Month: December 2020

Moving somewhere new is exciting—and often cause for celebration. A new city to discover? Yes, please. Even just moving one neighborhood over can mean finding a new favorite coffee shop or becoming friends with the other tenants in your building. 

Buying cardboard boxes—or even just collecting them from your place of work or local supermarket—may seem like the natural move as you gear up to assemble all of your personal belongings, but renting plastic moving boxes may actually be a better option depending on your needs. Ahead, the pros and cons of plastic moving boxes over cardboard are laid out.

Because they’re reusable, plastic moving boxes will create less waste than buying cardboard boxes. Sure, you could use cardboard boxes that have already been in circulation rather than buying them from Home Depot or U-Haul, but plastic boxes still mean there’s less material

Let me set the scene for you: I’m newly 24 and have just arrived in New York City. I’m living in a 5th floor walkup with two roommates and we do not have any seating. Wary of secondhand sofas because, well, bedbugs, I order a $150 gray futon from Target that is perfectly fine. What’s the big deal about sofas anyway?

Then I start working at Apartment Therapy and find that I am hit with a constant stream of sofa information. It turns out, dear reader, that you (our audience) cannot get enough sofa content. Sleeper sofas, budget sofas, loveseats—if it’s something you sit in, we write about it. And we’re equally passionate about it! Sofas are amazing. They are the statement of your living area, no matter what

Whether your sense of time crawled by at a snail’s pace or hasn’t stopped racing since March, the year of 2020 is almost, officially, a thing of the past. And while setting goals or drafting New Year’s resolutions might feel a bit pointless amid one of the strangest years of all time, the flip of the calendar undeniably presents an opportunity for turning over a new leaf.

As one year ends and another begins, we checked in with a few people from all over the world about the habits, emotions, and themes they’d like to leave behind. Ahead, find out what they’re parting ways with in 2020—and where they hope to be in 2021.

“I’m ready to stop picking dumb fights with my partner. He and I have fought so much more this year in quarantine and we’ve been working on breaking through that. It’s hard because we’re both home,