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palm tree pattern powder room wallpaper

Powder Rooms Papered

One of these fresh patterns is actually a 1930s icon. Guess which one. Powder rooms and small baths are great places to use wallpapers based on motifs taken from nature. In these spaces, which are often small, repetition and fanciful imagery adds a kind of quirky charm that can be easily embellished with an extravagant [...]

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range niche kitchen cabinets sheathed in stainless steel by Ken Linsteadt

Stainless Steel Range Niche

An overabundance of stainless steel is successful due to the balance of details. Sometimes less is more. On the other hand, sometimes more is better. Such is the case with this stainless steel range wall. It’s not unusual to see a sheet of stainless used for the cooking area backsplash – something architect Ken Linsteadt [...]

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view of New York City through the glass wall of a apartment bedroom by Jennifer Post

Interior Glass Walls

“You gain more when have less – more space, more time, more light.” For twelve years I lived in a one-bedroom, 20th floor apartment in New York City. The living room faced south, with a sliding door that opened onto a small terrace. Due to the arrangement of my bedroom door and the existence of [...]

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modern white farmhouse kitchen with box bay dining nook by Ken Linsteadt Architects

Modern Farmhouse Kitchen

Design styles merge to retain character in the house while adding updated amenities. One would never guess this modern-traditional-rustic kitchen belongs to a 1895 Victorian.  Its airy farmhouse design began by San Francisco architect Ken Linsteadt taking down the wall between a narrow kitchen and adjoining dining room.  An original pair of French doors was [...]

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set of six antique Bivort fruit prints on kitchen picture wall

Kitchen Picture Wall

Four electrical features on a 64-inch wall made this a tricky arrangement. Reshuffling the cards of your life takes time. Often it’s necessary to go over things more than once to decide what stays and what goes. I began that process last Fall with My Final Yard sale. Recently, I tackled where to display the [...]

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