Want to know how crazy Martha Stewart is? And by “crazy,” we mean, “crazy organized.” (It makes one wonder how many ways you can tidy a luxury prison cell.) You can find out in an article titled “Martha’s Homes: Her Organizing Solutions” on the Martha Stewart website. And no, we didn’t mistype and add a [...]

This recent revelation from Apartment Therapy: things you can get at a hardware store in order to divide a room in your apartment, and either save money by splitting rent or save your sanity by not having to look at your roommate all the time. 1. Rope Apparently, you can make walls out of rope. [...]

You finally have a backyard! Hurrah! But what do to about the fact that it’s smaller than an ant’s bathroom? Luckily, there are several ways you can organize your space so that you can get the most out of your square foot(age). Decide on your key component(s) What is the most important thing you want [...]

What’s a divorce house? We didn’t know either, until we stumbled into (well, not literally, but if we had, it would surely be well-lit and beautifully bedecked) Liz O’Donnell’s divorce house on the Huffington Post. Apparently, a “divorce house” is the one you fantasize about decorating completely on your own and controlling down to every [...]

Whatever nomenclature you’ve assigned your blowout party (we prefer “hot mess” but you may prefer something classier), you’re going to have to clean up afterwards. Unless you want things growing on your carpet. So let’s get cracking. Materials! -Trash bag -Washcloth -Mop -Hot, soapy water …Got ‘em? Good. 1. Pick up all obvious trash to [...]

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 [...]

Start Timing Your Showers A shower timer will alert you when you’ve been bathing for five or ten minutes, saving water and hopefully getting you to work on time, for once. Hide Hideous Cables Plugs, wires, and cables can make space cluttered, and in the worst case scenario, break your grandma’s hip. Get them out [...]

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 [...]

Now that you’ve read every one of our winter decorating blog posts (you have, right? Right?), you’re probably itching to open the windows, shake out the rugs, and burn all the little snowflakes we suggested you put up in the first place. Touché. Here are a few ways to make over your apartment for spring [...]

If you’re already scheming about how clean you’ll get your house this spring, read up on these handy ideas for an apartment so sparkling, it’ll look new. Supplies Get everything you need before you start cleaning—nothing ruins a cleaning buzz like an hour-long trip to the store. Gloves, cleaning fluids, sponges, mops, rags, dusters—the whole [...]