THE JOURNAL
Notes on a well-made home.
Design thinking, renovation wisdom, and the quiet details that make a house feel collected, from the Studio 1049 desk.
Summer Entertaining at Home: My Tabletop & Outdoor Living Finds
I stopped saving the nice things for a special occasion somewhere in the last eighteen months. Here are the tabletop and outdoor living pieces I'm loving for summer, plus how I'd actually style them, for the kind of evening nobody wants to leave.
10 Boutique Hotels for Your Travel Bucket List
Now that the world is starting to open back up, we’ve been getting the itch to travel again! How about you? To help you plan your next trip — or maybe just to encourage a little bit of daydreaming — we’ve rounded up a list of ten of the most swoon-worthy boutique hotels in some of our favorite destination cities across the globe.
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Chances are good that if you’ve never worked with an interior designer, it can be challenging to wrap your head around the entire process from start to finish. We often hear questions along the lines of “So how long is this project actually going to take us?” The short answer — it depends.