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10 Easy Pieces: Good-Looking Pendant Lights Under $200

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It isn’t as easy to find lighting on a budget as it once was. Fixtures that once rang in around $200 or $300 have doubled in just a few years time, it seems. Below is our selection of favorite good-looking pendant lights—all with a price tag under $200. For more high design on a mindful […]

Shopper’s Diary: Soulful (and Reasonably Priced) Housewares from Ofelia in Spain

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Discovered recently: Ofelia, a small chain of housewares shops from Spanish designer Francisco Segarra (it’s been called the “anti-Ikea”), offering reasonably priced not-seen-everywhere furniture and accessories for the home. Here’s a look:

Remodeling Wisdom: 10 Budget Backsplash Hacks

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When the kitchen remodeling budget is tight: 10 ideas for finessing the backsplash issue. 1. Glass 2. Chalkboard Paint 3. Painted Plywood 4. Selective Tiling 5. Marble Scrap 6. Metal Sheet 7. Stick-Up Tiles 8. Colorblocking 9. Beadboard 10. Waterproof Wallpaper N.B. This post is a favorite from our archives; the original story ran on June […]

Kitchen of the Week: Stylist Brittany Albert’s Cosmetic Kitchen Upgrade, Trade Secrets Included

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Brittany Alberts’s lament is a familiar one: “If budget hadn’t been a consideration, we would have loved to expand the footprint of our kitchen. And we would have loved to put in new cabinets and appliances. Instead, we had to stick with—and enhance what—was already in place.” The wrinkle? Brittany is a stylist who works […]

By Reader Request: How To Store CDs Attractively?

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Last week we received a surprising email from a reader. The subject line: “Will you be doing a piece on storing CD collections?” “Yes, some of us still have compact discs,” the email began, before we could ask. “And,” the inquiring reader continued, “we want to figure out how to store and use them in […]

A Tiny House Over the Garage: Architect Hironobu Kagae’s Exercise in Downsizing

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“People tend to think that only special days spent outside the home are happy times. In reality, it’s time at home that we should cherish.” So writes Hironobu Kagae, an architect at Sinken, a green-minded building company in Kagoshima, Japan, and a designer-philosopher of everyday life. In addition to serving as an essayist on the […]

Current Obsessions: Awards Season

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Ahead this weekend: a spring carry-all, a studio sale, a deep dive on production design, and more. Read on: Add this to our list of go-to, ever-practical canvas totes (and it’s $45). The maximalist, “time-traveling” interiors of Poor Things. Hay has a new collection….for four-legged family members. And Simmons Esteves Studio is hosting a sale […]

Quick Takes With: Helen Rice

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We’ve been following Helen Rice’s shrewd design eye for a decade: first through Fuzzco—the creative agency she co-founded that’s turning 20 this year—and more recently via a few new projects, among them PM Residence, a rental flat available through her project Serious Buildings, and a “home ephemera shop” called Ponytail. “Growing up, I wore a […]

Currently Coveting: The Emma Kohlmann Lamp Collection from Slow Roads

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I’ve known artist Emma Kohlmann since she was a kid and am a huge fan. I’m not the only one. Her beguiling, dreamlike paintings were discovered on Instagram 10 years ago when she was in her mid-twenties, and she now has an impressive CV of shows near and far (she’s represented in NYC by Silke […]

Far and Away the Best: A Laid-Back Cottage in the Hinterlands of Australia’s East Coast

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Every move Australian creative Holly McCauley has made has brought her farther from the crush of crowds and closer to the sounds of nature. The graphic designer and gallery owner grew up in inner-city Sydney, but after graduating from college, she decamped for Byron Bay, a mecca for surfers and former hippie town. From there, […]

Steal This Look: A Melbourne Kitchen Inspired By the Library

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When a pair of sisters approached eco-minded designer Kim Kneipp to redo the kitchen in their Victorian house outside of Melbourne, it was for the second time: The designer had previously “rearranged all of their spaces,” Kneipp says, “and designed library joinery to consolidate and showcase their books.” It was these bookish references the sisters […]

Design Down Under: 5 Favorite Finds from McMullin & Co. in Australia

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On our radar: McMullin & Co. in Sydney, Australia. Founded by Alice McMullin and guided by “consistently questioning how we move and interact in the spaces we live”, its offerings are “a movement away from the mass-produced to the individual.” Here, five favorite finds: For more, head to McMullin & Co.

