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A 120 square metre flat in Madrid renovated in 2026, and the biggest decision was what was not demolished: the 1972 mouldings stayed

A bespoke console, reupholstered armchairs and wallpaper hung like art. The most expensive thing in the flat is the decision...

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The Old Chest of Drawers Does Not Get Thrown Out, It Gets Painted: a Tin of Paint and One Weekend Cost Far Less Than New Furniture

For years the rule was everything neutral and everything from the same collection. The result is a living room that...

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The Open Plan Has a Hidden Cost and It Is Paid Every Evening: An Architect Explains Why the Hallway Is Not Wasted Space

Two doors between the living room and the bedroom. That is the whole arithmetic, and that is what you lose...

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A 110-Square-Metre Flat in Palma Got Bigger Without a Single Added Metre: the Corridors Were Removed, Not Floor Space Added

Kitchen in its own room, living room separate, dining room a third, and corridors between them. The architect knocked down...

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The 70/30 Rule: Why a Fifty-Fifty Split Leaves a Room Without a Clear Criterion

Interior designers have one formula to stop a home ending up either as a catalogue or as a storage unit....

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A 26-Square-Metre Flat in Naples With a 50-Metre Courtyard: the Floor Area Doubled Without a Single Wall Coming Down

A forgotten flat in Posillipo, two colours taken from the fishing boats and the lemons outside, and furniture in which...

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She Bought the 1988 House for One Window, Then Turned the Garage Into a Summer Dining Room

Three hundred square metres, four bedrooms and one decision that dictated every one after it: the view of the water.

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A glass desk is not a fashion decision but a decision about light: the home office where the colour comes from the small things, not the furniture

Double height, a Persian rug under the chrome and a bookshelf beneath the window. Three solutions at completely different prices,...

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Three Thousand Euros Does Not Renovate, It Chooses: A Designer Named the Two Interventions Worth Doing

Four things change a home - walls, light, doors and floor. Everything else comes later, and demolition is last on...

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The terrace is not extra square metres, it is a room: a 200 square metre Madrid flat rebuilt around one view outwards

Order, calm and light - not one of the three costs money. What costs is the decision not to fill...

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It is not about how much things cost, but how much they say: what will replace quiet luxury in homes by 2027

An interior designer describes found luxury - objects with a biography, visible wear and materials that improve with time. Here,...

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They did not tear everything out: the windows, the underfloor heating and the air conditioning stayed in a fully renovated 200 square metre flat

Here a renovation starts with the sentence "since we're starting anyway, let's do everything" - and that is where the...

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