Yelena Moroz Alpert

A place to chill is becoming a hallmark of creative workplace design. Here are three inspirations.
Tom Kundig, of the Seattle-based architectural firm Olson Kundig, built a 70-square-foot hut in Hawaii for a client that looks out to a Japanese garden.

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When Ashley Sharpe's clients outgrew their ranch-style house, they weren’t about to let go of their “coveted parcel” in the North End neighborhood of Palm Beach. Instead, they hired Dailey Janssen Architects to build a new, 5,300-square-foot home on the oceanfront lot.

*This article is part of our Design special section about water as a source of creativity.*
Water is a popular motif with product designers because it symbolizes tranquillity and clarity. But this force of nature also “adds movement, freedom and flow in a space,” said Golnar Roshan, who with her partner, Ruben de la Rive Box, recently introduced a rug collection called Fluid that evokes the moody skies reflected in the canals of Amsterdam, where they live.

These are not the family jewels King Charles III waited for his whole life. The surprisingly symmetrical 30-foot-long phallus, landscaped on the pristine emerald lawn across the prestigious Royal Crescent in Bath, England, is hard to miss. The city had organized a celebratory picnicking event for the coronation, but this party decor was not part of the plan.

If Beth Cayre had to move, she would regret leaving the dining room ceiling, with its plaster cherry blossom branches hand molded by the ceramics artist Matthew Solomon. And who could blame her?

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So you want to host a gaggle of friends but only have one “guest room”? Trust us, we've been there. And more importantly, we've vetted a variety of lodging solutions from loft beds for adults (yes, this is a thing) to more traditional spaces savers like murphy beds. But if you ask us, bunks beds are the obvious answer.

WHILE HOUSE HUNTING to relocate for a new job, Kristine and Lars Niki toured a home in Durham, Conn. The owners had left behind carpets, drapes and wallpaper exuberant with color and pattern, specifically florals. Ms. Niki loved the spacious house but her knee-jerk instinct was to “rip up the rugs and paint everything white.” By closing, however, the English-rose carpets and garden-party curtains had grown on the couple.

Celebrate 25 amazing women throughout history with Mudpuppy’s Little Feminist Picture Book. With easy to process words by Yelena Moroz Alpert and colorful illustrations by Lydia Ortiz and Patrick Rafanan, this book is the perfect way to introduce young children to these inspiring women. Features artists, scientists, politicians, athletes and much more!

- Women included: Amelia Earhart, Josephine Baker, Maya Lin, Billie Jean King,

House Beautiful editors are lucky to see beautiful new home goods every day. For our 2023 Shopping Issue, we highlighted seven of the most exquisite new pieces of furniture, tableware, bedding, and decorative objects we've come across lately to collect and gift. Like the best home stores across the country, they bring something unique and personal to your decor.

The tidal wave of pink home decor, aka Barbiecore, has swept the nation and is now spilling into the holidays. Say hello to Pinkoween, a rosy rendition of Halloween decor that looks past the predictable orange-and-black palette. "Pink was picking up momentum last year as people crept away from gory halloween decor," says Stephanie Watkins, HomeGoods style expert. "This year, it's safe to say that pink-and-pretty Halloween decor will be even more popular."

WHEN A CLIENT sent Chicago interior designer Elizabeth Stamos Instagram images as aesthetic references, some depicted encaustic-cement flooring tile in a black-and-white, four-leaf-clover pattern—a particularly trite trend. Ms. Stamos’s unspoken reaction? “Take a damn risk.”
Thanks to home-reno TV and social media algorithms, Americans’ tastes in décor have congealed into a sort of groupthink monotony.

A trip to HomeGoods is an antidote to a bad day. And if you’re already in a good mood, well, your day is going to get much better. “We gravitate to HomeGoods for their variety of quality goods,” Ashley Ross, principal at Muse Noire Interiors in Dallas and Charlotte, North Carolina, says.

A word like "plantation" may seem minor in scope compared to other iterations of America's racist past and present, but what it represents is larger than the 10 letters that evoke slavery at worst and exclusivity at best.