Is your apartment up to date? Or would a designer scoff, “How passé!”? You’ll need more than throw pillows to keep up with Manhattan’s hottest design trends. Below are expert designers’ top ten trends for apartment living in the city.

Melanie Coddington and her team create refined, elegant spaces. Strong silhouettes and sophisticated use of colour are key to the rooms success. She loves to mix finishes in a room to avoid that matchy matchy vibe and concentrates on quality of materials and timeless pieces. These rooms are serene but definitely not simple. Luxe living [...]

One of Portland, Oregon’s, up-and-coming neighborhoods can thank a modern reinterpretation of a previously decrepit building for inspiring a wave of rather chic downtown development.

Inhabitat were introduced to Viesso, a company which brings the concepts of prefab and mass customization (with minimal construction waste, eco-friendly products, and quick turnover) to your living room. What’s so incredible about Viesso, is their ability to produce a completely custom product that is ready to ship in just three weeks at a price [...]

We at Inhabitat are huge supporters of the trash-to-treasure approach to design. Using repurposed, discarded, and recycled materials is not only eco-friendly and gives new life to seemingly useless material, but provides an interesting critique on modern consumer-based culture and individual value systems (see our recent Reclaiming Design panel at HauteGREEN). In that spirit, here [...]