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The beautiful interior decorations of a American styled summer house in Camden are discussed.

A Turkish industrialist Rahmi M. Koc decided to renovate a crumbling but beautiful wood villa, or Yali just across the water from Mehmed, the Conqueror's castle. Koc and friend Barbara Ther, the London-based interior designer and antiques dealer oversaw the redesign, with the challenge of displaying the owner's disparate collections.

Designer Sandra Nunnerley and architect David Estreich renovated and expanded a Georgian revival house at Oyster Bay for a more permanent space to entertain and to have an independent. Inspiration for the design of the new wing was the Palladian stable house with arched windows and in the new wing, the architecture, interior design and the landscape came together as one.

Client Erika Anderson bought a dilapidated house built in 19th century in the woodsy, hilly terrain of Summit, New Jersey. Architect and interior designer, Marshall Watson and Holmes Easley renovated the house with a lot of imagination drawing inspiration from pre-Revolutionary France to the land of Gustav III.

Designer Cecil Hayes masterminded a comfortable, artful setting for Florence and Edward Paley's lakeside winter house in Boca Raton, Florida. With Cecil Hayes great sense of design and innovation Paley's were able to harmoniously place their contemporary and African art the way they liked.

Irish fishing legend Alan Pye founded the Huka Lodge, a shack in 1920s in Taupo, center of New Zealand's North Island, rebuilt it in 1937 by American military commander Fitzhugh Green in colonial style with a bit of Arts and Crafts. Virginia Fisher, Auckland based designer, worked on Huka Lodge for 20 years, replaced it with a new building retaining the old design features, later Queenstown based architect Fred van Brandenburg and Fisher retained some building materials and rebuilt it into a cottage, giving it a quiet, calming atmosphere.

Bill Bensley designed a couple's weekend retreat on the Indonesian island of Java, which is a 40-acre garden that has a house in the middle of it. Bill distinguished the seven new pocket gardens from one another by varying new heights and vegetation and used different levels of the property to make different rooms.

The 1,041-room Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida, which was founded by architect Addison Mizner in 1926 as part of a larger development, is renovated. The renovation has made it a multifaceted modern place to stay.

Architect and interior designer Francisco Ruiz designed a summerhouse in the Adirondack region of upstate New York on Lake George side to suit the life style left behind and still make the presence of the lake felt. The place and the interiors and architects used to make it a unique place to live in, are discussed.

Interior designer, Cecil Hayes believes that homes should be the ideal place to live and a laboratory to put ideas to test, which she finds in her place in South Boca Hayes, Florida. Her clients include actors and people from high society and hence the way in which she plans doing their interiors is highlighted.

Actor Christopher Plummer and his wife, Elaine's sprawling clapboard house located in Connecticut embodies the well-bred country look. The addition of porticoes and French doors improved and unified its frontage and the new rooms, solarium-enlarged kitchen and the master bedroom has made it a very comfortable place to stay.

Details about the restoration of an 18th century farmhouse in a town on Boston's South Shore are presented. Kendall Associates of Westport, Massachusetts have designed the architecture.

A Hudson River home in New Jersey is renovated, with emphasis on use of interior lighting achieved via architectural changes.

The idea of the pondside house constructed in California's Napa Valley is presented. The way of constructing this pondside house by the architects is described in brief.

Architect and interior designer Jose E. Solis Betancourt built a house in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and his partner, designer Paul Sherrill, collaborated on the interiors. The furnishings are kept to the minimum, so as not to detract from the house's generous volumes.

Gianfrancesco Moscatelli is the co-owner of an exotic resort in Dangriga Town, Stann Creek District, Belize. With co-owner Roberto Fabbri he designed the resort to reflect traditional Mayan architecture, but also include modern conveniences such as internet access and a private airstrip. The Kanantik Reef and Jungle Resort features secluded cabanas on 300 acres of beachfront property.

A Manhattan apartment is refurbished and redecorated in an Old-World period style. Photographs show the interiors before and after the changes were made.

Architect Joseph M. Valerio,? of Valerio Dewalt Train Assoc worked closely with clients Tracy Gardner and Dani James to renovate their Tribeca, NY loft in 30 days. The owners wanted to quickly modernize the white, open space?of their 19th-century industrial building loft. They also wanted any new design elements to be?removable ?should th ey later?decide to relocate. Valerio accommodated the clients by using the talents of metalworker Danny Rice to create metal columns and elevations throughout the space. Ann Blossfield of Interiors Group Searl Blossfield, assisted with the selection of furniture for the loft . ?

Photographs accompany an article on the Ritz-Carlton at Half Moon Bay. Discussion focuses on stonework, windows that maximize exterior views, and the nautical theme carried through the interiors.

Photographs accompany an article on the home of actors Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis. The interiors are uncluttered and family friendly, with humorous touches that nod to the couple's fame for comedy.

Casey Cowell and Deborah Guerrera hired architect Linda Searl, project designer Ann Blossfeld and interior designer Nancy Willert to construct a lodge-like house of 15000 square feet on the shore of a Lake Michigan bay. They wanted a casual grandeur for the lodge with lots of glass to take advantage of the beauty of its site.

The Maison Orleans, located at New Orleans French Quarter is considered as one of the newer and smaller hotels and has a garden district feel. Tenessee Williams describes as an hour spent at Orleans like a little piece of eternity dropped into the hands.

Architect Jack Lionel Warner, architect and interior designer describes Santa Barbara, the Spanish colonial revival style. Some features of the properties and the architectural designs are discussed.

Interior designer Sally Sirkin Lewis remodeled a Florida condominium for agribusiness executive Joseph Esformes. Lewis reconfigured the condominium's floor plan to meet the client's wishes and to open up the view of Sarasota Bay.

A description of the changes to a ranch house in Montana to accomodate an interest in conservation, collections of Native American artifacts and children is presented. Architect Atelier Ugo Sap and interior designer Paul Vincent Wiseman have worked on the project.

Film director Chris Columbus lives with his family in San Francisco's Bay area in a 1894 Stonehouse designed by Willis Polk. It is one of the few surviving sandstone mansions left in the city. The interior design has been overseen by Frank K. Pennino.

An apartment in Bosto, MA, has been redesigned by architect John S. MacDonald and interior designers Lee Bierly and Christopher Drake, to highlight a collection of contemporary art and sculpture. This included widening the halls.

Casa Cabernet is a series of red pavilions on a mountainside in the Napa Valley, California. Mexican modernism was the theme used by Legorreta Arquitectos to design the exterior and interior of the property.

Issues concerning the remodelling and redecoration of a 1920s Rosario Candela apartment in New York is presented. The apartment includes both light and dark colored rooms and a steel kitchen with a black and white tiled floor.

Issues concerning the life and work of interior decorator and set designer Tony Duquette are discussed. The theatricality and magical quality of his designs are described.

Novelists Terry McMillan wanted her home to look like an art gallery. The rooms are vibrantly hued with fearlessly original furnishings, with as much personality as her novels. Furniture changes are frequent and so are room color changes. Her favorite room is the game room which she says is rambunctious, colorful, a little wild but sedate.

Model Claudia Schiffer's new home on the island of Marjorca was designed by architect Pedro Otzoup and decorated by Schiffer and her mother. She wanted to create a feeling of openness by using sliding doors everywhere and by chosing the same marble for both indoors and outdoors.

Architect Andrew Skurman and interior designer Suzanne Tucker transformed a Nob Hill apartment in San Francisco, CA, into a modern French and European abode. They combined French doors, ornate antiques and American furniture to create an artful, roomy and luxurious ambience.