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My Go-To Christmas Styling Ideas for Living Rooms, Bedrooms and Entryways
There’s a specific afternoon in early December when three boxes come down from the loft, get opened in the middle of the living room, and half an hour later the floor is covered in tangled lights, single baubles and a wreath that has lost its ribbon. At that point most people start hanging things wherever…
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My Favorite Neo Deco Interiors Mix Curves, Brass and Rich Materials With Cleaner Lines
Art Deco in its original form is a lot. Stepped mirrors, sunburst everything, chrome and black lacquer stacked until a room looks like a film set. Beautiful in a hotel lobby, exhausting at home. Neo deco interior design keeps the parts that still work and drops the costume. The geometry stays, the materials stay, the…
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From Woven Baskets to Carved Wood: Afrohemian Details I’d Build a Room Around
Afrohemian is what happens when African design traditions meet the layering habits of bohemian interiors. Natural fiber, carved wood, pattern with meaning behind it, earthy color, plants, and objects that were collected rather than bought as a set. It’s a style that rewards knowing what you’re looking at. A mudcloth cushion from a maker in…
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What I’d Do With Too Many Trinkets Before Putting Them Back in Storage
A collection stops reading as a collection around the point it spreads. Ten small things on a windowsill look deliberate. The same forty things scattered across a windowsill, two bookshelves, the top of a dresser and a bowl by the door look like mess, and the advice at that stage is always to thin them…
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I’d Use These Budget Ideas to Make an Ugly Rental Balcony Feel Completely Different
The balcony is usually the last part of a rental anyone touches, and I understand why. You can’t drill, you can’t paint, you can’t replace the floor, and the whole thing belongs to somebody else. So it stays a concrete ledge with a drying rack on it for three years. That’s a waste of the…
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I’d Decorate for New Year’s Eve Like This if I Were Hosting at Home
Christmas decorating is a slow build. The tree goes up, you add to it, you live with it for a month. New Year’s Eve is the opposite. Everything you do exists for about six hours, most of it after dark, and half of it will be photographed by someone holding a glass in their other…
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Give a Neutral Kitchen a Bolder Look With Tile, Paint and Colorful Accessories
Almost nobody chooses a white kitchen. You inherit one. It came with the flat, or it was the safe option at the showroom, or it was what the last owner installed in 2015 because everything was white in 2015. Either way you end up with a room that’s perfectly fine and completely silent. Adding color…
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Can a Uni Room Actually Feel Like Home? These Small Changes Help
The first afternoon in halls is always a bit bleak. Gray carpet, a bare mattress, a wardrobe in that particular shade of yellowish pine, white walls you’re not allowed to paint, and a radiator under the window. Parents leave, the door closes, and the room echoes. The good news is that a room like this…
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Can Plant Cuttings Double as Home Decor? A Propagation Station Says Yes
Most plant people have the mug. It’s on the kitchen counter, it has a broken-off pothos stem in it, and it’s been there three weeks because throwing the stem away felt wasteful. The water has gone slightly cloudy. Nobody would call it decoration. The odd thing is that the same cutting, in a clear glass…