So You Want a Nancy Meyers–Inspired Bedroom? Let’s Make It Happen Let’s just flip it on its head: we’re all quietly hoping for a bedroom that was swooned straight off the lot of a Nancy Meyers movie, then pixie fairy dusted and spinkled with a pinch of Pottery Barn catalog panache. That soft, moonbeam lighting, […]
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Exterior House Color Trends 2025: What’s Hot in Home Design This Year Fine, let’s be honest—some exterior facades just plain deserve a face-lift. Dated 2009 Beige now? Dated “tough” blue of the past? It’s time, for sure. 2025 is not retro; it’s about expressing some personality without inadvertently calling it a day on the mailman.
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Let’s Chat Walls: Why Your Living Room Deserves Better Than White Paint Come on, we all love a fresh canvas – but your living room isn’t the waiting room at the dentist, guys. Unless your walls remain au naturel-ing, you’re missing the chance to provide your room with the gravitas it so desperately needs. Wall
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How to Pick a Luxury Living Room Color Palette—Using Designer-Approved Tricks Let’s be real—luxury isn’t about crystal chandeliers that cost more than our rent or weird sculptures that look like Ikea rejects in gold leaf. The real flex? It’s color. Yup, your color palette is what makes your living room say, “effortless elegance” instead of
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Color Psychology in Your Living Room: What Your Sofa Says About You When you picture a living room, come on, the couch gets to be front and center, right? And not necessarily because it’s the biggest furniture piece in the room; it’s because it sort of effortlessly sets the tone. This is where you’re not
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The Three Pillars of a Well-Balanced Fireplace Design: Color, Space, and Flame Ever walked into a living room and said to yourself, “Holy smokes, this room really feels good”? I’d wager that non-phoning-in fireplace was camouflaged, maybe smirking smugly. We’ve all been blessed with fireplaces like that uncool party great aunt – just sort of
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How to Design a Rooftop Patio That Balances Functionality and Aesthetics Not all rooftops are equity ground—and neither are all the choices that are headed our way. Before we’re even going to be able to trim down furniture choices or mood lighting (since, hi, we all just wanna go straight to the good stuff first),
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10 Full Sun Perennials for Low-Maintenance Container Gardens (Lazy Gardener Edition) Picture, if you will, an outdoor space so tackily flashy it’s literally yelling, “I woke up like this!”—without you ever even sweating, well, hardly at all. The rest of us, naturally, are left with the fantasy of a beautiful, “I’ve-got-my-shit-together” garden racing off with
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How to Make a Mobile Home Look Like a Real House Using Design Principles That Trick the Eye More folks believe that making a mobile home into a real house is just a question of some nice trim – you know, flower boxes, that fake shutters, perhaps a new paint job. God bless ’em. Design,
The Secret to Expensive-Looking Deck Skirting on a Budget? You can lay out a whole lot of money on high-falutin’ deck skirting, and it’ll be as dull as un-buttered toast if it doesn’t play visually. I’ve watched some genius master craftsmen take old reclaimed lumber and pieces of lattice and, through some kind of magic,
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