decorating ideas

Bathroom Do-overs

These gorgeous baths may make you wanna leave home.

October 28, 2015

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A Happy ‘Habitat’

Decorator Lauren Liess’s new book is rewardingly specific, explaining why she does what, and how.

October 21, 2015

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This 1921 gabled Victorian backs onto parkland and that's what clinched the sale for the 1978 purchasers. Since that year the house has been transformed time and again. Says one of the owners, an architect: ” We saved the shell and the main front stairs.” / Photo by Piers Lamb.

Palisades House Tour–Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015

Nine houses reflect the architectural history of this leafy neighborhood by the Potomac.

October 14, 2015

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London With Design in Mind

Simple ideas, simple shapes marked the 2015 London Design Festival.

October 7, 2015

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Please Come In

Pondering your peeling front door? Looking for something a bit different? Herewith, 77 possibilities.

September 30, 2015

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Home “Decoration”

Some people have a lot of things just “hanging around” the house.

September 9, 2015

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Early Apples

Hedge apples–Osage oranges–have begun falling early. Start collecting!

September 2, 2015

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Bed, Better, Best of Both Worlds

Don’t despair if your guest room is also your home office. Eight ideas for breaching the gap.

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Truly Mystic Pizza

Put down that phone! Bake your pie in the backyard.

August 26, 2015

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High and Mighty Fine

These 11 balconies from around the world inspire us!

August 19, 2015

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Cornering a Great Back Yard

“Enlarge” your property with something great to look at.

August 5, 2015

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Two Homes, Two Styles

A New Yorker who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art defines her living spaces with her collections.

July 29, 2015

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Rappahannock Animal Farm

A Virginia farm gave this vet room to relax — and accumulate more animals.

July 8, 2015

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From One Kings Lane.

Feeling Blue, but Serenely So

Paint can work miracles, over and over again.

July 1, 2015

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Two-of-a-Kind: Terrain Home & Garden Shops

A strange and wonderful shopping concept, in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

June 3, 2015

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Home Decoration on Steroids!

The 2015 Kips Bay Show House is a lotta glam and a real eyeful–not all of it good.

May 23, 2015

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A Stylish House Treatment

An unexpected choice of house number and light fixture update a 200-year-old house.

April 26, 2015

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The Eighth Annual DC Design House Opens

Can’t wait for Sunday? Here’s a sneak peek into what DC designers have up their sleeves for 2015.

April 8, 2015

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