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Designers Do Not Hide the Air Conditioner: The Cover That Conceals It Shows Up on the Electricity Bill

The object bought to hide one white rectangle ends up taking more space than it does. And it makes the...

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Earth Walls and Cork Insulation: the House That Cools Itself in Summer With Nothing Switched On

350 square metres without a single corridor, five bedrooms and a pool that does not beg for a photograph. Not...

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The end of the bedroom set: why designers say two matching nightstands are a mistake this year

Mixing materials and shapes gives you more than repeating the same model twice. Here it also means the inherited nightstand...

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Do Not Buy the Table and Chairs as a Set: What Used to Count as a Compromise Here Is Now Sold by Designers as Style

If you like the table but the chairs have fallen apart, you do not have to throw everything out. The...

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Two Designers Say the Recipe for a Small Flat Is Wrong: Not How to Make It Look Bigger, but How to Make It Work Better

White walls, low furniture and lots of mirrors produce flats that photograph well and live badly. Ten pieces of advice...

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The Most Expensive Decision in This Renovation Was to Demolish Almost Nothing: The Barcelona Flat That Kept Its Vaults

The Catalan vaults stayed, the walnut joinery stayed, and on top of it came an intervention that deliberately does not...

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An Inherited 120-Square-Metre House Where Nothing Was Torn Down: the Kitchen Deliberately Stayed Small

Everyone who walks into an inherited house tells you what should come down. The architect here did the opposite, and...

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43 percent of couples already sleep apart: here nobody talks about it, and it isn't a diagnosis for the relationship

A family that sleeps badly for fifteen years is normal. A family that puts in two beds becomes neighbourhood gossip....

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She Bought It Already Built and Demolished Nothing: The Summer House Run on the Logic of a Sixty-Square-Metre Flat

Three floors, each with a clear function, and one black kitchen that deliberately breaks the harmony. The most treasured object...

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A Habsburg Built the House on Mallorca to Save the Coast: One Decision From That Estate Works in a Sixty-Square-Metre Flat Too

Seven buildings, a private harbour and vineyards - none of it is applicable. But the principle behind the interior costs...

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A 1929 House That Gained 266 Square Metres Without Losing a Single Metre of Itself

The most expensive decision in the whole renovation was not to touch what already worked. Under the false reed ceiling,...

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A Beautiful Home Is One That Survives a Five-Minute Visit: An Interior Designer on the Mistake Everyone Makes

A photo does not show you where the backpacks get dumped when the kids come home from school. You end...

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