A World Traveler's Tiny Minneapolis Studio — House Tour

Name: Francesca Sifferlin
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Size: 380 square feet
Years lived in: 6 months, renting

Francesca's tiny natural-light-filled Minneapolis studio is the perfect size for her first place away from home. Just big enough to fit everything she needs, yet small enough to not gather too many odds and ends (or dust bunnies). With limited space, Francesca has included only the things that bring the most inspiration and fond memories to her tiny apartment near a lake.

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Never Clean These Things with Baking Soda

From scrubbing pots and pans to deep-cleaning appliances, baking soda is such a great cleaning agent that it's tempting to want to use it on everything. But even though it's gentler than some alternatives, baking soda still has some downfalls.

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This Pink Holiday House in the Azores Is Travel Goals

Here's one eye-catching rental that you couldn't miss even if you tried. Italian/Portuguese firm Mezzo Atelier designed a dazzling pink holiday rental on the island of São Miguel in the Azores, and we're eager to join the visitor's list.

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6 Big Bathroom Trends We're Not Ready To Say Goodbye To

It's fun to look back over the year and review what was big in interiors, noting which trends we're happy to bid farewell, and which we hope have serious staying power. Here are some of our favorite bathroom looks from 2017, which we're not quite ready to see go away.

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Best Sets: The TV Looks We Loved in 2017

If you're anything like us, you watch TV for the interiors (partially at least!). And in this age of Peak TV, there's plenty of eye candy while we're soaking up the storyline. Here are some of our favorite posts about set design from the past year.

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These Were the Most Read Books of 2017, According to Amazon

While Amazon sells a plethora of things these days (yep, even tiny houses), they started with books. Here's what people read the most—and the fastest—in 2017.

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It's Time to Say Goodbye to Pastels: 2018 Is the Year of Bold Color

Over the past few years, we've been seeing lots of pastels in interiors. But if recent trend predictions are any indicator, that's all about to change. According to some leading trend predictors, the soft, subtle shades that have dominated interiors for so long are about to be replaced with something a little more dramatic.

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A NYC Couple’s Minimalist Retreat from Hectic City Life — House Tour

Name: Alana and Kristopher
Location: Upper West Side — New York City, NY
Size: 750 square feet
Years lived in: 3 years, renting

Successfully pulling together a space that is a minimalist sanctuary, but also interesting (and one that still feels decorated), is surprisingly hard to do. Which is what makes this New York City couple's Upper West Side apartment so impressive. As two people who put a lot of energy into being creative for a living — Alana is a prop stylist and her husband, Kristopher, is also in design — they wanted to keep their home simple and clean. And living in one of the busiest cities in the world, they wanted a space to come home to that was free of clutter and visual "noise."

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The Celebrity Homes That Have Yet to Find a Buyer in 2017

Many stars were on the move this year, but some have yet to sell their old places. These pedigreed properties came on the market in 2017, and if you have a few million, one of them could still be yours.

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New Year, New Home: 11 Fresh Ideas to Try to Shake Things Up

The beginning of the year is a time of new things, of fresh starts. If you're feeling the urge to try something a little different in your home, we've got 11 ideas to help you shake up your look.

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Before & After: This Old Closet Now Puts Up a Good Front

Medina and her husband Vince inherited this built-in closet when they moved into their current rental, and had to find a way to make it work — especially since the tiny bedroom doesn't allow for much more storage. They removed its ugly outdated doors early on in their tenancy, but that just left them with this awful view of red faux wood grain, which Medina especially couldn't stand. Luckily, their landlord was down with them doing some DIY, so they got to work on a complete facelift.

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Why Meghan Markle Doesn't Make New Year's Resolutions

It's the eve of new year, and today, many minds are turning toward picking resolutions for 2018. One person who won't be making them, though, is soon-to-be duchess Meghan Markle.

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5 Real-Life Wardrobe Storage Solutions From Apartments with No Closets

Perhaps you have known this pain: you find a perfect apartment, but there is no closet to be seen anywhere. Or there is one, but it is a two-foot-wide joke capable of holding only a vacuum cleaner and a very thin jacket. This isn't uncommon in apartments in older buildings, designed before we realized that everyone needed at least 25 changes of clothes. But you, with your modern wardrobe, have to deal with it. So take inspiration from these four real-life apartments, whose residents found smart ways to store everything with no closet in sight.

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Home Horoscopes: The Best Colors for Your Zodiac Sign

As we move into 2018, colors seem to be getting deeper and richer, taking 2017's soft pastels and giving them a moody, sophisticated makeover. Combined with plush materials like velvet, these hues are tapping into our more serious sides. If you want to jump on the trend, but aren't sure how to make it work, let the stars be your guide: Here are the best colors for each astrological sign.

