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Small Space-Friendly DIY: How to Make a Staghorn Fern Wallhanging
Alright friends, we’re nearly two months into quarantine, and it might be safe to say a lot of #plantladies have blossomed while we’re all inside —me included! I’m up to 17 plants (I might have gone overboard) but they bring joy, clean air and interaction with your space that little else can compare to. That…
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Missing the Gym? Here’s 5 Ways to Use Your Furniture to Break a Sweat
Isolation has us all thinking back to the things we maybe took for granted. If I had to choose one thing I could get back right now, it would be the gym. The routine, the hour break from reality, and the endorphins are all things that helped me to stay sane on a daily basis.…
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UPDATE: Healthcare Nomination Event Recipients Selected!
UPDATE: After our inboxes were flooded with 1,000+ nominations (and several tears cried on behalf of our own team while reading through), we’re announcing the sofa recipients. Get ready to meet these healthcare heroes and read their beautiful nominations from friends and loved ones. Today is Pay It Forward Day and, in this current crisis,…
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Tired of Staring at a Screen? Here Are 6 Home Hacks To Try This Weekend!
We’ve turned the corner into post-30 days of quarantine. You’ve watched all the Netflix; you’ve done all the pushup challenges (or not…); you’ve won and failed at parenting probably multiple times a day. And here we still are. Well, today, we’re cranking the creative gears to find smart, budget-friendly solutions for useful projects and hacks…
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A Designer’s #1 Design Question, Answered
Want to know the number one question I get as an interior designer? No, it’s not about paint color or furniture placement or how high curtains should be. Nothing so specific, really. Here it is: “What’s the easiest thing I can do to spruce up my space?” My answer: Plants. There are about a million…
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Couch Cleaning 101: Everything You Need to Know In One Place
*It’s a sofa, not a couch, but we made sacrifices for the sake of alliteration. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sofa looking a little worse for wear? Yeah…ours, too. What else do you expect when you go from desk chair to comfy cushion in 60 seconds flat every.single.day. these days? Maybe it’s one too many marinara splotches…did someone mistake…
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#myApt2B: “It’s simply beautiful and so, so comfortable!”
In the name of “Get to Know Your Customers Day,” we’re sharing real stories from real customers. First up is Eileen Lamb. She’s a writer, photographer and founder of The Autism Cafe, where she shares the ups and downs of raising a severely autistic child while being on the autism spectrum herself. The French-born creative…
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Don’t Be Square: Curved Furniture Is In (OLD)
Design trends are funny things. Sometimes, they come full force out of almost nowhere. Other times, they’re like a leaky faucet…drips here and there until BOOM, the market is flooded. That’s where we are right now with furniture, specifically. The second half of 2019 hinted to the rebirth of curved furniture (first made popular back…
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Announcing COUCHELLA | Live From Your Living Room, For You, By You
You’ve heard of Coachella, surely, the hottest music festival in America. But now we’re pleased to announce COUCHELLA 2020, the hottest TV binge-watching festival coming at you live from your own living room, because that’s where all the action is happening now…not in the Coachella Valley (at least not until October…maybe). No wrist band, no…
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How to Hack Your Home to Get a Great Video Conference Backdrop
Isolation is really starting to set in and we are now at home in front of our computers more than ever. Whether we’re using Zoom to do our conference calls, Houseparty to play our virtual game nights, or sharing our push-up challenge on Insta Story, our houses are on display constantly! As someone familiar with…
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Furniture Fundamentals: How to Style Your Sofa 3 Ways
A sofa is great, sure, but a sofa without pillows and a throw can feel a bit naked. Like pasta without the sauce; salad, hold the dressing. Hardly anyone would agree lettuce would be better off without that vinaigrette, so we thought we’d walk you through (both in video and written form) three ways to…
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Room Goals: A “Luxe for Less” Living Room
“Room Goals” is a blog series where interior designer Kyle Schuneman shows you how to get magazine-worthy vibes using all Apt2B furniture and decor. Shop the look now! You are likely hunkered down in your home, getting used to the new normal of rolling out of bed to your new “home office,” logging your little ones into virtual classrooms…what…
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3 Cheery Room Ideas to Put a Lil’ Spring Pep Into Your Home’s Step
What’s that they say about March? In like a lion, out like a lamb? Well, here’s to hoping. In light of the times we are all living right now, it felt apropos to shift our focus if just for a moment and think about the positive. It’s officially spring in the western hemisphere. And while for…
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Live Updates for COVID-19
Latest Update: Monday, Mar 28th, 2022 12:39pm PDT To our Apt2B family, Our greatest priority right now is the health and safety of our customers and workers during this time but, thankfully, Apt2B is fully operational. To stay up to date on information from us, be sure to check back here; we will be posting…
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Help Desk: Designing the Ultimate Home Office
So, you’re WFH (working from home if you’re not hip to the lingo yet, though something tells us you are). We’re WFH. A LOT of us are WFH. Unless you already had a home office set up, chances are you scrambled to set up shop on any open table in your abode. Design by Realm…
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Maximize Your Storage: 8 Decorative Wall Shelves (& How To Best Use Them)
Wall shelves are an oft-overlooked small space secret weapon. Think about what happens in jampacked cities like Manhattan…they don’t build out, they build UP. Same notion applies here. You can exponentially increase your home’s footprint by looking to your walls as a solution. Not just that, though. They can also be a strategic decor choice…form…
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Kyle’s Travel Inspiration Series: Lush, Joy-Filled Living Room Collection
Kyle Schuneman is Apt2B’s resident designer. Shop his Ireland-inspired collection now! With its dramatic bluffs that go straight down into a rough ocean current and a wide-open sky above, the area around the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of Ireland is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. I had such a feeling…
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Apt2B Gives Back on Mike Rowe’s “Returning the Favor”
File this one away under “Apt2BKind.” Or maybe under “Ugly Cry Warning.” (Both? Yeah, def both.) If you aren’t watching Returning the Favor, a Facebook Watch series hosted by Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame, you’re missing out on some serious warm and fuzzy feels. Quick show premise intro: Rowe, with his friends in tow,…
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How to Clean Your Leather Furniture at Home
You got a leather sofa to begin with because it was supposed to be durable and easier to keep clean than upholstery…but then someone ::cough cough not naming names:: took a pen to it to create a “masterpiece.” That, or maybe you got a little eager devouring your long-awaited Postmates order and…#greasestainshappen. Stop panicking, it’s…
