Apartment Therapy: entertaining

5 Favorite Home Bars

We don't know about you guys, but we're really, really happy it's Friday. It's been a long week and we are looking forward to entertaining close friends at home with the help of our home bar. Let'...

Embellish Invites: With Thread

Recently, we received the loveliest handmade card that was embellished with thread. Simple but unique, the extra bit of time that went into making the card really wowed us. So much so that we stil...

Your Most Epic Entertaining Disasters

With the holidays on the way and November’s entertaining month in full force here at Apartment Therapy, we’re striving to bring you posts to help with your upcoming entertaining events. Though we...

5 More Tips For Your Dining Room
Metropolitan Home

The other day Beth suggested some ways to loosen up the dining room. Funny, we're not even sure that in our increasingly informal lives there's even much of a need for this room anymore but then the ...

Jennifer's Woodsy Tablescape

We frequently talk about using our own backyard for bringing the greenery indoors. Succulent cuttings grow to make a welcoming entryway and colorful sprigs from blooming plants always cheer our spa...

What Are Your Before Party Quirks?

Last week Beth asked whether you look in other people's medicine cabinets when you're at a party. We're among the "yes" contingency. Knowing where we stand, we clean out this space before the festiv...

The Secret To Stress Free Entertaining

Now that Halloween is over and the time has changed we're settling nicely into Fall and looking forward to a bunch of entertaining from now until the end of the year. This weekend we stumbled on our ...

Target's RedHot Shop: A Monthly Treat For Your Home

Each month the oh-so-chic-and-on-trend editors of Daily Candy team up with Target to bring you the latest and greatest items to buy for yourself, your friends and your family. This month's picks, as...

The Benefits of Leaving Your Shoes At The Door

We realized recently that we have to wash the small rugs around our house quite frequently. It's not because we're obsessed with clean rugs--they just get dirty really fast. We're starting to think...

Party Lighting: For The Bathroom

When prepping our home for an evening of entertaining, we always like to pay special attention to the bathroom. It's the one room in the house where guests are left alone (to judge, peek, etc.) and...

Photobooth Love

Our friend threw a party recently in her small backyard area and had a bunch of friends come by for Fall cocktails and fun. She also added an extra element of fun into the space......

RAD'S Cool and Clever Furniture Designs!
Austin

Last week we mentioned local Austin furniture company Ryan Anderson Design in the post about Aviary's new in-store wine bar. Sleek and with a sense of humor, RAD's furniture pieces are a statement in...

Creating Unique Scents For The Home

We love it when our friends stop by to join us for an evening in. Often times its super last minute, leaving us little time to worry about adding a signature scent to enhance the evening......

Creating Space For A Party

Considering a party this weekend? Most homes are designed to accommodate a relatively small number of people on a daily basis. But then you decide to have a party and the guest list swells from ten ...

Tiny House Inspiration from Verde Camp!
Austin

We’ve found an Austin resident who has created inspiration in renovating not just one older home---but six! It's what he's done with these six houses that’s so intriguing, though…...

Inspiration: Promoting Community with Space 12
Austin

Being big fans of the idea of community, we're always on the lookout for spaces that promote the idea of people creating together. When we came across the local venue Space 12, we knew we wanted to s...

Best Summertime Movies for Movie Night

Like we mentioned yesterday, summer is a great time to have casual get togethers--people have more time, the days feel longer and you can spread out outside for more space. Something that always make...

10 Cheap Summer Party Ideas

Earlier this week we highlighted some simple decoration ideas for throwing together a simple summer party. We want to take advantage of the longer days, the warm evenings and the feeling of being on ...

7 Easy Decorating Tricks For Simple Summer Shindigs

We've been planning on having people over this summer to enjoy the complex's pool, eat some food, hang out, maybe play the wii and just enjoy summer time. We haven't actually made it happen yet. S...

Scrabble Letter Place Cards

We no longer play Scrabble in our house due to the dictionary throwing arguments that usually ensue, so using the Scrabble tiles as place cards is a brilliant way to stop this classic game gathering d...

TV Trays

We're thoroughly enjoying our summer nights in L.A., when the weather dips down low enough to venture outside and hang with friends under a strand of twinkling lights. This was the scene for us this ...

The Rule for Guests: How Many? How Long?

Summer's the prime time for visiting friends and for them to visit you. But, as my grandmother used to say when my family would visit her, she was happy to see us come and she was happy to see us go....

Apartment Therapy On: Unexpected Visitors

Because we work from home, we're much more likely to have an unexpected visitor than our office-job counterparts. And while we're always prepared for unexpected guests, friends don't drop by every da...

A New Way To Look At Old Furniture

[This is the 4th life for this little table.] When design inspiration strikes, it's hard not to act on it! During this tough economic time, priorities can definitely change and we've been thinking of ...

Help! Decorating a Fireplace Mantel

We're hosting a bridal shower at our house in less than two weeks, and one of our friends who is a party planner came over to finalize the schedule and go over our pre-party duties. Even though the pa...

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