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A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN FASHIONABLE PEOPLE in Los Angeles still craved shabby chic houses outfitted with pale, baggy slipcovers and chipped furniture, Kelly Wearstler had to turn down jobs. […]

A few years back, when Darryl Carter decided to sell his Washington, D.C., apartment and search for new digs nearby, his list of desires, he says, was "very specific. I […]

Landscape architects are taking the drama of interior design outdoors. Terraces, gardens and courtyards blend new combinations of plant materials with art, lighting and architectural accents to create saleable 'outdoor [...]

IN A TEAR-DOWN TOWN LIKE BEVERLY HILLS, WHERE BIGGER IS OFTEN considered better, it's refreshing to discover a house that, after a lengthy renovation process, still retains its original 1940s […]

THE CLIENT'S ONLY REQUEST WAS TO MAKE HER MASTER BATH look clean and luxurious. Designer Kelly Wearstler started by replacing the tub. Originally located by the window, it was shown […]

TWENTY-FIVE AGO, MARY DOUGLAS Drysdale slept in a platform bed upholstered in a Joe D'Urso industrial-grade carpeting, with steps that doubled as seating. Like most of her generation, the Washington, […]

Perhaps the most endearing thing about Albert Hadley-dean of American designers-is that despite years of doing up Rockefeller and Paley homes for Parish-Hadley (the firm he ran with Sister Parish), [...]

Dressing a window is tricky business. Left bare, windows can be eyesores by day and black holes at night. Stylish treatments allow for much more than privacy, light and draft […]

Creativity and attention to detail appear to be two primary components in kitchen and bath design today. Many homeowners are beginning to stray away from conventional style by utilizing unique [...]

Decorative tile now has a new face. It is being used today in many different and innovative ways for both residential and commercial architecture. Whether bold and colorful or warm [...]

Architect Paul Florian fancies wall clocks by George Nelson and has used them as a continuing theme throughout a family Victorian home, placing a variety of these space-age clocks all over the space.

Guests entering the Manhattan loft of painter Frank Moore are treated to two of the artist's works, a twig table and a painting. The creative touches and techniques used in decorating this space is discussed along with the artist's fondness for handmade rugs and period furniture.

The creative style of decorator Noel Jeffrey and his dreamy approach to sprucing up a space is highlighted. Jeffrey tends to favor English Aesthetic and uses leggy furniture on bare floors, English Regency cane-back chairs and tufted sofas with ivory cotton throw pillows and curtains.

Interior designer Steven Gambrel believes simplicity is best when it comes to decorating. Linen white walls, French rope chairs and Early American-style furnishings are favorites of the decorator, who shares a few designer tips, offers advice and discusses his 'undecorating' approach to design.

Interior designers John Barman and Jack Levy are heavily influenced by classic Italian style with its eye-popping colors and Venetian details. The choices of these two decorators are highlighted as the pair work on a Manhattan apartment, decorating the space with lavish Venetian objects against backdrop hues of hot pinks, reds and rose collages.

Some houses silently accept the possessions of each new inhabitant; others seem to dictate what decorative style will work best. The latter is true of the 1838 stone farmhouse in [...]

Eight approaches of designing multiuse kitchens are presented. These techniques have been applied separately by eight interior decorators and have produced satisfied clients.

Sunset's Centennial paint palette - launched in the March 1998 issue - proved so successful that we asked color consultant and author Jill Pilaroscia to help us expand it. Together […]

Byline: WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY ELAINE LOUIE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BJ�RN WALLANDER STYLED BY HOWARD CHRISTIAN Fringe Benefits Brazil's white-hot Campana brothers design a Séo Paulo house with an eye-popping faéade [...]

Byline: TEXT BY ALEXANDRA KOTUR PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON UPTON PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI IN THE BAG Accessories designer Fiona Kotur outfits her family's Hong Kong home with the same elegant [...]

A Northern California couple decorates their retirement home which includes many open spaces and areas for relaxing and taking in nature. A couple of the centerpieces of the house are a grand fireplace, complete with a redwood mantle and a beautifully landscaped garden overlooking wind-blown trees.

Interior decorator Diana Sternbergova Phipps is restoring the 16th-century castle that her family was forced to flee when the Communists took over Czechoslovakia after World War II. She describes her approach to interior design as 'splendor on the cheap.'

Interior decorator John Patton's Santa Barbara, CA, barn-house is characterized by its charm and whimsy. He says that he became tired of tasteful interiors and now just wants a house that is fun and filled with items without any particular value.

Vicente Wolf tempers soaring volumes with intimate settings and furnishings tied to his highly personal perceptions of modernism today. Sometimes a project's perceived detractions are the very factors that make […]

Handsome interiors furnished by Barbara Ross teach new lessons about the decoration of houses. Having previously completed two residences for the client couple in the past twelve, could be fifteen, […]

Phillip Jude Miller's own Cambridge apartment blends traditional New England with contemporary Milan. Interior design, according to Phillip Jude Miller, head of America Dural, is not about putting stuff into […]

Jamie Drake and Geoffrey White convert an artist's Upper East Side garret into headquarters for its late occupant's arts foundation. There are stories. And there are New York stories. This […]

Bruce Bierman does more than smooth out the wrinkles for a plastic surgeon's Park Avenue office. It's almost too easy to draw parallels between interior design and plastic surgery: both, […]

The methodical nature with which a house owned by Norman Woo in Hong Kong was decorated by designers Mattia Bonetti and Elizabeth Garouste is described. The redecoration included painting the walls with palladium and gold leaf, adding new paintings and having furnishings custom-made.

Wearstler painted each room of her 1930s duplex apartment a different color to create different feelings and an overall sense of depth. The designer preferred half-empty walls and angular furniture and viewed each room as a composition.

Frank and Golub decorated a Norman Jaffe-designed home in Bridgehampton, NY, to emphasize the linear shapes of the classic modernist house. The duo employed natural materials in neutral colors to transform the dark, airless home into a light, airy showplace.

Actress, artist and interior decorator Cynthia Belliveau delights in her personal decoration of her home. With wild splashes of vivid colors and successful attempts at recycling, Belliveau creates a home that is warm and full of her own personal style. Photos of the rooms in her house are given.

A couple from Greenwich, CT, selected Penny Drue Baird to decorate their home, which they felt was too plain. Baird added features such as a central staircase, a marble floor and bathroom, new moldings, and a dressing area next to the bedroom.