Whether you're building a Richard Avedon-inspired bed or aspiring for the simplicity of Donald Judd, IKEA's IVAR components are great DIY basics that are simple and inexpensive. We've posted the IVAR...
After spending two weekends in the past month painting our living room, we're ready to share our favorite painting aid: the Shur Line 1-Gallon Pro Paint Grid. This small piece of red plastic mesh si...
What do you get when you pair a fashion photographer with a librarian? An extremely organized and minimal tech setup. Come on over to unplggd to see the rest of this setup and one of the most interes...
Here's a take on artwork that doesn't just go "on" your wall, it becomes your wall. This is a great tip I got from Jane Mount, who was a 3rd place finisher in our 2006 Smallest Coolest Apartment C...
Tim sent us some pictures of his amazingly ambitious do-it-yourself graphic paint job in his hallway (and we're totally envious!): Hi, I just completed this painted wall mural and wanted to share....
This image of photographer Richard Avedon's custom designed bed stopped us in our tracks this morning. Inspired by old water cooler crates and designed to provide as many books within arm's reach as...
Last week, we shared our search for the perfect gray paint for our apartment: Do It Yourself: Painting the Apartment. After deciding upon Benjamin Moore's "Abalone" and completing one half of the ro...
After four years with a too-glossy coconut brown interior, I decided my apartment needed a new, brighter paint job. If I was going to invest the time, money and energy into re-painting, I wanted to ...
We're going to say this upfront: we're skeptical. In searching for inexpensive ways to refinish, cover, or otherwise mask the terrible upholstery of our Craigslist sofa, we recently came across an i...
Everyone loves a Before & After post; they're like the shopping montage of design blogging. Style Court recently reposted some of the guest blogs for Design Sponge last year, and we couldn't not...
Hey AT! My parents have a terrible old shower stall in their downstairs bathroom. It's a nasty '70s yellow that really needs to be brought up to date, but they do not want to deal with the cost of rep...
I recently bought two of these chairs at an Estate Sale and I'm not quite sure the direction I want to take them. After seeing a few chairs on AT, I'm thinking of painting them a high gloss black a...
Continuing our post from yesterday on Lifehacker's Top Ten Ikea mods, we wanted to share this ingenius storage solution for multiple bikes in small spaces......
Last Friday, Lifehacker posted a list of their Top Ten Ikea Mods, and over the next few days, we'll be sharing some of our favorites. First up, this how-to on embedding a scrap & work bowl into a ...
Earlier this month, both Kristin and Keehnan covered designs that embraced Trompe l'Oeil. Sarah Engelke, an interior architecture student at Rhode Island School of Design sent us pictures of her inn...
After our made-over Tullsta posts earlier in the week, we received a handful of fantastic reader submitted chair makeovers we wanted to share....
Our loft in Brooklyn has more than a few long, blank expanses of wall. To make these a little less intimidating, we've been considering ways to make the stretches more interesting on the cheap. The ...
The OK Baby No Shock Helmet... hot or not? Our readers debated the merits of this helmet for babies of uber-safety-conscious parents. We're feeling crafty and thrifty these days, and it shows in our...
In keeping with our Tullsta renovation theme from earlier today, we couldn't help but notice that Ikea's chair bears a strong resemblance in form to the brilliant Tokujin Yoshioka's Panna chair for ...
Now you see it, now you don't. Who says that a closet needs to be against a wall. Why not a foot pedal actuated, piston controlled hidden door in the floor? The perfect combination of practicality and...
We seem run across Ikea's Tullsta chair on Craigslist almost daily. At the time of this writing, a quick search through the New York listings brings up at least six posted in the last week. Perhap...
Yesterday's Home section of The New York Times, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne showed off his one-of-a-kind home in Oklahoma City. A funky and eclectic mix of colors and materials the home captur...
We wanted to share our new eBay purchase. It holds some resonance in the current economy. Check out what's inside......
As is often the case, I'm in love with this ottoman from Buck House, but not in love with its $3200 price tag. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find something similar? Or, how I could go abo...
Left: "Chair-chair Pad" by Chenhhui Su; Right: Detail from Monique and Richard's SF apartment There's been some discussion recently about the pros and cons of working with photocopies and facsimile...
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