Creating a space that feels authentic to you and your own personal style can often feel like a challenge, particularly at a time when new design trends seem to be coming in fast and furious and you’re bombarded with so many images of different interiors on social media. As many […]
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65 Patio Decor Ideas That Bring Indoor Style Outdoors
Outdoor furniture, lighting, rugs, and accessories have come a long way in recent years, making it possible to decorate your patio with as much style as the interior of your home at any price point. The right decor will echo the architectural style of your home and correspond to your […]
How to find your own personal interior design style
Cottagecore, Japandi, Dark Academia: Cutting through fads on Instagram and Pinterest to figure out what I genuinely liked required strategy — and expert help Perspective by Maggie Lange May 9, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT (Malikova Daria for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment Two years ago, when my […]
Design news: the father of video art, London Craft Week and Frank Lloyd Wright trainers | Life and style
“Skin has become inadequate at interfacing with reality,” wrote artist Nam June Paik in one of his many essays. “Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.” If you like the sound of Paik’s world view, you can learn more about him in design news this month. We also […]
Six interior designers style rooms at L’Appartamento in Milan
Six interior design studios, including Kingston Lafferty Design and T.ZED Architects, have overhauled a room at the 1930s L’Appartamento for commerce platform Artemest at Milan design week. The designers each used furniture, lighting and art from the brands, designers and artists represented on the Artemest platform to showcase their own style in a room […]
Vivo X Flip: The Perfect Blend Of Style And Technology With Its Unique Exterior Design
Vivo X Flip Official Now Vivo, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has recently launched a new foldable phone, the Vivo X Flip, which is equipped with a vertical foldable screen. Along with the previously discussed Vivo X Fold 2, Vivo X Flip completes Vivo’s lineup of foldable devices. The inner screen […]
Design news: plates that talk to your table mats, Milan Salone and inspiring kids to build | Life and style
This month we look ahead to Milan Design Week, the biggest event on design world’s calendar featuring new work from the biggest names in furniture, art and fashion. Don’t worry, though, there’s also a report on a UK project to get children into building and a high-street collaboration with the […]
TikTokers invent ‘so cute’ interior design style called ‘broho’
Two men (@tikwiddittoo) on TikTok are going viral after coining a new phrase for men’s interior design. The phrase is “broho,” which is a play on “boho” or bohemian design. They initially used the phrase during a video of them putting a ladder in the apartment. “Pov: bros discover interior […]
Bauhaus Interior Design: Everything You Need to Know About the Geometry-Minded Style
For anyone interested in evocative modern interiors, the notion of Bauhaus interior design probably comes up a lot. Whether or not you’re fully aware of the history of the style, what grew out of an unusual art school in Germany has influenced so much of the world that surrounds us […]
Victorian Interior Design 101: All About the Style That Screams “More Is More”
Victorian interior design has proven to have quite the shelf life. Originating in the 19th century, the style that epitomizes opulence stills has plenty of faithfuls, perhaps because it feels slightly more approachable than the glitz of Art Deco. To break down all the ins and outs of Victorian interior […]
SAW renovates a Spanish Revival style home ground up in San Francisco
San Francisco-based Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) recently undertook an architectural renovation and landscape design of a 1930s home. A couple with three children reached out to SAW to expand a three-bedroom Spanish Revival home and to remediate and reclaim the soil below the home. The private residence was expanded by […]
Interior design twins Alisa and Lysandra Fraser: ‘We’ve seen a shift away from the beach style home on the Gold Coast’
Alisa and Lysandra Fraser have been busy on the Gold Coast. REALITY TV stars and renowned interior design twins Alisa and Lysandra Fraser have been enjoying the bright lights of the Glitter Strip. The pair has wrapped up filming a six-part online series based on a multimillion-dollar custom-build in Paradise […]
Japandi Style: Everything You Need to Know
Though it may seem like a trendy buzzword, Japandi style in interiors is anything but a new aesthetic. A mashup of Japanese interiors and Scandinavian interiors—both of which have centuries worth of personal history—the roots of these intertwined aesthetics run deep. “Maybe some people think Japandi just happened, but the […]
The Best Luxury Furniture Brands in 2023, According to Style and Design Experts
Courtesy of Retailer THERE ARE certain things in life that are worth investing some extra money in. Among them: high quality, great looking furniture. After all, your home is your private space, and a well decorated living room, bed room, or home office can provide a sense of pride and […]
Design news: meet the ‘shellmet’ plus Ikea’s new range and women in design | Life and style
Reinvention and renovation is as important as innovation in design as this month’s news stories show. Vintage fashion giant Beyond Retro has moved into making new clothes with the Beyond Remade range and we also have a great story about recycling waste from the Japanese shellfish industry as hard hats. […]
Robert M. Gurney has redeveloped an 1890s residence in a contemporary context while remaining respectful to the original architectural style
Washington, D.C., USA 1630 Riggs Place, located in Washington, D.C., is part of a coordinated row of 13 houses built between 1892 and 1899 that has been recently renovated and transformed by Robert M. Gurney, intended to be referential but not duplicitous, optimistic, and durable. Due to its contextual but […]
Farmhouse Style 101: Everything You Need to Know
According to Becky Shea, an interior designer and founder of Becky Shea Design, farmhouse style is as much a lifestyle as it is a design aesthetic. “It’s really about a lifestyle and bringing that simpler, clean aesthetic to a home, and really focusing on what matters the most,” she says. Often defined […]
Boho Home Decor: 4 Homes That Remind Us How Timeless The Style Can Be
London’s Cheyne Walk presents a sedate streetscape that bears no witness, save some blue English Heritage plaques embedded in various façades, to its daredevil history. To the redbrick Georgian and Queen Anne houses and apartment buildings that line this Thames-side street in Chelsea, all manner of creative iconoclasts since the […]
Inside 6 Homes That Prove Traditional Interior Design and Modern Style Really Do Go Together
“We’ll just fix it up a little bit.” That’s what Ashley Stark Kenner thought when she and husband Nick, founder and CEO of Just Salad, bought a town house on New York’s Upper East Side to make room for their growing family. The landmarked 19th-century building had a lot going […]
3 Interior Design Trends That Never Go Out Of Style
We know that trends come and go, and while we often adapt elements of what we love to create our dream home aesthetic, there will always be those timeless colours and design features that will never go out of style, and in turn, provide the foundations of a solid interior […]