What if you could build a big house and fill it with your friends, children, grandparents, babysitters, and anyone else who makes your life rich and full and you all owned it together? For many people, it sounds like a dream; for a developer or a ban

At first glance, Emilie Taylor and Seth Welty’s New Orleans residence appears to clash with the city’s storied aesthetic. After outgrowing their Seventh Ward home, the Weltys found an overlooked property near the Mississippi River levee in the city’s

From where I sit when I write, I can see the hamlet of Andes, New York, a small town (population 1,301) nestled between steep hills. This house I share with my husband, Ed Kratt, sits near the top of one of those hills, on roughly 50 acres that were

Photographer “Invitation to Enter,” p. 54 After college, Mason Trinca worked as a photo-journalist for various newspapers around the country. In the decade since, he’s added many commercial and editorial clients to his portfolio, yet has maintained a

After sharing 10 apartments in 10 years, Los Angeles couple RJ Guillermo and Francis Aquino were ready to settle into a home and start a family. They adopted their son, Jordan, in July 2021, and as they made plans to adopt Jordan’s infant sister, all

In 2016, Ninze Chen, a former art director, packed her bags and relocated from New York City to Livingston Manor, a small town in the Catskills, in search of a quieter, different life. This big change led to a new hobby: sourcing and reselling vintag

When you’re dreaming of ways to really level up your space, you often ask questions with an obvious answer: Do I need a wine fridge? Shouldn’t my shower have half a dozen sprayers? That answer of course is usually, for logistical reasons, no. But it’

The little house with the funny angles, where the Chandlers live with their two kids and a dog, was once a garage, built in the 1950s in St. Helena, California, in what was once a walnut orchard. In a way, the space in and around their home, a 500-sq

“Don’t even bother,” the upholsterer told me. I was on the phone, asking for a theoretical quote to reupholster a five-year-old or so midrange sofa, which cost more than $1,000 when new. That task, the upholsterer told me, would run me several times

When Masha Tsimring and Nicholas Hussong set out to renovate the kitchen in their Queens, New York, apartment, they encouraged architects Lane Rick and Can Vu Bui of the firm Office of Things to make it zanier. “I was really interested in it not bein

42 Southern Exposure Estudio Sur Arquitectos estudiosurarquitectos.cl 42 Stove by Cocina a Leña Bosca; wicker chairs from Mimbres Torrealba mimbrestorrealba.cl 43 Coffee table by Estudio Sur 46 Desks by Estudio Sur 48 Contrasting Colors Office Of Thi

Re: “Breaking the Mold: Haddock Studio preserves a San Francisco apartment’s Victorian details while giving its interiors a sculptural twist.” January/February Beautiful renovation respecting the Victorian bones of the space while making it entirely

I don’t know how I ended up collecting so many scissors, but I know where it started. I remember going to places like the dentist and the car mechanic as a kid and being impressed with the ones they used. Later, going to workshops to develop my pract

Your results may vary. Property in Portland, Oregon, doesn’t cost the same as in Portland, Maine. Good plumbing contractors charge different rates in Sacramento and Santa Fe. And whenever we ask anyone anywhere for the grand total of what their home

PHOTOS: JENNIFER HUGHES, COURTESY REGAN BAKER/BROOKE HOLM, COURTESY MICHAEL K. CHEN/NICOLE FRANZEN, COURTESY MONICA FRIED/COURTESY VIPP (VIPP V1 KITCHEN IN THE HOME OF JETTE EGELUND BY JULIE CLOOS MØLSGAARD FOR VIPP) ■

Giving me Excel spreadsheet vibes. @kaileighc Love! Nothing matters and life is short—add color! Nope. This is not the good ’80s look. Might as well have neon signs and Patrick Nagel posters to go with it. @mellie.parent I like it when it matches the

While 630 square feet may seem compact to some, for Mai Tran and her husband, Le Pham, the accessory dwelling unit (ADU) they designed for themselves was a palatial upgrade. In 2015, after an arduous Bay Area house hunt, Mai and Le purchased a single

Camilo Fuentealba and Eduardo Díaz met in 2010 while studying architecture in the Chilean city of Concepción. They hit it off—both personally and professionally—founded their own firm, Estudio Sur, in 2016, and moved to the resort town of Puerto Vara

When David Barsoum moved to the greater Chicago area to complete a PhD in organic chemistry, he faced a daunting task: filling an empty apartment on a tight student budget. One Craigslist score (a no-name walnut armchair) quickly turned into an impre

The Aluminaire House started with a small budget and a big dream. Architects A. Lawrence Kocher (6, right), a longtime Architectural Record editor, and Albert Frey (6, left), a former apprentice of Le Corbusier, designed the full-scale model as a cas

Alex “Fitz” Fitzgerald volunteers in the kitchen of the PorchLight Eastgate shelter in Bellevue, Washington. One day last summer when he was cooking, shortly after the facility opened, a deer wandered up to the back patio, where everyone could see it

42 Great Minds Cookfox Architects cookfox.com Structural engineering by WSP wsp.com Landscape installation by Heyhoe Garden Design and Summerhill heyhoegardendesign.com summerhilllandscapes.com Lighting from Ketra ketra.com Interior venetian plaster

I am frankly bewildered and disturbed by the decision to have a feature article on a Philip Johnson house [“The Next Chapter: A Philip Johnson house in upstate New York grapples with the architect’s legacy and looks to the future.” November/December

From the Ashes. After Japan’s devastating 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, which triggered fires that destroyed thousands of buildings in and around Tokyo and caused an estimated death toll of 140,000, the government rebuilt the capital with a heavy emph

Writer “Occult Following,” p. 62 During the pandemic, Madeleine Davies, previously an editor at Eater and Jezebel, swapped New York City for New Orleans to pursue a master’s degree in historic preservation at Tulane. This issue saw her taking a break

Just a few years after getting married and settling down in Palm Springs, California, Keith Jordan and Aamer Mumtaz found themselves dreaming of the Bay Area. “We’re both urban people, and we wanted to live in a city again,” Aamer says. “There’s just

Smart devices are integrated into every product or process you can think of, from ordering groceries to turning on the air-conditioning before you come back to your place. But too often aesthetics are an after-thought. Not for us. No matter what kind