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Transitioning from a blank canvas to highly personalized style often takes time, collaboration and a little elbow grease. That was the case for New Yorker Amanda Barlow, a marketing director for the United States Council... more »
by Chris Dorsey
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Peta Kaplan and Ben Sandzer-Bell first traveled from Chicago to Nicaragua in 2005 for a family vacation, but volcanoes, wildlife, markets, colonial architecture and beaches made them want to call the area home. "On the last day of our trip, having... more »
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It's a quietly impressive compound: simple forms of a garage, a house and two guest cottages on 4 acres in Three Rivers, California. Architect Polly Osborne remodeled the buildings... more »
Like so many people in New Orleans, Jared Zeller and Jennifer Pearl had to start their lives over after Hurricane Katrina wrecked their home in 2005. But like many other resilient residents along the Gulf Coast, the couple turned the devastation into... more »
by Adam Breaux
When someone works in a vintage shop whose fanatic following includes set designers for Mad Men, you’d expect the person's home to be something of a knockout. Self-professed thrift queen and social media freelancer for Casa... more »
When Stan Adamik and Jason Charney moved from a clapboard Cape Cod–style house in rural Pittsburgh to a modern loft 10 minutes from downtown, they faced a dilemma: how to make their traditional furnishings work in a more urban setting.
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In 1908 in Haarlem, the Netherlands (yes, New York City's Harlem neighborhood was named after this city), architect J.A.G. van der Steur built a neoclassical-style orphanage and a residence next door for its director. By 1988 federal authorities had taken... more »
Using clever DIY methods, Craigslist bargains and materials from big-box stores, interior design couple Percy Bright and Tara Mangini have fashioned a gorgeous custom style for their three-story, early-20th-century row house in South Philadelphia.... more »
by Sara Bates
Architects Audrey McEwen and Jon Gaiser purchased this 1970s San Diego townhouse with the intention of using it as a blank-slate new abode. They made decisions carefully to keep costs down... more »
Oren Pollack moved from the United States to Nicaragua two years ago to join his parents in finding ways to make the world a better place. He quickly founded a nonprofit agency called Sports Donations... more »
William Britten and his wife, Sarah, came up with a brilliant plan to lure their family — a son, a daughter, the spouses, six grandkids — into one place: Buy a farm and invite everyone to live there. The scheme worked, and now their children... more »
Aqua splashes mix with antiques and handmade touches for a lively and personal family home in Toledo
“Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era," says Veralynn Kaiser, whose love of retro style and antiques started when she was a child and has resulted in a knockout style in her Ohio home.
After becoming enamored of her grandparents'... more »
by Jeff Jones
Fourteen years ago husband-and-wife mosaic artists Mike Minnis and Emily Stoger faced perhaps one of their largest blank canvases ever: an empty 1,500-square-foot industrial workshop in a former textile factory lit by buzzing 8-foot-long fluorescent lights.... more »
by Laura Garner
The beauty of California's Ojai Valley has attracted countless artists who've turned the area into a hub of creativity with laid-back appeal. So when architect Jeffrey Weinstein and his wife, Wendy, were... more »
