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How else are you going to decorate with AstroTurf and plywood, or install your own ceramics studio? ''You don't give up a 1,400-square-foot Upper West Side apartment,'' said Tobi Wright, [...]

When Iria Leino, a Finnish-born painter, died at 89, the rent on her 4,000-square-foot loft in a former knitting factory in SoHo was $650 a month. Ms. Leino (pronounced LAY-no) [...]

A tiny apartment in London shows that you don't have to paint everything white to make a space feel larger than life. When Fearghas MacGregor was picking his way through [...]

Even Le Corbusier appreciated cabin porn. In 1952, the modernist architect built a tiny log house on the French Riviera that he could visit every summer: 144 square feet with [...]

Primrose Hill is a northwest London neighborhood famous for its topography -- the hill offers skyline views -- and envy-producing, village-like charm. The district has Georgian- and Victorian-era terrace houses [...]

Co-op rules meant they couldn't add a second bedroom, so they came up with an elegant workaround. Hardwood floors, beamed ceilings, exposed brick walls, working fireplaces -- for many New [...]

Instead of a conventional renovation, one New Yorker took a progressive approach. Now he pays almost nothing for energy, and the air is always fresh. In Astoria, Queens, amid a [...]

The tiny cabin, one of the few extant examples of a popular 1970s design, had no heat or toilet. But it was theirs for $85,000. One weekend in 2021, Gemma [...]

After a lifetime of seeking out tiny spaces, she finally found a keeper: a former barbershop in an old mill village in North Carolina. If there is a word for [...]

When a neighbor left her a fortune, she didn't buy a bigger house. She turned her cottage into a place where Marie Antoinette might have felt at home. Bonnie McIlvaine [...]

When a neighbor left her a fortune, she didn’t buy a bigger house. She turned her cottage into a place where Marie Antoinette might have felt at home. Bonnie McIlvaine [...]

The 1,200-square-foot home in coastal Maine uses a fraction of the energy required to heat the average house, and the pigs handle most of the yardwork. This is the story [...]

The 1,200-square-foot home in coastal Maine uses a fraction of the energy required to heat the average house, and the pigs handle most of the yardwork. This is the story [...]

Two architects came up with a solution in a city that was once among the most stressful in the world: Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. More than 30 [...]

Two architects came up with a solution in a city that was once among the most stressful in the world: Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. More than 30 [...]

Since the turn of the millennium, when the French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec emerged as international product design prodigies while still in their 20s -- hailed as the most [...]

The actor Charlie Carver bought a 755-square-foot house, beating out developers who wanted to tear it down. Then he needed a designer who shared his eccentric vision. Before Los Angeles [...]

Alcova, a five-year-old platform for experimentalists that was founded in Italy, makes its American debut. When Sam Klemick was a teenager living in Miami, the neighborhood now known as the [...]

Alcova, a five-year-old platform for experimentalists that was founded in Italy, makes its American debut. When Sam Klemick was a teenager living in Miami, the neighborhood now known as the [...]

The South Korean ceramist Hun-Chung Lee taught himself design and construction, creating a collection of small buildings as impressive as his artwork. Anyone who has an urge to design a [...]

The South Korean ceramist Hun-Chung Lee taught himself design and construction, creating a collection of small buildings as impressive as his artwork. Anyone who has an urge to design a [...]

The ''Small/Cool NYC'' pop-up exhibition in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, offers rooms you can explore created by designers you know -- and some you may not. ''Likely, when we close our [...]

First, you'll have to convince someone to rent to you. When Diana Rhoten walks her dog, DZA, in Manhattan, she knows to expect people to comment. ''Oh, you've got a [...]

First, you’ll have to convince someone to rent to you. When Diana Rhoten walks her dog, DZA, in Manhattan, she knows to expect people to comment. “Oh, you’ve got a [...]

The Diplomatic Reception Rooms house one of the finest art and design collections in the world. But are 18th-century heirlooms a history visitors want to remember -- or forget? In [...]

