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"All the noise, noise, noise!" I hate to quote the Grinch, but the prospect of sleepless nights is causing me to already have a few. See, my apartment search has led us to a beautiful, spacious apartm...
"All the noise, noise, noise!" I hate to quote the Grinch, but the prospect of sleepless nights is causing me to already have a few. See, my apartment search has led us to a beautiful, spacious apartm...
Unfortunately, apartment living can, at times, be a bit fickle. Misjudge your timing by a bit and you can accidently end a lease too early. Or have the perfect place lined up, and at the last second s...
Over the weekend we visited with a friend who recently moved into a new house. The house was beautiful, but what we really took notice of was the abundance of Eames chairs. We counted 19 (19!) Eames...
We're always trying different ways to green our lives. An area we focus a lot of our energy on is our water consumption. Something we've always done to keep our water consumption down is to keep a (...
As contributors to AT, we suppose it comes as no surprise that we are firm believers in The Cure. We've found lots of inspiration and plenty of helpful ideas for our home in those pages, and we highly...
We've moved a lot in the last few years, causing us to frequently have to purge lots of our stuff in order to get from point A to B with some sanity left. But now that we don't see any plans to flee t...
This weekend will mark the one year anniversary of us moving in to our (that's the bf and myself, thank you...) new home. We closed in the end of May, stayed in our apartment for the month of June an...
A few weeks ago we were at a popular bedding store and a sales associate politely (but sternly) asked us to stop taking photos of a bedding display and to put our camera away. We told them we were ju...
When apartment hunting, we always start off with a laundry list of things we want in an apartment (including laundry facilities, of course). But as the search starts drawing out we notice the list slo...
We're contemplating a possible move,and have started sizing up neighborhoods around the city where we could see ourselves living. There are certain criteria we need in a neighborhood, but we're curiou...
I'm sick, and it stinks. I'm really trying not to fall into the whole pity party scenario and I'm also trying not to just collapse back into bed because, well, posts must be written. But here's the ...
Maybe it's a sign of the times, what with CDs slowly going the way of the eight-track and computers taking the place of stereos, but we have noticed our apartment no longer has a designated space for ...
Since moving here we've found that of all the places we've lived, this is the place that has garnered us the most out of town visitors. It would seem everyone's left their heart in San Francisco, and ...
We've been reading The Eight-Step Home Cure and have to admit, we're a little stuck on something. No, it's not the cleaning or the throwing out, those things are all fine and well. It's something alto...
Yesterday I had a truly awful customer service experience while furniture shopping. I don't think of myself as a particularly demanding customer, but when preparing to spend a significant chunk of c...
Nick recently wrote in with the following question: Is it crazy to want to move to Oakland? I love SF, but let's be honest; rents are high, space is limited and the sun never shines in the Sunset. I...
Can you be homesick for a home you've never lived in? Or even seen in person? Earlier today I opened up a link in an email, saw the article, and immediately got a little choked-up. The article, in ...
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 ...
It seems like every time I move, previous tenants have left stuff behind. Old paint, tin boxes, newspapers, a box of tea bags, spices, toilet bowl brushes, and almost always, paper clips, safety pins...
I'm fascinated by other peoples' clutter management strategies. It's handy that I've lived in apartment buildings for most of my life. I've had ample opportunity to see other people's clutter -- and...
My husband has a pair of glasses that he wears for mere minutes every day, but that he always has tabs on. Lo' -- they move around the house a fair bit -- sometimes they're in the medicine cabinet (t...
'Tis a question with an immediate answer for the average American steeped in the potent brew of the home ownership dream. But here in the Union's most expensive housing market and the world's 34th mo...
I used to wonder which was worse, job hunting or apartment hunting. I still think they're both horrible, but after having done the apartment search twice in just a few months, I think that apartment ...
This is embarrassing to write about. I've written about mold before. I've interviewed people who've become ill from working in offices with it. I've researched it. And still it happened to me. ...
We live on a pretty busy street. It's not the busiest street I've ever lived on, as I lived in NY for 31 years, but with two noisy bus lines running up and down, I think it qualifies as an arterial....