My Property Life

House plants add beauty and life to a room (literally)! Throw in their air-purifying properties, and it’s hard to find a reason not to jump on the greenery bandwagon. Cultivating plants indoors takes some practice, but luckily there are plenty…

Whatever their drink of choice, these gifts will satisfy anyone with a taste for mixology. Picnic Time Complete Home Bar Set This bar walks into a box… Some might say you need a pool table, stools aplenty, and 30 different…

A long-awaited renovation flips the script for a historic dome home with an awkward and outdated kitchen. Haley Rushing’s home has always been a showpiece.  It was built in the 1970s by architect John Watson, who studied under Frank Lloyd…

It’s easy to buy into the hype around shipping container homes, but there are some fundamentals you should know before going all in. Few building types are as rife with misconception as the shipping container home. Many hopeful homebuyers assume…

Pixels is your one-stop shop for colorful, inexpensive art prints that will level up your decorating game. Here are a few of our favorite pieces that will turn your home into a chic art gallery. Lounging In Verbier by Slim…

Estudio MMX anchors a waterfront home to its local context while maximizing the view. On a hill overlooking Lake Avándaro in Valle de Bravo—a popular weekend retreat about two hours west of Mexico City—lies the low-slung CMV House. The terrain…

Remember the days when wallpaper was an outdated design feature that demanded to be removed? Today that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, we’re in the middle of a full-fledged wallpaper revival! From geo forms to layered botanicals,…

The husband-and-wife team behind SIMO Design recently completed their newest home along Beverly Hills’ Oak Pass Road—and it’s currently on the market. With less than 40 residences, Oak Pass Road is a coveted area for anyone seeking privacy—especially Hollywood A-listers.…

Call it the City of Lights or the City of Dreams, Paris is a place that has left many enchanted for centuries. The fashion and style capital of the world sets the tone when it comes to all things trendy.…

Summer might be behind us and the celebration that fall brings with it also ushers in chill in the air. But for those who live in more tropical regions of the world and many who wish to take in the…

These prefab home builders located throughout Indiana produce a wide range of residences. Looking for an affordable prefab, modular, or kit home in the Hoosier state? These four companies leverage efficient factory production to build first-rate homes—and the turnaround time…

These one-of-a-kind abodes value the well-worn and the beautifully flawed above homogeneity. Striving for perfection might be a natural impulse, but the ancient Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi encourages a more liberating perspective. Grounded in Buddhism and revered tea ceremonies incorporating…

New Zealand–based Build Tiny just unveiled the Kingfisher—a new two-bedroom tiny house that’s at once stylish, practical, and flexible. When Build Tiny director and designer Gina Stevens devised the new Kingfisher tiny house, her priorities were practicality and flexibility. “The open-plan design suits a…

Robust materials, including red brick and concrete, come together to create a durable and modern home. When the owners of an Edwardian house in Melbourne, Australia, decided their kitchen was “falling apart” and in need of a makeover, they called…

Stretched along a grassy plateau in Ibiza, Spain, the island home employs Belgian architect Bruno Erpicum’s characteristically minimal style to create a modern Spanish “finca.” Belgian architect Bruno Erpicum believes that architecture should disappear into its surroundings, a philosophy that…

If there is one room in our house that we fear when it comes to a makeover, then it is definitely the kids’ room. It is a room filled with color, multiple motifs and often is a mix between what…

With the rapid evolution of the smart home, has privacy become just another setting? The connected home is inevitable. Like the plumbing, electricity, and refrigeration that came before it, the smart-home system will soon be an integral part of our…

The nostalgic shape gets a modern update at a guesthouse in central Ohio. Rick Hawkins grew up on a rented farm 25 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, growing corn, wheat, and soybeans with his parents and five siblings. When the…

In Palm Springs, a pair of prefab experts turn their process on themselves. Joel and Meelena Turkel, owners of Turkel Design, have produced dozens of prefab houses for other people since starting their company more than a decade ago. But…

A couple ask Olson Kundig to build on a family legacy in Vermont. It’s an image out of Robert Frost. Walter Sargent would take his daughter, Katherine, hiking on the densely wooded piece of land the family owned outside Stowe,…

The architect reveals how a humble bird’s nest influenced her idea of home. Nesting is often used as a metaphor for settling down, buying a house, and accumulating all of the accoutrements we assume make a comfortable life. But a…

This project was commissioned by a couple living in Vancouver who fell in love with Salt Spring Island (as many do) and decided to build their dream home on a beautiful high-bank waterfront lot overlooking views of Sansum Narrows and…

Planning a party in honor of a friend or family member who’s expecting? Good news: baby shower decorations have come a long way! From tabletop decor options to towering backdrops, the possibilities are endless. At the same time, countless choices…

SHED Architecture + Design fashions a more coherent layout for a Seward Park home with refreshing lake views. When the owners of this 1961 midcentury in Seattle’s Seward Park were first considering buying the property, they toured it with SHED…