The Diplomatic Reception Rooms house one of the finest art and design collections in the world. But are 18th-century heirlooms a history visitors want to remember — or forget? In [...]

The sharing economy has come to apartment buildings -- and landlords have discovered a new way to attract tenants. Brooke Renteria moved to a studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from [...]

The sharing economy has come to apartment buildings — and landlords have discovered a new way to attract tenants. Brooke Renteria moved to a studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from [...]

The 900-square-foot house had three bedrooms, but the children's were shoe-box size. Updating them required ingenuity and ideas from ''An American in Paris.'' Much has been written about ''good enough'' [...]

Los Angeles, a city known for its conventional single-family homes, may offer some of today's most innovative solutions for multifamily housing. In 1991, Frances Anderton was a young journalist newly [...]

An interior designer who has made a career out of maximizing space in tiny homes has the answer. If you visit Alejandro Aguilar's Brooklyn home in early spring, the best [...]

An interior designer who has made a career out of maximizing space in tiny homes has the answer. If you visit Alejandro Aguilar’s Brooklyn home in early spring, the best [...]

Jomo Tariku, a designer and data scientist, shines a spotlight on trailblazing industrial artisans and their provocative, inspiring work. This article is part of our Design special section on how [...]

The home in Albany, N.Y., has been owned for decades by the author William Kennedy, a devoted chronicler of the gangster's story. He is now ready to part with it. [...]

The cluttered, lively ethos of Apartment Life offers an antidote to the chilly perfectionism of Instagram -- and creative ideas that still feel relevant. ''Believe it or not, your next [...]

The cluttered, lively ethos of Apartment Life offers an antidote to the chilly perfectionism of Instagram — and creative ideas that still feel relevant. “Believe it or not, your next [...]

Jomo Tariku, a designer and data scientist, shines a spotlight on trailblazing industrial artisans and their provocative, inspiring work. This article is part of our https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/special-section-design on how the recent [...]

The home in Albany, N.Y., has been owned for decades by the author William Kennedy, a devoted chronicler of the gangster’s story. He is now ready to part with it. [...]

At the International Builders' Show, exhibitors offered mini prefab houses, kitchens 'like Swiss Army knives' and other strategies for dealing with a constrained market. A tug of war is being [...]

In 1962, three years after Barbie was born, Mattel introduced Barbie's Dreamhouse: a folding ranch house that was the first of many domiciles that evolved with the times. After beginning [...]

There’s a big difference between the way most of us wish we lived and how we actually do. The tidying guru is back with a new book to help fix [...]

Crate & Barrel just introduced a new line of Eames housewares. No, not that Eames. Crate & Barrel has introduced a housewares collection by a little-known designer and artist named [...]

It can be a short step from a runway look to a home furnishing -- especially if the designer has a foot in both worlds. This article is part of [...]

The constantly changing neighborhood may share a border with Bushwick, Brooklyn, but residents want you to know 'you're in Queens, bro.' For Bikash Kharel, who runs a Nepali restaurant in [...]

Those nostalgic for 1980s New York will find much to love in this neighborhood, where buildings are slathered in graffiti and stylish young people fill the streets. In the East [...]

The Tennessee retreat Keith Meacham shares with her husband and children feels like a love letter to British country estates. And it's comfortable. This article is part of our latest [...]

A riot of nature-based patterns is bringing fresh life to household goods. This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. It is not [...]

Lara Bohinc, a Slovenian-born designer, is showing new furniture, which is based on a voluptuous female form, at the Alcova exhibition during Milan Design Week. And just in case that [...]

A riot of nature-based patterns is bringing fresh life to household goods. This article is part of our latest https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/special-section-design, about spaces inspired by nature. It is not your imagination. [...]

Jeremy Dennis, a fine-art photographer and Shinnecock Nation tribe member, has turned his childhood house into a studio for exhibitions, workshops, and a residency program for BIPOC artists. On the [...]