04/28/2014 19:22
“This place didn’t have a soul,” says interior designer Heide Hendrix of her Manhattan clients’ newly built vacation house in Oyster Bay, New York. The homeowners had a wonderful start with anti...
04/28/2014 14:02
Done well, verandahs can be havens for activities as diverse as getting together with friends to stretches of quiet reflection in glorious solitude. Too often, though, they become neglected, lit...
04/28/2014 01:22
There’s more to landscaping than lawns and foundation plantings. Get inspired by formal garden traditions and incorporate a neatly trimmed hedge, striking symmetrical garden or whimsical topiary...
04/27/2014 22:24
Imagine walking into your newly built or remodeled home and seeing it exactly as you had imagined it at the start of construction: the windows are all in the right places, the flooring is the ri...
04/27/2014 22:23
I have nothing against white or off-white lampshades. They work well in almost any setting and are often just the right thing. But they are almost never the only thing. In the famous words of...