Name: Sabrina
Location: Bellevue, WA

My now husband and I moved into this apartment two years ago. It was the first place we shared together and our first chance to decorate. We can't paint here but we wanted to add a lot of color and did so by accessorizing. I'd say our style is modern with hints of rustic themes. 

Name: Sarah
Location: Wheaton, IL

Even though I am a visual artist, designing for print or web is very different from designing in three-dimensional space. Regardless, the same principles of my personal style—clean lines, composition, and color—still apply.

Name: Jeanie
Location: East Village - NY, NY

I likened the aesthetic of my home to Pee Wee's Big Top situated in Candyland. Being a child of the late 70s, my biggest influences were cartoons and candy which have somehow shaped my personal design approach. 

Name: Emily-Kate
Location: Cleveland Holloway - Durham, NC

When we bought our 1913 mill house a year and a half ago, I was afraid to go inside by myself. The house had been sold five times in the last ten years; mattresses and other trash filled the yard; mildewed vinyl siding graced the outside; a popcorn ceiling and beige carpet covered the inside. Slowly we started to peel back the layers. We took off the siding, gutted the house down to the studs, and thoughtfully began to put it back together. 

Name: Lisa
Location: Harlem - NY, NY

We purchased this apartment in January 2013. The building was only a year old but the finishes were clunky and unattractive. The kitchen layout was all wrong. There weren't even any drawers! 

Name: Malcolm
Location: Penrose Neighborhood - Arlington, Virginia

As a young bachelor fresh out of college, I was a little nervous when I first decided to move into my 70-year-old Arlington apartment. It was my first time living in such an old complex, which brought on quite a few challenges. Once I moved in, however, I became pretty much instantly obsessed with it.

Name: Kitty
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

I recently acquired a 490 square feet 1-bedroom in an upscale condo in downtown Bangkok but it costs as much as a three story house with a garden in the suburbs. So to save money, I gave my friend who's a budding freelance architect the project and an impossible task—to give me a lot of storage on the cheap while making the room look bigger.

Name: Nienke & Florieke
Location: Amsterdam

Today we have a little peek inside the home of two creative designers living in Amsterdam...

Name: Evan
Location: Dallas, Texas

I am an intern architect at a large architecture firm in Dallas. Being surrounded by design and space planning I tend to never stop thinking how to improve a space.

Name: Michelle, Rob & Kaia
Location: New Milford, Connecticut

We (me, my husband Rob, and our 6-year-old daughter Kaia) are scroungers and DIYers. Our style is rustic, eclectic, and kind of modern, with a few traditional elements mixed in for contrast. When we started house-hunting back in 2002, we had a clear vision of what we wanted: a '50s or '60s ranch that we could gut easily to customize in our own style. Instead, we ended up with a true antique!