I spent two weeks on a fairly remote island a couple of years back, the kind of trip where the place I stayed had open-air walls, an enormous monstera growing directly through a gap in the structure that the owners had clearly decided to build around rather than fight, and rattan furniture that had softened […]
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A few years ago, while staying overnight in a small boutique hotel before an early flight, I was unexpectedly upgraded to a suite with tufted velvet headboards, a mirrored vanity lit with warm round bulbs running along its frame, and a faux fur throw draped dramatically across the foot of the bed. I had booked
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For years I felt genuinely embarrassed by the fact that I could never settle on a single decorating aesthetic for my bedroom, no matter how many times I tried. Every time I committed fully to one specific style, minimalist for a few months after a particularly stressful season of life, then a brief and fairly
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My older brother bought an old farmhouse about two hours outside the city a few years back, a genuinely run-down place with a sagging porch, a leaking roof he discovered only after the first heavy rain, and decades of questionable previous renovations layered haphazardly on top of each other by owners who clearly had very
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I spent a week one autumn staying in a tiny rented cottage in the English countryside, the kind of place with low, slightly sloping ceilings that made me duck instinctively every time I walked near the far wall, and a bedroom window that looked directly out over a garden gone slightly wild with the last
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A few years ago I spent ten days traveling through southern Spain and along the Amalfi coast with my closest friend, the kind of trip we had been talking about taking for years before we finally committed to actual dates and flights. Somewhere around day four, sitting in a small rented apartment with terracotta tiled
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My grandfather had a particular teak sideboard in his living room throughout my entire childhood, with these distinctive tapered legs and simple brass handle details, and for years I genuinely assumed it was just old furniture rather than anything with a specific design pedigree behind it. It was the kind of piece I barely noticed
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I watched far too many old black and white films during a particularly rainy month last year, the kind of stretch where it rains for nine days straight and you eventually run out of anything productive to do with your evenings. Somewhere around the fifth or sixth film I found myself paying considerably more attention
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A few autumns ago I spent two weeks staying in a small rented farmhouse in the French countryside, and the bedroom there has stayed with me more vividly than almost anywhere else I have ever slept. Pale washed linen curtains moving slightly in the breeze from a slightly open window, a slightly worn antique wooden
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A close friend of mine converted an old textile warehouse unit into her apartment a couple of years ago, and the first time I visited I genuinely could not stop looking around. Exposed brick, visible ductwork left intentionally unpainted, a single massive steel-framed window letting in floods of afternoon light. It felt like nothing I
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