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Ask most style guides what sets traditional interior design apart and they’ll say ornate detail. The Georgian sources behind the style say…
Art Deco paint starts with saturated jewel tones. Emerald green, navy, deep teal and plum do most of the work, with black…
Most Scandi-industrial rooms start with something raw that was already there, a brick wall or a concrete floor, and get softened with…
Art Deco color is built on high-contrast darks (black, deep navy) with metallic and jewel-tone accents (gold, emerald, burgundy). The combination took…
Walk into a converted New York loft and the shell is the first thing you see. Exposed brick and concrete floors, with…
Minimalist industrial style takes the exposed structure of a converted factory and strips out everything else, so surfaces stay clear and every…
Waterfall furniture has no sharp corner where the top meets the front. The surface curves down in one rounded line instead, a…
Atomic age decor takes nuclear science and space imagery and puts it on furniture, lamps, wallpaper and dinnerware. It ran from the…
Ruhlmann’s ebony cabinets and Warren McArthur’s aluminum chairs sit under the same label, and the label never came with a style brief.…
Rustic industrial style takes the hard materials of old factories, exposed brick, black steel and sometimes concrete, and sets them against worn…
Ask someone to picture a 1920s room and you’ll probably get black lacquer and a lot of chrome. That’s Art Deco, and…
Modern industrial takes the exposed brick, steel, concrete and ductwork of old factories and puts them in rooms that are clean-lined and…
Most of the famous Art Deco buildings went up between 1928 and 1938, in cities as far apart as New York and…
Art Deco rooms are built to be looked at. Mid-century Modern rooms are built to be used. Nearly every other difference comes…
Most of a pipe shelf gets bought in the plumbing aisle. The frame is black iron or galvanized steel pipe joined with…
Most industrial lighting mistakes start with choosing the fixture from a photo. The finish looks right online, then the bulb glares at…
The organizers of the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris set one hard rule. The Metropolitan Museum…
The wall behind a bed or a sofa is the usual place to put texture, and entryways get it too. Bathrooms come…
Start with the tape measure. A mid-century entry looks best when the furniture is small enough to leave the door and the…
Hot wax decides where batik cloth keeps its original color. Whatever the wax covers resists the dye, and the uncolored shapes left…
The bulb Thomas Edison patented on January 27, 1880 (U.S. Patent 223,898) used a high-resistance carbon filament, according to the Google Patents…
IKEA room divider ideas fall into four types: shelving units, ceiling-mounted curtain tracks, folding screens and wardrobe frames. Each is judged here…
Ambient lighting is a general illumination layer that lights a whole room evenly, so people can see and move around without a…
IKEA small bedroom ideas come down to four moves: a storage bed, a PAX wardrobe, wall-mounted storage and warm, pale finishes. The…
Japanese interior design is a residential design tradition that builds a room around natural materials, a fixed tatami module and sliding partitions,…
Sherwin-Williams sells two peaches that sit more than 21 points apart on light reflectance value (LRV). Sumptuous Peach (SW 6345) is listed…
Shoe storage is usually bought on the capacity figure printed in the listing, and that figure is optimistic. A cabinet rated at…
Walk into a good Southwestern room and you’ll see plaster walls, exposed vigas, a woven rug and a few handmade pots, all…
A lot of what people think of as colonial decorating comes from a revival, not from the 1700s. Philadelphia’s Centennial International Exposition…
Where a wall goes settles the material question long before color or pattern comes up. Outside, a garden wall can be solid…