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Pop Quiz: Which Bedroom Do You Prefer?

So, here we have two bedrooms from two socialites (or "celebutards," depending on who you talk to), and we're curious to see which one of these rooms is more popular? Option A features a black patent...

Tips and Colors: Bedrooms to Escape To

Getting a good night's rest is one of modern life's greatest luxuries. Beth has tips on making the bedroom luxurious and we have some more tips and color inspiration from our archives: ...

Share the Bed with Someone Who Snores?

Sharing a bed with someone is both an act of care and compromise. One person may hog up the sheets, another might get too hot/cold easily, and others may just hog up a lot of real estate throughout th...

Eleven DIY Headboard Inspirations

A few months back Abby posted a great list of bedroom headboard ideas via Flickr. We wanted to revisit the subject with a DIY perspective in mind, and have come up with 11 additional inspiring ideas f...

Before and After: Ryan's Affordable Modern Organic Bedroom

Here's the before, jump below for the afters!Ryan's bedroom was starting to feel way too dark and he was even having trouble sleeping, so he started a major overhaul of his space attempting a modern o...

Inspiration: Photo as Headboard

We've blogged alternative headboards before and we're always looking for more. So when we spotted this display in Nurseryworks, a vendor who's usually in Ohdeedoh's territory, we had to stop and take...

Spring Scents: 12 DIY Air Fresheners

Last Fall we blogged about making your own fall air fresheners to battle the shut in feeling of impending winter. Now that it's the spring, we've updated our list to include some fresher, rather than...

LA Spring Cure O8: Week 7 - Weekend

We love the yellow light fixture in Ramonah's bedroom.What are you going to do this weekend? Sleep in and enjoy your spiffed up bedroom? Buy some champagne to celebrate your accomplishments with fri...

Neutral Bedroom

Obviously we here at ATLA tend towards using a lot of color in our homes. But when we came across this bedroom in another of the Chinese design mags we picked up, we thought neutral never looked so g...

Alternative Headboards

Wallpaper headboard from Martha StewartWe like a headboard; we think it anchors the bed and, thus, finishes off the room. Jonathan posted some alternative headboard ideas during Bedroom Month. In ho...

LA Spring Cure O8: Week 7: A Restful Space

Abby's bedroom Wow! We're coming down the home stretch. This is really the last full week of work in your home. Next week's focus will be on getting ready for your housewarming party. Maxwell chr...

Lack Clamp Bookcase Lighting from Ikea

Raise your hand if you have a Lack shelf in your home. We thought so. Simple design that fits in anywhere, it's the basic white shirt of decorating. We think that these bookcase lights are destined...

Look! Picture Frames Around A Bed
HGTV Find Your Style Episode 209

We love a before and after, and this was the "after" on an episode of HGTV's Find Your Style. They placed artwork on either side of the bed in a "salon style" cluster, creating a unique symmetry... ho...

8 Tricks to Make Making The Bed a Habit

We never used to make our bed. In fact, we rebelled against it for years. Until we decided to try it out for a few weeks. Oddly enough, our bedroom looked a lot neater (and that was way before we g...

Bedroom: Before and After

In honor of the start of The Cure and the end of Bedroom Month, we wanted to post this lovely bedroom before and after to see what a huge difference color and some thoughtful choices can make....

Basico Hotel Playa Del Carmen

Spring might be upon us but we're already thinking about some summer getaways. For the end of Bedroom Month, we present to you the bedroom we would really really like to spend this weekend in. ...

How To: Make the Bed

Making the bed is probably a cinch for all of you who are pros at hospital corners but we also discovered that a bunch of you don't make your bed at all. So while scoping out PB Teen's Bedding Collec...

PB Teen Bedroom Inspiration

Seems like our inner kid isn't just excited about tree houses, but is sort of kind of really into PB Teen's Bedrooms. We'd probably tone them down a little bit, but the warm styles, happy colors and ...

Good Quotes: In the Bedroom

“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party tha...

Spring has Sprung: How is your Bedroom Doing?

Taking a walk yesterday it was clear that spring has sprung in LA. And since Bedroom Month is rapidly coming to a close, we wanted to review some of our favorite ways to usher Spring into our bedroom...

Look! Urban Outfitters Elegant Headboard Wall Decal On Sale!

Coming down the home stretch of bedroom month, we were poking around the Urban Outfitters Site when we noticed this Headboard Wall Decal on sale for $49.00! ...

LA Hotel Inspiration

With our grief over how to host people without a spare room, we realize that there's always the option of suggesting they stay in one of the lovely hotels we have. They may be out our price range, b...

No Guest Bedroom, now what?

[We'd love to be able to offer this to our guests]We've never had the luxury of an extra room devoted to guests. When family and friends come to stay they used to get a daybed mattress on the living ...

Spruce up the Bedroom with Great Lighting

Our post this morning about bedside lamps got us to thinking. Lighting in the bedroom is some of the most important lighting in the house because of how many ways we might be using the bedroom. We t...

Inspiration: Writing on the Walls

As children, we loved things painted directly on the walls although we were very firmly discouraged from doing it ourselves. Perhaps that's why, when we saw this, it spoke both to our love of murals...