Special Details Create a Luxurious Feel
After working with this couple on several homes over the years, interior designer Jeannine Bogart knew their style and how they liked to live. So when they needed a house that could bring three generations…
Month: August 2025
10 Enduring Pieces of Decorating Advice (13 photos)
As we work — and spend — to make the places we live in beautiful and functional, we sometimes make decor mistakes we come to regret. Unhappy choices nearly always stem from poor planning, rushed…
4 Gorgeous White, Black and Wood Kitchens
After: Copious white oak cabinetry forms a serene and unobtrusive backdrop, letting striking white marble with dramatic veining have its moment. Black hardware and other black details play supporting roles. The new kitchen’s color palette…
10 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Front Porch
Garrison Foundry Architecture + DecorSave Photo1. Clean, Declutter and RepairImagine a guest standing at your front door, waiting for you to answer. What is your porch telling them about what they’ll find inside?If they’re seeing…
A Pool, a Porch and a Putting Green
At first, these Henrico County, Virginia, homeowners were looking to add a pool that would make their house the place to be for their three kids and their friends. But once landscape designer Greg Koehler…
20 Perfect Shower Curtain and Tile Pairings
Jamee Parish Architects, LLCSave Photo19. Trace ElementsIn this Columbus, Ohio, bathroom by Jamee Parish Architects, the mostly black-and-white palette is restrained, but the patterns are richly varied. Dark grout highlights the subway tile’s brick pattern,…
How to Design a Multigenerational Kitchen
The kitchen that serves a three-generation household has to work very hard indeed. Designing one for children, parents and grandparents — and factoring in all their individual needs — requires an egalitarian approach. As the…
8 Stylishly Layered New Living Rooms (8 photos)
Layering materials, colors, patterns and textures is a way to create spaces that feel both personal and polished. In these eight living rooms, design and remodeling pros combine everything from reclaimed wood and raffia to…
How to Identify Your Ideal Clients
Keith Wing Custom BuildersSave Photo“If you say yes to every job that comes your way, you risk being so busy on the wrong ones that you can’t take on your ideal job,” designer Jodie Carter…
Elegant Update Honors a Childhood Home
This empty-nest couple in California turned to designer Lori Ramsay to help reimagine the basic white kitchen in the wife’s Mediterranean-style childhood home, located in a San Diego master-planned community. Their goal was to honor…