Whenever I write about a new or interesting accommodation in my city, I often think "I'm going to play tourist and stay here for a night." Then reality sets in and I think of hundreds of ways the m...
While I was on a week long vacation on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina last week I was unpacking all of my belongings as if I was actually moving in for good. Much to my surprise, I wasn't alone...
Someday, I see myself taking some time off and exploring the country in an RV. My boyfriend has a similar dream of his own, but his involves a bike and panniers. Artist Kevin Cyr, might have the p...
Rustic elegance + complete serenity = my idea of heaven. As Great Escapes month comes to a comes to a close, I'm inviting you to my favorite cyber-getaway, Veracruz's Hotel Azucar, which was clearly...
As Great Escape month winds down, I've started thinking about my own escape soon to come. It's about time I began sifting through the bookmarked websites and saved magazine clippings and start plan...
While attempting to track down a rickety old hostel that I stayed in during a visit to Prague a number of years ago, I instead managed to stumble across the gorgeous interiors of Hotel Neruda. The p...
One-of-a-kind finds make a home stand out from its neighbor's, especially when they are collected from your travels &mdash not found in a nearby big-box store. A home comes to life with these painti...
President Lincoln stayed in this 1842 Gothic Revival cottage, instead of the White House, during his three summers in office, starting in 1862 (during the Civil War). The cottage is on one of the hig...
We were a little perturbed by the recent article in the July issue of Dwell Magazine. We weren't really happy with the way Philadelphia was portrayed; it's a lot more thriving than the magazine was ...
A few years back, I spent a couple weeks traveling along the Florida coast. After a week on a friend's sailboat in the Keys, it was time to head to our next destination — the Everglades. One...
We really want to take a road trip before the end of the summer and we're not looking forward to being cramped up in a car. We found a pretty cool alternative that won't leave you wanting to pull o...
We recently found out the hard (and embarrassing) way that dogs are not allowed on Amtrak trains. To avoid future travel hiccups, we rounded up resources for traveling with a pet and pet-friendly pl...
The Nemours Mansion in Wilmington, Delaware was inspired by Versailles and has the largest formal French garden in North America. Originally built in 1910 by Alfred I. du Pont for his second wife, ...
Isabelle et Gérard Planchon gave up their respective legal and architecture practices in Belgium and opened an incredible guest house on the island of Djerba in Tunisia — the largest island o...
It's no secret that DC is not known for boutique hotels bursting with quirky character, so the Hotel Tabard Inn stands out as quite an exception. As one of the city's oldest and most eclectically-st...
Check out these weekend homes and far away locales from Apartment Therapy DC......
It's no surprise that in Fells Point — a waterfront neighborhood still lined with cobble stone streets and steeped in maritime history — you would find a boat and breakfast. Yes, I said...
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