Many urban dwellers have embraced the local food movement. Greenmarkets are booming in Manhattan and CSA food boxes are trendy. The New York Times shows us some former urban dwellers have embraced t...
Artist and motorcyclist Linda Dodwell has a deep love for the architecture and iconography of rural Australia. When she built her five-building compound in Sonoma County, California, many of the mat...
Have you tried everything to clean the dull, stained grout between your tiles? It's a common question we wrestle with at Apartment Therapy: Groddy Grout: Cleaning Tile Grout? We've covered grout coa...
The New York Times covers the topic of deck maintenance in their new feature, The Fix. Very few deck-owners actually clean and re-seal their decks regularly. The article is a great starting point for ...
Mircea Marinescu and his wife, Silvia, built a modern home of metal, concrete and glass in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The New York Times shares pictures of the stark, clean-lined design and tells the Mar...
This week's shopping feature in The New York Times follows Williamsburg-based designer-ceramicist Sarah Cihat as she shops for dinnerware. Known for her own line of Rehabilitated Dishware — variou...
Today, The New York Times launched a new "occasional series of articles offering inside looks at homes that stand out in the landscape of New York and other cities." The first home they featured is ...
If cleaning your wood floors wasn't enough, or the current high gloss finish is blinding, perhaps you're entertaining the idea of having your wood floors professionally refinished? The New York Times ...
How far can you stretch $40 and a do-it-yourself attitude? The New York Times shadowed experienced prop stylist and set designer Michele Spadaro as she rehabilitated an inexpensive, thrift store cha...
Known for his experience as a chef and restauranteur (The Quilted Giraffe), Barry Wine has allowed his creative spirit to pervade his life — whether he is practicing photography, designing jewelr...
The New York Times loves to profile some kooky homes. In the past year they've shown us a Funhouse in East Hampton, Arizona's Eliphante & Hippodome and Pearl Lam's Shanghai Loft. This week, they're ...
Perfect for Spring Cleaning Month — The New York Times explores the growing number of people eschewing store-bought, big name brands and making their own cleaning products at home. In addition to cu...
We've admired Richard Saja's embellished toile designs ever since we first spotted them at The Future Perfect a few years ago. This week, The New York Times follows Saja while he shops for textiles ...
We've all heard the contractor-from-hell stories. (quite a few were shared at our last Meet Up that focused on Urban Renovation). The New York Times takes a look at the other side of the coin — home...
There has been a huge shift in the market for paint in recent years — as consumers demand more environmentally friendly paint, the paint companies are working hard to satisfy these concerns but st...
How much is too much? The New York Times shares the first-person account of author Alberto Manguel discussing his life-long love of books and his personal library of over 30,000 volumes. As romantic...
As more and more products with labels like "green" and "sustainable" enter the marketplace, companies look for new ways to stand out. And the latest development? Furnishings labeled "biodegradable."...
Bath tubs have morphed into sculpture. The New York Times rounds up some very, very pricey tubs that will elevate your bathroom to art gallery status. If you have the budget — and space — for s...
All-glass stairs can be a great solution for flooding an older building with light — or it can be a terrifying exercise in acrophobia. The New York Times looks at some Victorian-era homes in Londo...
Last week, The New York Times featured a preview of this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Today, they followed up the general preview with some specific details on replicating the professionals' ...
The newest installment in the Destination series at the Museum of Modern Art travels to Japan for a collection of uniquely Japanese designs for housewares, gifts and oddities. Destination: Japan fea...
Our own Good Questions have attempted to answer the question: What's the Right Red? This week's Room to Improve question from The New York Times examines the apprehension and anxiety that sometimes ta...
This year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House is not a townhouse — it's six apartments in the Manhattan House apartment building on East 66th Street. Built in 1950, the modernist block of apartments a...
A New York sculptor who works with stone, Elyn Zimmerman built a new home and studio among the rocks in Oaji, California. The New York Times gives us a peek inside the modern and "disciplined interi...
Though they didn't mention Maxwell's favorite inexpensive lantern, the Rotera from IKEA, this week's Personal Shopper from The New York Times rounds up plenty of options for outdoor lighting. Whethe...
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