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This is the last week the holiday season is genuinely in reach.

Everything from here is arithmetic. A powder room decided this week is finished by early November. A dining room begun now is complete and styled before Thanksgiving. Tablescape plannin

The most expensive way to decorate a house is to do it fashionably.

A trend-led room has a predictable lifespan. It looks current for perhaps three years, dated for the following five, and then either gets replaced entirely or quietly endured. The c

The powder room is the highest return per square foot available in residential design, and it remains the most neglected room in most houses.

The logic is simple. Every guest visits it, nobody lives in it, and its small scale means the entire room c

The autumn equinox falls tomorrow, and it is the moment a house stops borrowing light and starts having to make its own.

Until now the day has done most of the work. From this week onward the balance tips, evenings arrive earlier each day, and rooms

Italy taught me that beauty is not a luxury but a requirement.

The principle sits so deep in Italian culture that it runs from architecture through table settings to the quality of morning light admitted through a kitchen window. Nothing is exempt f

We got to weigh in on this one for a piece in The Telegraph, and it is a trend we have quiet, strong feelings about: bed skirts are back, and this time they are worth taking seriously.

For years the word alone summoned ruffled peach valances and a c

Guests decide what they think of your house in the eleven seconds they spend in the entrance, and most entrances are not designed at all.

The reason is structural rather than aesthetic. Entryways are treated as circulation, a space passed through ra

Pattern mixing is the skill that separates a collected room from a decorated one, and the reason most people avoid it is that they stop one pattern too early.

Two patterns in a room read as an accident or a matched set, depending on how similar they

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