The Story Behind
Editorial features on the designers, homes, and ideas behind every episode.
How to Make a Big House Feel Cozy: 8 Techniques From a 16,000-Square-Foot Home
Sixteen thousand square feet, 12-foot ceilings, and not a single wall moved. Designer Laura Hodges used color on the ceiling, zoned seating, and wool wallpaper to make a vast Maryland house feel warm.
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How to Decorate a Historic Farmhouse With Bold Color (and Keep Its Character)
Wallpapered ceilings, trim matched to the paper, and 20 patterns in one library. Designer Amal Kapen gives a 1783 farmhouse back its history.
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No Vintage Allowed: The Houston House Built Entirely New
Her client's one rule was nothing old, nothing antique, nothing previously owned. Designer Mary Patton still made this Houston home feel layered and collected.
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What to Keep and What to Replace When You Renovate a 1929 House
Designer Alfredo Paredes kept a stair rail that wouldn't pass code and replaced every vent grille. His rules for renovating a 1929 house faithfully.
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How to Decorate So Nothing Matches (and It Still Works)
Designer Kati Curtis mismatched nightstands on purpose in this Tribeca art advisor's home, built around a peacock teal she and her client fell for immediately.
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How to Update a Dated Tuscan-Style House (No Gut Job)
Designer Britany Simon kept the bones of a heavy 1990s Tuscan house in Arizona and stripped the rest back to something fresh, elevated, and colorful.
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How to Combine Two Apartments Into One Home (Without It Feeling Chopped in Two)
Designer Rayman Boozer merged two identical NYC apartments into one home, building a bar from leftover marble and running one color story through every door.
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How to Design a Ski House That Doesn't Feel Like a Costume
Designer Lindsay Matias built a Telluride ski house that nods to the mountain without losing the client's Dallas roots — three design rules, no mountain-house clichés.
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The Michigan Farmhouse 20 Years in the Making
They bought it for $85,000 — a farmhouse with a hole in the roof and a barn that was falling down. Twenty years later, it's one of the most extraordinary homes we've toured.
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