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I thought this ceiling solution looked like a good idea. Has anyone tried it? http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/0...

Weird. Sounds like they are considering only policies LABELED green. How about per capita car use v. public transportation & walking? How about per capita square footage? (Yup, small cool, is usual...

Hi, the link in the first line, "house tour post," doesn't work.

I love the outbox in theory, but where do you put it if you are in a small apartment? For a while I tried under my desk, but that made the desk unusable. Now I trip over it! I guess I just have t...

some interesting info on bamboo: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/garden/05garden.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Looks great! Can you post a floor plan?

Barbara, I love Twenty-One Balloons! I thought I was the only one. The way that guy set up his little home in the balloon's gondola is inspiration to me for small, cool living.

It's called "Apartment THERAPY" not Apartment Smackdown, or Apartment Fight Club. I first started visiting this site years ago bc it was a relief from the more hostile & aggressive design sites. ...

Wende, that explains alot...when I first started seeing Moleskines around in the 90's I kept thinking, if they were in business all this time, how come I've only just started seeing them?

Looks great! You've probably already checked this out, but just in case: parts of Greenpoint are situated over a major underground oil spill that happened long ago and never got clea...

"...hundreds of beautiful selzer bottles, some nearly 150 years old." Paula-thanks for the link to the selzer delivery article. I knew the bottles were beautiful and old, but I didn't...

I don't know if he goes to Manhattan, but there is still a selzer delivery guy in Brooklyn. He comes regularly to deliver more selzer and pick up the empties. The bottles are lovely old-school gla...

Here's an under counter all freezer:

from 30" Refrigerator/Freezer by Marvel on June 13, 2007 05:03PM

Alan-propaganda or not, from a lighting design perspective, recent advances in compact fluorescents ARE different from the flickering overheads of old. For the good ones a) the human eye can't det...

from Editor Search: GreenTherapist? on June 2, 2007 02:14PM

I prefer the trash cans made to hold a grocery bag, like the one polkadot suggested above, because a simple frame wouldn't catch the drips that come through the not-unfrequent holes. (I try to che...

from BinFrame by Felix de Pass on May 26, 2007 12:08PM

I mentioned the "case study," not because of confusion about what it is (I'm a designer), but because it's a professional term. Non-professionals don't use their apartments to prepare for them for ...

Great modifications, but doesn't yet look like a home. Are you done furnishing yet? Have you moved in yet? Love the floating bar. On the professional v. regular people c...