13 Versatile Furniture Pieces Which Grow With You
Whether you’ve just signed the lease in your first flat, or you’re focusing on replacing your faculty apartment furniture with higher-quality stuff, it helps to have a long-term strategy for furnishing your place. You might not always have a massive […]
Steep Your Rental in Color — Without Painting the Walls
This ideabook is for colour fans who need to painting the walls alternatives. Even if your landlord has a strict no-painting coverage, or you realize you will be moving ahead long, you can still have a home that is vibrantly […]
Microunits Are Coming to NYC. See the Winning Style
In July 2012 New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development launched an adAPT NYC Contest to develop a building with microunits to a Whole Lot in Manhattan’s Kips Bay neighborhood. The competition was spurred by the shifting demographics […]
Home Automation Goes Mobile and Mainstream
Home automation companies have been around for several years. They market often expensive and complex methods for automating and remote controlling home cooling and heating systems, appliances, security systems, lighting and more. These are usually installed and programmed by distinctive […]
25 Most Bookmarked Remodeling Guides of 2012
Remodeling hasn’t been simple (just ask people who have lived through it), but preparing yourself as much as possible may help. readers wanted to find out about everything in 2012: from shower drains and searching for substances to Japanese wood […]
Eclectic Elegance Distinguishes a Dallas Home
With keen instinct and a honed sense of interior layout, Stephen and Lindsey Edison have created a cohesive yet exceptionally eclectic mix of decoration in their Dallas ranch house. French antiques reside side by side with Western art, African artifacts, […]
Here's a Bright Idea: Smart Bulbs for Better Lighting
A normal lightbulb tends to come in 1 colour and one brightness level. But now new LED (light-emitting diode) lightbulbs promise to become any colour and any brightness at any moment you prefer. And best of all, they may be […]
Decorate With Intention: Let Your House Help You De-Stress
With the light waning earlier each evening as I write this in early November, it is natural to be craving more downtime. After the seemingly endless shopping, working and errand running, it is a relief to come back home and […]
Learn the Lingo of Drapery Rods and Accessories
Finding just the correct fabric for your own window treatment is vital, but don’t overlook how you will be hanging it. To make sure that your window treatments are just as functional as they are beautiful, you have to understand […]
16 Exquisite Beds Fit for a Queen
We spend about 30% of our lives in bed, so we can too make it count. Beds are the celebrities of this bedroom (thus the expression”bedspace”), and designwise they’re our opportunity to let our characters shine. The mattress is a […]