A petite cabin in an upstate New York town offers respite for New Zealand expat and homeware designer Bridie Picot, her British husband Harry Bugden, and their dog, Rabbit.
As Mark and Kathryn waited for insurance money to make repairs, they carefully selected cool, clean-looking materials and fixtures. The house's plaster walls are almost totally bare; there's absolutely no clutter—and there's a reason for that.
Style-makers Jay Jeffers and Michael Purdy transformed a modest ranch house into a remarkable vacation home they call the Pool House that is, as its name suggests, the embodiment of summer.
A young couple bucks convention and builds a thoroughly modern home in one of a Tennessee city's revered historic neighborhoods with the help of another couple, architect David Baird and interior designer Marcelle Guilbeau.
In this edition of House Calls, meet Andrew, whose love for midcentury is everlasting. "Right now, [midcentury] is a trend that will ... go out of style again, but this is me. I’ll always be interested in midcentury," he says.
In this week's House Calls tour, meet Charmaine and Roman Mendoza, lifelong Queens residents who turned an East Elmhurst townhouse from the 1950s into a comfortable space for them and their four children.
Inside the Los Angeles loft of interior designer and landscape architect Paiman Salimpour, founder of Sormeh Lifestyle. Salimpour’s personal style mixes the raw with the refined for a forward-looking aesthetic.
Jamie and Stephen's Mid-City home is stylish, but it's filled with beloved art, objects, and memories. From decor and gifts from friends, to being the location for fun parties and big milestones, the couple is very attached to this home. Take a look.
Inside Ben Erickson’s weekend home in Montague Township, New Jersey, where the furniture designer has created a rustic family retreat near High Point State Park and on the bank of a pond teeming with bullfrogs.
In this week's edition of house calls tour the Dumbo one-bedroom apartment of ESL teacher Zack Praskin and his husband Will who originally wanted a Park Slope brownstone. They looked at over 50 apartments before finally settling on this one.
We visit the Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Shingle-style home of Kelly Shea and Brendan Banks, a couple who took the long way (15,000 miles, to be exact) to get there.
Two years ago, Justine and Steele Spence were looking to buy in Summit County, Colorado when they encountered a typical ski town problem: real estate was too expensive. They decided to DIY-renovate a 99-year-old former ranger station.
Ben Lewis, Nicholas Albrecht, and Allie-Brooke Shelby like the sense of community in sharing a live/work loft in Oakland. They've decorated it with a delightful mishmash of midcentury and contemporary furniture.
LGD resident Paul Burgess always wanted to make the best out of his space: whether it was his childhood bedroom, dorm room, or his car. It makes since that Burgess has turned his just-under-square-foot rental into a elegant home. Take a look inside.
Inside the Oakland, California, home of Zena Carlota, a musician whose powerfully evocative music reflects the meaningful way she has assembled her personal surroundings.
You could say that Julian Goldklang and Desiree Myers started furnishing their unique round house in Oakland years before they ever laid eyes on it. As the owners of Mid Century Møbler in Berkeley, the largest midcentury showroom in Northern...
In this week's edition of House Calls, Littleneck co-owner Aaron Lefkove shows off his Greenpoint apartment, which is filled with art, records, and memorabilia—all of which has a story.
Cool colors and unique pieces complement the original plaster molding and spacious layout and several chandeliers give the apartment the glamorous feel this homeowner sought to create.
Today we go inside a couple's modern, renovated home in Hawthorne. After doing long-distance for years, Stuart and Mike had to figure out how to design one apartment into a spacious home for the both of them.
Today we look at the Farragut, Tennessee, home belonging to Scott and Anne Wilkerson, a couple willing to march to their inner design drummer. For them, the only way to get their dream house was to build it.
Take a look inside the Washington, D.C. apartment belonging to Hadiya Williams, an art director and graphic designer. To make her small living space fit her personal aesthetic, she filled it with meaningful, one-of-a-kind pieces.
"I like to say it's like a little boutique hotel home," says Helen Zhang while standing in her petite Chinatown studio. But the publicist's Pell Street apartment is her own personal oasis, and her spare, yet well-articulated, decor speaks to that.
This vintage two-flat provides both the space and the quiet needed for Chris and Dondee, both part-time students with full-time jobs, to study and relax after a hard day’s work.
In 2012 the newly married Kelly Rayner and Mark Heck were looking to buy a house, and Rayner was looking for a new career. After a fortuitous Bywater outing they got exactly what they wanted—all at once. Take a look inside the couple's home.
A Los Angeles couple commissions a firm to create a home on a steep, narrow site for their family, eventually settling in a dreamy concrete pentagonal house with sweeping city views.
A French architect with Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed and helped remodel this three-story building, where his family lives in collaboration with another that shares the lower half of the rowhouse.
Annette and Gustavo's 1908 Craftsman home in Hollywood is impeccable today, but go back in time 14 years to when they bought it and you'd find a rundown place with a tarp on part of the roof; a house that, internally, was actually, visibly sinking.
When Regina and Billy Mariano first looked at an apartment in Jersey City's Waldo Lofts, a 12-story condo in the Powerhouse Arts District, the area wasn't exactly booming. "It was a ghost town—nothing was open after 7 p.m.," says Billy. But the...
The building at 1611 W Division, the first of many Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) built within the last few years, fulfilled all of the requirements Catrina was looking for in a fresh start in the city’s East Village neighborhood.
In order to get the modern house they wanted, the Hess family changed course, leaving behind plans to work with a 1940s house to start with a with a blank slate.
Ask Heidi and Frank today, and they can't imagine living anywhere else in Philly but Fairmount. But a few years ago, if you had asked Frank where he'd prefer to settle down, Rittenhouse Square would have been at the top of his list. The Dutch man...
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