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Interior designer Heidi Caillier needed little direction on a new guesthouse project on Fox Island in Washington state. Caillier had already worked with the clients twice before, creating interiors for the young couple’s forever home on the property—a hilly tract with gorgeous views of the Puget Sound—and conceiving a luxe tasting room in Tacoma, Washington, to expand their family’s thriving …

An unapologetically self-identified maximalist, Justina Blakeney founded trendsetting design blog Jungalow back in 2009 to bring her personal vision of beauty into the world and help others tap into their creativity by better expressing themselves inside their homes. Since then, she’s continued building the Jungalow empire, launching its namesake design brand in 2014 and cultivating a passionately engaged digital community …

“I’m a collector,” asserts Jenna Chused, the interior designer behind Chused & Co. and a forager of vintage treasures. “I’ve been antiquing and going to yard sales since I was eleven.” Unsurprisingly, that skillset came in handy when decorating her own home—a charming Italianate town house nestled in Brooklyn’s leafy Fort Greene neighborhood. Chused, whose roster of clients includes actor …

When it came time to furnish the house, Paltrow, a self-proclaimed “furniture obsessive,” originally planned to do the decorating herself. “I thought I’d get a few great pieces and it would all be fine, but as time went by, I realized that there were so many layers, so many things that needed attention, that I couldn’t pull it off by …

For much of his professional life, Petrus Palmér, founder of the hit Swedish furniture company Hem, has held firm to the belief that there are three good reasons to create a new product. The first, he explained over Zoom, is the invention of a material—for example, “a form of metal that is lighter or stronger.” The second, he said, is …

While classic Spanish-style houses in Los Angeles have much to recommend them, the qualities of youthful joy and bright airiness are not generally considered their primary attributes. In fact, quite the opposite. These homes traditionally exude an aura of gravitas, underscored by heavy beams, dark wood, chunky plaster, and wrought-iron architectural details. Film producer Grace Morton had grown up in …

STEP Western North Carolina has announced that it has received another substantial financial grant from Pisgah Health Foundation to bolster the work of its home repair ministry. STEP Western North Carolina (“Serving Together Empowers People”) is the only non-profit organization based in Transylvania county that helps qualifying homeowners get free repairs to their homes to make them safe and secure, …

It might be difficult to envision now, with the development still a construction site and the homes visible only as renderings on a computer screen. But the 27-acre Waterford neighborhood that’s taking shape at the intersection of Roper Mountain and Batesville roads east of Greenville could be the area’s next big step in modern residential design. Comprised of 30 homesites …