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Color Inspiration: Green and Gold

Combine lush green with metallic gold and you get rich, luxurious results. This first room is made even more so by that velvet upholstery on the sofa. Prrrrrrrr....

Combined Bedroom & Home Office: No-No or Necessity?

Living in a smallish two-room apartment (plus kitchen and bath) means our living room plays triple duty serving as living room, dining room and home office. After a recent frustrating afternoon of t...

8 Dramatic Bedrooms in Real Homes
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In shelter media, we're always drawn to dramatic bedrooms, with dark or saturated walls, bold bedding, oversized artwork, and heavy drapes. But the truth is, such choices often seem unrealistic for ac...

5 Nightstands Under 12" Wide

We recently gathered some ideas for 5 Small Nightstands Under $5. The solutions were for small budgets. But what about small spaces? We're now gathering five more nightstand ideas that will fit into...

Small-Scale Pattern in the Bedroom

Large-scale patterns are popular in bedroom interiors these days, perhaps because small-scale patterns can be dizzying, and can sometimes have a cluttering effect. But we love the way a small-scale pa...

5 Small Nightstands for Under $5

A recent rearranging of furniture has us looking for two matching night stands to flank our bed. We want them to be compact, simple, and - here's the challenge - practically free. Here are five idea...

Color a Room With Fabric Panels

This room foregoes artwork all together in favor of walls covered entirely in fabric. The vibrant blue hue is just about the color of evening light, making this feel like a relaxing retreat at day's...

High, Low, and DIY: Bold-Print Upholstered Headboards

Our bed has gone naked for far too long, and it's time for some kind of a headboard, preferably a cushy one to lean against for reading. With our simple bedding, a headboard upholstered in a bold prin...

How To: Build a Children's Bed On a Budget

Over the weekend a friend of ours built a bed for her son. We love the fact that she chose to do it herself vs. buying it from a store. It makes it so much more special. It also allowed her to choose ...

3 Blind Mice by JAS Design-Build

There are so many great details in this home renovation by Seattle-based JAS Design-Build. The project, called 3 Blind Mice, employs salvaged materials and inventive use of space to create an up-to-...

Art as Headboard: 8 Inspiring Beds

We love the look of artwork hung in place of a traditional headboard—it's warm and inviting but still chic and modern, and it's a great way to create a backdrop for your bed if all you've got is a b...

Jessica's Sunny Attic Loft

Last fall we got to take a peek into Jessica's 200 square foot studio to see how she managed to live in such tight quarters. Now, she's moved into a loft bedroom in a three bedroom home, and has a cha...

Distancing the Bed from the Wall

For tightly cramped quarters, sometimes you have to think outside of the box... and possibly away from the wall. Depending on your apartment's layout, floating a bed in the middle of a room might be y...

More Bedside Not-Table Inspiration: Chairs With Drawers

Last week we were pondering bedside table alternatives, among them the very simple solution of placing a chair beside the bed. A chair provides a flat surface and even a place to hang a robe or extra ...

Thinking Outside the Box: Bedside Table Alternatives

My husband and I have been doing without bedside tables since moving into our new place over a year ago, and now we're about done with stacks of dusty books and reaching down to the floor to push the ...

Look! Garage Door Headboard

While perusing Canadian House and Home, we found a how-to for a very involved (for us) DIY headboard project. The instructions called for creating a frame out of two-by-fours and attaching plywood, ...

Do You Coordinate Your Bed and Bath?

Retailers often lump bed and bath together when categorizing their goods, with some collections encompassing enough items to allow you to have identical patterns or textiles in both your bedroom and b...

Escapes: Prague's Monastery Garden Hotel

It's the mix of old and new in these spaces that's really catching our attention. The Monastery Garden Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic is actually located in an old monastery. The vaulted ceilings a...

Before & After: Claire's Wainscoted Bedroom

Claire had some really funky wainscoting in her bedroom. While wainscoting is often a beautiful and coveted feature, this job involved mismatched boards of different widths and thicknesses -- not ne...

A Designer's First Project: Master Bedroom

Brian Paquette started a design firm, BP Interiors, this year in Portland. He was kind enough to send us a link to photos and info on his first completed project.......

Survey: Where Do Your Guests Sleep?

Travel season can often mean hosting out-of-town guests in your home. After living in NYC, we're used to putting house guests up in our tiny apartment. It's taken some real patience on their parts a...

Brightly Colored Bedrooms

The common-sense theory around color in the bedroom is that subtle shades help create a sense of calm and relaxation that is conducive to sleep. We're sure there's a lot of truth to that, but if you l...

Inspiration: Dark Interiors

A room painted dark can be overwhelming. We tend to gravitate towards lighter color choices for our walls, but there is something incredibly appealing about the dark interiors beautifully photographed...

Outdoor Style Daybeds

These daybed designs aren't necessarily made for use outdoors, but their materials and style lend them a breezy outdoor style......

Design Details in the Modern by Design Master Suite

There were so many interesting details in the master suite at Met Home's Modern by Design show house that we don't think we can fit it all in one post. We'll save the bathroom for another time, for n...

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