I can’t write at home. At least, I can’t start a creative project there. Or at the office, really. I need a change of scenery, a switch of context, that vaunted third…
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A Brief History of Home Swapping
Welcome to Origin Story, a series that chronicles the lesser-known histories of designs that have shaped how we live. A few years ago, two TikTokers coordinated an apartment exchange inspired by Nancy…
Around the World in Seven Beds: How to Bring Hotel-Worthy Design Home
It’s normal to end a trip with a suitcase a little heavier than it was when you left. But of all the discoveries you’ve acquired, the stuff you really want to take…
How They Pulled It Off: A Cantilevered Green Roof
Welcome to How They Pulled It Off where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a…
The Under-the-Radar Craftsman Behind a Very Iconic Masterpiece
In the beginning, when John Vugrin first began working on the project that would come to define his career, the Kellogg Doolittle House in Joshua Tree, California, the locals struggled to comprehend…
Construction Diary: At Sea Ranch, a Couple Build a «Forever Moving» Home Made to Change With Them
It wasn’t just that they wanted a place to grow old in, here among the pines and firs of the famed Sea Ranch community in Northern California. David Ross and his husband,…
My House: A Creative Renovation Inspires Two Musicians to Put Down Roots on the Rhode Island Coast
Summer days are spent almost entirely outside at the home of Sean W. Spellman and My Larsdotter in Westerly, Rhode Island, a seasonal coastal town near the Connecticut border. The musician couple…
A Nashville Designer Accidentally Built a Wellness Compound
The road to Fairview, Tennessee, from Nashville is a quiet one, curving through forests and farmland, the cacophony of Music City dissolving into birdsong threading the air. Off one of these gravelly…
Budget Breakdown: This $225K Catskills Rental Hides a Pink Wonderland Inside
Originally, Nicolas Potts just headed to Saugerties, New York, on weekends. But over the years, the idyllic forests around the upstate town became too hard to resist. His time in Manhattan started…
In Joshua Tree, an Artist’s Home and Studio Soaks Up Endless Desert Views
In Joshua Tree, California, the dream home of painter Heather Day and creative director Chase McBride sits on five acres at the end of several miles of sandy, unpaved road. When visitors…