10 Easy Pieces: Corduroy Sofas

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Not your average basement sofa, the new guard of corduroy upholstery has just the right dosage of 1970s appeal. Ranging from Michael Ducaroy’s iconic Togo sofa to new designs by Matthew Hilton, Japanese brand Trunk, Philippe Malouin, and the like, here are our 10 favorites. For more sofa selects, see our posts: 10 Easy Pieces: […]

Spring Ahead: 15 Ways to Add Glimpses of Green

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With spring (and Saint Patrick’s Day) around the corner, is it time to inject a dose of green into your space? From fringed chairs and light fixtures to a simple splash of paint, green adds instant freshness and proof of life after the visual quiet of winter. Here, 15 ideas: For more dashes of color, […]

Object of Desire: Ceramic Water Filter by Kyn & Folk

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While writing about creative Holly McCauley’s cottage in the Australian hinterlands near Byron Bay earlier this week, I spied an unusually attractive water filter sitting on her kitchen counter. It was ceramic (not plastic), a pretty color (pale sage), and large enough not to require constant refilling. Turns out it’s by Kyn & Folk, the […]

Kitchen of the Week: A Colori Kitchen by Artilleriet in Sweden

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Not too long ago we featured the first kitchen design project from Swedish concept shop Artilleriet. They have since introduced their A Colori kitchen, the “colorful evolution and sibling” to their first, also made in collaboration with furniture makers Tre Sekel. Inspired by historic painted cook spaces and the workhorse kitchens of ancient castles, the A […]

Remodeling 101: Everything You Need to Know About Pine Tar

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Venmo, dishwashers, those Instagram filters that give tired faces a glow-up—we can all agree our world has benefited from progress. But some things don’t need to be improved upon. Case in point: pine tar. Pine tar has been in existence since the days of the plundering-and-pilfering Vikings, who distilled the stuff in large quantities and […]

Le Moulin: Architect-Designed Lodgings in Provence

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“In Lourmarin, Provence, sits Le Moulin, an old mill transformed into a hotel and village shop. Sitting opposite the chateau, it is a place to meet people and stay the night, a spot for locals and you.” So reads the website of Le Moulin, lodgings transformed by the architects Marine Delaloy and Paula Alvarez de […]

Current Obsessions: Going Green

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Ahead: sumptuous baths, five ways to start seeds, and more glimpses of green to inspire. Read on… West Coasters, drop into “Inner Space”, ft. the work of JB Blunk, Isamu Noguchi, and more, on view at The Future Perfect/Goldwyn House in LA through May 1. Admiring the Eynsham Baths, courtesy of Roman and Williams. Little […]

Quick Takes With: Marianne Evennou

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Marianne Evennou has a knack for making even the most pint-sized nook feel like a jewel box. With tricks of the eye and sometimes puzzle-like ingenuity, she ekes out every inch and saturates rooms in unexpected color. We’ve come to think of her as the doyenne of bite-size design—and she does it all with a […]

For Home and Humanity: New Bio-Based Paints by Atelier Ellis

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A happy announcement from natural paint brand Atelier Ellis this month: Their True Matte Emulsion is moving to a newly developed bio-based formulation. It’s a move that has taken company founder, Cassandra Ellis, and her chemist two years to perfect. It’s also a move that is completely new to the UK. We spoke to Cassandra—whose […]

Modernity in Outer Paris: Refurbishment of a 1910 House in Île-de-France by Mudo Architecture

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We recently discovered the work of architects Nicolas Mussche and Elodie Doukhan and Nicolas Mussche of Paris-based Mudo through photographer Mary Gaudin who shot their latest project in Gentilly, an inner suburb just south of Paris. Located on a former working class street where factories have been replaced with offices and residences, the house has […]

Steal This Look: A Sunshine Bath in a London Townhouse

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The standout bathrooms in a London townhouse designed by firm Bradley Van Der Straeten are drenched in unexpected color, from the paint to the tiles. On the first floor, the bathroom is cloaked in yellow—and faces the south side of the house “to make the most of the daylight and brightness,” the firm explains. Here, […]

Japanese Hep Cats: 10 Design-Forward Feline Accessories from Orneko of Tokyo

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“Cats spend more time at home than humans,” points out Kim Hyunsook. With her husband, Akira Tani, Kim is the owner of the European-inspired Japanese housewares line Orné de Feuilles (translation: Decorated with Leaves)—the two met while living in Paris and set up shop in Tokyo. Longtime feline fans, their first cat, Kate, was with […]

10 Easy Pieces: Metal Olive Oil Cruets

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If you know us, you know that we love decanting. Swapping your packaged olive oil for a classic metal cruet offers an instant upgrade for your kitchen counter, with the bonus of protecting olive oil from sunlight. Here, we profile our 10 favorite metal dispensers in stainless steel, brass, and copper. For more kitchen containers […]

DIY: Perfectly Imperfect Spatter-Painted Floors

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Here on Cape Cod, splatter- or spatter-painted floors are so common that we take them for granted. I don’t know why our Victorian area ancestors started spatter-painting their floors—perhaps they couldn’t afford rugs, or more likely, they didn’t want to constantly beat the sand out of them—but I, for one, am glad they did. First […]

Domestic Science: Our Editors’ 27 Most-Reached-For Cleaning Hacks

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Our editors, on the whole, like our spaces and our things to be neat, fresh, and sparkling. And, for the most part, we prefer cleaning with natural products and/or ingredients we already have on hand. Between us, we have myriad housekeeping secrets and hacks to share—all tried and tested by us. Here, our team’s best […]

