It's time to fall in love again. . . with your home. This year, get in the mood (and stay in it!) with 10 ideas for adding romance to any room. From unexpected color combinations to must-have materials, from the bedroom to the kitchen, these ambience-enhancing tips will tempt you to stay indoors and turn up the heat.
Those of you with small kitchens most likely have a spice rack situation — you either devote an entire cabinet to stashing them (which still doesn't grant easy access) or sacrifice precious counter space. Either way, you lose.
Allow us to introduce you to another, more artful option. Create a hive-like wall installation that frees both your cabinets and counter space with Gneiss Spice. The honeycomb-shaped glass jars are topped with gold plastisol lids with strong magnets and can be adhered to a wall plate in rusted metal or sleek stainless steel. If wall space is also limited, no problem. Just stick them on your refrigerator!
With nearly 40 years of experience creating innovative yet livable kitchens, Mick De Giulio's design for House Beautiful's 2012 Kitchen of the Year doesn't disappoint. With an elegant black-and-white palette and an aesthetic that seamlessly merges industrial and rustic accents with a modern blueprint, it's the carefully chosen details that bring the entire look together. See the clever design choices we're applauding — and plotting — for our own kitchens!
Photos courtesy of House Beautiful
We're happy to present a post from Stylelist Home!
I lived in Brooklyn for five years and after a life of loneliness (my friends deemed Brooklyn to be about as far away as Florida), I decided to move over the bridge to Manhattan. I rented a shoebox-sized apartment (300 square feet) downtown and was just happy to be back in civilization where my friends would come and visit me. A fourth-floor walkup, the space was described somewhat generously as a one-bedroom.
I had one window, which looked into an air shaft where a weird man would stare at me, and my apartment smelled like sweet-and-sour chicken. I had to climb over the sink to get to the tub, which was actually more like a crypt. The most disturbing part was that what looked like urine would leak through the ceiling from the apartment above. It felt like I was paying $2,000 a month to live in a tenement.
The turning point came when the landlord said he was raising the rent. I started looking for something cheaper and couldn't find anything, so that's when I decided to take the leap, scrape together my savings, and buy a place. I didn't want cookie-cutter: I was looking for something older with character. I found it in an elevator building just off Union Square. The 500-square-foot apartment had original details like old wooden beams, crystal doorknobs, and exposed metal door frames.
Keep reading to hear about the renovation and to see how the apartment looks now!
You may remember New York Magazine's recent article featuring indie actress Chloe Sevigny's unforgettable co-op apartment in the East Village. While the actress hinted to the magazine about tiring of the rules and lack of light that came along with her garden-level digs, we were still surprised to see that Chloe listed the apartment several weeks later. According to Curbed New York, Chloe is listing the apartment for $1.7 million — a pretty penny for a one-bedroom apartment. We couldn't resist taking one more look at this East Village gem to reflect on our favorite pieces from Chloe's quirky but sophisticated pad.
