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A Little More Privacy In Your Home

When living in the city, privacy can sometimes can be hard to come by since buildings tend to be just a few feet apart. One way keep your home more private while letting in the natural sunlight and fr...

Apartment Living In The City

It's sometimes loud, it's hard to find street parking, it's often a too close for comfort vibe - it's apartment living in the city. A span of sometimes just 10 feet between apartment buildings is com...

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...

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...

Maintaining A Gated Entry?

A friend (and avid AT reader) sent us this musing on the gated entry to her apartment building: "So I was cleaning our gated entry tonight when it occurred to me that it had probably not been cleaned...

Noisy Neighbors and Outdoor Spaces
Austin

We've covered a lot of issues revolving around noisy neighbors here on Apartment Therapy. With many of us living in apartments, condos and other shared buildings, it's no wonder—loud neighbors can ...

How Do Your Own Neighbors' Homes Inspire You?

You can gather tons of inspiration from your very own neighborhood and all around your own home or apartments. We park off an alley behind our apartment buildings and have been lucky to find a furnit...

AT Survey: How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

Growing up in the south, we always knew our neighbor's. By the time we were old enough, we knew that welcoming a new person to the neighborhood with a freshly baked pie or bottle of wine was all in a...

Good Quotes: Being a Good Neighbor
Los Angeles

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's...

On Shared Laundry Etiquette...

At some point or another, we've all had to deal with shared laundry facilities, be it at the dorms or in an apartment complex. And there is always a time (usually when the dirty laundry basket is ove...

Who Has the Keys to Your House?

We keep our friends’ keys in a jar in our landing strip. They have our keys. We call each other for favours: they pick up our mail when we’re out of town; we feed their dog when they won’t be ...

Look! Giving the Neighbors Something to Look At

We're not quite sure what's in the window (are they paintings of poodles?) but it got us to thinking: would you ever consider a window display just for your neighbors?...