INTERIOR DESIGN & DECORATION

Interior DesignWalk into two rooms furnished for the same money and one of them will read as considered while the other reads as bought. The difference is almost never the…

Interior DesignTrend lists are usually written from mood boards. This one is written from the paperwork: the colour announcements the paint industry filed between October and December 2025, a designer…

Interior DesignMost small-apartment advice assumes you own the place. Ours does not. Everything below survives a rental inspection, comes off the wall with a screwdriver or a plastic tab, and…

Interior DesignTexture is the part of decorating that gets written about in the vaguest possible language, which is a shame, because most of what it does can be measured. Reflectance,…

Interior DesignAlmost every furniture catalogue promises timelessness, and almost none of them can tell you where the phrase they are borrowing came from. Scandinavian design has an unusually precise answer:…

Interior DesignStart with the fact that tends to end the conversation. As Paul S. Atkins, professor of Japanese at the University of Washington, has pointed out, wabi-sabi does not appear…

Interior DesignZillow's 2026 home trends report contains a number that quietly settles this argument. Mentions of colour drenching in listing descriptions were up 149% year on year, and colour drenching…

Interior DesignAlmost every rug that disappoints was bought one size too small. Colour can be lived with, pattern grows on people, a fibre that turned out to be the wrong…