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ANNA BROCKWAY HAS TAKEN A LOVER--not a human, a pied-a-terre in New York City. An affair decades in the making, Brockway's love story began when she accompanied her dad on [...]

WHEN A NEW YORK based family decided to build a ground-up getaway home in Wellington for trips with their daughters--both competitive equestrians--designer Tom Scheerer looked to the sport as his [...]

BORN AND BRED IN THE HEART OF London before relocating to New York City, Susannah Charbin--founder and creative director of the multidisciplinary creative studio The Beaux Arts--ardently identifies as a [...]

EVERY HOME IS A BALANCING ACT, and the new owners of a stretch of Lake Michigan waterfront admittedly had some conflicting priorities. They wanted a comfortable full-time home for themselves, [...]

'THEY CALL IT THE VENICE OF THE WEST.' It's a quasi-sensical moniker, well-suited to the neighborhood of roughly 400 floating houses in Sausalito, California. The community was first established in [...]

WHILE ASHLEY GILBREATH ENDED up designing an idyllic getaway, her first priority in renovating her family's oceanfront home in Rosemary Beach, Florida, was damage control--to help the house withstand the [...]

DESIGNER BRIAN PAQUETTE REMEMBERS THE exact moment a young couple in Southern California rang him about a potential project. Seattle, where he's based, had just shut down for a snowstorm. [...]

When it comes to decorating for the season, you can't do better than what nature serves up. Here's how to forage your way to a pretty fall display. IF YOU [...]

PREGNANT WITH HER FIRST CHILD in 2005, Annie Anderson walked into a dream. Her late mother's friends were throwing her a baby shower at a beautiful old Colonial home across [...]

CAN I SAY 'I LOVE OLD SH*T?'' asks designer Lathem Gordon. Expletives aside, it wouldn't be an exaggeration. The 1940s Decatur, Georgia, home she shares with her husband and daughters [...]

IF THERE'S a heaven on earth, it might well be Sedona, the town and breathtakingly beautiful region in northern Arizona famous for its reddish-orange sandstone formations-majestic creations that rise up [...]

IT WAS ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. DEVIN KIRK WAS eating popcorn and watching TV the first time he laid eyes on unit #12B--the inspiration for the Chicago condo [...]

She could have easily razed the midcentury home that stood on this hilltop spot. Instead, one designer renovated--and elevated it to even greater heights. A COUPLE PURCHASED THIS gorgeous hilltop [...]

As soon as their children started scribbling letters to Santa 11 years ago, Merrilee and Jon Liddiard made a pact. The couple decided to draft their own gifting rule book, [...]

Though she'd dreamed of owning a Spanish Revival home, there was something about the boxy, modern house that Anonymous Content manager Meredith Rothman couldn't shake. Maybe it was the floor-to-ceiling [...]

on the line with ... HEATHER CHADDUCK HILLEGAS Designer Heather Chadduck Hillegas has long embraced blue and white in her design projects--see her portfolio at heatherchadduck.com-as well as in her [...]

Neil Druckmann gestures toward his giant comic book collection. 'That's something Elbe would appreciate,' says the co-president of video game developer Naughty Dog, name-checking the female lead in The Last [...]

Seattle's Katie Hackworth is no stranger to reinvention. When she took a hiatus from her graphic design career to spend time with daughters Gracie and Sadie (now 13 and 11), [...]

THERE IS a bit of a Rip Van Winkle feel about it all,' James Aguiar says, describing his move with his partner, Mark Haldeman, this past September into the same [...]

The Cosmic House London, W11, booking to 19 December An editor once told me: always look at the loos. It was remarkable, she said, how many grand cultural projets, having [...]

BUDGET DOESN'T HAVE TO BE BORING! SHOP OWNER CHRISTI WILSON FILLED HER TEXAS HOME WITH CLEVER IDEAS AND THRIFTY FINDS TO CREATE A LAYERED LOOK FOR LESS. Christi Wilson wanted [...]

The rich, earthy hue is sprouting up everywhere. Here's how to find your own patch of shade. 1-5 PAINTED DOORS A glossy moss, as seen in this project by architect [...]

SAT 01 TIDY YOUR NIGHTSTAND Straighten things up, then run a power strip across the back so you can charge your gadgets out of sight. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SUN 02 CORRAL [...]

BARBARA KING: It looks like there's a link between your color scheme and the landscape outside the windows. LEE ANN THORNTON: You're right. I do it all the time; I [...]

MIMI READ: You've cooked up such a relaxed mood in this house--but it's got a fancy factor, too. BENJAMIN DHONG: I have an obsessive passion for textures, and when I [...]

Live with what you love! Let this home inspire you to gather decorating ideas from myriad sources then watch your style unfold in a way that's fresh, fun and unique [...]

LISA CREGAN: It's almost hard to tell where the beach ends and the house begins. These colors could have washed in with the tide. ROB SOUTHERN: That's the point! The [...]

Vhen Andrea Harner and her husband bought a weekend getaway in upstate New York, she figured she'd renovate and furnish the place herself--at least until a local handyman gently suggested [...]

LISA CREGAN: Why such an ultrafemi-nine apartment for this formidable woman? Wasn't Kay Gilman the first female sportswriter for the New York Daily News? T. KELLER DONOVAN: Yes, she was. [...]

DOUGLAS BRENNER: How did a house in Locust Valley, New York, pick up such a strong French accent? ELLEN NIVEN: I'm a Francophile. Every year we rent a place in [...]

Byline: Rebecca Mead The Perfect Paint Farrow & Ball's selective palette is creating a new kind of decorating anxiety. tifIllustration by Stephen DoyleThe company's names for paint colors are cunningly [...]

Lifestyle Expert Camille Styles recently teamed with EasyCare Paint Brand and YourUpdateTV to discuss some simple ways to refresh your home in the New Year. One simple option that can [...]

As it is with many young families, establishing Holiday traditions is a work in progress for Aron and Ashley Muir Bruhn and their kids, Hudson, 5, and Skyler, 2, of [...]

One look at their place and you can tell: Andrea Van Leeuwen and Dan Habashi are in touch with their inner kid. They met at a Halloween party--she was a [...]

'I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields. ... It covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, [...]

BARBARA KING: bet you've heard a joke or two about the 50 shades of gray in this house. MARSHALL WATSON: We laughed about it ourselves even before the book came [...]

CARRIE NIEMAN CULPEPPER: This Nashville house has one foot in the present and one in the past. MARKHAM ROBERTS: The family has very beautiful, very good, old English and American [...]

DAVID A. KEEPS: Some homes scream with color; this one seduces with whispers of it. MARY McDONALD: Are you psychic? That's exactly what I've been saying in my head. This [...]

LISA CREGAN: This living room hit me like a tropical breeze--so refreshing. JESSE CARRIER: We did go all out for colors that are crisp and cheerful: lime green, hot coral, [...]