That 70s Home

With stomach-turning wall-papers, nightmarish polyester fabrics and psychadelic nonsense, seventies décor is supposed to be impossibly tacky… isn’t it?! Browsing through these photos however, of 60s & 70s decor from the Encyclopdia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, I couldn’t help but fall in love with every single overly-textured, madly accessorized, color-blinding décor style. They…

10 Incredible and Amazingly Bizarre Homes

Please note: Ikea will not make your house look like this. 1. Tribecca Wonderland Our first house belongs to Meghan Boody, a contemporary artist and photographer living in Tribecca New York. Her taste you will find is wild, and sometimes pretty hard to swallow… And by hard to swallow, I mean the very lifelike silicone…

The Endlessly Inspiring DIY World of Maude Smith

I’ve just found another kindred spirit. Someone who understands my deep-rooted Capricorn need to find new uses for old or unwanted things. Maude Smith is the kind of person that will cover her entire kitchen in wine corks, shells and pieces of broken crockery. Rather than re-tiling her bathroom, she’ll meticulously paint every single tile…

A Brief Compendium of the Most Excellent Walls

In my ideal home, if I had enough wall space (and enough of a budget), each and every room would probably have walls like the ones in this post. This is exactly what it says on the tin, a brief compendium of the most excellent walls, found on the internet, compiled here for my own decorating daydreams… At the Ettore…

Derelict Farmhouse transformed into a life-size Dollhouse

Like many of you reading this article, Canadian artist Heather Benning has a fascination with the derelict and the abandoned. But when she found a crumbling old farmhouse in the rural setting of Saskatchewan, Canada, Heather decided not to walk away with just the memories of this sad old place, but to use her artistic…

Dream Apartment Du Jour: Meet the Tenant

During the lockdowns of the past year, it’s been all about nesting (and investing) in our homes. Serving as both our workplaces and sanctuaries, as well as our private entertainment spaces, apartment Feng shui has become top priority next to staying healthy. One of the most re-posted apartments on Instagram during the pandemic has got…

An American Impressionist in Paris

We think of the Impressionists and we picture landscapes, dreamy outdoor scenes, or Degas and his ballerinas. But there was no shortage of Impressionists dedicated to the survey of interiors, and perhaps the most prolific among them as it happens, was an American who mastered the art of French style – Mr. Walter Gay… He…

A Brief Compendium of Copycat Cribs

There are dream homes, and then there are homes that feel like a waking dream – something from a movie, book, or from the past – you name it, someone *just* crazy enough has probably recreated it. They can be quaint, chic, grandiose, kitsch – but they’re always deliciously detail oriented, and above all a reminder…

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My London Pied à Terre

Having grown up a London girl, I always feel too guilty and awkward to stay in a hotel when I go back to visit, so I usually end up crashing on someone’s couch. But London is becoming home to some of the most interesting boutique hotels in the world as of late, which means I’m…

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She Spent her Life Hunting for Lost Wallpaper

I found another thing I wish I’d been born a few decades earlier for: vintage wallpaper hunting. Suzanne Lipschutz got there before everyone else. She was the first, the original crazy bohemian lady from New York who scoured the earth, from Paris flea market stalls to hardware stores in small town middle America, in search of forgotten wall…