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Apartment Therapy On... Bad Vacation Rental Décor

Some choice selections from rental getaways Renting a vacation home is often a wonderful way to escape—you can cook your own food, explore a new area, maybe enjoy a new view, and usually for less t...

2009 Southern Home Awards: Best Before & After Project

A home in Beaufort, South Carolina won the Best Before & After Southern Home Award for 2009. It has been completely renovated by its owners, Michael and Jane Frederick, who are both architects. After ...

Tasteful Tropicals: Fantasy Island Escape By Suzy Hoodless

Tropical textiles and motifs usually bring to mind the lobbies of giant chain hotels, situated on crowded beaches next to other giant chain hotels. But British designer Suzy Hoodless, whose wallpaper ...

Country Chic: Haskell Harris' Cottage

Haskell Harris is the Associate Editor of Garden & Gun. She used to work for Cottage Living Magazine so it doesn't surprise us that her cottage is so beautifully decorated. The country style home migh...

Dianne Wallace's English Country Garden

click thumbnails for larger picsThis beautiful garden is set on three acres of land on Long Island. It was a gift from Dianne Wallace to herself. She was told by many that she was on an impossible mi...

Living On A Ranch

click thumbnails for larger picsWe have always been drawn to the idea of living on a ranch. Far away from people and the commotion of the big city that we're used to. Part of it is the decor itself -...

Inspiration: Beach House Renovations
Coastal Living

While we live in an apartment (not a house) that's nowhere near the beach, we still appreciate beach house style - especially with summer right around the corner......

Barnyard Modern?

click thumbnails for larger pics All of these great designs with a cow grazing on the lawn or a horse peering in the window are cracking us up. Something about the intermingling of modern homes with ...

Weathered Grey and Yellow at the Kennedy St. Residence

click thumbnails for larger pics This residence by Mark English Architects was designed to make a character-less house look like something with more, er, character. They gave it the appearance of bei...

Central Valley Frank Lloyd Wright Ranch House

click thumbnails for larger picsOut of the 400 or so Frank Lloyd Wright buildings that remain standing, 23 are in California, and very few of those are accessible to the public. Fawcett House, a priv...

Inspiring Interiors from Irish Country Homes
Irish House and Home

click thumbnails for larger picsOn the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve got our Irish heritage on the brain, and so in celebration we went looking for some Irish design to share. House and Home, a...

Top 20 Small Towns in the West
Sunset Magazine

How many city folk out there long for the quiet of a small town? If you're contemplating a move or are just interested in a weekend trip, take a look at Sunset's list of the top 20 small towns in the ...

Carmel Hilltop Getaway Turned Full-Time Family Home
The New York Times

click thumbnails for larger picsThe Yee family, whose Carmel home was featured in today's New York Times, originally intended for their house to be a weekend getaway. They'd purchased a parcel of lan...

Tiny Free House by Michael Janzen

Least Is most. There's something poetic about pallets. These are just a couple of statements made by Tiny Free House creator Michael Janzen about his project of making a house out of wooden shipping...

Inspiration: Railway Carriage Bedroom

This railway carriage is full of original woodwork that makes it a beautiful space for this bedroom. While it's actually just a set for photo and film shoots, we find the soft wood tones, old patina...

InHabit Modern Dwellings

Created by North Vancouver-based InHabit, these small buildings are versatile enough for many places and many uses. Above we see an InHabit dwelling being delivered by helicopter to a forested recre...

Patkau Architects' La Petite Maison du Weekend

This self-sustaining little house reminds us of a precious wooden jewelry box that unfolds, revealing all sorts of surprises within. Designed by Patkau Architects for the Fabrications Exhibition at ...

Storage in the Eaves at Monkey Cottage

If you've ever converted an attic space, you're familiar with that unusable portion of low space on either side of the roof's ridge. Generally, walls are built out and that leftover triangular space...

Stay in a Free Spirit Sphere

You may have seen Tom Chudleigh's Free Spirit Spheres before. The orb-shaped treehouses have been featured in Dwell and lots of other recent press. But did you know you can visit Free Spirit Sphere'...

Before and After: Sophie and Kent's Green Cottage

before Becky over at Hatch (Design Public blog) recently got to stay at her friend Sophie and Kent's cottage, which has just completed a modern and sustainable upgrade. Take a look, after the jump!...

Sweetwater Bungalows

Sweetwater Bungalows is a family-owned and operated company founded in 1996. Originally built as temporary housing while the family retreat was under construction, the bungalows ended up becoming per...

Method Prefab Cabins

The idea of a vacation home sounds incredibly luxurious to us, but the rise of prefab architecture is bringing that dream closer to many people. The Method Home is packed with features geared towar...

The Eco-Shed

A forty-five minute drive and ferry ride from downtown Vancouver is all it takes to get to the Eco-Shed on Bowen Island, in the improbably named Snug Cove Village. The guest house is the project of J...

Blogging Cottage Living: From Suburban Rancher to Cottage Beauty