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akirluDo you spend too much time watching dopey shows on HGTV just in case you spot an interesting paint color combination, learn a useful cabinet-hanging trick, or get an idea for what on earth to do about your scary bathroom? Like to spend hours poring over the Crate & Barrel furniture catalogs? Addicted to Ikea Hacker? Trying to figure out a way to hang all your art?
Apartment Therapy may be just the gang blog for you. Now, I will warn you before you go look, you have to have a Really High tolerance for Mid-Century and other forms of Modern furniture and decor, because these will be splatted all over many of the daily posts. But tucked in among the breathless cooing over contemporary sources of (yech) Eiffel-base Eames shell chairs (ptui), you'll find eco news: Ikea is discontinuing disposable plastic bags completely; user product recommendations: the Electrolux Ergorapido is a good stick vacuum choice for pet owners; or an entirely drool-worthy recipes like this one for grain salad with Meyer lemon and spring asparagus.
It's a bit DIY, it's a bit Martha Stewart how-to, and a big dollop of your choice of vastly hip and trendy interior design mags. Above all, it is eye candy. High velocity eye candy, I might add. With gang blogs based in four regions of the country, and several different regular features, what you see at 9:00 will not be what you see at noon, and both will be long gone by evening. If you have ADD-ferret brain and a big appetite for storage and design solutions, you will love it.
Lise got me hooked on this one, with the simple expedient of pointing me to this amazing combination staircase and bookcase in a London loft. It's dizzyingly impractical, and yet, I want it. If you have book storage issues, you'll want to at least take a peek, even if you then run away screaming in horror.
Apartment Therapy may be just the gang blog for you. Now, I will warn you before you go look, you have to have a Really High tolerance for Mid-Century and other forms of Modern furniture and decor, because these will be splatted all over many of the daily posts. But tucked in among the breathless cooing over contemporary sources of (yech) Eiffel-base Eames shell chairs (ptui), you'll find eco news: Ikea is discontinuing disposable plastic bags completely; user product recommendations: the Electrolux Ergorapido is a good stick vacuum choice for pet owners; or an entirely drool-worthy recipes like this one for grain salad with Meyer lemon and spring asparagus.
It's a bit DIY, it's a bit Martha Stewart how-to, and a big dollop of your choice of vastly hip and trendy interior design mags. Above all, it is eye candy. High velocity eye candy, I might add. With gang blogs based in four regions of the country, and several different regular features, what you see at 9:00 will not be what you see at noon, and both will be long gone by evening. If you have ADD-ferret brain and a big appetite for storage and design solutions, you will love it.
Lise got me hooked on this one, with the simple expedient of pointing me to this amazing combination staircase and bookcase in a London loft. It's dizzyingly impractical, and yet, I want it. If you have book storage issues, you'll want to at least take a peek, even if you then run away screaming in horror.
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