Kitchen of the Week: Sexy Modular Kitchens from Vermland in Copenhagen

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Beyond Ikea (and what a good idea!): Vermland in Copenhagen is a kitchen and furniture workshop offering solid-wood modular components designed to last a lifetime, as they say. “Our ready-to-assembly modular kitchen system is made of interlocking solid wood frames ensuring a long-lasting, sustainable, and affordable design, based on a refined yet experimental approach.” We’re […]

Remodelista Reconnaissance: The Nautical Brass Ceiling Light

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Interiors stylist Brittany Albert left much well enough alone in her Connecticut kitchen, and instead deployed cost-conscious tweaks to transform an uninspired space: see The Cosmetic Kitchen Upgrade, Trade Secrets Included. Brittany freely shared her paint colors, her sink and hardware sources, and how she tracked down remaindered marble. But she asked that we not […]

Merrydown: A Debut Project by Simmons Esteves Studio in Maine

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You may know Anthony Esteves from Soot House, the pitch-black Maine home that’s become something of an Internet sensation in the last half decade. Or perhaps you’re one of the 55 thousand people who follow him on Instagram, where he builds stone walls, chars wood, and painstakingly restores old windows by hand. (He also makes […]

Current Obsessions: Design Forecast

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An unlikely rooftop oasis, ’70s florals, a wood-burning hot tub collaboration, and more signs of spring ahead: “If a tiny, depressing roof can be transformed into a private urban oasis…then anything’s possible.” One of our all-time favorite stores, Maison Empereur in Marseille—the oldest hardware store in France—won the Global Innovation Award in the housewares category […]

Quick Takes With: David Stark

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Any party planner will tell you it’s all about the details—but David Stark takes that maxim to a new level. The in-demand New York-based event producer, designer, and author designs fêtes for celebrities, stars, and nonprofits the world over, but look closer and you’ll begin to notice that even the glitziest of soirees often feature […]

Found in Translation: 5 New Uses for the Shaker Box from Japan

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We’ve been obsessing over Shaker design for 10-plus years now. And we thought we had seen it all. We stand corrected. While browsing a new favorite online housewares shop, Orné de Feuilles of Tokyo, we were delighted to discover five Japanese Shaker box translations that adhere to tradition—swallow tail joints and copper rivets included—while giving […]

Good Neighbors: In Ohio, an Architect Turns a Cottage Next Door Into the Family Guesthouse

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Architect Greg Dutton came to our attention a few years ago, when he designed and built a 600-square-foot Scandi-Inspired Off-the-Grid Hut on his parents’ sprawling cattle farm in eastern Ohio. Recently, we discovered he’s helped them add another 600-square-feet guesthouse on their property. This one, while radically different, shares the same elegant, simple-is-best spirit. Though […]

Steal This Look: A Remodelista’s Minimalist Galley Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights

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When my husband, Josh, and I moved to Brooklyn Heights a few years ago, we were lucky enough to find a parlor floor flat that hadn’t been updated for a couple of decades, so it was a blank slate. The kitchen in particular needed work, so we called on our friend Malachi Connolly, a New […]

Required Reading: ‘Hot Springs’ by Greta Rybus

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While we were working on our book Remodelista in Maine with the photojournalist Greta Rybus, Greta let us in on a project she was working on: a book documenting hot springs, public baths, and soaking spots the world over. We’ve been awaiting the publication of Hot Springs ever since, and as of this month it’s […]

10 Easy Pieces: Portable Cordless Lamps

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What if your table lamp was portable? You could move it from the desk to the kitchen to the outdoor dining table. You could place it in the center of a round dining table without a trailing cord across the surface. And with it fully charged, you could utilize it as an emergency back-up when […]

Design Travel: An Italian Chef and a Danish Baker at Marigold in Rome

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On my travel wish list this year: a stop at Marigold in Rome, helmed by Domenico Cortese (a chef from Calabria) and Sofie Wochner (a baker from Copenhagen), plus an international team of baristas, servers, and cooks (“between the kitchen and the dining room,” they say, “we speak seven different languages”). The result is a […]

Trend Alert: The Art of the Handwritten Note

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I’ve been enchanted to see handwriting appear in unexpected places lately (and—at the risk of sounding ancient—relieved, too, given all the hand-wringing about its slow disappearance). As characterful house numbers, on signs, even stitched onto cloth, handwriting lends an indisputably personal, even sentimental touch. And it’s approachable and easy to do: The less perfect, the […]

Tiny Kitchen of the Week: A Communal Homestead for Summer Rayne Oakes and Friends, Filled with Takeaways

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Chances are good you’ve digitally crossed paths with Summer Rayne Oakes. The author of How to Make a Houseplant Love You, she’s the host of the popular Youtube series Plant One on Me and the new podcast Bad Seeds, founder of the urban naturalist hub Homestead Brooklyn, and served as the indoor gardening expert for […]


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