After years of admiring this Toowoomba, Australia, country home from over a friend’s fence, interior designer Angela Smith was delighted to finally take a look inside. On a breakfast outing at a cafe across the road, she spotted a “for sale” sign and seized the moment. At the time, she and her husband,…
“The fact that our clients were making a big move from the East to the West Coast really served as the inspiration for the space,” interior designer Shea McGee says of this lovely California formal living room. “We wanted a mix of preppy and coastal styles.” Because the family…
Apple picking, baking, crunching through piles of leaves, sipping warm drinks by the fire — these are just a few of the many simple pleasures autumn has to offer. Traditions like these become rich with meaning when returned to year after year, and sharing them with family and friends only makes them…
With more of us choosing open-plan living, the kitchen has increasingly become central to the look and feel of our homes. No longer a space to shut the door and forget about, the kitchen is a showpiece as well as a practical space in which to prepare meals and dine. So how can you play to your kitchen’s…
Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) grows native in much of the United States, from Texas to Florida north to Maine. Known for its springtime beauty when in full bloom, it’s a great wildlife plant and a great design plant because of its slender, elegant branches and textured bark.
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As a collector, lover of neon splashes and dedicated follower of eclectic style, I am perhaps the polar opposite of a perfectionist when it comes to my home. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with matched furniture, clean and clear surfaces and a harmonious palette of elegant neutrals, but sometimes it’s…
