Welcome to The Apartment Therapist Community! It’s as close to texting our editors as you can get. It'll be a place to share your own design dilemmas and get real-time solutions from our readers and staffers — or help others solve theirs.
The Apartment Therapist Community is what it is because real people share their real homes. Not every style will resonate with every person, but we firmly believe that home is a deeply personal space and the most important part of design is creating a space for yourself that you love. With that in mind, please be kind when sharing opinions and keep in mind those who are generous enough to welcome us into their homes.
The following Community Guidelines ensure our members can share their views and exchange ideas in a safe space:
- Promote positive conversation and a positive environment for our community.
- Be honest, be direct, but always, be gracious.
- Stay on topic. Keep the conversation to the relevant article/discussion/thread.
- Add value to discussions; don’t take it away.
- Don’t promote your own site, product, business or services.
- Do not add self-linking signatures when closing your comments.
- All user-submitted content, such as photographs, must be the original work of the person submitting and they must have the right to use them.
- Please try not to include any people in any photographs, especially without their explicit permission to be posted.
- Avoid sharing false information and do not deliberately spread misleading content.
- Do not impersonate a person or organization or misrepresent yourself.
- No Hate Speech, insults, or bullying, inappropriateness, offensiveness, obscenity or discriminatory language, such as endorsing any form of hate or hate group.
- Content may not defame, misrepresent, or contain disparaging remarks about products, people, or companies.
- Content might get taken down if they contain any personal identification such as personal names, e-mail addresses, or street addresses.
- Content may not depict and may not be in violation of any law.
- Respect the decisions made by our community moderators and admins. Do not engage in actions intended to bypass our policies or subvert restrictions placed on your account.
Your content will/might be rejected if it contains:
- Spam.
- Insults, profanity, incoherent, obscene or inflammatory language and threats of any kind.
- Attacks on the identity of other commenters or the author.
A User will/might be blocked if we notice:
- Continuous attempts to re-post comments that have been previously moderated/rejected.
- Racist, sexist, or homophobic comments.
- Attempts or tactics that put the site security at risk.
So, how can you be a power user?
- Stay on topic and share your passion. Feel free to elaborate to get your point across.
- ‘Like’ or ‘Dislike’ when you are filled with emotions!
- Protect your community. Use the report tool to alert us when someone breaks the rules.