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On a Bustling Brooklyn Street, Above a Busy Restaurant, Quiet Tranquility Inside an Industrial Loft

Atlantic Avenue travels from the Brooklyn waterfront all the way to Jamaica, Queens. It’s a well-used thoroughfare, no matter where you find yourself on the 10-mile stretch. But its western-most section, the length that serves as the border between Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill, is relatively greener and more peaceful than the rest, even if […]

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Expert Advice: 13 Perfect Details for the Summer House from Hotelier Ray Pirkle of Camptown

Ray Pirkle is a full-time host in upstate New York: he co-owns Hudson’s Rivertown Lodge and the cabin colony Camptown in Leeds, both of which have made several Remodelista appearances. With his business partner, Kim Bucci, Ray runs the boutique hotel group Ramshackle Properties and Ramshackle Studio, their creative firm. The two are not only […]

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The Butter Trend Takes Over Interiors: 13 Rooms Drenched in Pale Yellow

Butter in the shape of bows, butter in the shape of fish, butter as decadent centerpiece: The humble spread has been in the spotlight on restaurant tables (and Instagram) recently. Perhaps that’s why we’re suddenly noticing buttery pale yellow take over interiors, too? Sweet yet fresh looking, the shade is proving it’s more than an […]

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Interior Architecture Design

Bold, Timeless, and Surprisingly Easy-Going: The Case for Blue Floors

Here’s our (bold) take: Blue floors are the blue jeans of interiors. Opting for blue floors might seem like a daring choice in theory, but we find that in practice they lend the same kind of timeless, hard-wearing, classic feel as a good pair of denim. Plus, they go with everything. Have a look: P.S. […]

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Kitchen of the Week: A Two-Tone Boot Room in Somerset by Parisian Architect Astrid Houssin

French interior architect and designer Astrid Houssin creates soft, comfortable, and welcoming spaces with a penchant for playful color. A trained architect, Houssin worked under Turner Pocock in London for six years before opening her own studio off Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris. She’s a Parisian who does traditional English really well, as illustrated in […]

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Architecture And Design

Peg Board

Art Architecture

A Color

Painterly Palettes: Blēo Collective, a Newly Launched Paint Brand in Copenhagen

Just launched: Blēo in Copenhagen, a color house “operating at the intersection of surfaces, spaces, and objects,” according to founder Anne Grønskov. “We collaborate with visionaries in the overlapping fields of art, architecture, and design on developing essential colors and textures.” Among the 15 architects, designers, and artists Grønskov has tapped to create palettes are […]

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Life, Rearranged: Changing the Layout of This Victorian Changed Everything

I suspect, for architects, a house with an ineffective layout is like fingernails on chalkboard. When Anaïs Bléhaut, director of Daab Design, was brought onboard to make sense of a client’s gracious but wonky London Victorian, it was indeed the main issue she needed to get right, before all else. The good bones were there—high […]

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Color Theory: The Best Paint Colors for Every Room in the House

Ahead, a post published in partnership with Realtor.com: We all get in a mood sometimes. And sometimes what causes us to feel “grrr” or “ahhh” can partly depend on what color of the rainbow we happen to be looking at. The color on the walls in your home probably has more of an effect on how […]

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Machine Learning Models

“A Complex Tapestry of Emotions”: Zak + Fox’s Earthy New Autobiographical Textile Collection

How many cultural references, personal tales, and feelings can you layer into a fabric design? At Zak + Fox, Zak Profera’s textile house in NYC, each pattern comes with stories both hidden and told. The same goes for the places he chooses to present his work: Zak has photographed his designs in a 15th-century palazzo, […]

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Archive Dive: Powder Rooms, Tiny Space + Big Personality Edition

If you’re color-curious but timid about making any bold design moves, we suggest you start with the smallest room in your home: the powder room. Here are seven ways to bring a shock of color into the tiniest of spaces. 1. Pick one color and paint it. 2. Pick one color and tile it. 3. […]

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Instant Mood-Booster: Splashes of Yellow All Over

“I was once told that wearing yellow makes people think you’re friendly,” Brooklyn-based Mya Gelber told Cup of Jo recently about her primary-colors-filled wardrobe. “So, I’ve always had yellow in my closet for interviews or moments where I want to come across as approachable.” The same holds true for interiors: Add a dash of yellow, […]

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Interiors Photography

Mountain Cottage

Rustic Ceiling

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

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 […]

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DIY: Perfectly Imperfect Spatter-Painted Floors

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 […]

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

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 […]

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Wooden House

Residential Architecture

Remodeling 101: Everything You Need to Know About Pine Tar

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 […]