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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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Ten Shower Decisions That Cost Nothing on Paper and a Lot Once Everything Is Tiled

A 1.5 percent floor fall, a shower head at 2.20 metres, a bench at 45 centimetres. Almost nothing on this...

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The Shower Has Stopped Being an Afterthought in the Bathroom: Ten Decisions Made Before the First Tile Goes Down

An expensive bathroom isn't recognised by its marble but by the fact nobody looks bad in it. A renovation happens...

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The Gilmore Girls House Is for Sale: It Is Not in Connecticut, and Nothing Was Ever Filmed Inside

2.1 million euros for 264 square metres from 1875 in a Toronto suburb. The aesthetic minimalism cancelled is coming back,...

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The Most Expensive Decision in This 1600s Stone House Was to Demolish Nothing

She bought it in 1999 and moved in after her sister died. Basque stone, Mexican colours and an inherited cabinet...

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The End of the Reign of Upper Kitchen Cabinets: What You Get When the Wall Finally Breathes

A shelf is not a replacement for a cabinet and nobody tells you that. A designer explains where it may...

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A house from 1481 on the market for the first time: a wedding gift with no electricity that became royal Britain's loudest address

Five million euros for five and a half centuries of history, a lake dug out for photography, and a bathroom...

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The most expensive decision in this Mallorca finca was to demolish nothing

A former ambassador and one of the best-known interior designers buy a house from the nineties - and barely touch...

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The Most Expensive Decision in This House on Mallorca Was Not to Touch the Exterior

They bought an estate from a renowned landscape architect and knocked down not one wall. A story about a house...

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The House Cucurella Is Leaving in London: Maximalism, Crystal and a Home That Wants to Tell a Story

After the World Cup and signing for Real Madrid, the Spanish defender is moving. Marble with golden veins, smoked glass...

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A House That Wants to Tell a Story, Not Impress: The Country Home of a Dior Director

“I don't want the obvious.” A place where flowers aren't decoration but a rule, and the garden is a laboratory...

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A House That Was a Film Studio for Decades: A Renovation Where the Hardest Part Was Not Losing Itself

An old nineteenth-century city residence, for decades a favourite filming location. When the new owners came, they refused to tear...

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