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It’s Bedroom Month — It’s time to refocus on your bedroom’s Feng Shui; March is Bedroom Month at Apartment Therapy! Watch for tips to create a calm bedroom, keeping it permanently cleaner, and even staying warm in bed during winter.
We’re saving big home improvement projects for the new year, but we still have plenty of work to do at home. From DIY decorations to eco-friendly gift ideas, Apartment Therapy is giving us a good head start on the holidays … More
Those of us who live in apartments or houses with limited cabinet space know how frustrating it can be to have a dinner party. We don’t want to resort to wasteful paper plates, but we also don’t want to resort to being the hobo who ask her friends to bring their own dishes. That’s why we love Maaike Seegers’s idea for Meltware. If you need extra dishes, just pour hot Carnauba wax in a mold and watch your new dishes emerge. Then, after the party’s over, just melt the wax down again. More
It’s the final countdown before Thanksgiving, folks. That means you need to bust out the broom, scrub down your kitchen, and make sure your table linens are ironed. Or, at least get some plastic cups for wine. Whatever your hosting style, prepping your home for Thanksgiving helps keep holiday stress at bay, so this is a good time to check in with Apartment Therapy for some good home design advice. Here are our top picks in hospitable home design from the last week: More
We don’t want to think about winter unless we have to, but it is about time we start prepping our homes for the cold season. This week’s roundup of Apartment Therapy posts includes some good tips for winterizing your home, and some fun projects and things to add to your shopping list to get ready for the holidays: More
As the month winds on and the days get shorter, it might be nice to have a plant or two decorating your home to combat the impending winter gloom. Designer Meirav Barzilay has a creation that will save space, brighten up your living space, and bring a plant into your apartment: The Photosynthesis Lamp.
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We usually pick our favorite Apartment Therapy posts for a weekly dose of their excellent home design advice, but this week we decided to focus on their eco-friendliest posts, from Re-Nest, their green home design site. We found our favorite homes, stuff to add to our wish lists, and tips for getting on the eco-friendly track: More
We perused Apartment Therapy for our favorite posts from this week, and came up with a handful of features to suit lots of tastes and needs. Let’s call it eclectic home design, shall we? More
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October seems to be the month of home cleanups: We’ve got the itch to clean house, and our favorite home design site Apartment Therapy seems to, as well (they’re getting ready to launch their 20/20 Home Cure project on Monday). We culled the site for our favorite posts this week, and found some great home clean-up tips along the way: More
Look, people. I try to be environmentally-conscious whenever and however I can. I take a lot of public transportation. I politely refuse receipts. I recycle. I set the bedroom A/C to “energy-saver.” I fall for the expensive, eco-friendly beauty and cleaning products. I use those ugly, energy-efficient light bulbs. I give stuff away instead of tossing it. I grow an herb and vegetable garden during the summer. I buy Energy-Star appliances. I severely limit pre-packaged foods and take-out meals. (Except lunches in the office. I am a terrible person.) I do all these things with you in mind. I hardly ever even do my precious favorite thing anymore: Take a bath. I’m a friggin’ saint. So please, environment, or Mother Nature, or whoever’s in charge out there, please don’t make me give that up completely. Isn’t it enough that I draw the occasional bath, and then feel really, really guilty about it? More
Fall means time to do a little nesting in preparation for long winter days spent indoors, so we’re especially into Apartment Therapy right now. We picked some of our favorite posts from the past week, including a few autumnal DIY decorations and creative craft projects for Halloween. Check out our favorite posts for the week: More
Be a Square on 10/10/10 — And watch Powers of Ten, the cool 1968 film about scale by influential designers Charles and Ray Eames. (via GOOD)
Stephen Colbert on “Environmental Ear Pollution” (Video) — Could somebody please turn down the SunChip bags and practically silent wind turbines? (via Treehugger)
“It Gets Better” — New video project spearheaded by columnist Dan Savage following the death of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, to combat teen bullying, support GLBTQ youth, and prevent suicides. (via Urlesque)
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We need this gadget — it’s a robot that washes your hair. Of course, we’d prefer it to be energy efficient and conserve water, but think of the extra beauty sleep we could get lying in this chair while a robot washes our hair for us. Maybe we could even install it in our bathtubs. That way, we could take a shower lying down. More
