Here's a post from OnSugar blog City Period:

The city is seldom the place someone might associate with gardens that produce food and bring color and beauty with flowers and plants. But the residents at the Charles Cobb apartments saw things differently when they decided to put a rooftop garden in the middle of skid row.

 After months of weeding and watering and nurturing, the first harvest of sunflowers, watermelon vines, bushes of basil and other plants are in. The residents and nurturers of the garden "had no idea it would come together the way it did" according to the LA Times article. Click here to get the full story. 

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A2 Designers is one of the up and coming Scandinavian design boutiques and has a fresh and modern line of handmade (in Sweden) pieces. Its global availability is still limited, but there are already a few online stores selling the cute and functional pieces, such as the Scandinavian Design Center.

The designs are sleek, sophisticated, and a contrast to the traditional romantic and white Scandinavian style as A2 uses a lot of fresh colors. Its site and the latest family collection is definitely worth a visit!

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This very kitsch hallway features relaxing decor and some very unusual pieces, such as the red Chanel-inspired surfboard. It's great to see that people have bold and colourful visions for their decor!

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Here's a post from OnSugar blog House of Anaïs:

The decor concept in this room is great — basic white color on floors and the minimalist furniture makes it easy to change the look and feel of the room. Bold patterns and the shape of the pelmets make them the centre point of the room thus creating a very vibrant feel.

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Here's a post from OnSugar blog House of Anais:

I love this idea from Crate and Barrel to hang pictures with ribbons from a natural branch of birch. And the branch itself is hanging from curtain tiebacks. It's a stunning but casual idea and easy to do at home, too — no major tools required!

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This is the Pteleobius Lamp. Pteleobius apparently belongs to the bark beetle family, and these little beetles are known to eat the wood under the bark, thus creating unique and beautiful patterns that have been used as a model for this lamp.

Designer Vaslyaev Maxim used elm in his creations and the outcome is quite exceptional — a modern steel lamp design combined with natural wood creates this soft twilight glow. A sculpture at day and source of soft light at night.

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Images courtesy of Vantaka/Vaslyaev Maxim

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For the first year we lived in our house, we had absolutely nothing hanging on the walls. I'm not much of a home decorator. It took an observation from marketman to make me realize that our walls were bare. Nude. Au naturale. I thought this could be my opportunity to get back into painting, so I proceeded to drop about $300 on art supplies — oil paints, an easel, solvents, canvases, palettes, brushes, and other assorted tools — which have since gone unused. I should have realized that I haven't touched paints since high school and that the mental hurdle of putting brush to canvas might be too great.

But slowly but surely, we have made a few changes. Thanks to his grandmother, we now have a lovely still life in the downstairs hallway (she is quite the artist), and we spent half of a Sunday framing a bunch of photos to create our own photo mosaic in the TV room. And despite our ugly sectional couch in the living room, we managed to spruce up the space with an obi we bought in Tokyo last year . . . and — oh yeah — the piano that marketman's parents generously provided as our housewarming present!

I think our crowning achievement is the "vintage" canvas bus roll we created with all of the places at which he and I (or he or I) have lived. I had to cut out a few of his early years (New Haven, Cambridge, Seoul, Daejeon) because there just wasn't enough space. So we stuck to the more significant locales for us as a twosome, and I found a cool font called Roadway that gave it that old bus station look while he used his knowledge of layers and effects to give it an aged feel before having it printed and stretched by Canvaspop.

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This kitchen is so chic and inspiring. The kitchen itself is rather simple and streamlined with a painted wood floor and oak and glossy white cabinets, and the atmosphere was created using colourful accent cushions, the roller blind and flowers.

This means that the look can be easily changed for special occasions and seasons. Just love this freshness and great use of colors!

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My daily inspiration comes from this somewhat eclectic but tasteful living room of a person who likes to travel. The room, with its high ceiling, white walls, and light, waxed wooden floors provides a great canvas for displaying art and furnishing from different cultures. The end result is very airy and relaxing.

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Photo by Glorian Koti

Here's a post from OnSugar blog CityPeriod.

Generally, when living in a rental apartment or condo, most people focus on their limited-design choices. But there are so many great solutions that are available for us city dwellers. For instance, painting is a great solution for a change, but if this may be prohibited where you live, an alternative could be removable wallpaper.

Wallpaper of old required glue, was difficult to remove, and usually required a professional; now modern wallpaper is easy to remove. Companies like Sherwin-Williams, which has a more traditional look, and Tempaper, which has a modern look, both offer a range of style and colors. Temporary wallpaper is a great choice for just about any room. Whether you own the property or are just renting this is an easy and great change.

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