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Sarah's 'Pumpkin Patch' & 'Citrus Blast'
Room for Color - South #18

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Sarah Location: Atlanta, Georgia Type of Home: loft rental Color Inspiration: I have always loved color, but I had never gone all-out with p...

Marrying Calm and Color in the Bedroom

Pale hues may be the reigning palette of choice among most of our bedrooms, but lately we've been studying some inspiring examples of sleep spaces that pull off bold saturated hues while still preser...

Alek's Retro Paradise Bedroom
Room for Color - South #8

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Alek Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee Type of Home: single family home Color Inspiration: While I was growing up it seemed like almost everyo...

A Color that Makes You Happy?

Each day waking up in the lavender blue bedroom was a happy day because we loved the paint color - Benjamin Moore feather soft 1431. The shade, coolness and intensity changed according to the light,...

Baltimore Row Home Revamped with a Modern Twist
Chesapeake Home

A lovely Baltimore row house was recently featured on the August cover of Chesapeake Home. This modern renovation took place shortly after Howie Bartz purchased his home, with help from interior de...

Michel Berger Hotel
Berlin, Germany

We've all been doing a lot of traveling this year, and sometimes you get lucky with your hotel choice and sometimes you don't (I had wicker furniture last hotel I stayed in)! Either way, we're pret...

Bedside Décor Duel: Task Lamp vs. Table Lamp

A design debate rages in our home right now: for bedside lighting, should we use task or table lamps? A pair of task lamps would be more functional for late-night reading (and wouldn't disturb other...

Luxury Hotel in a Historic Setting
Baltimore

Whenever I write about a new or interesting accommodation in my city, I often think "I'm going to play tourist and stay here for a night." Then reality sets in and I think of hundreds of ways the m...

Perfectly Imperfect: Bold Bohemian Color Meets the White Box

It's the perfect look for the color lover who's wary of living in an oppressively vibrant gypsy wagon. Most homes need a balance of interesting color and refreshing white, which in the average house ...

Setting Up Home: In a Hotel Room

While I was on a week long vacation on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina last week I was unpacking all of my belongings as if I was actually moving in for good. Much to my surprise, I wasn't alone...

Roundup: Schoolhouse Style Lighting Options

Schoolhouse style has been a growing obsession. It's an eclectic mash of vintage and industrial with a bit of geek chic that is easy to incorporate into a home with inhabitants of any age. Until rece...

New Room Features at Ikea
College Park, Maryland

We recently visited Ikea in College Park, Maryland and saw the new store changes. Our favorite new features: the room layouts showing how to live in a specific square footage (for example, 278 square...

Inspiration: Homage to Blues and Neutrals

I'm merging the Northwest (my home) and the Mid-Atlantic (husband's home) in our apartment — and the easiest color combo to that purpose has been blues and neutrals. Here's some like-minded in...

How To: Fold Hospital Corners

When you move into your own place, you value Mom's homemaking advice more than when you were a child who didn't want to make the bed. Now that I'm married and in a brand-new apartment, I have decide...

Small Space Solution: Oversize Mirrors

Sometimes small spaces call for big accessories. Not overstuffed couches or outrageously large chandeliers —although we admit that we like this too sometimes— but big, unapologetic, refle...

Five Favorite Re-Uses For Wooden Crates

Wine, re-purposing, and attractive storage solutions — these are a few of our favorite things. Perhaps that's why we've featured the wine crate on so many occasions. As a flea market staple and...

Swamp Escape: Everglades Hostel
Florida

A few years back, I spent a couple weeks traveling along the Florida coast. After a week on a friend's sailboat in the Keys, it was time to head to our next destination — the Everglades. One...

Summer Inspiration: The Sleeping Porch

We recently visited a friend's summer home on the Eastern Shore boasting an incredible dormitory-style sleeping porch that slept nearly twenty (!) people. Ever since, I've been amassing decor inspira...

Designer Spotlight: DC's David H. Mitchell Tones Down Traditional

When we think of traditional style, thoughts of heavy drapes and untouchable furnishings often come to mind. However, the work of designer David H. Mitchell's shows how classic design can dwell peace...

Roundup: Historic Bed & Breakfasts
Philadelphia

It's summer time and anyone who lives in a city knows these concrete jungles can get sweltering, and the in-town hotels are usually packed. One of the many, many amazing things about living in an h...

Green Escape: Eco-Friendly Fairfield Inn & Suites
Baltimore

I know what you're thinking... what qualifies a Marriott chain as a great escape? What could possibly be intriguing about, um, a Fairfield Inn? How about the fact that it's Baltimore's first offic...

EDLAND Cabinetry Collection from IKEA

The new EDLAND cabinetry collection from IKEA offers 6 designs for bedroom storage — all with a modern twist on a more traditional shape... ...

Contemporary French Great Escape: Hotel Pastis
Saint Tropez, France

Maybe it's the massive amount of Tour de France coverage I've been watching the past few days, but all I can think about is taking a trip to France and finding an amazing boutique hotel to crash in ...

Boat & Breakfast: Sailing Ketch Pintita
Baltimore

It's no surprise that in Fells Point — a waterfront neighborhood still lined with cobble stone streets and steeped in maritime history — you would find a boat and breakfast. Yes, I said...

Charming Bed & Breakfast: Lippincott House
Philadelphia

I was once invited to a place that took me back to another era as soon as I walked in the door. Warm light filled the space and after I was stuffed full of amazing appetizers, all I wanted to do wa...

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