AT on: Little Things that Make a Difference
[Thanks for the tons of emails I got back in response to this email. I'm going to post them all tomorrow] The main ring road at Talamore, with lots of cul de sacs off of both sides. Over the weekend...
[Thanks for the tons of emails I got back in response to this email. I'm going to post them all tomorrow] The main ring road at Talamore, with lots of cul de sacs off of both sides. Over the weekend...
When is the last time you looked at the outside of your apartment? Our dwellings in the city are very internalized. Many of us don't really know what our homes look like from the outside. Some of ou...
My high school commencement was the best commencement I ever attended. The main address, which was given by a trustee, congratulated us only a little before challenging us to think beyond partying, ...
1.5 million (per month) AT fans can't be wrong (pic Weegee) Every spring, around the anniversary of our original launch back in April of 2004, I step back and take a moment to opine of the year behin...
I haven't written an "AT on" post in awhile, and I thought it would be a good thing to start up again in order to speak up and create a regular opening for reader feedback. It also gotten busier and ...
Dear Readers, Allow me to step in here if I may and apologize up front for any confusion. I know new things like this can be a bit jarring, but bear with us. We're trying to do a good job, stic...
All seems right when a room is ordered with a little symmetry. It's sometimes suprisingly difficult to accomplish, but the result, we think, is generally calming and pleasing......
Drawing #1 We made a simple resolution on New Year's Eve, to draw a squiggle each day for a year. We've been drawing and painting them every now and then for about five years, but not enough to figu...
"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of ...
>> House Tour: AB Chao's Modern + Old = MOLD As our cold weather steadily rolls in, we keep thinking about what Stephen Drucker, editor of House Beautiful, said last week in this Mediabistro ...
When we were little, our father installed a new basketball hoop at the driveway. When he set the base in concrete, we all pressed our handprints into the wet cement to mark that this was our home. L...
Another one bites the dust.... We read in WWD, that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia suffered some lay-offs last week. Now, our mailbox is getting rumors of the demise of our favorite Martha title, Bl...
How do you get your newspaper? Is your New York Times delivered straight to your doorstep every morning? Do you pick one up on the way to work? Or do you read all your news online, like us?......
We passed by this today on 23rd Street. It's a Home Depot shop window set up to look like a before/after from a home makeover......
It's finally happened. After over three years of reviewing stores and soliciting your comments with great happiness all around, we've been hit with a rash of lawsuits from stores that can't deal with ...
Earlier this week we talked about cool and warm people. This is different. Mike bought two beautiful brown modern couches and then a soft blue rug to go in front of them. Something wasn’t right in...
Diana never eats at home. Her apartment is a “crash pad.” Her living room hasn’t been sat in during the last 12 months, and she spends most of her home time at a makeshift desk in the kitchen hooked...
Domino Double-take. Whoa! I flipped through a discarded copy of Chocolat at my favorite lunch spot yesterday and it is the spitting image of Condé Nast's Domino. I immediately scoured the mast head fo...
Domino Double-take. Whoa! I flipped through a discarded copy of Chocolat at my favorite lunch spot yesterday and it is the spitting image of Condé Nast's Domino. I immediately scoured the mast head fo...
Product packaging accounts for 50% of municipal waste. But, as the book Cradle to Cradle points out, we can be smarter about packaging. Why not create packaging with a second life once it's served t...
Last week we were shocked that a reader was being harassed by a store due to her comments. She had called asking us to take down her comment because she couldn't take it anymore. We asker her how they...
Aaron blogged this article on life in Shanghai earlier, but we wanted to echo his remarks that it's a "must read" and zero in on a few sections that really struck us (see page 2 and 3). They have to d...
Do you have one of these in your medicine cabinet? It's a small slit in the back wall of the cabinet that is just big enough for an old razor blade to slip through. A helpful designer at one point...
It's finally happened. We've got a garbage bag hanging from our front door knob. This is a sure sign of slipping into real urban slackerdom and more decay. We've become one of THEM. One of my pet ...
We're down to only two bottles of Pellegrino.... Last night we opened our precious supply and drained one bottle. Now, on to the solutions. Thanks so much for your comments on the first post. This, l...