Name: Marina
Location: Upper West Side, NYC
Size: 650 sqft. rental
Years Lived In: 2+ years

During an eighteen-month stint in Boston, Marina acquired 95% of her current furnishings and nearly 100% of her design awareness, knowledge, and inspiration. She lived in the South End and spent most of her free time in the design shops, where she got to know the inventory and the owners very well.

Name: Vanessa and Jonathan Roeder
Location: Round Rock, TX
Size: A ridiculous 3600 square feet
Years lived in: 2

Welcome to the home of the Roeder family. Homeowners Vanessa and Jonathan — with their children Audrie and Finn — have taken a builder grade home and injected it with personality, imagination, and life. You'll feel the spirit of the place right when you walk in, but it'll continue to inspire long after you leave.

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Name: Regina O'Brien: Set Decorator and Production Designer and
Hardy Wronske: Principal Heyday Partnership
Location: Happy Valley, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California
Size: 1700 square feet
Years lived in: 6 years

Regina and Hardy live in this fun place called Happy Valley. It is just past downtown Los Angeles and is perched up on a small hill. Since Hardy's firm, Heyday Partnership, specializes in affordable architecture, his own home is an example of his work. Both lots were purchased for an incredibly low price and he was very frugal with the cost of building the two homes. Regina and Hardy live in the "Jill" of the Jack + Jill and another design enthusiast lives in the "Jack."

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Name: Shelley and Reed, with children Beatrix and Callum
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Size: 1,600 square feet, including semi-finished basement
Years lived in: 7 years, owned

Inside Shelley and Reed's charming 1934 traditional is a delightful — and surprising — mix of bold colors, DIY wonders, and creative details. Creativity is encouraged in this Madison, Wisconsin home. Whether it's repurposing a dresser for dining room storage or filling the non-working fireplace with tissue-paper flames, neither product designer Shelley nor attorney Reed is afraid to look at a room and say, "What if?" Better yet — they ask, "Why not?"

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Name: Wendy Kidd and Oscar (the Boston Terrier)
Location: East Village, Manhattan, New York
Size: 600 square feet
Years lived in: 15 years — rented
Designer: Jim Fairfax, Fairfax Studios

Wendy is a self-proclaimed master juggler, wielding the tools of two trades … drumsticks and barber scissors. She's a "single mom" to Oscar the Boston Terrier, skittering like a black and white gazelle up and down the long hallway of her top-floor railroad in the throbbing heart of the East Village. With the help of a designer-friend with a knack for paring away the excess, this is her living and working home, the quiet hub of a buzzing and busy creative life.

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Name:Kathleen Lucente, President, Red Fan and Loren Jacobs, Designer
Location: Hyde Park — Austin, Texas

Located just a few block from UT's campus in Austin, Texas, the Helms House was an infamous party house from the 70s through the 90s, known especially for its legendary Halloween parties. Since then, it fell into disrepair and sat empty, and was then used as an office space for various businesses. More

Name: Sarah Alba
Location: San Rafael, California

I'm a field editor and stylist. I look at homes to place in pages of magazines. I drew my inspiration by piecing together things I liked from the homes I scouted in order to create my perfect family abode. More

Name: Suzann & Poya Bozorgi
Location: Balham, London, United Kingdom
Size: 900 square feet
Years lived in: 4 years, owned

Suzann is an interior designer whose work mainly includes restaurants and bars; in fact, she's behind some of the most unique and celebrated drinking holes in London. So when she contacted me a couple weeks ago about photographing her South London home, I was intrigued.

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Name: Michael Moeller Design
Location: West Village, New York City
Size: 1,241 square feet
Years lived in: 1.5 years

Michael Moeller first caught our attention as an incredibly talented finalist on Season 5 of HGTV's Design Star. He later co-hosted his own show on the Style Network with fellow design star Nina Ferrer. Michael currently continues to design extraordinary bachelor pads and other spaces all over New York. Today, we're sharing one of his most recent bachelor pad projects at the Archives Building in New York City's West Village.

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An apartment for two in Sweden exemplifies living with tech as an integral part of the occupants' lives without falling victim to the usual decor pratfalls that often mar a well-equipped audio/video space. At first glance, it may strike American eyes as minimalist, but there's plenty of details to admire, ideas to steal; use of wall and ceiling mounting hardware keep audio/video equipment out of sight, while an all-white and black color palette blends in components into walls, with additional concealment of cables and wires along the lines vertical and horizontal lines of the interior walls helping highlight the more important decorative items in their home... More