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An Adventurously Dreamy Home with a Touch of Golden Glam — House Tour

Name: Audra Wrisley
Location: Alexandria, Virgina
Size: 900 square feet
Years lived in: Owned 3 years

A super successful photography business isn't the only thing Audra and her husband, Thijs, have built together; they've also transformed their 1940s condo into an inviting and beautiful home to share with family and friends.

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6 Clever Ways to Customize Kitchen Cabinets With Contact Paper

There are tons of adhesive wall decorations out on the market right now — call it contact paper, vinyl decals, shelf paper or removable wallpaper. Any of the above is a great go-to for enhancing your kitchen cabinets on the fly. Easy to remove, and very affordable, these are also a very do-able stopgap measure before your dream kitchen makeover.

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10 Kitchen Items We Use to Solve Problems All Over the House

You know the feeling you get when you have a problem in your home — a stain, a crack, an annoyance or a mundane task of some kind — and realize, with relief and a bit of relish, that you have the means on hand to fix it immediately? That's the feeling I get when I look at this list of kitchen items that pull double-duty around the house: I don't have to buy anything new or special to fix this thing I'm dealing with, because I can just use this other thing that I always keep in my kitchen. Yes.

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The Flu Is Sweeping the Nation: Here's How To Keep Your Home Healthy

If it seems like everyone you know has the flu, well, you're right. The Center for Disease Control released data on Friday that shows just how widespread the influenza virus is already this season. Whether you're just getting over the bug or trying to prevent it, here are some precautions you should take to keep your home healthy.

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Real Life Rental Upgrades That Happened in a Weekend (or Less)

Renters seek the balance between wanting a nice place to live, but not spending too much on a temporary home or making major permanent alterations on a space that's not theirs. But by zeroing in on a few simple and inexpensive — yet impactful — projects, you can really refresh a space without busting your budget or making huge, irreparable changes. All it takes is a few ideas and one weekend.

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Joanna Gaines Has a Smart Tip For Dealing With Sentimental Clutter

If one of your resolutions is to declutter in 2018 (ahem, we have a January Cure for that), but you find it hard to let go of the sentimental items, take a page from Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines' book.

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The 5-Letter Trick to Making Resolutions Stick

With the New Year right around the corner, now is the time to reflect on the past twelve months and contemplate resolutions for the future. Whether it's eating more healthily, paying off credit card debt or flossing, setting goals helps you create a life filled with actions or accomplishments that reflect your values.

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The Smartest, Sleekest and Weirdest Crowdfunded Projects of 2017

We saw a lot of interesting and fun things hit the market this year, and we saw a whole host of interesting things hit the almost-market on Kickstarter. We decided to take a look back at all the innovative and independent options that wanted us to clean better, sleep better and drink better in 2017.

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How To Decorate Everything: Our Best Home Styling Advice Of The Year

As we head toward a new year of arranging, rearranging, renovating, shopping, and styling, join us in reminding ourselves of our 10 best bits of design advice from some of our most popular styling posts of 2017.

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A Home with a History in East Nashville — House Tour

Name: Jim Manning
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Size: 1,400 square feet
Years lived in: 15 years, owned

Some homes just have a story. In this case, Jim's two-bedroom East Nashville home has quite a few of them! He is one of just three owners and has lived here for 15 years, which is very unusual for Nashville these days. Jim remembers his neighborhood long before the trendy restaurants and hip bars opened up around the corner, but he has always loved a mix of "old and new" so it suits him just fine!

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The Biggest Celebrity Break-Ins of 2017 (And What You Can Learn From Them)

From breakups to break-ins, the paparazzi captured all the highs and lows of 2017—including the aftermath of some of the most costly celebrity robberies. Multiple Hollywood stars made headlines as their homes were robbed and thieves made off with millions of dollars in valuables. Here's what you can learn from their mistakes.

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Our Best Closet Cleaning Advice Of All Time

The New Year is right around the corner, and with it comes a new burst of energy that makes people want to roll up their sleeves and organize their lives. And what better place to start than our over-stuffed, bursting-at-the-seems, stress-inducing, messy closets? If you're getting stress sweats just thinking about your own wardrobe, stick around. Ahead is a roundup of our (*picks up megaphone*) best closet cleaning advice of all time! Let's tackle this together.

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This Weekend: Check This One Last Thing Off Your 2017 To Do List

Together this year we've scrubbed windows, degreased ovens, washed windows, cleaned hair out of drains (ew!), scoured recycling bins, rotated mattresses, hid electrical cords, refreshed your living rooms for free, tackled grout, and organized under the sink — among so many other things. Looking back, it's clear we all deserve a warm round of applause. Before you celebrate too much, there's just one last thing you have to do, and then you can wave goodbye to 2017 in the rearview mirror.

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IKEA to the Rescue: 8 Products Cleverly Repurposed as Shoe Storage

One of the beauties of IKEA products is that their simple design also makes them endlessly versatile. While IKEA makes quite a few products specifically designed to house your shoes, they also carry lots of other products, intended for other uses, that can be pressed into service as shoe storage with just a little ingenuity.

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