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4 Trends to Take Muted Interiors from Drab to Dreamy in 2024


While neutral tones continue to be popular this year among home DIYers, bold and colorful surroundings also are trending right now.

Styles on the Horizon for Your Home in 2023


With travel returning to normal, there’s a renewed interest in seeing the world but you don’t have to go far to bring the beautiful details of faraway destinations into your home’s spaces.

How to Be a Nurturing Plant Parent in 3 Easy Steps


Plants add color, life and vibrancy to your home's indoor and outdoor spaces and can even improve indoor air quality. However, if you are new to plant ownership, you may be wondering how to make your foliage thrive. Here are three tips for healthier plants:

Home Interior Design Tips on Decorating your Space with Wall Art


How to Decorate your Space with Wall Pictures If a room in your house lacks character, by simply placing some fine art prints on the walls can actually make quite an impact. Wall pictures are a necessary accessory in your home and are great to tie in with the room's style and color accent.

Home Decor Accessories - How to Create a New Look in a Room


Apart from complimenting your newly painted walls with soft furnishings and effective flooring, home decor accessories in a room are just as equally important. Accessories ranging from flowers in a contemporary vase to art pictures hanging on your walls, all add the finishing touches to any room.

Home Decorating Tips - How to Change a Rooms Dimension using Wall Pictures


The Basic Role of Pictures Wall art plays an important role in interior design as it helps create the ambience of a room. By cleverly placing wall pictures in certain ways, you can change and create a new look and feel in a room.

Decorate Like You See in Magazines & Books?


Have you ever wondered why interior designers place slippers on the ottoman in magazine photos? They do it to make the staged setting look as if it's a lived-in room. Pictures and illustrations in decorating books, magazines, and other advertisements are designed to sell a product or an idea.

Your Heritage and Personal Decorating Style


Ethnic traditions, customs, and attitudes carry forward our family values. Paying tribute to family heritage and tradition also gives our children a strong sense of family ties.

Decorate Your Home for Joy Using Design Psychology


What Is Design Psychology?Design Psychology exceeds "traditional" interior design practice by considering the effects of design elements on our five senses, as well as our emotions. Rather than decorating to impress or to follow a certain style, you can choose specific lighting, color, patterns, and other design elements to support your happiness and well-being.

How to Decorate Spaces for People


When it comes to decorating your home, forget about the empty, lifeless rooms you see in interior design magazines and books. Instead, you should concentrate on designing all of the rooms in your home as backdrops for the people who will be living in those spaces.

Dont Hire Someone to Steal Your Joy: Decorate Your Home Yourself!


In researching what makes people happy, I discovered that "Planning" makes us happy. Therefore, why should a homemaker turn over planning to an interior designer who creates homes to make money and impress others? Furthermore, most designers ignore the important outcome of creating a home, which is to support the emotional well-being of the residents.

Decorate Yourself Happy: How to Decorate For Everyday Pleasure/Joy


Because psychologists relate true happiness to joyous occurrences happening frequently, decorating your home to promote everyday pleasure makes sense. If you're planning a home makeover, provide for the cumulative total of all the little pleasure moments.

Decorating with Brains


Did I get your attention? Sorry, I just couldn't resist!When I was a little girl, we called them "brains". We would gather them into huge piles and either throw them into the woods or throw them at each other.

7 Tips for Decorating Your Childs Room


If you're not sure where to start or how best to tackle updatingyour child's bedroom, you're not alone. In a lot of families, thebaby nursery takes a lot of planning and decorating time butthere's often less thought and energy put into decorating thesame child's room as they grow older.

Safely Decorating Your Kids Bedroom


? Wall Decorations:Never place a wall hanging, picture, poster, or any other decoration on the wall within the baby's reach. Remember that once the baby is able to stand and reach up these things can be hazards.

Decorating on a Budget - 15 Easy Steps


Many years ago I was told that the least expensive way to redecorate is to rearrange what you have. It was one of the best decorating suggestions I've ever had-not to mention the one that can be the most fun to implement.

Home Decorating: Planning Lightning


When you are choosing a bathroom light fixtures or lightning for any room in your home, the first thing to take into account is how that room will be used and, thus, the type of lightning you will need. Light is very important in a room, because it affects colors and makes them seem lighter or darker.

Kitchen Decorating Is Easy To Do


Kitchen decor themes can turn a dull kitchen into a beautiful living space. Being the central gathering place for family and friends, the right theme can make any occasion a memorable event.

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09/05/2024
Inside An Artful Apartment In Zaha Hadid’s High Line Building
Located in Zaha Hadid’s High Line building, this apartment by Canella Design blends Hadid’s signature curved design with warm, contemporary interiors.


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09/05/2024
Elevate Your Style with Five-Star Flair at Hyatt's Zurich Hub
Hotel style meets workplace smarts in Hyatt at the Circle, the hotelier’s corporate office at Zurich Airport by Studio Alexander Fehre.


