Apartment Therapy: shelving & storage

Flickr Finds: Colorized Bookcase

We've posted before about organizing books by color and it's always inspiring to see this idea shared by our Apartment Therapy community. Chez posted this very organized-by-color bookcase in the Apart...

Look! Freestanding Bookcase Ideas

We love the look of a freestanding or independent bookcase that doesn't need a wall to feel stable in a space. While it's common to place a bookshelf against a wall, setting the case in the room or fl...

The Boby by Joe Colombo: Revisiting a Classic

During our visit to the visit to the Rosebowl Flea Market this weekend, we noticed a few of these carts for sale. The shiny dense plastic and freely moving wheels invited touching. Our friend had nev...

Hot or Not? Using the Fireplace for Storage?

Personally, we're a bit torn about this storage idea from Beach Studios. We like the use of the fireplace space, but we're not so sure about the execution (looks too willy-nilly for our anal-retentive...

Adding Fabric To a Bookcase

We have seen this idea a few times and are even considering it for our own space – adding fabric to a bookcases to create color, depth and texture. If you are looking for a ways to add an accent t...

Piola Leaning Bookcase

While we love a traditional bookcase to showcase our favorite reads, we couldn’t help but bookmark the Piola Bookshelf for our “must have one day” list. Take a look at this neat leaning bookcase...

Mark Tuckey: Packing Crate Book Shelves
Melbourne

We really like the asymmetry of these book shelves by Melbourne based furniture maker/designer Mark Tuckey. Made from recycled packing crate wood, the different shaped boxes create a frame-like effect...

Pixel Pattern Customizable Sideboard

Polish designer Agnieszka Bartosiewicz's sideboard was designed to be customized using 3500 holes and colored felt pieces, a cool idea that should appeal to the 8-bit set. It reminds us of our childho...

IKEA PAX Wardrobe as Room Divider

We first saw this idea when AT:LA reader Alex shared his DIY loft room divider made out of a PAX wardrobe from IKEA. Here's another version of the same idea spotted on Ikea Hacker. They used IKEA lami...

2008 VIP Asia Award: CONCEPT40 Kitchen

We love the idea of having a particular space to store everything away, whether it be in the closet or the kitchen. So although we're not exactly in love with the cafeteria of the future aesthetics of...

Drawerment Storage System

One of the constant and fondest memories we have throughout our childhood all the way up until college was spending hours upon hours in the library sifting through card catalogs in the old fashioned v...

Plop! bookshelf by Joyce Hong

Here's an idea that's green, transportable, perfect for small space living, stores your stuff and because of it's neutral colour, easily customizable. Oh, and it takes an age-old problem and solves i...

Reyneldo Rodriguez TV Consoles

We've blogged the challenges of incorporating a television smoothly into your decor. As well as not orienting all of your furniture towards your tv, as if it's a modern update of a fireplace, where t...

Wilkerson Furniture at Dwell on Design

There was one booth at Dwell on Design we were completely and utterly drawn to like a moth to a flame. Wilkerson Furniture's booth was filled with attractive chairs, tables and lamps all influenced by...

Utility and Serving Cart from Brands On Sale

Also spotted in the Summer 08 O at Home was this "industrial chic" steel utility cart. It's powder coated in a bright red that would bring instant pop to your next outdoor shindig. It has two shelves...

Affordable Modern Furniture: Andy Lee Furniture

It's not easy to find modern non-retail furniture on a limited budget. Nor is it easy to find easy to assemble furniture. The designs of Andy Lee hits both marks, offering handsome and simple plywood ...

Inspiration: IKEA BJURON Planters as Wall Boxes

Here's a fun wall storage idea made using IKEA BJURÖN planters! As spotted on the IKEA Hacker blog, a reader mounted BJURÔN planters on the wall and painted the insides white......

Cubistorus Modular Shelving System

When Art. Lebedev Studio isn't playing design pranks on us all, they're busy creating practical home solutions like these module cubes that were specifically designed with the first time apartment dwe...

Mission Accomplished: The Closet Library

Certainly the biggest guilty secret in our apartment has been the state of our walk-in closet, where things went in, but seemed to rarely depart. But thanks to a few yard sales, following some of our ...

This Compost Crock Is the Apple Of Our Eye

We normally wouldn't want to keep a compost receptacle for all to see, but this Apple Compost Crock not only helps store your kitchen scraps for composting with an odour-masking activated carbon filte...

Transform Your Furniture...Using Mirrors

Maybe it's living in Hollywood but we love mirrored furniture. We've got a mirrored desk which we bought just as we were about to spring for mirroring our own. While we were in NY, we spotted this m...

Look! Ala by Valcucine Flip Up Wall Unit

Just because something's designed for one room, does that mean it has to be used in there? We don't think so. We were reminded of how much we love the Ala Flip Up Wall Unit by Valcucine when we visi...

Ideaco Sensor Tray Lamp

One part lamp, one part landing strip, the Sensor Tray Lamp is made for those of us who need a place to keep their glasses, wallets and/or cellphone in one easy to remember place. Just touch the ABS r...

Jigsaw and Jig Stor Modular Shelving Concept

Tom Seymour's jigsaw shaped pieces take the modular concept to a seemingly obvious conclusion: puzzle piece shaped storage units that can be assembled into unlimited configurations (though we'd recomm...

Fractal 23: Near Endless Storage

Takeshi Miyakawa's cube shaped storage solution is just an art project, but we bet the Fractal 23 as it is called, would do pretty well as a consumer piece. But as noted by others, the problem inheren...

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