The House Beautiful reader is someone whose home is her bedrock. She is always improving it because the process – and result – delights her. Happiness in her home comes from easy luxury and highly personal style. Her home is a gift to share with family and friends.
Open House: New York City • Editorial director Joanna Saltz and five innovative designers talk about change—and our love-hate relationship with it.
You’ve Entered a Blue Period • Only this one is much more uplifting. It’s all about graphic patterns and layers of indigo, cobalt, and cornflower.
The True History of a Dark Kitchen • Steve Pallrand of Home Front Build brought one space into the present by celebrating its past.
It’s About to Get Personal • Virginia Toledo and Jessica Geller design homes for the way people actually live.
One Amazing Thing • What to do with a cheeky wallcovering of Her Majesty? Obviously Martyn Lawrence Bullard has some ideas.
Yes, Your Bathroom Still Needs a Bathtub • Reports say that a third of those renovating are removing their tubs. Here’s the strong case for keeping them.
This Is More than a Pink Fireplace • A Connecticut homeowner pays tribute to her grandmother with an unlikely color choice.
Give Your Space a Plant-Over • Plant-Over (n): a complete transformation of your home using nothing but plants.
Brilliant Ways to Hide Your TV • Designers reveal their most ingenious tricks for making that big black mirror disappear.
United Paints of America • Designers from sea to shining sea share their states’ favorite colors right now.
Of Course This Is the Chicest Mudroom Ever • We should expect nothing less from Eddie Ross. He explains how he turned a bland corner of his historic home, Edgewood Hall, into a luxe and functional entry.
You Deserve a Gorgeous Closet • The days of just dreaming about a heavenly get-ready room are over.
Better Than Therapy • Internet mogul Maxwell Ryan takes refuge in his Scandinavian boathouse in the Hamptons.
The Prince of Patterns • Who to turn to when you want your Palm Beach home to feel like a getaway? A designer with his heart and soul in the islands, of course.
The Pattern Playbook • The prints that Fondas used may seem bold and bright, but he swears they can be adapted to any style.
You Can Have It All—a Family and a Nice Home, That Is • Protecting fine art left and right, designer Barrie Benson kid-proofed this Charlotte, North Carolina, home with super-savvy DIYs, proving that grimy fingers needn’t always get in the way of great design.
The Big Picture • Photographer Victoria Pearson is known for her bright, saturated images. At home and in her studio, she switches gears to neutral.
“I think sometimes it takes a while to find your path.” • The extraordinary road of Kathryn M. Ireland.
How It All Began… • Among the talented designer’s first creative ventures? Producing some of the most unforgettable music-video imagery of the 1980s.
This Was Once Just a Basic Apartment… • But in the hands of a visionary designer, it became a jewel box in the middle of Chicago.
Resources • House Beautiful/January-February 2019
Carry Us Away • These archival House Beautiful covers are just too gorgeous to stay filed on a shelf.