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5 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won’t Tell You

House hunting? You probably need a broker to help with your search. A great broker can find you a place to live but also sometimes winds up acting as your best friend, your mom, and your therapist all in one. For a successful end result, you really want to make this complex relationship work; we’ll let you in on what your broker might really be thinking… When you’re a broker there are no guarantees.

Jennifer Hunter

Nov 20, 2018

Hands Off: 10 Things You Should Never Touch in Somebody Else’s Home

Make yourself at home... sort of!

Taryn Williford

Nov 20, 2018

Before and After: One of Dr. Oz’s Dressing Rooms Gets Glam on a Budget

One of the Dr. Oz Show’s backstage dressing rooms was neglected and nearly empty, but it needed to become camera-ready in a very short amount of time, for a fairly small amount of money. All it took was a style guide, Amazon two-day shipping, and some major glam, and this room is ready for its closeup. The space before is not very inspiring, but it turns out the room was even worse in person: Bland, boring, and plain UGLY!

Tess Wilson

Nov 20, 2018

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Tour DesignAddictMom’s Colorful, Personal Home

Name: Stacey Blake and family Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina Size: 3,000 square feet Years lived in: 8 years There’s color, and then there’s color. Stacey Blake is a master of the latter. She mixes bold and bright oranges, greens, pinks, and more to ecstatic perfection in her Fayetteville, North Carolina, dream home. And we mean dream home: Stacey, who shares her colorful progress online as DesignAddictMom, designed the space herself.

Creative Studio

Nov 20, 2018

A Photographer’s Own Work Becomes Statement Wallpaper

Name: Desiré van den Berg and my younger sister Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Size: 775 square feet Years lived in: 10 months, renting I got this apartment by pure coincidence: I won a lot draw! The moment I found out, I started looking online for cheap secondhand furniture—a hobby inherited from my mother since I was very young. I’d never had an entire apartment for myself, so I literally still needed to buy all the big basics: a couch, a dining table, chairs, etc.

Apartment Therapy Submissions

Nov 20, 2018