NYC Apartment Living Links
Because, as a friend of ours once said, "it takes a long time to read the internet", you may have missed a few of our favorite apartment living links (however tangentially related) from these past few weeks, just as we probably missed a few of your favorites. Thus: link swap. We'll go first.    There […]

IKEA Hacks: The Best & Most Creative Designs
Ah, IKEA. Who among us hasn't succumbed to its temptations? Those lovely, clean, and contemporary designs? Those charmingly fun-to-say Scandinavian names, and the cafe meatballs with lingonberry sauce? And, most seductive of all, those impossible prices? Don't get us wrong, we love IKEA, for all of those reasons and more, but sometimes we get their […]

Five of the Best Home Design and Architecture Blogs
We spend waaaaaay too many hours on the internet each week poring over top design and architecture blogs, imagining what our home might look like if we had unlimited time, money, and energy, as well as a willingness to get rid of all the stuff we already own, and love. Anyway, here are a few […]

Apartment Plants: Winter Care
  We may not possess the greenest of thumbs, but we definitely do enjoy having some living, breathing (even flowering!) apartment plants, especially as we hunker down a bit at home, waiting out the non-festive freezingness of January… and February… and March.

Shelving and Storage Solutions for Apartments Large and Small
If you’re like us (and, probably, at least half of all New York City apartment dwellers), one of your resolutions this year involves finally cleaning up and organizing your closet / office space / kids’ room,  and those piles of books and papers and toys and everything else in the entire universe that somehow always […]

Cool Holiday Gift Guides 2010: Home Design Edition
Every design blogger and "shelter" publication in town throws out a Holiday Gift Guide these days, and, browsed too early in the season, they can all seem kind of general ("yes, these are pretty things"), and/or more than a little overwhelming. But now that we have only a couple of people remaining on our list, […]

NYC Green Apartments: Green Power in Glenwood Buildings
New York City living is already relatively energy efficient and eco-friendly (think: mass transit, lots of walking, smaller living spaces to heat and power than similarly-priced houses in subrurban and rural areas), but Glenwood Management is committed to going even further to create NYC green apartments. As of right now, 25% off all the energy […]

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Tips and Tricks for NYC Dwellers
  Reduce    Is it possible to reduce your carbon footprint to zero? Even if you live, not on some farm somewhere, but here in New York City? Well, yes, if you're Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, who in 2007 embarked on a year-long experiment to see if he and his family–wife Michelle Conlin, […]

Family Friendly Apartments in New York City
  There are many things that make for a family friendly apartment in New York City, from a building's amenities to its neighborhood and nearby services to the attitude and lifestyle of your fellow tenants. First and foremost, however, the one feature that families with young children covet most of all, is the on-site play […]

Rooftop Gardens and Urban Farms in NYC
It’s more than a little ironic than us city-slicking New Yorkers, via the abundance of greenmarket farmers markets that have taken root all over town in the past decade or so–from the massive, wonderful Union Square farmers market to the seasonal spaces such as the Saturday-only greenmarket on 82nd and York–actually have easier access to […]