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Stairs and Hallway Ideas: How to Design the Spine of Your Home With the Attention It Deserves
Most people decorate rooms. The best homes decorate the spaces between them. There is a design category that sits in a curious blind spot for most homeowners. Not the living room, which gets the sofa budget and the gallery wall and the carefully sourced rug. Not the bedroom, which gets the linen duvet and the…
Small Hallway Ideas: How to Make the Narrowest Space in Your Home Feel Like It Was Planned That Way
A small hallway is not a design problem. It is a design brief. And a surprisingly good one. There is a particular kind of frustration that small hallways inspire in people who care about their homes. You have spent real time and real money making the living room work, the bedroom feel considered, the kitchen…
Green Couch Living Room Ideas: How to Decorate Around the Best Decision You’ve Ever Made
You bought the green couch. You did the right thing. Now let’s make the rest of the room worthy of it. At some point in the last few years, the green sofa crossed a threshold from design risk to design statement. What was once the kind of choice that required either deep confidence or deliberate…
House Entrance Ideas: How to Design an Arrival Worth Remembering
Your home’s entrance is its opening argument. Make sure it’s a good one. Every house makes a statement before anyone steps inside it. The path to the front door, the door itself, the light above it, the plants beside it, the mat underfoot, all of it communicates something about the people who live there and…
Front Entryway Ideas: How to Design the Space That Sets the Tone for Your Entire Home
The entryway is not a hallway. It is a handshake. And yours should be firm. There is a moment that happens in every home visit, so brief and automatic that most people don’t consciously register it. You step through the front door, and in the space of about three seconds, you form a complete impression…
Hallway Wall Decor: How to Transform the Most Ignored Walls in Your Home
The hallway wall has been staring at you, blank and patient, for years. It is time to do something about that. Of all the walls in a home, the hallway wall is the one most consistently treated as a non-entity. Living room walls get art. Bedroom walls get headboards and gallery arrangements. Kitchen walls get…
Small Porch Ideas: How to Make the Tiniest Entry Feel Like the Best Seat in the House
A small porch is not a problem to solve. It’s an argument for quality over quantity and it’s one worth making. The front porch has a long and storied history in residential architecture. It was, for a significant stretch of American domestic life, the room where everything important happened, where neighbors were greeted, where children…
The Art of Terrace Decor: How to Turn an Outdoor Space Into a Place Worth Staying
A terrace is not a balcony with ambition. It is a room without a ceiling and it deserves to be treated like one. There is a hierarchy of outdoor spaces, and the terrace sits comfortably at the top of it. Not because it is the most glamorous (rooftop pools and private gardens would argue otherwise)…
13 Small Balcony Ideas for Apartments That Prove Size Is Just a Number
Your balcony is tiny. Your standards don’t have to be. There is a particular frustration unique to apartment living: the small balcony. Not a terrace. Not a rooftop. Just a narrow strip of outdoor space that’s technically outside but mostly functions as a place to store the bike you swore you’d use more and a…
15 Modern Balcony Ideas That’ll Make You Actually Want to Go Outside
Let’s be honest. For most of us, the balcony is where good intentions go to die. You bought those string lights in October, they’re still in the bag. There’s a chair out there that technically belongs to the set, but the other three are “in storage” (they’re not in storage). And whatever that plant is…
