So you don’t feel like moving your entire life to a bigger place when you’re already in your third trimester. Or maybe, like so many others these days, you can’t really afford a bigger place. But that baby is coming, one way or another, so you better get ready! Here are our tips on how [...]

You’ve got enough on your plate, so we’re going to make things a little easier on you. If you’ve been wondering what on earth you’re going to provide for favors, check out the following cute ideas found on Etsy. (We’ve tried to pick things that people might actually use in the future—or things that are [...]

It’s difficult to talk about divorce, or any serious breakup, without being as depressing as a story about an old dog at his last vet visit. But! If you’re splitting with your spouse, as awful as that is, you’re presumably making a necessary life change that will be better in the long run. With that [...]

As usual, we’re skimming Apartment Therapy and drooling over their various design ideas. A recent one struck us as a particularly great mixture of practical and cute: DIY bedroom projects collected from their featured tours. The post doesn’t include specific instructions, but darn it if we’re not inspired anyway. Here are a couple of our [...]

It’s a sad fact of life: many of us have no in-house laundry, and have to drag our stuff to the Laundromat whenever the pile of laundry starts to really stink up the room. So how can you make these trips less frequent, and less annoying when they do happen? Read on. Wash your sweaters [...]

You can benefit in numerous ways from renting to your relatives. You already know them, so you should have a good sense whether they’re the kind of people who would blow up a kitchen and try to pass it off as a maintenance issue, or the kind that will pay the rent on time and [...]

If you’re already having trouble sticking to that “eat healthier” New Year’s Resolution, perhaps it’s because you have lots of tempting things in your pantry that are foiling your best intentions. Because you know what they say about good intentions and white bread:  they pave the road to a heart attack. Below are some simple [...]

1.  Homemade Invitations start your party off on the right foot—personal, put-together, and fun. Using recycled paper, the unwritten-on half of old cards, or any other re-purposed materials will keep this part of your planning under budget. 2. Buy your decorations from a discount party store.  Actually, when arranged attractively, a couple dollar streamers can [...]

So many of us dream of living in a castle, sliding down banisters and hiding all our worldly possessions in endless closets.  In reality, most of us live in slightly smaller situations, and if a person’s home is their castle, we live in rather cluttered ones.  To that end, we’ve put together some smart, simple [...]

You thought your midtown apartment was small?  We bet it’s feeling a whole lot smaller now that Junior has shot up another foot.   Space is limited, but creativity doesn’t have to be—no matter how small the room, there are ways to make it feel bigger and fit more.  Below, find some ideas for using every [...]