Milosstankovic/Getty Images Designer-Coded is where real interior designers detail their tricks of the trade to style their homes for less. If you’re looking to craft a high-end aesthetic on a real-world budget, you’ve come to the right place. You don’t need to be an expert floral designer…
During the height of summer, your bedroom is likely the place you feel the heat the most. It’s a space where you rest, relax, and recuperate, but soaring temperatures can leave it feeling less soothing and more unpleasant. While you can’t control the weather, there are a few things you can change − namely, eliminating…
A breakfast nook is the new must-have kitchen design feature that everyone is talking about! These cozy, inviting corners bring the perfect blend of comfort and style, giving you a special spot that feels connected to the heart of the home without being totally separate. Whether you’re looking to make the most of an unused…
One of the foundational rules of color theory is that opposite shades on the color wheel intensify one another. While this bold contrast works beautifully on a canvas, it can easily overwhelm a home interior. Because of this, design purists often warn that yellow and purple ‘should never be seen together’. However, Pamela Shamshiri –…
Older TV furniture centered almost everything beneath the screen. Long entertainment centers, matching hutches, and bulky wall units stored electronics but often left the television feeling separate from the rest of the room. As screens became thinner, furniture began changing around them instead of simply supporting them. Today’s media units treat the entire wall as…
For decades, the standard dining set meant a table surrounded by matching chairs. Benches gradually disappeared from many homes, becoming associated with picnic tables, entryways, or casual breakfast nooks instead of formal dining rooms. Furniture collections tell a different story. Across modern dining displays, benches appear beside rectangular, oval, and even round tables, often replacing…
This summer has been defined by a number of major sports events, seeing the triumph of underdog players and teams along with some controversies. Though the somewhat fraught World Cup might have overshadowed the Wimbledon Championships, tennis has long been one of summer’s defining sports. Its distinctive visual language has long extended beyond the court….
New Africa/Shutterstock After deliberate consideration, you finally choose a dishwasher and bring it home. And like a strait-laced being, you continue using it to clean your dirty dishes as well as compatible cookware. But have you ever felt like the appliance is meant for more? Surely, it…
Price Latimer grew up in Texas and lived just a few doors down from the Amarillo Museum of Art. With pieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Larry Bell, and Louise Nevelson, the museum was a place that shaped her aesthetic sensibility. “Both of my grandmothers would frequently wheel me over in my pram before I could walk,…
Another day, another task as we continue preparing for Thanksgiving without overwhelm. If you are just joining our Countdown, here is what we have done already: Less than a week in, and you can see how we’ve already removed a lot of the stress by breaking this event into manageable steps. Today’s task: Place Settings…