I've always considered myself to be an adventurous person. Place me in any situation, conversation, or city, and I'm as happy as a clam. But that comes with one major caveat: I'm also a homebody, so I need an oasis I love and can recharge in. For a long time, my apartment was ...read more

• By Leslie
  Nov 28, 2018

Earlier this summer, I worked with a certified KonMari Consultant, Trisha, to help me organize my house. We tackled my closet, beauty, and kitchen, and for a few weeks, everything was perfect—my pantry looked like a magazine spread, and my bathroom counter was clutter-free. But ...read more

• By Emily
  Nov 15, 2018

I'm not someone who's governed by trends, but it's not to say that there aren't a few styles that come with each season that I get excited to embrace. Here are the five styles I'll be incorporating into my wardrobe these next few months and how I'm wearing them.  For years, I ...read more

• By Emily
  Oct 17, 2018

I was hired as a sales assistant at the interior design magazine, Domino, at 22-years-old—the same time I moved into my first apartment. It was a natural light-filled studio with hardwood floors, big windows, and charming alcoves and I dedicated nearly every free minute to ...read more

• By Emily
  Oct 8, 2018

My current apartment is the first place I've lived in for longer than a year since high school, after switching dorms and apartments every six months to a year, for the past eight years. And I love it. For an apartment I found on Craigslist while driving in a U-Haul through ...read more

• By Leslie
  Oct 3, 2018

Our entire team loves a whimsical or playful moment in our homes—something that feels like a small rebellion against adulthood. For Emily, that moment is the 'surfboardt' embroidery in Sloan's room, and Leslie loves her blush-pink dish ware, while Hannah displays her curated ...read more

• By Leslie
  Aug 15, 2018

Before becoming an editor at Cupcakes and Cashmere, I worked at a hospitality company designing hotels and restaurants. Some of my favorite design tricks in my own home are those I've borrowed from commercial spaces. But even long before hotel design became my day job, I ...read more

• By Cupcakes and Cashmere
  Aug 9, 2018

Anyone who's hosted a party knows that guests tend to make beelines towards different things. Whether it's the bar, the best friend who arrived before them, or the appetizer table, it gives a bit of insight into where their mind is. Similarly, but usually more subconsciously, we ...read more

• By Cupcakes and Cashmere
  Jul 31, 2018

My first encounter with an overpriced soap was at a store in the West Village around the time I moved into my first apartment in New York City. I was drawn in, innocently enough, by the smell of grapefruit and bergamot rind, wafting over the summer stench of trash, sweat, and ...read more

• By Leslie
  Jul 25, 2018

As much as I love keeping a to-do list and relish the satisfaction that comes from checking each item off, I have a knack for finding every reason under the sun to put off a house chore. Since I enjoy the process of cleaning and the end result, I've come to realize that it's ...read more

• By Emily
  Jul 19, 2018

As someone who comes from a background in architecture, one of my favorite parts of eating out has nothing to do with the food—and everything to do with the design. Restaurant interiors can be highly Instagrammable, subdued and elegant, or strike a balance of visually stunning ...read more

• By Marilynn
  Jun 14, 2018

When my boyfriend Jonah and I signed our lease on our apartment two years ago, it felt (almost) too perfect. Coming from a practically windowless sixth-floor walk-up, it didn't take long to fall in love with the light-filled, hundred-year-old Echo Park bungalow, with a kitchen ...read more

• By Leslie
  May 10, 2018

Where do you spend the majority of your time at home? Chances are that it’s in the heart of your house… the kitchen! As we find ourselves juggling more than ever before, there’s a strong pull towards a casual, unfussy lifestyle that focuses on convenience rather than formalities ...read more

• By Katie Hodges
  May 9, 2018

At a recent editorial team outing to Highland Park, a neighborhood in Northeast L.A. with countless under-the-radar design shops and restaurants, we stopped for lunch at Kitchen Mouse. As soon as we stepped inside the bright restaurant, we simultaneously honed in on the dramatic ...read more

• By Emily
  Apr 18, 2018

I first met Katie, an interior designer and founder of Katie Hodges Design, over Instagram, when I posted to Stories that I was searching for a rug for my bathroom. After she commented with a suggestion, which turned out to be exactly right (to go for something a little ...read more

• By Emily
  Apr 3, 2018

I've been a fan of Apartment Therapy for as long as I can remember, so the fact that they came to shoot our space for a second time (the first one was in our old apartment back in 2011) was very exciting. Here's a sneak peek at the entire post, which you can see in its entirety ...read more

• By Emily
  Mar 13, 2018

My first job out of college was as a sales assistant at Domino Magazine. At the time, I'd just moved into my first (and slightly dilapidated) apartment with an older woman I'd met days before. It felt both uncomfortable and unfamiliar living in someone else's place without ...read more

• By Emily
  Feb 1, 2018

Our entire team took a two-week break from work during the holidays, which aside from being a great opportunity to rest and spend some quality time with family, also provided me with the time to finally tackle those larger home cleaning projects that fall through the cracks ...read more

• By Emily
  Jan 16, 2018

Looking back at the year as a whole, there were certainly some tough times—but there were also some really high highs. Instead of focusing on the hardships and challenges, I'm choosing to focus on my top 10 favorite moments from 2017. I found the exercise not only to be fun, but ...read more

• By Emily
  Dec 20, 2017

I've always loved having fresh flowers at home, which become all the more important during increasingly shorter days, when even moodier and seasonally appropriate bouquets have a noticeable brightening affect. The only problem is that, while there's always a bounty of flowers to ...read more

• By Emily
  Oct 30, 2017

In 7th grade, my friends and I gave each other one of three gifts for special occasions: bath beads (anyone else remember those?), friendship bracelets, and candles. Mind you—the candles we were purchasing were usually only a few dollars and were so sickeningly sweet that they ...read more

• By Emily
  Sep 25, 2017

There's something about starting a collection that feels nostalgic. When I was young, I collected everything from troll dolls and Pogs to baseball cards and stickers. And it's fun to watch the same thing in Sloan, who's already passionate about her ever-growing stack of books ...read more

• By Emily
  Sep 20, 2017

It's been just over two months since we settled into our new office and I'm trying to take a different approach this time. When we moved into our last one, it was during an incredibly transitional time—Sloan was still tiny, we'd just launched our clothing line, and our ...read more

• By Emily
  Sep 13, 2017

One of my most-requested posts is an updated guide to L.A.. But the truth is, there are so many different ways to see the city. Whether you're a local simply looking for the best way to spend a Saturday, or all about the greener side of the city (and by that I mean both juice ...read more

• By Cupcakes and Cashmere
  Aug 31, 2017