Ang Peregrino Recommends 45: Apartment Therapy

Apart­ment Ther­apy
URL: http://​www​.apart​ment​ther​apy​.com/

By next week, I would have trans­ferred to a new condo unit nearer my office. Trans­fer­ring there will mark a major change in my life. It feels great to know that what I pay for it will lead me towards even­tu­ally own­ing it. I’m excited about this tran­si­tion and I’m excited about fix­ing the place.

My sister—who does inte­rior design on the side– is also com­ing to live with me and fix the place. My sis is a natural—she just has this innate knack for color and taste and order and I’m very con­fi­dent about her inte­rior design skills. You should see how she has designed our house in Cagayan de Oro. It has evolved so much from when we first trans­ferred there 15 years ago.

In antic­i­pa­tion of this change, I have been check­ing out Apart­ment Ther­apy quite often the past cou­ple of weeks to get design ideas. Time Mag­a­zine named Apart­ment Ther­apy one of the Top 50 Wes­bites of 2008. It was founded by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan with his brother Oliver.

It is Apart­ment Therapy’s mis­sion to “Help peo­ple make their homes more beau­ti­ful, orga­nized and healthy by con­nect­ing them to a wealth of resources, ideas and com­mu­nity online.” They believe (and I am a con­vert too!) that:

(a) A calm, healthy, beau­ti­ful home is a nec­es­sary foun­da­tion for hap­pi­ness and suc­cess in the world, (b) Cre­at­ing this home doesn’t require large amounts of money or space. It requires inspi­ra­tion, con­nec­tion to resources and moti­va­tion to do some­thing about it.
© The basic ele­ments of good home design can be learned and achieved by all. And
(d) Sim­plic­ity and lux­ury are not mutu­ally exclusive.

And if you want more ideas, check out Apart­ment Therapy’s sis­ter sites: Ohdee­doh (for kid friendly home ideas), TheK­itchn (for recipes and tips on enter­tain­ing), Unplggd (for the best of home tech­nol­ogy and how it could be incor­po­rated into your decor), and Re-Nest (for earth-friendly home designs and ideas).

For the great inte­rior ideas and for help­ing all of us cre­ate a health­ier and more beau­ti­ful home, AngPere­grino Rec­om­mends Apart­ment Ther­apy this week.