Weekend Tidbits: Teen Room Makeovers, Letting Go, and Greek Myths

There are people who have a knack for choosing the best restaurants and know instinctively how to recognize a reservation-worthy establishment the moment it opens its doors, looking for the details that will either confirm or refute their first impressions of a just-inaugurated spot, and others who, to put it very plainly, don’t. But if…

After more than a decade working in hospitality development and collaborating with industry icons like Kelly Wearstler and Philippe Starck, Kevin Klein had a realization: “I was being paid to provide design insight to the same people that I was actively looking to for their own perspectives,” he says. That pivot to interior design led…

At night, all I want is for my living room to feel as cozy as humanly possible. As part of that goal, I figured adding lots of warm lamp light would help. So I bought some cordless wall sconces (the lightbulbs are rechargeable so I don’t have to hard wire them). But of course, I…

As a home wellness writer, I strongly believe that a bed benefits from minimalism for a more soothing atmosphere. But for some reason, around this time of year, I feel the need to spice things up a bit — and patterned quilts are an underrated way to do so. With traditional patterns and ornate trim…

The Outpost tiny house is a single-story log cabin built by USA-based Zook Cabins. This modern rustic dwelling shares a similar textured wood façade as the company’s Wrangler tiny house. This compact wooded house fits two cozy bedrooms, an electric fireplace, and a covered porch in a 400-square-foot area. The park model tiny house exudes…

Swapping their two-up, two-down cottage near Epping Forest on the edge of London for a huge, four-storey, six-bedroom Victorian townhouse in the seaside town of St Leonards was invigorating and challenging in equal measure for designer Laura Low and her husband Jonathon, a mid-century furniture specialist. “We had been looking for a lifestyle change, plus…