Apartment Therapy Archive: Jun 9, 2018

“How was your day?” Every couple sharing an evening meal together has asked this question. It’s a fine question; you care about each other, after all, and are genuinely interested in what happened that day! But sometimes, especially for couples who’ve been together a long time, dinner conversations can settle into the same grooves night after night — work talk, complaining about the subway, what’s new with the kids.

Fixer Upper fans, it is time to rejoice! While our favorite HGTV is no more, that doesn’t mean our favorite Texas family is done fixing up houses. There is only so long that the Gaines family can stay away from projects that need a lot of work. Even though Joanna Gaines is due to give birth this summer, the design master has revealed that there is a new project for the Gaines family.

Want to build your dream home from scratch? Don’t want to wait forever and drain your savings? A prefabricated—or prefab—home is the way to go. They’re built in a factory and transported section-by-section to be assembled almost wherever you please—almost like the IKEA furniture of homes. There are many pro and cons to buying prefab homes, and many ways to go about it.

Is there anything more annoying than have a 5-hour layover? If you need to have a layover, you want one that is just long enough that you’re not running through the airport like a madman, but not so long that you’re sitting in an airport for longer than you’ll be on an airplane. Many airports have areas that you can sit and charge your phone, eat a pricey meal, or buy an overpriced book and some expensive snacks in your downtime.

Oh, goody, you’re about to start a paint project! There’s nothing more dramatic than an amazing color change in a room, so of course it’s well worth the work and cash money. That doesn’t mean we all enjoy the actual work, however, and while it’s still on the low end of budget spectrum, any redo costs can still mount quickly—especially if you splurge on the good paint. After painting many (many!

This penny tile floor is fabulously snakeskin-like, but an unstable subfloor caused tiles to pop out. Similarly, that pedestal sink is graceful but offered no counter space, while the intriguingly low tub was unused and unnecessary. After 15 years, this remodeled bathroom was remodeled again and the results are dreamy. So pretty. Pink, black, white, and wood is a fantastic combo that I might not ever have thought of.

你还记得多少有趣的玩撒呢r was? If you were lucky, your parents might have indulged you in a new sprinkler every summer. Even if they didn’t, your trusted sprinkler from 1995 was the go-to party item every chance you got to use it. Any time it got hot outside, you begged your parents to turn the sprinkler on so you and your besties could run through it for five hours straight. Well, just because we are adults does not mean we can’t enjoy sprinklers still.

Find the grill of your dreams and start entertaining this summer—no backyard necessary.

Laundry isn’t just about washing dirty clothes so you have clean ones to wear. It’s about cleaning and maintaining your wearables and textiles so that they always look their best, whether that means making jewelry sparkle, getting stains out of the lining of a purse, or keeping shoes looking their sharpest. And there’s a simple way to have all those things: A tube of non-gel toothpaste.