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How To: Make Custom Magazine Files

(Welcome to Monika, who is trying out for a spot on the AT:SF editorial team. Enjoy her post!)

Since we love design, arts and crafts and collecting things from across the ages, we run into a problem of storage on a daily basis. We have looked for a good solution and have improved our situation with a custom built wall shelf in our loft that is 16 ft wide by 11 ft tall, but we have been looking for a system to organize its contents for awhile now.

Having gone to many different stores in the Bay Area, we decided that to be most efficient we would have to embark on a journey to create our own boxes. This turned out not only to be the most cost and space efficient solution, but also the most flexible since we could decide on the sizes of our boxes as well as the colors and the details.

Open Thread #74
Los Angeles

The start of 2009 and a new week. Here's to making both your home and the year a beautiful one!

Check out the weekend's most popular AT:Los Angeles post: LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 12.03.09

A Modern Vacation Home in Indiana
Azure

Most Chicagoans squeeze in few escapes from the city each year. We have friends with a getaway cottage in Michigan and have enjoyed spending idyllic days with them at the beach, picking apples and antique hunting. We can totally "get" why folks choose this part of the world for vacation homes - especially when you factor in the very short trip from Chicago. This month, one of these homes is featured...

Roundup: Ideas for Ikea Bookcases

1-5-08 ikea bookcase 1.jpg ...Or any brand of bookcase, really, that just seems to be the most popular one over here. Click below for ideas from AT and our sister site Ohdeedo on ways to update an old thrift store find or your trusty Billy bookcase.

Starting Anew in the New Year...
What to Keep and What to Shred

With the long list of imagined home improvement projects we had dreamt up finishing while on vacation, we only completed one major project: emptying and organizing the closet. Hidden in the back of our walk-in closet were shoe boxes filled with financial documents accumulated over years of working as a freelance graphic designer; every receipt, invoice and a miscellaneous amount of "why the heck did I keep this?!" paperwork stored haphazardly and with the obsessive quality of a squirrel storing away nuts for the winter. Above is the greater portion of what was shredded over the span of two days (an additional 2 1/2 bags were thrown into recycling the first day)...

Inspiration: Bedroom Artwork Arrangements from Hülsta

Although we love seeing artwork in other people's bedrooms, we're always a little uncertain about hanging it in our own. If it's going to enter our dreams, it better be something we really like. Browsing through the online catalog of German furniture manufacturer Hülsta, we found a lot of ideas for hanging artwork in the bedroom, from oversized paintings above the bed to asymmetrical arrangements...

Flickr Finds: Living Room Art Arrangement

After the close confines and clutter of the holidays, we loved the fresh colors of this light-filled living room corner. For some reason, the lack of a fourth picture to complete the grid of artwork above the chair looks just right, even though it may have bothered us in another space.

Affordable Resources For Organic Bedding

We've already made the switch to nontoxic cleansers and laundry soap to keep our home free from weird chemicals and things that are harmful to our sensitive skin and environment. Now we're looking at our sheets and pillows to see if we can make some small changes in the name of health and well being. The good news is that there are a lot more affordable options for organic bedding these days:

Roundup: Light, Bright and Beautiful Homes

Post holiday season is a time when our homes are finally able to take a sigh of relief. The holiday decorations have been packed up and stored for another year, the presents have all been given and we are starting back into our "normal" routines. What we really want is to fling the windows open and let the sun shine in, but if you live in the 75% of the country that is still a bit too chilly to do so, click through the jump to see some light and bright ideas to make your place feel like a breath of fresh air.

The Homies: Best Home Design Blog of 2008?
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Hey everyone, I've appended a note below the jump, which I hope will calm people's emotions, and added the full list of 125 nominations for you all to see (sorry, if I missed a few. It was hard to cull sites that weren't listed by URL). This is a treasure trove which is not to be missed. All nominations here. All prizes & info here.

• decorno.blogspot.com
• doorsixteen.com
• desiretoinspire.blogspot.com
• makingitlovely.com
• decor8blog.com
• thisyounghouse.com
• sfgirlbybay.com
• DesignSpongeonline.com

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Home Design • Home Cooking • Green Design • Home Technology • Children's Design

Bedroom Inspiration, Beautiful Branches & Vintage Chess
Slinks for 01.05.09

Good stops on the while searching the web today: A roundup of bedroom inspiration pix, beautiful branch centerpiece, a great looking new (ish) book and a vintage modern chess set...jump below for all the links:

Upholstery with Two Fabrics: In or Out?

1-5-09 two fabric carolina.jpg It's been a few years since Carolina Herrera Jr's Spanish home was featured in the pages of Domino, but we still recall her reupholstered sofa and how inspired her choice of fabrics felt at the time (along with those of Ruthie Sommers' home in that same first issue). Since the article, we've seen plenty of pieces using more than one fabric for the covering...

Good Questions: Identify This Headboard?
Los Angeles

Hi LA Apartment Therapy,
I was hoping you would be able to help me. I found this Velvet Tufted Border Queen Headboard in the beautiful chocolate velvet...it was love at first site. I went to purchase the headboard and that week, the company warehouse was flooded, causing all merchandise to be lost. The other websites I found it on soon disappeared only to later reappear not carrying the headboard anymore. Can anyone help in my search for my dream headboard?!?! Thanks, Rachel

Got a good question you'd like answered? Send your queries and a photo or two illustrating your question, and we'll see if the ATLA team or our readers can help you out.

Chemical-Free Drain Cleaner

Last night at a family dinner party, we heard a lot of praise for a chemical-free drain cleaner that costs around $2.50, is made from a piece of thin plastic, and is said to work better than toxic chemical cleaners...

How To: Recycle Our Christmas Tree?

This Christmas we were inspired to do something useful with our Christmas tree - something we'd never done before as it has always been put on the curbside or, sometimes, brought to the local Christmas tree donation drop-off for chipping (which is pretty good). But we wanted to see if we could do something MORE creative, crafty even, so we embarked on the following odyssey....

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