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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 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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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…
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Not Ready to Paint Everything? This Is How I’d Try a Softer Version of Color Drenching
Color drenching gets presented as a single decision. You either paint the walls, the trim, the ceiling, the doors and the radiator in one shade, or you don’t do it at all. That framing puts a lot of people off, and I think it’s wrong. In practice it’s a dial rather than a switch, and…
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Give Your Hanukkah Decorations a Fresh Look With Reusable Pieces and Natural Texture
Most homes have the box. It lives on top of a closet, it comes down at the end of November, and every year a little less of it makes it out: the foil garland that’s lost half its fringe, the plastic dreidels nobody plays with, the sign with glitter that migrates into the carpet until…
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Bring a Little Piece of the Garden Indoors With Pressed Flower Art
Every summer ends the same way. You bring home a bunch of wildflowers from a walk, a few stems from the garden or a little bouquet from the market, put them in a jug on the table, and for a week they’re the best thing in the room. Then the petals drop, the water turns…