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Interior design \ New Girl \ Zooey Deschanel
Zany Zooey Deschanel décor for your home
Some are different from others, and don’t get me wrong, that is not necessarily a bad thing! No, not at all! And the different ones, when it comes to apartment décor, might blur occasionally the line between nice furnishings and amazing ones. By channeling Zooey Deschanel’s persona in New Girl, we discovered some décor that [...]
Urban garden tips: Transform your balcony into a serene oasis
I’ve always enjoyed apartment living. Not saying that it’s all bright and shiny but I really like the vitality of apartment neighborhoods, I love meeting new people and the fact that it’s easy to stay connected to city life. And believe it or not, I’m very comfortable with people swarming around my apartment building; it [...]
Bring your vacation home to your apartment
Have you ever arrived home from a lovely vacation, looked around your apartment and wanted to walk right back out the front door? I know I have. What is it about a nice hotel room – even though you know that somebody else slept there last night and they probably didn’t wash the comforter before [...]
Bicycle \ Furniture \ Interior design \ National Bike Month
Cool furniture from recycled bikes
Happy National Bike Month! Now dismantle that hunk of metal and make something really interesting. Bike frames are hard to fix. After taking a nose dive down a mountain side or getting backed-over by the car, the bike is a gonner. Today’s bikes are hybrids of carbon materials, aluminum, steel, and all sorts of stuff [...]
Hollywood \ Interior design \ Mad Men \ Mid-Century modern
Mid-Century Mad Men style for modern homes
Give your apartment a Hollywood makeover with these simple tips. Without the talented actors and intriguing plots, many Americans would still watch Mad Men and for one reason: style. Fans of the mid-century modern aesthetic can’t get enough of the characters’ home décor. Recreating these looks in your apartment can be as costly or affordable [...]
Spring design has sprung in your apartment
Spring is a time for change, renewal and fresh beginnings that for me always result in redecorating urges. Nothing big and one room at a time. I think there’s nothing wrong with wanting to shake things up now and then, is there? The bedroom is one of those spaces that act like a refuge from [...]
Interior design \ Renting \ Wall decals
Decorating your rental with temporary style
Living, really living in a rental home or apartment can be difficult sometimes. Rental homes are innately temporary and most renters don’t want to put in the work to personalize their short-term digs. Personalization is what it’s all about. You pay the rent and you deserve to feel really at home where you lay your [...]
Edgar Allan Poe \ Furniture \ Interior design \ Raven
The Raven inspired designs for your home
These home furnishing are dark, sexy, and rich with old world allure. The set and costume designers of The Raven mastered the dramatic appeal of that time period with richly colored textiles and furniture that takes the finest details into consideration. Bring the film’s extravagant beauty into your apartment. Let’s face it. Edgar Allan Poe [...]
Channel inner celebrity for dream apartment design
Time for a spicy style makeover for your apartment? If you want to knock your own, bland, boring décor scheme off its pedestal and replace it with something fun and hip, turn to the masters of the fabulous but probably unnecessary – in other words, celebrities — for insight. Here are a few larger-than-life personalities [...]
IKEA Hack: File under “why didn’t I think of that?”
Here’s one of those DIY ideas that leaves me slamming my head against the closet door in agony, feeling like the stupidest person in the world. OK, not really. But I do channel Charlie Brown just a bit when I see a brilliant concept like IKEA Hackers, whose “it’s so brilliant that it’s obvious” design [...]
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