls with it? Walter and Veronica used a projector to meticulously recreate this fabric on the walls of a room for their toddler son and ba...

Flickr Finds: Two Painted Cribs

Color inspiration! Why settle for a crib that's just white, blonde or espresso when you can punch it up with paint? We found two people on Flickr who did just that. ...