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09/05/2024
A Design Lover’s Guide to Portugal: 5 Must-See Hotels
From a sumptuous villa influenced by a fashion icon to a 17th-century convent and surf retreat, here are five of new destinations to check out in Portugal.


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08/29/2024
Savor The Lush Garden Views Of This Dreamy Palm Springs Abode
Experience how Studio BV seamlessly blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor living in this Palm Springs retreat, where lush greenery meets vibrant art.


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08/29/2024
Visit This Contemporary Retreat Perched Along The North Sea
Saunders Architecture crafts a stunning 3,000-square-foot modern retreat that doubles as a breathtaking observatory overlooking the North Sea.


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08/29/2024
Get Ready to Be Electrified by This Comic-Inspired Marvel
Dive into Cloud, Clap’s knock-out installation for Salón del Cómic de València, that takes inspiration from comic culture and Roy Lichtenstein paintings.


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08/29/2024
Elena Salmistraro Crafts A Tribute To Cini Boeri
Milan-based artist and product designer Elena Salmistaro pays tribute to pioneering architect Cini Boeri with a wittily abstracted statuette.


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08/28/2024
It Takes Two: Tour Nuro's High-Tech Silicon Valley HQ
For the Silicon Valley headquarters of Nuro, a maker of electric, autonomous vehicles, Elkus Manfredi Architects delivers two state-of-the-art facilities.


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08/23/2024
Capture This Experiential Photo Studio In High Resolution
Aurora Design brings photography studio Lanwuu Imagine into focus with asymmetrical shapes, semi-enclosed vignettes and circular windows.


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08/19/2024
Discover A Brazilian Modular Home Nestled In Nature’s Embrace
Step inside this house by Ohtake in Ibiúna, Brazil, that showcases the best of nature and channels the country’s checkered history with modular-systems construction.


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08/19/2024
Artful Accents Enliven This Tuscan Family Home
A fantastical epoxy commission anchors the Tuscan seaside family retreat of VMCF Atelier’s coprincipals, who’ve filled the home with creative accents.


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08/19/2024
This Perfumery's Latest Locale Offers A Serene Escape
Explore the storefront for Mexican perfumery Xinú that doubles as a sustainable sanctuary in the middle of the busy Mexico City metropolis.


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08/19/2024
Follow This Mobile Bakery As It Pedals Across China
Enjoy some bread at Cycle & Cycle, a prefabricated bakery designed by F.O.G. Architecture exploring the relationship between food, architecture and people.


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08/15/2024
Drive Into The World Of Volvo In Gothenburg, Sweden
In Gothenburg, Sweden, a national law granting public recreational access to private land inspires the World of Volvo by Henning Larsen.


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08/14/2024
Discover Nature Anew At This Park Designed By SOA Architekti
Prague firm SOA Architekti combines the past and present in the transformation of the 11 1/2-acre Park of Memories Aš.


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08/13/2024
The Reward For Navigating This Pink Maze in Dubai? Coffee!
Explore a temporary installation, created for the brick-and-mortar I Really Don’t Know coffee shop, that popped-up in the Dubai Design District last January.


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08/13/2024
Elevate Your Smile At This Design-Forward Dental Firm
Step into a new generation of dentistry at JCPCDR Architecture’s très chic transformation for Paris Dental Studio’s Lyons locale.


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08/13/2024
Inside a Three-Story Oasis of Serenity In Naples
AC Hotels Naples 5th Avenue by DLR Group showcases interiors that embody relaxed luxury that is channeled by nuanced materials.


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08/09/2024
Step Inside This Madison Avenue Duplex Full Of Color + Texture
Andrew Magnes Architects teams up with Fawn Galli Interiors to devise an apartment with 360-degree views of Central Park and compounds of colors.


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08/07/2024
5 Standout Institutional Settings With Dramatic Flair
Around the world, institutional projects from theaters and museums to offices and libraries are creating compelling drama.


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08/07/2024
Rainbow Hues Inform Autodesk's Innovative Office in Atlanta
Discover how Corgan took inspiration from Atlanta's BeltLine project when developing the floor plan for software behemoth Autodesk’s latest regional outpost.


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08/06/2024
Uncover Intrigue At ATLAS Inside The National Gallery Prague
ATLAS invites visitors to the National Gallery Prague to experience art without traditional museum barriers in this multifunctional space by No Architects.


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08/01/2024
Embrace The Future At This Spectacular Exhibition Center In Shenzen
Feast your eyes on the showstopping Future City Exhibition Center, a 5,770-square foot space offering a dazzling vision of things to come.


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07/25/2024
Governors Island Morphs into a Tropical Beach Club
Located on Governors Island, Gitano Island is a 27,000-square-foot sand-covered oasis for mezcal margaritas and tacos set amid palm trees and disco balls.


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07/23/2024
Bold Hues and Clean Lines Define Tripledot's Barcelona Office
For the mobile game developer Tripledot, NT designs a bold office with a series of nooks that color-match the company logo.


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