Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions

• Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
• Domino: The Book of Decorating: A room-by-room guide to creating a home that makes you happy
• The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place
• The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
• Elle Decor So Chic: Glamorous Lives, Stylish Spaces

This is a great book for small space organization and design. It follows the same approach as the Apartment Therapy blog but is edited to include the best in a variety of styles, budgets and sizes in coffee table format.If you feel the need to be a cheapskate, you can find many of the house tours on the blog; but once you go to the blog, you will probably become a hopeless addict and have to buy this book any way for quick reference.If you are considering this book, make sure to get AT's 8-step Home Cure too.

i've been reading the ApartmentTherapy.com blogs for a few years now, and my mom sent me MGR's first book, "Apartment Therapy", which was a quick and awesome read.which i also made real by joining an AT Cure. I'm very impressed. So, for my mom's birthday I bought us both copies of the new "Apartment Therapy Presents" picture book - which rules. It's full of great ideas and very pretty apartments, photos, tips, tricks, you name it.

I enjoyed the text and the way each person/couple did something different with their space -- and those tiny apartments were amazing. Overall, I enjoyed this book, but with these caveats. Sometimes they referred to an object in a caption, but it was hard to find it in the photo. but I was a little disappointed. I'm a modern design junkie (magazines, books, blogs, web sites and oh yeah, actual decorating of our 975 square foot condo in a 100-year-old building).

Often, the photos showed only a tiny section of a room, when a complete view and perspective would have been much more helpful. When I heard about this book I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. -- but I was disappointed with the photos and the captions. Anyone else feel that way. I thought the photos looked sort of amateurish, and should have been bigger.

One thing you'll learn - all creativity is apparently born in IKEA. Seriously. One of the most inspiring books I own. Who knew. And yes, I really do ration a chapter a night so (hopefully) it never ends.

This book is as good as I expected it would be; tons of ideas and ingenious solutions to space problems. Very talented people who achieve an individual look usually without mounds of money.