Presents for A Geek: Motherboard Gifts
Rachel over Re-Nest found various recycled motherboard circuit board items that have been redesigned for a new life as decorative elements around the home, ranging from votive lights, to coasters, clo...
Posts tagged “*CROSSPOST”
Skateboarding in the Living Room
Tony Hawk Ride
Over at Apartment Therapy Chicago this morning, Janel writes about the Yves Behar designed Tony Hawk Ride skateboard controller (yes, the same guy who also designed this much more adult oriented toy a...
How To: Catalog Books with Your iPhone
Sarah over at Apartment Therapy Chicago gives 6 simple instructions of how to use your iPhone's ability to scan barcodes to organize your library: "We just discovered a way to painlessly make a digita...
Spore Modern Doorbells Bring LED to the Doorstep
Over at Apartment Therapy New York, Aaron has a cool round up of modern doorbells with a bit of LED lighting integrated into the design that gives the house chiming systems a splash of colour and make...
Decorating with Vintage Telephones
We've praised the classic rotary phone as a technology we sort of miss for its charming mechanical qualities and classic design. Some designers share this affinity and reimagine the design for modern ...
Easel as Television Stand
Metropolitan Home
Last month Apartment Therapy featured a great roundup of easels as home decor, but this has taken it one step further. Check out this use of an easel as a television stand in what we think is a stran...
The Most Useless Energy-Related Products?
Have you ever heard of an energy retrofit that just sounded too good to be true, like insulating paint or passive fresh air inlets? This list has some obvious picks, but a couple on here might just ...
Pixelated Artwork Made from Paint Chips
Nite saw our recent how-to post on creating a pixelated painting and it inspired an email to us with some photos of an amazing bit of DIY artwork that he made from paint chips......
Dealing with the Television
from Apartment Therapy House Tours
The television is the bane of many otherwise well-thought-out living spaces. The problem is compounded when you're dealing with tight spaces, as every little move packs a punch in a small apartment....
Beds For Men: It's a Man's World, Women Just Sleep in it
The Wall Street Journal
Are men and women that different when it comes what they want in a bed? We'll leave what they want in bed to another blog. Apparently bed manufacturers think so; there's a whole new section of the ...
Penguin Soda Maker by SodaStream
Just days after I'd gotten deep into replacing our cans of fizzy water at the office with an entry level SodaStream soda maker (which I really like), Sara, Ursula and I visited with friends for the we...
Experiments With Consumer-Level Solar
Recently, consumer-level solar energy for the home has been gaining more steam. In Austin, folks are moving beyond public solar art and are harnessing the sun's energy for their homes. If you're hopin...
Displaying Book, Movie & Music Collections
Janel over at Apartment Therapy Chicago takes a look at how to display that collection of media in the home with a great roundup of well presented collections. We've rid ourselves of most media excep...
The Cooking Debate: The Most Efficient Appliance?
The Washington Post
We’ve been trying to cook more at home. It’s seems to be better for the environment and our belly. But what’s the best and most efficient cooking method – the conventional oven or the microwav...
What Are the Best Countertop or Portable Dishwashers?
Good Questions
Q: I'm in the market for a portable dishwasher and I was wondering if you have any suggestions or can ask the audience? You've featured so many small New York City kitchens, I'm sure I'm not alone in ...
Hot or Not: Electrolux Bifoliate Double Dishwasher Concept
Who says you need to floor mount a dishwasher? That was the basis for the Electrolux Bifoliate Double Dishwasher concept, a finalist in the Design Lab 2009 contest sponsored by Electrolux. As recently...
Survey: Using Technology to Go Green?
There’s been a lot of talk about whether new gadgets, such as the Kindle, will change the way we live. Our household has always been early adopters of the ‘latest’ technology: iPods, iPhones, d...
Solé Integrated Solar Tiles by SRS Energy
This is the future: solar-energy-capturing products that look just like their non-solar counterparts. The Solé Power Tile is an electricity-generating tile that can be installed alongside traditional...
Good To Know: Electronics Recycling Websites
Get Cash For Your Trash!
Broken iPod, old phone, busted computer. Most electronics die sooner or later. We all know you shouldn't just throw them in the trash, and this is especially true now that there are so many resourc...
Recycling Old Appliances?
Good Questions
Q: I keep hearing that we should replace our fridge with an Energy Star fridge. My questions are, what do you do with the old one? Which is less green: using a non-energy star fridge or an energy s...
A Laptop for Your Wee One: Cardboard Mac
Our son isn't even a year old, but he's already obsessed with our laptop. He finds the glowing screen and clacky keyboard irresistible and will crawl and cruise his way over to us at the first sound ...
Good Questions: Green LCD Cleaner?
This question comes from Callista: I recently purchased "iKlear Apple Polish" to clean my laptop and iPod screens with. The company claims that it is "environmentally friendly" but they do not disclos...
Holmes True-HEPA Allergen Remover
In The Test Lab
Check out Stephanie's HEPA air purifier review over at Re-Nest (we had this same model prior to upgrading to a larger unit): We've posted about air purifiers before, but we'd never actually owned one...
Media Furniture with Fold-Out Bed!
People who live in small spaces sometimes need creative solutions for where to sleep overnight guests. We thought we'd seen it all until we spotted this Poppi Theatre system from Resource Furnitur...
Travel Test: iPhone vs. Blackberry Bold vs. Guidebook
Conde Nast Traveler
We just stumbled across a story from the June 2009 issue of Conde Nast Traveler that's a helpful addition to Escapes month. The magazine hired three writers to navigate Moscow during the cold Russia...
Top Tours
- The Canal Apartment
- Houston Hi-Tech in a Small Space
- Close-Up: Scott's Ultimate Man Cave
- Gregory's Refreshed & Refreshing Home Office
- Andrew's Ingenious Floating Monitor Home Office
Top Posts
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
