Green Lifestyle in Style at a UC Berkeley Apartment Complex The University of California, Berkeley -- already home to the nation's first eco-friendly dorm room -- has expanded its "green" footprint this year with a two-bedroom apartment that showcases sustainable living. "We want to show people that it's possible and just make it easy to live a sustainable life," said Desirae Early, a UC Berkeley environmental economics and policy major who sits on the Green Room Committee that put the Green Apartment together. Everything in the apartment ... Read more... [Green Lifestyle in Style at a UC Berkeley Apartment Complex]   A new standard for modern apartment living: the eco block APARTMENT BLOCKS JUST KEEP GOING UP. That's because more and more people want to live in them. With apartments in such high demand in Australian cities, it makes sense to find a better way to build them. One sustainable apartment complex is leading the way in multi-residential developments... Read more... [A new standard for modern apartment living: the eco block]

Decorating your first apartment: African Style Moving beyond milk crates, boxes and dorm posters can be a daunting decorating task for the novice. But several African-American designers and interior decorators have advice for new apartment dwellers who are design-challenged ... Read more... [Decorating your first apartment: African Style]   Home Design - A Wall of Drawers and a Bartered Bed KAYT BRUMDER, a fifth-year architecture student at Cooper Union in New York City, has an advantage when it comes to home design: She owns her apartment, so she can make structural changes... Read more... [Home Design - A Wall of Drawers and a Bartered Bed]   The Newly Wedded Apartment - Eliminating Differences in Decor As young couples blend households and decorating tastes, for better or for worse is becoming an increasingly less abstract concept. Hence the proliferation of shows such as Lifetime's "Merge," WE's "Mix it Up" and HGTV's "Designing for the Sexes." ... Read more... [The Newly Wedded Apartment - Eliminating Differences in Decor]   Thinking Like a Student - Room Decoration Where others see garbage, students see potential: a wooden futon frame, less the futon, becomes a towel rack. An old-fashioned school desk and bench that might well have come out of a one-room schoolhouse upstate? Use it as a bedside table. Read more... [Thinking Like a Student - Room Decoration]