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1. How To: Make a Captain's Bed on the Cheap

2. How To: Build Your Own Headboard

3. How To: Mix It Up

4. How To: Make a DIY Headboard

5. How To: Create a Hotel-Style Bathroom

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1. House Tour Boston: Jeanine's Sun-Filled House

2. Jessica & Alex's Simple Modern On a Budget

3. Glen's Living Large In a Small Space

4. The Janssen Family's Roving Abode

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1. Mini Pug + Mini Eames Lounge = Small and Cool?

2. Best Small Sofas 2008

3. AT Asia: Ten Best Home Wares From Japan...

4. Louis Comes to Ikea: The Trollsta Collection

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Product: One of Three Exclusive Giclée Prints Photographed by Martha Stewart
Source: Martha Stewart Framed Photography
Value: $1200

Description: Win one of three Exclusive Signed Edition giclée prints embossed and personally signed by Martha Stewart. These photographs are printed on fine archival art paper using archival inks; framed using museum-quality patented Artcare™ conservation materials and processes, with hand-finished wood moldings. Photographed by Martha Stewart. Look at all three above, read about them below and then send us your submission form. Happy Holidays!

Here are two new stories about "giving" that we're collecting from readers and publishing this week. To find out more or submit your own >> click here.

From DRM:

When I was a kid, my family would go visit my mothers family during the summertime. On one of those trips, my dad and I were in a corner store as a woman begged the shopkeep to lend her the bread she wanted to feed her kids. My dad put the money on the store counter, and didn't say anything about it. I was stunned. People actually did good deeds without looking for recognition, but just to make a positive, though minor, impact onto the world...

Collection: Clip On Ties
Name: S. Joey B.
Location: Raleigh, NC
Size: 150 Ties
Value: $450

"Thrift stores are like therapy, you have to go in order to get results. I am always on the lookout for vintage clip on ties. Originally they were on display in my home office but grew to fill a wall..."

Launched on July 15th by the University of Maryland, Food Trader is a new website that helps local consumers to buy directly from local farmers. There are already over 200 farmers on the site offering specialty cuts of meat, fruits, vegetables, flowers, honey, dairy products and even goat's milk soap. It's an online farmer's market!

Why wallpaper when you can create fun and funky patterns on your walls with the click of a switch? The Sha-Do Lamp, designed by Peter Buning Fixtures, creates geometric shadow patterns on your ceilings and walls with its unique shade...

Yes, we know, we rock! Finally other people are starting to realize this too! Outside Magazine's August issue ranks the top 20 Best Towns in America for 2008 and our fair city is at the top of the list! Washington DC beat out other towns like Chattanooga (2nd) and New Orleans (3rd)...

We recently bought an Ikea Hultet room divider and have been stalling on installing it. We were wondering whether to paint it, how high to hang it (so the pets don't destroy it), and all the other usual considerations.

Then last week, while strolling through Anthropologie in Georgetown, we were thrilled to come across this gorgeous chandelier made out of the very same Hultet room divider collecting dust in our living room!

We've long admired the creative displays at the Georgetown Anthropologie and...

No search for MCM furniture in Washington DC is complete without a stop at Good Eye, a vintage store that has been operating in Friendship Heights for over a decade. A small store packed floor to ceiling with magnificent finds, Good Eye is a labor of love for proprietor Steve Cheek...

[Caroline and Colleen checking out mirrors and architectural salvaged items]

The new AT DC team recently met up at Eastern Market, one of our favorite places. Photos of us above and below! We love strolling through the market on Sundays to check out the furniture, books and other great finds. The indoor market is open year round, Tuesday to Sunday, and offers produce, flowers, baked goods and more. On the weekends, more vendors set up stalls outdoors to sell furniture, crafts, home goods, art and jewelry...

For sale in the DC area are some great garden furniture, lockers, and antiques. Links and more items below the jump...

We took advantage of recent sales to purchase new twin mattresses to replace the old ones in our childhood bedroom. We decided to save on the delivery fee by picking them up in store which left us with the dubious pleasure of arranging for the disposal of our old mattresses. A little research demonstrated that this is much easier said than done…