Leigh Kamping-Carder

New York's real estate market is about to kick into high gear, as the spring sales season gets underway. Starting this morning, we're devoting a full week of coverage to sellers and all their unique concerns, from tips on choosing a broker to questions of capital gains taxes--and everything in between. 

A perpetual plant killer, I gave up on raising anything green in my apartment long ago. But it turns out, it may have been my apartment itself--and not my lack of gardening skills--to blame for all those plant deaths.

If you need an excuse to splash out on home goods, here it is: one key component of keeping your place organized may involve bringing a little panache to your storage tools, as Apartment Therapy points out. Translation: you have permission to do a little shopping. Think fancy label makers, attractive baskets, and other luxe stuff-holders that’ll get you jazzed up about storage (and yes, we never thought we’d hear that phrase either).