By Colleen Ford
Spruce up your balcony or patio with some hardy outdoor plants!
AMLI Blog | Living Apartment Life
By Jason Ernst
Every apartment needs a little makeover from time to time. If you haven’t made any changes to your home decor this year, then it’s time to give it a fresh look. Improving an apartment home’s atmosphere doesn’t require any structural changes or expensive purchases. It does, however, require a creative mind and a little bit of effort. To remake your living space without breaking the bank or carrying out any major renovations, give the following projects a shot.
By Jason Ernst
Art captivates. Art inspires. Art stimulates. Art is a means through which you can express your personality and no apartment is complete without it. If you are looking for art for your luxury apartment and want to ensure what you choose meshes with your design, take the following tips to heart.
By Jason Ernst
After an exceptionally long and brutal winter, spring may not yet feel like it is in full bloom. If anything, however, this should only serve as a greater motivation to move on any spring color changes you plan to make to your apartment’s decor. If you are looking for some inspiration for your apartment’s seasonal decor, start by reading about these great spring color schemes.
By Jason Ernst
Depending on the climate you live in, you may consider winter to be bleak, dreary, and downright cold. But by embracing the excuse the season gives us to cozy up at (and sometimes away from) home, you can beat the winter blues and stay comfortable all season long. Here are some things you can do to make your luxury apartment a cozier place for the winter.
Households that celebrate the winter holidays tend to have a collection of seasonal decorations stored away that they can use year after year after year. Comparatively speaking, few Thanksgiving decoration collections of such size and reliability exist. If you would like to change this by building up an assortment of decorations with which you can transform your luxury apartment into an aesthetically appealing shrine to the harvest each year, here are some DIY decoration ideas to get you started. Fall Wreath If you only plan to hang a few decorations in your apartment home this Thanksgiving, one of them should […]
While archival evidence suggests that so-called “living rooms” have been a part of some homes for nearly two centuries, it wasn’t until the tail-end of the 19th century that the living room become a mainstay in the American home. To better understand why this is and how the living room has evolved into a center for entertainment, socializing, and storing a typical household’s many electronic gadgets, take a brief journey through the past dozen or so decades. The Living Room: A Modern Luxury If family has been so important to humanity for so many centuries, with family-oriented (single or multi-family) […]
When decorating your apartment, there are several design faux pas you want to avoid. Among the most serious offenses is choosing a color scheme that simply does not work. If you want to play it safe, you can use monochromatic and analogous color schemes that traditionally work very well together. If you are looking to be bold or have two or three colors that you would like to use together in mind but you are worried that they won’t work well together, don’t give up on your inclination just yet. Several colors that you might expect to clash when used […]
Luxury apartment living has its perks, but space is not always one of them. While there are plenty of spacious luxury apartments for rent in most U.S. cities, sometimes the most sought-after apartments in a city are also the most compact. If your apartment feels smaller than you would like for it to feel, there are several organizational and decorative strategies you can employ to make your apartment feel much roomier. Use Light Colors One of the most effective ways to make your luxury apartment feel larger is to use light colors throughout your living space. Lay white- or cream-colored […]
When you live in an apartment, you don’t have to worry about preparing your home for autumn the way owners and renters of homes do. To get into the spirit of the changing seasons outside, you can spend the time you would have spent readying your home for cooler weather researching and carrying out design projects. 8 decorative touches that can really help you mark the changing of the seasons include: 1. Festive Fall Tablecloth When you think about it, there are several reasons why the dinner table plays an even greater role in autumn than it does during other […]
By Jason Ernst
Home to the world’s largest contemporary art exhibition, Venice is a city renowned for its art, architecture, and stylistic design. Fort Lauderdale, with its well-designed and all-encompassing canal system, has earned itself a nickname as the “Venice of America.” If you live in a Fort Lauderdale luxury apartment and would like to bring some Venetian influence from the other side of the Atlantic into your home, then check out the following design and décor trends. Precious Metal Usage At the time of the city’s construction, a great deal of wealth was injected into the city of Venice. One can hardly enter a building without seeing gold-leaf encrusted […]